The Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series

In a very thought provoking discussion, Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert, Tony Hoang, Ph.D., traced the evolution of Gen AI, highlighted the many benefits, and also shared his concerns about the irresponsible and abusive use of this technology. What got my attention were the following realities:Innovators often prioritize speed over responsible AI development, leading to potential negative consequences.How easy it is to create a software-generated duplicate of someone's voice or video avatar without their consent, using online content such as images and videos.There are no current safeguards to prevent someone from exploiting AI-generated images of someone else, making it a challenge for parents to advise their children on how to protect themselves.Time Stamps00:02 -- Introduction00:49 -- Dr. Tony Hoang's Professional Highlights02:47 -- AI's evolution, data science, machine learning, and generative AI10:05 -- Generative AI and cybersecurity14:07 -- AI and cybersecurity threats in the enterprise18:45 -- AI-generated explicit content and its impact on teenagers22:48 --AI-generated content and its potential impact on society30:05 -- AI-generated fake reviews and their impact on businesses34:55 -- The potential dangers and benefits of generative AIMemorable Tony Hoang Quotes/Statements"Right now, there is a big emphasis&nbsp;on the&nbsp;on the client-side&nbsp;of&nbsp;obviously, privacy and security, on the development side, there isn't primarily because of the fact that everyone wants to rush to the top.""So, what they're doing is they are taking all of the responsible AI committees, all of the privacy committees, and they basically just laid everyone off in the past six months. And that's kind of frightening to see, because what that means is when you&nbsp;fire your responsible AI committee, what that signals is they want to go fast, because these committees actually slow them down in order to accomplish their goal.""The stuff that really worries me the most about Gen AI isn't phishing attacks, or any of that stuff; my biggest fear right now is the replication of human images, or video or voices.""One of the ways that you could use Gen AI to take down a competitor, you would go on their website onto the product review, hit it with AI generated responses and just flood it with negative one star or two star reviews. So that's a way to destroy a company's reputation using Gen AI, and we're actually seeing that right now.""There's no way for anybody to detect AI generated content right now in an automated fashion."Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee and Subscribe to the PodcastPlease subscribe to the podcast, so you don't miss any new episodes! And please leave the show a rating if you like what you hear. New episodes release every two weeks. Connect with Dr. Chatterjee on these platforms: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/Cybersecurity Readiness Book: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-Readiness-Holistic-High-Performance-Approach/dp/1071837338<a href="https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/cybersecurity-readiness/book275712" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

A 2023 State of Vulnerability Management Report finds that only half of the surveyed organizations (51%) have, at best, a moderate level of visibility into vulnerabilities. Several other vulnerability management metrics, such as maturity levels, frequency of vulnerability scans, and patch deployment speed, reveal an alarming and troublesome trend. In this episode, Ashley Leonard, CEO at Syxsense, joins me in reviewing the research report findings and discussing vulnerability management challenges and best practices.Time Stamps00:02 -- Introduction02:20 -- Ashley Leonard's Professional Highlights04:00 -- Scope of Vulnerability Management06:34 -- Human Vulnerability Factor08:57 -- AI-enabled Phishing Attacks09:32 -- Vulnerability Management Objectives15:50 -- Continuous Vulnerability Scanning and Remediation18:24 -- Practicality of Continuous Vulnerability Scanning22:37 -- Securing All Attack Surfaces, Especially IoT Devices and Cloud Assets25:57 -- Vulnerability Management Maturity Levels31:33 -- Apparent Disconnect Between Scanning and Visibility 36:15 -- Promptly Acting On Vulnerability Report Findings41:49 -- Selecting Appropriate Vulnerability Management Tools and Solutions43:55 -- Vulnerability Management Best Practices46:30 -- Final ThoughtsMemorable Ashley Leonard Quotes/Statements"We try and train most of our users not to log in an unknown USB device. But there have been cases where threat actors will take the USB devices and drop them in the parking lot of companies they're trying to breach. People will often pick up these USB sticks, wonder what's on it, walk into the office, and plug it in. It's shocking.""I would share that patching should not be a monthly process. Many companies do this kind of, "Oh, it's Patch Tuesday, so we're gonna go and deploy our patch Tuesday patches to our organization." It's not even a weekly process, this should be a continuous process.""New vulnerabilities are being published