Security leaders talk shop, with room for detours.
TNT - Technology and Things sits down with security leaders from Thales, Netskope and TD Ameritrade for plain talk about data nobody can locate, clouds that regulators want governed, and why defenders should attack their own systems. It also makes room for an EVOTEK employee spotlight and a bestselling novelist explaining his chapter outlines of three to five words each.
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TNT - Technology and Things is an interview show about the people who run, sell and secure technology inside organizations, plus a few who simply have a good story. Paul Ferraro, introduced on air as a former IT exec now working as a technology advisor, hosts. The show's introduction names Jeff Krueger as co-host. Cybersecurity is the subject of several recent conversations, and they stay practical. In the conversation with Todd Moore, VP of Encryption Products for Thales, the talk turns on a survey result: roughly a quarter of respondents did not know where their data was. The follow-up is blunt. If you cannot find it, how can you protect it, never mind satisfy GDPR or the California Consumer Privacy Act? Thales frames its answer in three words, discover, protect and control, and the phrase comes back near the close. The Netskope episode with Steve Riley, its Field CTO, takes up cloud governance: regulators, auditors and customers want proof that an organization is not a wild west where anyone can sign up for any SaaS app and store whatever sensitive data they like. With Jose Dominguez, CISO for TD Ameritrade, the subject is attacking yourself on purpose, through bug bounties, red team exercises and mapping a tool stack against MITRE to spot where a single control is all that stands in the way. Several of these security conversations add a second interviewer from EVOTEK. Matt Stamper, CISO for EVOTEK, and John Carruthers, its Business Information Security Officer and a former FBI supervisory special agent, each sit in as guest host, and Chris Forbes, a CISO and executive advisor at EVOTEK, joins Paul for the TD Ameritrade episode. Then the show changes lanes. Jason M Hough, a New York Times bestselling author, describes the terse outline he writes at three to five words per chapter; if he were outlining Star Wars, his last chapter would read 'Luke destroys Death Star'. An employee spotlight with Cesar Garcia, EVOTEK's business development manager, starts two hours late, a delay chalked up to the nature of technology and things, and makes time for show and tell about a Carnegie Hero medal. The episode with Teresa Annibale, a Regional VP for EVOTEK, is set up around women in technology and includes the story of a thirteen-year-old deciding she would one day live in San Diego. The register is relaxed and good-humored. One exchange jokes about adding technology until things stop working correctly, which is how you know the job is done. Sign-offs are warm, and guests are usually told they are welcome back. It suits a listener who wants security and IT leadership discussed in plain language by people who do the work, with some personal stories along the way.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants security and IT leadership talked through in plain language by practitioners, from data discovery to cloud governance to red teaming, and who enjoys it when a conversation wanders into a guest's own story.
What sets it apart: EVOTEK security leaders sit in as guest hosts on the security conversations, so there is a practitioner asking questions as well as answering them. The same show will also turn to a novelist's outlining method or a colleague's Carnegie Hero medal.
A podcast hosted by technology leaders who spent years working in IT for a Fortune 500 Company and we are passionate about leadership, technology, and the community. We talk to non-profits, startups, to thought leaders, or anyone else that has an interesting or compelling story. We will be looking to see how people are utilizing (or not utilizing) technology, what problems they are solving, the challenges and pitfalls of managing technology, and try to have some fun along the way! Hosted by Paul Ferraro, IT exec and technology advisor and Jeff Krueger a fellow technology enthusiast.
MITRE coverage maps and five-word chapter outlines: your curiosity gets a wider job description.
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Todd Moore makes data location the first security question, then follows it into protection, control, and continuous monitoring.
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Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
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