Security Awareness Training
Security Strong Podcast
In this in-depth Security Awareness Training, host Jeremy Cherny explores how a security incident can occur, as well as how people can best protect their data to remain secure.
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Get To Know Microsoft Teams
Security Strong Podcast
Host Jeremy Cherny discusses how to use Microsoft Teams as well as best practices. What is Microsoft Teams? If you haven't used it before, Microsoft Teams is a bit like texting or messenger on your phone in that it allows you to send messages to individuals, create group chats, and share files such as PDFs or photos. It’s much more than just that though. You can also create video chats for things such as one on ones, group chats, meetings, or video conferencing and because Teams can access apps such as SharePoint, Planner, and OneNote just to name a few, your team can work...
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Get to know Microsoft Planner
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Host Jeremy Cherny discusses best practices and how to use Microsoft Planner. What is Microsoft Planner? Microsoft Planner does not have a desktop component, it is strictly from the web. It's also from your apps on your phone and tablets. So right now, there is no desktop component. So you go to Office and sign in with your credentials. It's kind of like task management for teams. Some might call it light project management. There are a lot of different ways to look at it depending on how you're going to use it. We've started to use it here at Tobin Solutions for a few small projects. So we...
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What to expect from the future of Internet security with Steve Moscarelli
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Host Jeremy Cherny interviews Steve Moscarelli, Regional Sales Manager at Thales Cloud Security “I knew that the internet was going to be the future when I was in college. I had roommates working at the New Media Lab at MIT and they were involved in building a precursor to the internet for DARPA. I also saw very clearly that the internet was built with no security at all - which really propelled me into my career.” What are some of the things you read to stay on top of what's happening in the world of security? So I'd recommend that everybody pay close attention to Dark Reading. In many...
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Using common sense to stay secure with Joe Dietrich
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Host Jeremy Cherny interviews Joe Dietrich, Manager of Hosting and Storage for Dover Corporation “Dover Corporation is a diversified global manufacturer. We've got about 325 global locations with about 23,000 employees worldwide. What I do for Dover is lead teams that provide server and storage support, as well as Active Directory support and what we call data protection, which for us means backup and disaster recovery.” Why is security important? The systems and applications that run on the servers and storage that my team supports are things like Oracle, our payroll, our accounting...
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Best practices for keeping your business’ information secure
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This week, we're doing something a little different on the Security Strong Podcast. It's just me, we're doing kind of a fireside chat mode here. I'm sitting in a rocking chair near the fire and I am thinking about the various awesome guests we've had since we started the podcast, I'm thinking about what we do as a security company, and I thought why don't we share some of the best practices and go through a top list of things that you can do to stay secure. Security as a Process, Not a Product A lot of times when people think about security, they're thinking about buying the basics,...
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Security in the world of HR with Amy Fallucca
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Host: Jeremy Cherny interviews Amy Fallucca, CEO of Bravent “Bravent has been around for about four years. We are an HR consulting and recruiting company. On the HR side, we help with anything from handbooks, to advising on terminations, or employee performance. Then on the recruiting side, we work on a range of positions; professional, technical, and executive. We leverage technology to be really efficient in our process, and by doing that, we're able to save our clients money. We're typically about half the cost of contingent placement firms.” Can you speak a little about security...
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Improve security through Mobile Device Management with Max Palzewicz
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Host Jeremy Cherny interviews Max Palzewicz, Director of Operations at Rocketman Tech “I started out my career in public accounting, primarily working and advising small business owners. I got my CPA and I was able to join my dad and uncle's business coaching firm, Action Coach of Southeastern Wisconsin, where I worked for a few years. I carved out a niche for myself focusing on the financials for business owners, teaching business owners, how to be financially literate, how to read and analyze their financial statements, also how to process good numbers so they could make sound decisions...
