The Big Story podcast with Ryan Naraine – October 19, 2009 In the debut installment of the ‘Big Story’ podcast, Threatpost editor-in-Chief Ryan Naraine chats with Mozilla VP of Engineering Mike Shaver (right) on his decision to blacklist – then unblock – the controversial Microsoft-created Firefox add-ons.
In this episode, Ryan and Dennis discuss the Outlook Web Access phishing attacks, the huge Microsoft and Adobe patch releases and the massive scope of the botnet problem.
Andy Weeks, manager of risk and compliance for enterprise information security, at Humana Inc., one of the larger companies in the world, knows a thing or two about large-scale security implementations. And in a company whose customer data is one of its main assets, security is a corporate imperative. Discover the strategies that Weeks and Humana employ to keep the company ahead of the curve.Listen to the podcast:
In the first installment of a new regular series, Dennis Fisher talks with Bob Maley, the CSO of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, about the challenges of running an information security program in a government agency, the effects of the economy on his efforts and the ways in which user education can affect security in any organization. Listen to the podcast:
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Like every other security executive in the health care industry, Larry Whiteside, CISO of the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, spends much of his time dealing with compliance-related issues. But the distributed nature of his user population means that he has sensitive patient data on thousands of mobile devices all over the state. Learn how Whiteside balances compliance demands with security realities to keep data secure while maximizing efficiency.
Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Hoff of Cisco about the challenges of cloud deployment and security, cloud use cases and the effect that disruptive technologies can have on enterprises, vendors and standards organizations.
Digital Underground podcast with Dennis Fisher
Dennis Fisher talks with Stefan Tanase, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab, live from Virus Bulletin 2009 about the threats on social networking sites and the privacy and security concerns presented by Web 2.0 technologies. Here are the slides from Tanase’s presentation.
Dennis Fisher talks with Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live at Microsoft, about his years at the Microsoft Security Response Center, the evolution of security at Microsoft and the joy and pain of being the bad guy on Xbox Live.
Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Howard, associate editor of Searchcompliance.com, about the burden compliance places on security staffs, the growing tide of breach notification laws and the misunderstandings surrounding the Rockefeller bill and the Internet kill switch.
Dennis Fisher talks with Amit Yoran, former director of the National Cyber Security Division at DHS and CEO of NetWitness, about state-sponsored attacks, federal cybersecurity and the changing nature of security threats.
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