constantly, we have a whole threat research team that is constantly publishing new content. And if you're not scanning on a continuous basis, then your organization's exposed. So you really need to find technologies and partners that can do this kind of continuous vulnerability management for you.""In the past, after a vulnerability was publicly announced, it typically took three to seven days before you started to see attackers actually weaponizing these vulnerabilities and attacking, which meant you kind of had a week or so to get your act together, deploy the patches and make sure your organization was safe. It's now down to 24 hours. And that's a problem. That's a huge problem for most organizations, because, unless you are doing continuous vulnerability scanning and remediation, you're not going to be able to respond quickly enough, and your organization is going to be exposed. So you really need technology to step in here. And you need automation that you can use to deploy these patches to your most vulnerable assets as quickly as possible.""Patches don't get tested normally as much as a full release of a product; that's also a risk.""Automation can really help you respond quickly but also thoughtfully in the way that you go about remediating these patches.""Think carefully about the data, categorize how important it is, and think about where it's stored. And that's a really good starting place." "Threat actors are now using AI to analyze the exfiltrated data from the organization. And then using that data from the AI, for example, finding customer lists, and then contacting those customers, and getting those customers

While cloud computing has become a great digitization enabler to enterprises, multiple clouds—especially when intersecting with on-premises systems and one another—can produce some challenges. Many organizations can end up with an "identity gridlock" of competing identity systems and protocols since each cloud platform cannot exchange access policy data with other cloud providers. It was an absolute pleasure having Gerry Gebel, Head of Standards at Strata Identity, join me to discuss the significance of standardizing identity management.Time Stamps00:02 -- Introduction02:09 -- Gerry Gebel's Professional Highlights04:15 -- Role of Standards in Identity and Access Management08:14 -- Avoiding Identity Gridlocks11:38 -- Competing Interests in Developing Standards14:49 -- Role of Standards in Achieving Fine-Grained Access Controls18:25 -- Rationale Behind Having Numerous Standards21:02 -- Senior Leadership Involvement in Standards Setting Process25:39 -- Streamlining and Standardizing Security28:07 -- Final ThoughtsMemorable Gerry Gebel Quotes/Statements"Standards allow for interoperability between domains that different organizations run, and this can provide the user with a lot of convenience.""Each of these cloud and computing platforms has its own way of defining and configuring access to resources. That's where the gridlock comes in because they're not interchangeable; they are not interoperable.""Realize that you're not standardizing the whole offering; you're standardizing different pieces that have maybe become a commodity.""It really comes down to having customers involved in the process, because they're the ones who ultimately, will, or will not purchase products. If there's a lock-in, or there's a lack of interoperability, the customer may choose to stay away from that product or solution.""You can be an active participant (in the standards-setting process) and look out for your own interests, rather than delegating that to someone else who may not represent the same point of view.""What is the purpose of creating these standards? And we've sort of alluded to that a couple of times here. I think that's where the enterprise perspective is very important. Because, as a programmer, as a developer, we can easily get lost in the weeds of the technology, you know, how do I write this Go routine? Or how do I write this API? And I think the enterprise perspective keeps the focus on what's the real business purpose for doing this. Does it enhance security? Does it give us vendor independence? Does it reduce risk in some way? Or does it enable new business? So I think it's important to have that [customer] voice in the conversation.""I would say from the enterprise administrative perspective, there's more capability to properly govern the deployment, the configurations, if you have standards involved, because it gives you more visibility of exactly what is connected to what and who has access to what. It gives you better visibility or reporting capability to show, "Oh, well, I'm compliant with these HIPAA rules, or I'm compliant with, you know, some of their financial rules." So, that's where the standards can be of great benefit in overall governance."Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee and Subscribe to the PodcastPlease subscribe to the podcast, so you don't miss any new episodes! And please leave the show a rating if you like what you hear. New episodes release every two weeks. Connect with Dr. Chatterjee on these platforms: LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/" rel="noopener noreferrer"...

