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Great Security Debate
by The Great Security Debate
Two CISOs and a security-minded friend discuss and debate topics of security and privacy, with a focus on looking at the topic from various angles, both that they support and those they don't. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when new episodes drop, or when new projects are announced https://newsletter.greatsecuritydebate.net
Episodes
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AI is Children
With the recent disclosures that OpenAI's security testing using its own models broke out of the sandbox and attacked Hugging Face (and others), Erik, Dan, and Brian thought it was worth a moment to discuss and debate the current state of AI, securing AI models, some of the ways that…
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Doorbells Ring Hollow
What on earth were Ring and Amazon thinking when they aired their Super Bowl advert that previewed a “there’s nowhere you can hide” type of dystopian future masked as a way to find your lost dog? With cameras everywhere, are we safer or just more exposed? When camera data is deleted, is it really...
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Complacency in the Loop
AI is growing in use within information security, but are we ready to trust it to do all the things we hope it can, and do so automatically without doing harm? Context is king, and training to that level is only possible when you give all your experience to the AI. What are the tradeoffs to doing...
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WOPR Was Right
Recently and over the past few years, world events may have included cybersecurity components in their enactment. So, Brian, Erik, and Dan started talking about the role of security in critical infrastructure protection, asking questions about the ethics and thresholds for government and…
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Signs, Signs. Everywhere A Sign.
Rules are made and policies are established. But the “how” of implementing and meeting those regulations or policies will be very context specific. In this episode of the Great Security Debate, Dan, Erik, and Brian cover a number of key policies and requirements and some different ways to think...
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Agentic Dan
We are back for another Great Security Debate. In this episode: we discuss the potential role of agentic AI in security, from true “copilot” to automated decider of things, and whether LLMs are just a really cool search engine. Brian, Erik, and Dan also debate the means and extent to which we…
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Give a Sh!t Posture Management
On this weeks’ Debate, Brian brings a truckload of acronyms for more single panes of glass to help us consolidate our various single panes of glass, Erik may actually be Brian (or maybe Brian is Erik), and Dan confirms he still (and likely always will) spend the rest of his days living in the…
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The 100 Years AI Flood
The Great Security Debate is *back*! It’s been a busy year, but it’s time to get this show back on the air (and maybe on the road). Dan takes a break from the rat race, Erik took over the world, and Brian uses Elmer’s Glue to splice his network cables. Topics in the show this week: AWS and...
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Risky Risks: Live from the GTS Security Summit
The Great Security Debate crew recorded a live episode at the GTS Security Summit in Detroit, Michigan with special guest, Zah Gonzalvo, SVP of Financial, Climate, and Operational Risk at Banco Popular. Tune in for a great discussion on risk, risk mitigation, risk prioritisation, and risk in...
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Fantasy Hacker League
In this episode of The Great Security Debate, Dan, Brian and Erik invent (and copyright) the idea of a Fantasy Hacker League then dig into more serious discussions on deception technology, asset discovery challenges, and resource management. The conversation also delves into the impact of budget...
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Free Disaster Recovery Tests!
Welcome to the Great Security Debate! In this episode, experts take on a multifaceted discussion about the intricacies of technology and cybersecurity. The debate navigates through the recent incident involving CrowdStrike and Microsoft, dissecting the layers of technology, processes, and the…
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To Insure or Not To Insure: It’s Not Even a Question
This episode of 'The Great Security Debate' delves into the complexities surrounding cyber insurance, discussing its impact on minimising business risks and ensuring compliance. Erik, Brian, and Dan talk about how connected systems and automation increase risks and integrates AI reliance…
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Wear a Stop Sign On Your Shirt
In this episode of the Great Security Debate, Brian, Erik, and Dan dive into the latest trends in ransomware including an uptick in attacks against the hypervisor. Speaking of VMWare, we also "discuss" the way that Broadcom has handled the VMWare acquisition and why it both make sense (to them)…
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Mine Everything
Sorry about the audio on this one. We have got the tech back on track for the next episode. I promise! Join the Great Security Debate as Brian, Erik, and Dan delve into 'pig slaughtering,' a scam involving rapport building to swindle victims out of money. The discussion explores the intersections...
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Spoiler Alert: Leave the World Behind
Join Dan, Brian, and Erik in the latest episode of The Great Security Debate as they explore the impact and implications of the movie 'Leave the World Behind.' Delving into cyber security, societal impacts of technology, and philosophical elements, this discussion touches upon vulnerability...
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Potpourri of Debate... Now with AI
It's an "all rounder" episode of The Great Security Debate. Brian watched a movie, Erik watched an advertisement, and Dan was overtly cynical. Just another day in the podcast booth for these three. A variety pack of topics ranging from recent security attacks, to AI in technology, to automotive...
