CSO Perspectives (public)

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This is not your typical security interview show. Join CSO and Chief Analyst, Rick Howard, as he discusses the ideas, strategies and technologies that senior cybersecurity executives wrestle with on a daily basis. Rick is regularly joined by CyberWire's Hash Table experts to offer opposing viewpoints, diverse perspectives and hash out differences when theory and practice collide.

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Ep 88 | 8.28.23

Best practices for MITRE ATT&CK(R) mapping.

Rick Howard discusses the latest developments in mapping the MITRE ATT&CK(R) wiki to your deployed security stack with guests James Stanley, John Wunder, and Steve Winterfeld.

Ep 87 | 8.21.23

Cybersecurity risk forecasting.

Rick Howard discusses the current state of cybersecurity risk forecasting with Fred Kneip and Kevin Richards.

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Ep 86 | 8.14.23

Distributed Denial of Service prevention: Current state.

Rick Howard discusses the latest in DDOS detection and prevention with Steve Winterfeld, Jim Gilbert and Rick Doten

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Ep 85 | 8.7.23

Quantum computing: A threat to asymmetric encryption.

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the meaning of quantum computing through a cybersecurity perspective with CyberWire Hash Table guests Dr. Georgiana Shea, Chief Technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Jonathan France, the Chief Information Security Officer at ISC2. Research contributors include Bob Turner, Fortinet’s Field CISO – Education, Don Welch, New York University CIO, Rick Doten, CISO at Healthcare Enterprises and Centene, and Zan Vautrinot, Major General - retired.

Ep 84 | 7.31.23

First principle strategies with CJ Moses.

Rick Howard discusses cybersecurity first principle strategies with the CISO of AWS.

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Rick Howard is the CSO of N2K and the Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the N2K Cyber, formerly CyberWire. His past lives include CSO at Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, the GM at Verisign/iDefense, the Counterpane SOC Director, and the Commander of the Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Rick served 25 years in the Army, taught computer science at West Point, edited two books and just published his own book, "Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics" and he is regularly joined at the N2K Cyber's Hash Table by a collection of industry experts.

Schedule: Mondays (in season)

Credits: Edited by John Petrik and executive produced by Peter Kilpe. Our theme song is by Blue Dot Sessions, remixed by the insanely talented Elliott Peltzman, who also does the show's mixing, sound, and original score

Creator: CyberWire, Inc.