With the global cost of cybercrime expected to reach $10.5 trillion by 2025, cybersecurity has become a board-level imperative. According to the&nbsp;Diligent Institute survey 'What Directors Think,' board members ranked cybersecurity as the most challenging issue to oversee. Even though boards say cybersecurity is a priority, they have a long way to go to help their organizations become resilient to cyberattacks. Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof and a senior IEEE member, sheds light on this important aspect of cybersecurity governance. The driving question being: How informed is the Board of Directors to provide effective oversight of cybersecurity governance?Time Stamps00:02 -- Introduction03:06 -- Kayne McGladrey's professional highlights04:01 -- 2023 Global CISO Survey Findings -- Do the Board of Directors have the necessary expertise to provide cybersecurity governance oversight?07:24 -- CISO and Board of Directors Relationship 14:22 -- Effectively Empowering the CISO20:07 -- Reasons for Board of Directors' Lack of Involvement 26:35 -- Board Members Cybersecurity Education and Training 45:27 -- Final ThoughtsMemorable Kayne McGladrey Quotes/Statements"Interestingly enough, fewer than half of the board members regularly interact with their CISOs. This is an indicator of a communication gap, and potential alignment issues between board members and CISOs, which is really hindering progress in cybersecurity.""I know a lot of businesses still see cybersecurity as a cost center. They don't see it as a strategic advantage.""I can think of a CISO who I was just chatting with at Blackhat this year, who turned down a job they matched on salary expectations. But, they matched on job expectations, and they matched culturally. They will be reporting as the CISO to the Director of IT, not to the CIO, not to the CEO, but they're going to report to some down-level director, and they wouldn't be offered directors and officers insurance either. So effectively, they'd only be a CISO in title and C-level executive in title only, but not in practice. They recognize they were being hired in as a scapegoat. I think that's a persistent problem that we've seen associated with how companies are recruiting CISOs.""I think CISOs should ideally report to the CEO or another C-level executive like the chief operating officer or chief financial officer. And that really allows for a direct line of communications to the top-level management and that emphasizes and underscores the importance of cybersecurity and strategic decisions.""Cyber risk is a business risk. Cyber is just an influence.""Boards think in terms of business risks. CISOs, unfortunately, don't often communicate in terms of business risks. CISOs often communicate a technical risk, like a risk of ransomware, or the risks associated with generative AI; those aren't risks; that's driving the communications gap. Literally how we talk as CISOs is part of what causes a lack of oversight on the part of the board because the board doesn't understand what it is that they should actually care about. And so, they disengage.""Don't go to the board and say I have a problem, because they're not there to solve your problem. They want to know what you're doing about the problem. Also, they want to know if it's going to materially affect the business, I think if you go there with a problem, a solution and a proposal, you're probably going to have a much better time."<p...