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The Downfall of All Security (Sales)
It's not easy to sell things. It's even harder to sell to security practitioners and leaders. The Great Security Debate this week covers some angles in security tools (and selling those tools to security teams) that have taken their toll on the trust that needs to exist between those who buy and...
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Less LLM, More Piano
This week we are debating modern AI systems, especially the commercial ones on just about everyone's lips when talking about CVs, high school term papers, and interview answers. Large Language Models (LLMs), of which ChatGPT and Bard are two examples, are growing in prominence, but will they...
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Security *is* Business!
It's been a minute, but we are back with another Great Security Debate! Whether it is compliance, trust, questionnaires, we all sell something to someone and security is core to that process. In this episode, the focus is on how security integrates into the core of each of our businesses or...
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Jess and Jeff Invade
Welcome to a very special Great Security Debate. If it is spring, it means that the annual Forrester “Top Recommendations For Your Security Program” report has come out, and we get to visit with one of the authors, Jess Burn. But this year, we get an added extra voice in that of Jess’ Forrester...
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Bankplosion!
This week, Brian, Erik, and Dan look into the security impacts of last week’s Silicon Valley Bank closure, both from a direct security risk, but also what we can learn about risk from the events leading up to the incident that we can apply to our information security responsibilities. Brian kicks...
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Back to Normal?
The Great Security Debate Book Club is in FULL force this week as we talk about life after you’ve gotten the job in information security and are looking for the growth and promotion that come as you grow your career. Check out the show notes on our website www.greatsecuritydebate.net/48 to get...
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Uninsurable!
Insurance for information security is changing. Recently some reports came out that there were moves by insurance companies to leave the cybersecurity insurance market - that it was uninsurable. Dan, Brian, and Erik discuss on this week's Great Security Debate: What happens now that cybersecurity...
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A Niche Inside a Niche Is Really Just a Quiche
Welcome to the year-end 2022 episode of The Great Security Debate. In this hour, Brian, Erik, and Dan cover myriad ways hiring processes are failing job seekers and hiring organisations. It all kicked off with the impersonal nature of automated 1-way video interviews. It quickly jumped into the...
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Live From the Big House
Recorded on Saturday 29 October 2022, at the tailgate before the University of Michigan vs Michigan State University (American) football game, Brian, Erik and Dan chat about the news of the day, with more than a few correlations back to football. And we had a special guest join us, too: Zah...
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No More Ads, No More Privacy Problem?
This week’s debate comes amid a combo platter of increased analytics leading to near-immediate contact when visiting a product’s website, along with more clarity from enforcement bodies about how they will approach their respective privacy legislation. One such fine was the Sephora CCPA matter in...
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New Team, Who Dis?
We've all seen it (or been it): a new boss arrives at the company and quickly thereafter a bunch of their old colleagues get hired. It feels like they are getting the band back together at the new place. What does that say to the organisation about that leader? What does doing the opposite...
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Subscribe and Don't Like!
Are we getting subscription overload? The move to more and more subscriptions is good for those selling, but are they good for those buying, too? Do subscriptions offset by other non-cash costs (e.g. data collection, advertising) reduce subscription fatigue? How does that fit into the security...
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Fake It Till You Make It?
It's the dog days of summer here in the northern hemisphere, and we have some episodes to make the hot, muggy days go by faster (or the drive up to the cabin in the woods to escape it all). This week Dan, Brian and Erik talk about what it takes to be a Virtual or Fractional CISO. Does someone…
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What Got You Here Won’t (Necessarily) Get You There
Dan, Brian and Erik look at how the past informs our security future, and how things we have done in the past may not get us where we need to be in the future. Join us for a live podcast recording with live audience Q&A, direct from the MCWT Executive Connection Summit. In the live recording we...
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Program Your Program
This week on The Great Security Debate we have arrived at one of our favourite episodes of the year (and what is and will be an annual thing!) when Forrester Senior Analyst, Jess Burn, returns to the show to share this years recommendations for security programs. An overarching theme of the…
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Laws and Regs
The Great Security Debate rolls on, this week looking at how governments, regulations and business values are and will shape the security posture of enterprises. Is attribution worth pursuing to the end? How can state and federal law enforcement help figure out who and what happened after an...
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Squality!
Recently, Brian, Dan and Erik had the great fortune to do a live version of the podcast at the monthly meeting of the SIM Detroit Chapter (https://chapter.simnet.org/detroit/home). At the close of that discussion, the comment was raised as to whether or not security should be used as a…
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How Do You Sleep At Night?
