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
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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 Paul Riedl, CEO of River Run
“River Run is an IT firm in Wisconsin, we focus on working with small- to mid-sized businesses. My role in the organization is to help. As CEO, I get to be the chief cook and the dishwasher. I get help with the vision and the direction of the company - and that’s one of the biggest topics that we talk about on a regular basis. I’ve got a team of wonderful and smart people that do the hard work to make things happen and keep our clients secure.”
Why is security so important?
The answer really comes down just being able to protect people. As we look at the things we do - we’re protecting them physically and also mentally because any security incident is so mentally draining, and in a lot of cases, it can be very traumatic for people. A lot of what we’re protecting is people’s data and making sure their financial well being is intact. The ripple effect of any type of data or security breach can be devastating for the people involved - and not just the company. It can hurt the company’s clients, their clients and clients after that. The other point to this is because so many people are working from home because of this pandemic. This is a new territory. The use of Zoom, the use of Teams, the use of remote access to things has increased drastically and because of that, there's so much more vulnerability. And so again, we really have to make sure that we're staying on top of security.
How do you stay on top of the latest security threats?
It’s quite time-consuming and quite exciting! What we do is w subscribe to any of the main providers of IT in the marketplace and constantly scan their information - making sure that we’re receiving any types of alerts about IT and security. Because of this, we can react very quickly when new things come up. The other thing is that we have engineers whose job is to stay on top of that stuff. We also go to leadership groups in the IT world to make sure we stay on top of the latest information from all different sources.
How do you handle awareness training for your clients and for your team?
There are automated type things like a phishing awareness testing tool and those will send out tests to see how well people do and then include some videos to help them learn how to be more secure. And then there are the face-to-face interactions and training. We do that for a couple of reasons. First, we like being able to sit down with people and talk to them. People aren’t as afraid to ask questions in that situation. The objective is just to create some more awareness because awareness is critical.
Being a business owner and dealing with COVID, how do you know how to make the right decisions?
I'm fortunate in that I have a wonderful network of professionals. I've got mentors that aren't afraid to hold up a few mirrors to me and make sure that I'm seeing things as clearly as I should. And so I learned a lot by talking with experts and spending time with the experts in different areas. Another thing is just absorbing and asking questions and then making the connections that I need to make. The other thing that's wonderful are the people that work with me at River Run. They're top-notch and they stay focused and they're able to accomplish a lot of things and break everything down into very manageable solutions that are easy to understand. I also spend a bit of time on the wonderful web here and just hitting different groups to find more information about specific topics, especially how things are changing with COVID. What are we doing to keep our people safe, keep our clients safe and continue to be able to do business? So luckily as I said, I've got some great mentors and great people in my network circle and it's just through a lot of conversations and a bit of research that really does help move things forward there.