According to a 2023 IBM report, companies take 197 days to identify a breach and 69 days to contain one on average. The delay between infection, detection, and containment can cost businesses millions of dollars. Only 45% of the companies polled had an incident response plan in place. In this episode, Markus Lassfolk, VP of Incident Response, Truesec, and Morten von Seelen, Vice President of the Truesec Group, who have extensive hands-on experience in dealing with major cyber attack incidents, shed light on this very important subject matter. Time Stamps00:02 -- Introduction02:47 -- Markus Lassfolk professional highlights04:28 -- Morten von Seelen professional highlights06:17 -- What does incident response mean? Why is it important?09:10 -- Extent of organizational preparedness15:32 -- How should organizations prepare to help incident responders do their job better?20:49 -- What are the different roles associated with major incident response engagements? How do you build a team to handle these engagements and how you retain the talent?25:18 -- What are some of the most common mistakes that you see customers making?30:27 -- How effective are tabletop exercises?36:00 -- How important are security drills?37:21 -- How should organizations go about looking to identify real expertise in incident response?39:25 -- What kind of help can small companies get who don't have the budget? What would be your advice to them?42:58 -- When I was reviewing some industry reports, one survey finds that while only 45% of the companies polled had an incident response plan in place, 79% of the companies have insurance. So they're almost implying that many companies could be of the view that let's not worry about the incident response plan. If we have good insurance, we are covered. Can you dispel that myth?46:35 -- What's exciting, what's interesting, what are some challenges, what kind of mindset and skills one needs to have to pursue a career in incidence response? 51:23 -- Final thoughtsMemorable Markus Lassfolk Quotes/Statements"If organizations gets hit by ransomware, they are usually down for three weeks, 21 days, on average.""From a preparedness standpoint, it helps if the customer has secure and safe backups that we can use." "In most of the cases, customers are either totally unprepared, or they're not prepared in the right way.""During an engagement, having the log files will help us get answers of what's been going on in the breached environment. When we don't have the log files, it's so much harder, then we have to start looking at other things which takes more time, which sometimes does not provide the answers, and then we have to start guessing.""The best thing that the leadership team can do is to give the incident responders and the IT department the support and room to do their job and and not expect to have status meetings every 30 minutes or every two hour because that does not give us time to work and actually produce stuff." "We advise our customers to make sure that they identify the key personnel on their site and try to reduce the single point of failures in personnel as we call it, because in every incidents, when we come in and start working, we start to see a pattern; there is one person who has the answers to everything and who everyone points to. And that person is the single point of failure.""They (customers) start restarting or...

While large language models such as ChatGPT can be used to write malicious code, AI tools are increasingly used to proactively detect and thwart cyber-attacks. There is growing recognition of AI’s potential to fight cybercrime. Ian L. Paterson, CEO, Plurilock, sheds light on how AI has impacted the cybersecurity industry, especially how Generative AI is changing the industry. Describing the role of the AI as a co-pilot, he says, "The way&nbsp;I think about leveraging AI is typically having a human do the first 10%, and the last 10%, an AI is really good at doing the 80% in the middle. So it's not a replacement for the human, but it's an enabler for that human and allows them to do more with less."Time Stamps00:02 -- Introduction02:26 -- Ian L. Paterson's professional highlights04:56 -- What is generative AI and how does it work?10:34 -- How can we protect ourselves from phishing attacks?16:12 -- Leveraging AI for behavioral biometrics21:21 -- What is generative AI? How are these tools being used to thwart cyber attacks?24:45 -- How do we speed up detection and remediation?28:20 -- Cybersecurity is a team sport and it is a team game32:29 -- Guidance and recommendations36:19 -- Final thoughtsMemorable Ian Paterson Quotes/Statements"What we see today is that large language models can appear as if they are themselves intelligent.""One of the chief dangers of this new (AI) type of technology is that you can now author convincing text at scale.""What we are seeing today is both an increase in the volume of attacks and an increase in the severity and the convincingness of some of these attacks. I call them multimodal attacks because you're using not only the modality of text but you can also use the modality of video or audio. I think we're going to have to deal with these types of attacks, with these problems, for many years to come.""You're not going to have a ransomware attack on Monday at 10 am when everybody's refreshed from the weekend; it's going to be Friday afternoon, it's going to be on Christmas Day, it's going to be when you don't want to deal with those types of situations.""You can certainly use large language models to accelerate or help cut down on some of the minutiae when writing code.""Large language models are being used as co-pilot in Security Operations Center, to do log analysis, to speed up monitoring, identification, and notification of potential threats.""We've always had this need in cybersecurity to increase productivity because there are not enough people to do the work needed to stay safe. So, AI will help, it will be a productivity boon.""The way I think about leveraging AI is you typically have a human do the first 10% and the last 10%, an AI is really good at doing the 80% in the middle. It's not a replacement for the human, but it's an enabler for that human and allows them to do more with less, and hopefully, highlight the area they need to focus on.""The reality is that cybersecurity is a team sport, and you need a host of products and solutions working in harmony to adequately address the threats out there and reduce the attack surface.""In summation, AI is good, we're certainly going to see cybersecurity-related innovations, but it's not going to replace the people it takes to deploy and leverage those solutions.""It's really about having that defense-in-depth strategy. I think that makes a difference between somebody with pretty good security and somebody with great security."Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee and Subscribe to the PodcastPlease subscribe to...