Current global events have led to increased focus on technology security. In this week's episode we debate to what extent this does or will confirm the rise of the information security roles within organisations. Our thoughts and good wishes go out to the people of Ukraine. Do current events...
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Security Super Agent
This week’s episode was sparked by a recent TechCrunch article https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/01/free-agent-series-a/ asking whether tech workers should have agents to negotiate their salaries. We took up the debate on this and a few adjacent topics including: The Great Resignation’s impact on...
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From the Inside Out
We got a message from a listener asking for some discussion about putting the data first and securing it with that mind - the inside out, rather than looking at the perimeter and infrastructure and working back toward the data - outside in. And since we love our listeners and your feedback, we…
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Log4Jelly of the Month Club
Some say that Log4J is the gift that keeps on giving, much like the Jelly of the Month Club. After the initial surge of discussion a couple weeks ago there were mitigations, a vaccine and multiple iterations of official patches to keep the issue at bay and the new ones that cropped up afterwards....
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Sweet or Suite?
It's a sports analogy-filled episode of The Great Security Debate, but don't let that scare you away. This week, we cover a whole host of topics, primarily focused on the ideas of simple vs. complex and best-of-breed vs. tightly integrated when dealing with technology, change, process or securing...
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The Infinite Game
In security (and elsewhere) the long game is often overlooked in lieu of short-term advances and accomplishments. From building security into the culture of an organisation to setting goals and objectives for leaders and staff, being strategic in your security approach is critical. In this…
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Monkeys On Your Back
Security has truly gone mainstream. From late night television jokes to state governors not knowing how technology works, as a profession and a vocation, we have arrived. Jimmy Fallon has jokes about security on his show What are the implications of out of date security laws that define what it…
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People, Process and Product
In the adage "people, process, technology" the technology comes last in the list for a reason as it is only as good as the people and processes that surround and support it. In this week's Great Security Debate we cover a range of topics all focused on the importance (and impacts) of the people…
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Stop, Collaborate and Pivot
Over the past 18 months, the way we work has changed including within the security field. On this episode of The Great Security Debate, Dan, Brian and Erik dig into some of the long-term implications of working today and beyond. From remote work to in-person or hybrid : what works best? Does...
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Risks, Regulations, and Reputations
A recent visit by US companies to the White House sparked a debate between Dan, Brian and Erik about how to improve security. Was the result useful to the cause, or useful to the marketing goals of the attendees? The risks are high, but are the responses going to move the needle? We discuss on…
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It's Personal
If you want to check out the new video edition of the podcast, please go to: https://youtu.be/FBBmA9YDNfQ where you can subscribe, give thumbs up and ring bells like YouTubers have been asking you to do for years. You know the drill. Also, our apologies for the hum in the audio throughout the...
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We'll See
Get notified in an email every time a new episode of The Great Security Debate drops, or when we announce in-person episode recordings (coming soon)! Sign up for our newsletter: https://newsletter.greatsecuritydebate.net Dan, Brian, and Erik find themselves debating whether or not the new...
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Back to Basics
Recently a lot of newsworthy security incidents have taken place. A common thread through many is not that they were sophisticated or required lots of time to plan and execute, or even that the victim had not invested in a lot of whizbang security technology which led to them not noticing the...
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It Depends
A wide range of cause and effect discussion in this week's episode. What happens when a cellphone gets compromised for one purpose and has unrelated, follow-on consequences? Will there be material impact from the recent decrees, executive orders and vocal support by President Biden that…
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Sidewalks and AirTags
The news of the week includes discussion about some changes to Amazon's home devices including Echo and Ring with the activation of their Sidewalk Network on all those devices by default and the potential for both ubiquitous connectivity for IoT devices, and the possibiity of abuse of the data…
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Why Does My CISO Hate Me?
We got asked by a listener to help answer the question, "Why Does My CISO Hate Me?" While we may not be privy to the exact situation in play there, we are pretty sure that no one's CISO truly hates them (but they may not be fond of all the things that everyone does all the time). In the debate...
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It All Comes Down to Relationships (Guest Debater: Jessica Burn)
We open season 2 with a new format: guests! Our first guest, Jessica Burn, has been working closely with CISOs and the security industry at Forrester where she is a Senior Analyst covering the role of the CISO, Incident Response, Zero Trust Strategy and Continuous Controls Monitoring. Dan, Erik,...
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Two CISOs and a security-minded friend discuss and debate topics of security and privacy, with a focus on looking at the topic from various angles, both that they support and those they don't. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when new episodes drop, or when new projects are announced https://newsletter.greatsecuritydebate.net
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