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Know your data with Jason Claycomb
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Host: Jeremy Cherny interviews Jason Claycomb, Founder of INARMA “INARMA is a professional services firm. The short tagline is ‘We assess controls.’ So I really like how you think of security as a process and not a product - that’s exactly what we do. We help people with the process around security. Yes, there are products involved, but those are types of solutions and we help people pick the right solutions.” Why is security so important to you and your clients? We've all got sensitive data. There isn’t any business that does not have sensitive data in it or where the data isn't...
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E-commerce website security with Lori McDonald
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Host: Jeremy Cherny interviews Lori McDonald, President and CEO of Brilliance Business Solutions “I started my career at NASA Johnson Space Center as a flight controller for the space shuttle program where I met my husband. He went on to work for Rockwell Automation and got a promotion that brought us to Milwaukee. I was trying to figure out what was as cool as space and decided the internet looked like a cool place to be. So I started Brilliance Business Solutions, a web development company with a niche in helping manufacturers and distributors implement digital commerce solutions, in 1998....
info_outlineHost: Jeremy Cherny interviews Sean Tepper, Founder and CEO of TYKR
“I’ve been in the software engineering space for about 15 years. I started a business in 2006 where I was focused on building custom software and websites for small and mid-sized businesses. Then in 2010 I went through a merger and kind of branched away and started doing more contracting with bigger businesses. In the meantime, I’ve been involved in the tech investing space, doing some angel investing and then doing a lot of investing within the public sector - which really leads to TYKR. TYKR is a tool that really helps investors find stocks and make a lot of money in the stock market.”
Why is security important to you?
From a cyber security standpoint when building custom software, it can be overlooked especially in the beginning. If you get into the build of the software and don’t have your foundation built around security, you can run into a lot of rework. And of course, if you don’t build it correctly, you can run into a lot of nightmares like clients calling you at late hours of the night, telling you that their site is down. So really, you need to make sure that when you’re building something custom, you have a strong cybersecurity foundation. There’s also the world of investing where cybersecurity is such a hot topic with cybersecurity businesses being excellent investments that aren’t going to go away anytime soon.
How do you stay on top of the latest security threats?
Since investing is really my career right now, I pay attention to the hot businesses in the cybersecurity space. But after I figure out if they're a wise investment or a poor investment, I get to take a deep dive into what the business is all about. So I really learn about the newest trends through looking at a business’ products and services. If these businesses are releasing new products and features that they are doing well with, then that’s an indicator to me that that’s where the trend is going.
What are some ways you address security awareness for the users of TYKR?
With TYKR, fortunately it’s a software that we don’t collect any sensitive information. We mostly just collect first and last name and then email, which is generally pretty public information. We do keep everything in a highly secure database. There’s a firewall that blocks people from getting in and you have to have two factor authentication, even if you’re an admin like me. I have built software that you’re dealing with highly secure information like social security numbers and that’s when you get into data encryption. If we have something that uses credit card information we also use tokenization. So let's say you have a 16-digit credit card number, we then transform that into a token and then that token changes every month. It’s a cool process but it’s really hard to do.
What do you see as the future of information security and how it might apply to you?
Yeah, here’s a different answer for you - estate closures. I’ve been the executor for several people and it’s one of those things where it’s really hard to close an estate when a family member passes because you have to look up everything - passwords for this site and that site, bank information. It’s a huge process, like six to nine months, to collect everything. I think there’s going to be a solution out there where somebody engineers a software where it’s an estate - it’s everything in a centralized location, one password to get to it. You’ve got a will connected to it with designees that log in once and they can help close the bank accounts and shut down any subscription services. Today, it is a very cumbersome laboring process. So I see cybersecurity that is highly secure but also highly efficient for the end user to work with.
What’s your favorite tech movie?
Inception. It wasn’t really cyber, but they want to enter the dreams of somebody who has a really big business and then change the trajectory of the business. On the surface it sounds boring, like business, but it’s all about the process and the challenges of entering into somebody’s dream - with tech.