Cloud migration and remote work requirements are forcing organizations to modernize their applications and identity systems. Making the transition is both time-consuming and expensive using traditional software development practices. By decoupling applications from identity, orchestration can alleviate the burden while allowing companies to seamlessly mix and match different cloud providers as well as MFA and passwordless technologies. In this episode, Eric Olden, Co-founder and CEO at Strata Identity sheds light on identity orchestration strategies and best practices. &nbsp;Time Stamps00:02 -- Introduction02:16 -- Eric Olden's professional highlights05:11 -- State of maturity of identity management, and where does identity orchestration fit in.08:13 -- When should an organization consider an identity orchestration strategy?11:33 -- Identity orchestration, a plug-and-play approach15:17 -- Use of the "adapter" metaphor to understand identity orchestration16:50 -- Identity Orchestration and Single Sign-On -- What is the nature of the relationship?18:47 -- Eliminating security vulnerabilities with application modernization and identity orchestration 22:06 -- Wide-scale implementation of passwordless authentication 25:47 -- Challenges and success factors in formulating and implementing identity orchestration strategies30:24 -- Guidance in selecting service providers and vendors 34:31 -- Making a business case for identity orchestration38:59 -- Final thoughtsMemorable Eric Olden Quotes/Statements"I see identity providers themselves, the IDPs, are today's hardware in that customers need them, they have to run something, but they don't want to be locked into any one thing. So, we've created an abstraction layer that allows you to decouple the applications from the identity provider. So you can mix and match and do different things.""Identity orchestration makes sense when you have more than one identity provider.""If you find yourself trying to modernize applications and move from legacy to modern, that's another really important use case for orchestration.""The abstraction layer allows you to avoid rewriting any of the applications because, from the application standpoint, the orchestration layer presents a facade that looks exactly like the application is expecting it before orchestration came in.""We're able to bring modern security to legacy applications and do that without ever changing them.""All of these five A's -- authentication, access, authorization, attributes, and audit, need to find their way into this new distributed environment.""Today, with orchestration, you no longer need an application-specific connector because all of the patterns in the protocols that the applications need are already part of the abstraction layer in the orchestration.""I told my developers, look, if you ever find yourself typing the word password in your code, stop, you're doing it wrong. So you need to back that up and figure out why someone was trying to bring a password in the first place and give them an alternative. So that is a bit of a heavy lift at the beginning, where you need to change people's mindsets.""The world today is about self-service, and you want to have things bought and not sold."Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee and Subscribe to the PodcastPlease subscribe to the podcast, so you don't miss any new episodes! And please leave the show a rating if you like what you hear. New episodes release every two weeks. Connect with Dr....

