Building a Security Team to the Business And Using Intelligence to Inform the Proper Risk Strategy with H&R Block CISO Josh Brown
Release Date: 02/24/2022
Insider Threats and Social Engineering Tactics by Counterintelligence Institute’s Peter Warmka
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In Episode 90 of TheCyber5, we are joined by , founder of the Counterintelligence Institute. Warmka is a retired senior intelligence officer with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) where he specialized in clandestine HUMINT (human intelligence) collection. With 20+ years of breaching security overseas for a living, Warmka now teaches individuals and businesses about the strategy and tactics of “human hacking”. Warmka highlights how insiders are targeted, the methods used by nationstates for committing crimes, and what organizations need to help focus their security training...
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The Top Nisos Investigations Of the Last Seven Years with Nisos Research Principal Vincas Ciziunas
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In Episode 89 of TheCyber5, we are joined by Nisos Research Principal, It was 7 years ago, at a restaurant in Ashburn, Virginia, when Nisos’ co-founders Justin Zeefe and Landon Winkelvoss met Vincas. At the time, Vincas was working as a contractor for the US government but was considering a pivot into the private sector. It was Vincas’ impressive intellect, strategic thinking, and technical capabilities that made him the ideal intelligence operator on whom to depend for the launch of Nisos. Over the course of several years, Vincas’ experience, as a developer, open threat...
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The Vital Role of Customer Success in Intel Programs with Senior Director of Nisos Brandon Kappus
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In Episode 88 of TheCyber5, we are joined by Nisos Senior Director for Customer Success, . Here are five topics we discuss in this episode: Intelligence Playbooks Start with Education to the Customer Playbooks should include three major steps. The first step is education on how intelligence is going to be consumed and not be nonstop noise. Discussions between customers and vendors should start around requirements that customers are trying to address with business stakeholders. Understanding Commercially and Publicly Available Data to Avoid Noise The next...
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Identifying When Attribution of Threat Actors Matters and How to Track the Outcomes with Senior Information Security Leader Charles Garzoni
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In Episode 87 of TheCyber5, we are joined by senior information security leader . Here are five topics we discuss in this episode: Defining When Attribution is Relevant and Necessary Many corporations are not overly concerned with attribution against cyber adversaries, they just want to get back to business operations. However, if someone robbed your house, you would want to know if it was a random drive-by, or if it was your neighbor because that will inform your defenses much more appropriately. Defending Against Nation States Versus Crime Groups The ability to attribute...
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Properly Defining a Threat Management Department within Enterprise with Senior Manager of Nvidia Chris Cottrell
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In Episode 86 of TheCyber5, we are joined by Senior Manager of Threat Management for Nvidia . Here are six topics we discuss in this episode: What is a threat management department within enterprise security? Threat management departments are usually formed when security teams become mature and have table stakes functions within threat intelligence, red team, penetration testing, and threat hunting. These functions are usually formed after compliance, risk, governance, vulnerability management, and security operations center (SOC) are operational. Unfortunately, threat...
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Operational Resiliency Framework Pertaining to Supply Chains by Foundation for Defense of Democracies George Shea
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In Episode 85 of TheCyber5, we are joined by Chief Technologist of Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) Here are four topics we discuss in this episode: What is the Operational Resiliency Framework (ORF)? The Operational Resiliency Framework (ORF) is a framework that is intended to be used by executives to ensure business continuity processes when their suppliers are knocked offline during natural disasters and cyber attacks. Defining Minimum Viable Services Step one, and the most important step, is defining a minimum level of...
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Integrating Attack Simulation with Intelligence to Provide Actionable Outcomes with CrossCountry Consulting
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In Episode 84 of TheCyber5, we are joined by members of the CrossCountry Consulting team: , Offensive R&D Lead, , Associate Director, and , Director, Cyber and Privacy. Here are five topics we discuss in this episode: Adversary Emulation vs. Simulation and Use of Threat Intelligence Replaying attacks from adversaries is considered . The pros of emulation are you can react and defend against threat intelligence and the actual techniques during a penetration test. The cons are that many times these are yesterday’s threats. Simulation is the art of coming up with new attack...
