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As important as it is, cybersecurity awareness training might not seem like the most exciting thing in the world, but when it involves plots to rival your favourite network crime dramas, expertly crafted cinematography, and characters to root for? Naturally, it all feels a little bit different.   Of course, we’re talking about the long-awaited return of KnowBe4’s network-quality video series The Inside Man. Back for its fifth season, the show, created and produced by Twist...

Password security has many well-debated weaknesses but one that gets surprisingly little attention is how organisations can know whether and when theirs have been compromised by outsiders. This lack of interest is surprising. Almost all cyberattacks today, including ransomware attacks, exploit stolen or leaked credentials (a password + username), which makes any compromise a critical incident in the making.  The traditional defence is to change them on a schedule basis on the assumption that a compromise is likely at some point, but this has always...

Many of us have had to adopt remote working for a large proportion of the past year. But remote working is about more than saving yourself time on the morning commute and navigating Zoom etiquette: The security implications for thousands of businesses sending their employees home to work for a year have been massive. In this podcast, veteran security journalist Dan Raywood waxes lyrical on remote working security practices with Niamh Muldoon, Global Data Protection...

Growing up was not easy for entrepreneur, Iron Man and author, Christian Espinosa. “I played football, but I was also smart, but I also liked heavy metal, so I felt out of place from each particular clique” Espinosa revealed reminiscing on his formative years. As a response to various socio-economic difficulties beyond control, Espinosa’s mindset changed dramatically as he threw himself at every challenge and character development opportunity, trying to be the best he could...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and fresh off the LAN The packets were coming fast out of the span. My wireshark was up with my templates in place, In hopes that I’d find an IP I could trace. The smart home was snug in its /28 With a meager allow-list, and a lock on the gate. With a few hours to setup and wrap this year’s catches I’d been charging them up, and applying their...

Yvonne Eskenzi, founder and director of Eskenzi PR & Marketing celebrates 25 years in business with a series of discussions with experts and trailblazers of the cybersecurity industry. Derek Brink, CISSP, vice president and research fellow at Aberdeen Group talks to Yvonne Eskenzi about how to assess and understand risk in today's complicated environment and the importance of using the right language around risk in cybersecurity – a crash course like the one Derek teaches...

Yvonne Eskenzi, founder and director of Eskenzi PR & Marketing celebrates 25 years in business with a series of discussions with experts and trailblazers of the cybersecurity industry. Episode 6: In this instalment, Yvonne speaks with Amichai Shulman, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Imperva. Amichai is known as the cyber rockstar of Tel Aviv with decades of cybersecurity experience he is a household name in Israel. This episode covers the current state of cybersecurity today,...

Yvonne Eskenzi, founder and director of Eskenzi PR & Marketing celebrates 25 years in business with a series of discussions with experts and trailblazers of the cybersecurity industry. Episode 5: Yvonne talks with Martin Kuppinger, Founder and Principal Analyst at KuppingerCole. In this instalment, Martin discusses the importance of analyst houses in cybersecurity, key predictions and industry trends for the future, and how to create a successful business model in these unprecedented times. https://soundcloud.com/itsecurityguru/wow-part-v

Yvonne Eskenzi, founder and director of Eskenzi PR & Marketing celebrates 25 years in business with a series of discussions with experts and trailblazers of the cybersecurity industry. Episode 4: Yvonne talks with Teresa Cottam, chief analyst at Omnisperience, and expert in the Digital Economy. Cottam is renowned for helping companies create compelling experiences that transform their businesses, and in this episode, Teresa talks about what key skills you need to be an analyst, how...

Yvonne Eskenzi, founder and director of Eskenzi PR & Marketing celebrates 25 years in business with a series of discussions with experts and trailblazers of the cybersecurity industry. Episode 3: Yvonne talks with Colonel John Doody, the ‘Godfather of InfoSec’, and author of acclaimed autobiography ‘From Stripes to Stars’. In this instalment, Colonel Doody opens up about his tenure as the outward face of GCHQ, how humble beginnings cannot stop you from achieving your dreams,...