Recent cybersecurity workforce study reports reveal that a) there’s still a global shortage of 3.4 million workers in this field, and b) only 25% of the global cybersecurity workforce are women. In this episode, I had an engaging discussion with panelists Ashley Podhradsky, Vice President of Research and Economic Development at Dakota State University, and Kriti Arora, Security Global black belt, Threat Intelligence and External Attack Surface Management, Microsoft, North America, on attracting more talent, especially motivating and inspiring women to become cybersecurity professionals. One of the key messages that came out of the discussion was not to allow a certain stereotype or image to influence career decisions. A woman's innate traits and abilities, such as multitasking, problem-solving, organizational skills, curiosity, and the zeal to go above and beyond, will serve her very well as a cybersecurity professional.Here are links to some useful cybersecurity training and awareness resources:https://www.girlsecurity.orghttps://www.sans.orgwww.CybHER.orgWww.WiCyS.orghttps://www.isc2.orgTime Stamps00:02 -- Introduction03:33 -- Ashley Podhradsky's professional highlights04:59 -- Kriti Arora's professional highlights08:22 -- Dakota State University's cybersecurity initiatives11:30 -- Kriti Arora's exposure to cybersecurity education and her reflections on the learning experience14:17 -- Holistic approach and human element in cybersecurity17:21 -- Core cybersecurity offerings at educational institutions19:23 -- Cybersecurity awareness and training throughout the organization21:43 -- Gender discrimination in cybersecurity25:23 -- Cybersecurity stereotypes30:05 -- Cybersecurity skillsets33:19 -- Why women are likely to be very successful in cybersecurity37:38 -- Industry-academic partnership42:55 -- How would you promote cybersecurity to your female friends?45:08 -- Resources for cybersecurity education and training53:22 -- Final thoughtsMemorable Ashley Podhradsky Quotes/Statements"When I was in school, I was usually the only woman and I wanted to do what I could to help bring more women into this field. It's incredibly exciting and a wonderful environment to be in.""As I have a seat at the (senior leadership) table, I scooch over and make a seat for someone else; I find great job satisfaction and take immense pride in helping promote, support, and advance women in this field and be their champion.""Showcasing collegiate women to middle school girls in the near-peer mentoring model has been very positive for girls to understand that they can also be a part of this cybersecurity field and experience.""I've heard "No" a lot. But the only thing that tells me is that I'm talking to the wrong people. And I need to try something different and talk with someone else. And then I can get to that, "Yes.""If we're only focusing on the people who are in the right age group, right now, we're never going to solve the (woman in the cybersecurity workforce) problem, we have to...

Research finds that there was a 44% increase in insider threat incidents across all types of organizations, and 56% of the reported incidents were due to negligence. Equally alarming is that the average annual cost to remediate a negligence incident was $6.6 million. Dr. Eric Lang, Ph.D., Director, Personnel and Security Research Center (PERSEREC), United States Department of Defense, draws upon his research to share some of the (science-based) commandments for understanding and countering insider threats. Emphasizing the criticality of human factors, Dr. Lang contends that "without individuals’ sincere commitments, the most extensive insider threat policies will fail."Time Stamps02:27 -- So Eric, let's first talk about yourself and your professional journey.04:36 -- What motivated you to write the article Seven [ Science-Based] Commandments for Understanding and Countering Insider Threats?07:51 -- The first commandment states that "Human factors are paramount. Thou shalt not worship technology above personal and social dynamics solutions." Tell us more about it.15:16 -- Moving along to your second commandment, you say, "Employees are an organization's greatest strength, especially for identifying insider threats. Thou shalt improve supervisory and co-worker reporting." Many employees are reluctant to report potential threats they encounter. I would assume organizations recognize the challenges and have appropriate structures and mechanisms in place to encourage more honest reporting. Your thoughts?20:45 -- Many psychological factors could come in the way of somebody alerting the organization about a possible insider threat. Thoughts?26:36 -- I will be very surprised if great organizations, when they make decisions to improve cybersecurity, governance, cybersecurity readiness, those decisions are not influenced by experts in human psychology, the clinical psychologist, or whoever the right person is. Thoughts?31:07 -- A reactive approach to cybersecurity governance doesn't cut it. Thoughts?38:37 -- So let me ask you, what do you think are