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Data Governance and Threat Intelligence Converge with Egnyte’s Chief Governance Officer Jeff Sizemore
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Topic: Title: Data Governance and Threat Intelligence Converge In Episode 83 of TheCyber5, we are joined by our guest, Egnyte’s Chief Governance Officer, Jeff Sizemore. We discuss the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and the impact on Department of Defense (DOD) contractors to mature their cybersecurity hygiene in order to compete for US government contracts. CMMC was based on NIST Standards 800-71. Here are 4 topics we discuss in this episode: Why Does CMMC Matter? In the near future, contracts are going to be rated L1-3 and if contractors are not certified up to a...
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Driving Diversity in Cyber Security and Intelligence with BGH Security CEO Tennisha Martin
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In episode 82 of The Cyber5, we are joined by guest moderator and senior intelligence analyst for Nisos, Valerie G., and CEO of BGH Security, Tennisha Martin. In this episode, we discuss the challenges and opportunities of promoting and enabling diversity and inclusion in cyber security. Key Takeaways: Showing Impact for Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) within Security Beyond filling cyber security skills gaps, some metrics that show success in D&I include: Jobs Feeling more confident in interviews Recommending minorities for employment opportunities...
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Leveraging Open Source Intelligence in Insider Threat Programs with Vaillance Group CEO, Shawnee Delaney
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In episode 81 of The Cyber5, we are joined by the Head of Insider Threat at Uber and CEO of Vaillance Group, Shawnee Delaney. In this episode, we provide an overview of different functions within an insider threat program. We also discuss the support open source intelligence provides to such programs and how to change company culture to care about insider threats. We also discuss the ROI metrics that are important to different stakeholders when implementing an insider threat program. Three Takeaways: Departments and Functions within Insider Threat Insider threat programs...
info_outlineIn episode 66 of The Cyber5, we are joined by H&R Block Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Josh Brown.
In this episode we discuss the importance in building an informed security team that can collect intelligence and proper risk strategy. We have a frank conversation about what the business of security means and how to develop a team that understands multiple business lines so a security team is anchoring their security strategy to how the company is driving revenue. We talk through how to do this at scale within the intelligence discipline that touches many lines of risk, not just cybersecurity.
Three Key Takeaways:
1) Security Informs the Business to Make Risk-Based Decisions
Security professionals must have a deep understanding of how the business functions to understand how to develop a proper risk-based approach. Security is a risk management function that puts up guardrails so the business avoids bad decisions and loses money. Intelligence is critical for gaining a 360-degree review: fraud and user segment of the network. Threat intelligence must be relevant to the specific business, not the industry overall. If there is a threat to a bank, that likely has nothing to do with a tax filing service.
2) Actionable Intelligence That Reduces Business Risk
The industry has not secured an intelligence solution. Intelligence is an enrichment function, not the first line of the truth of what to prioritize. Fraud and other specific business-specific data that result in business loss are equally important to be funneled into traditional cybersecurity tools. Further, threat feeds and information must be bi-directional so even competitors and businesses in the same location can understand when incidents are taking place. The threats that most companies face are not those that are regularly marketed such as Advanced Persistent Threats. The cybersecurity industry does a poor job at providing the likelihood of a certain advanced attack. Business email compromises, account takeovers, and fraud are still the most prevalent style attacks, even to those businesses that can afford sophisticated security technology.
3) Actionable Intelligence That Gives Visibility into Supply Chain Risk
“The perimeter” is no longer relevant like it used to be. With work from home, the perimeter is just as much identity access management (IAM) as it is about IP space. On third-party supply chain risk, currently, enterprises implement score card tooling as an audit function so when a software vulnerability is released, an enterprise can quickly query what suppliers use that library or dependency. Further, the supply chain is equally about business interruption (DDoS) as much as it is about suppliers that hold critical data. Major enterprises also care about the vendor’s vendors if compromised depending on the criticality of the data (fourth-party supply chain risk). Since the United States does not even have a standard breach notification law, it’s going to be very challenging to share intelligence bi-directionally let alone get developers to uniformly submit secure technology code.