any of the top three things that most employees care about for their job?43:33 -- Before we conclude, if you'd like to share a few final thoughts.Memorable Eric Lang Quotes/Statements"73% of the successful exfiltration incidents were conducted without using technology.""Technology is necessary but not sufficient, humans will find a way around it. And in this case, 73% succeeded in the exfiltration.""What was a common successful method for foreign adversaries to get sensitive US industrial information? The answer is they asked for it. It was a form of social engineering in very many cases.""Technology [often] misperforms not because of malicious intent, but because it was ill-developed.""So why do employees in an organization with a See Something Say Something policy, often hesitate to report? There are a number of social psychological factors such as 'don't be a snitch' cultural norm. They don't want a coworker to lose their job. They might have a fear of retaliation."Social psychologists often note an effect called "diffusion of responsibility" when people don't report a potential exfiltration incident."If you are aware of something of potential concern, and there are many other people also in the environment, you might think that many people have the same awareness I do, I'm sure someone else will report it. This is called "diffusion of responsibility" in social psychological research.""Policy is important, but the execution of it, and bringing employees into correct awareness and engagement is the most important...

Significant fines in excess of $2 billion have been levied on organizations in the financial services sector for failing to capture, retain and supervise communications. This crackdown on non-compliant communications is the clearest indicator yet that regulators have lost patience with firms that still haven't addressed supervision and record-keeping risks that were exacerbated by the pandemic. In this episode, Garth Landers, Director of Global Product Marketing at Theta Lake, discusses how businesses can mitigate risks from unmonitored communication channels.Time Stamps02:20 -- Please share some highlights of your professional journey with the listeners.05:10 -- Different types of modern communication tools.12:05 -- The 2022 Modern Communications Compliance and Security report(produced by Theta Lake) finds that unmonitored communication channels remain the biggest risk. What are these risks?21:19-- What are some best practices in securing the different communication channels?28:47 -- Do you think an organization would be well served if they had written guidelines of the do's and don'ts when using certain channels and making that document readily available to all organizational members?34:09 -- It's about helping individuals do the right things so that the communication is secure, as compared to gotcha, you made a mistake, and you should have done better. Thoughts?36:51 -- I emphasize the importance of creating and sustaining a high-performance information security culture. Only when you create that culture, that work ethic, securing communication channels is sustainable in the long run.40:43 -- We are talking about a proactive approach driven by a change in the mind shift where the leaders are looking at this apparent challenge (securing communication channels) as a strategic opportunity.45:11 -- Can you address the archival and retrieval challenges? 52:00 -- If there were three or four takeaways that listeners should walk away with from today's discussion, what should they be?Memorable Garth Landers Quotes/Statements"Two-thirds of an organization believe that inside their organization, employees are using unmonitored communication channels.""Unmonitored communication channels pop up because, in many cases, organizations decide not to empower their employees, they give them a Zoom, or a Cisco WebEx or a Microsoft Teams, or a RingCentral, or a Slack, etc., but they don't fully enable them. They don't turn on chat, or they don't allow file sharing, polls, or whiteboards. This forces employees to adopt and use unmonitored communication channels.""From a process standpoint, don't take a top-down approach to implement modern collaboration platforms.""Research shows that, on average, at least four different unified/modern communication tools are being used by organizations.""Most end users are not engineered towards malfeasance and bad behavior, it's carelessness. And the greatest insider threat is that sort of carelessness, and lack of awareness.""Policy works best when it's not some sort of abstract reality that you pull out when a bad thing happens." "Technology is out there to get to that balance point of maximum productivity, productive IT but productive and efficient and compliant work as well." Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee and Subscribe to the PodcastPlease subscribe to the podcast, so you don't miss any new episodes! And please leave the show a rating if you like what you hear. New episodes release every two weeks. Dr. Chatterjee's Professional Profile and...