The Well Aware Security Show
Humans are the key to solving our cybersecurity challenges…but first we need them to be Well Aware. The Well Aware Security Show is hosted by George Finney, CISO for SMU and author of the award winning book, Well Aware: Master the Nine Cybersecurity Habits to Protect Your Future. Security is in your DNA…so be Well Aware!
Episodes
29 episodes
Since When Do We Practice Talking? With Michael Santarcangelo
When do we get a seat at the big kids table and how do we know what to say when we get there? Our guest this week, The Security Catalyst, Michael Santarcangelo joins us to talk about how we can better prepare our teams for success and then prep...
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Episode 28
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28:16
We Need AI to Help Understand The Hype Cycle Around AI - With DJ Sampath
Artificial Intelligence is perhaps the second biggest buzzword in cybersecurity, behind Zero Trust...so how do you know whether a product is the next Skynet or just a thousand outsourced hourly employees in another country? My guest this week h...
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Episode 27
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27:03
Responsible Disclosures - with Ted Harrington
How do you hack a car and not get sued for it? Application security is probably at the forefront of people's minds for 2022 and rightly so! My guest this week, Ted Harrington, has answers. Ted was a part of one of the first groups that ha...
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Episode 26
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28:01
Getting into the "Flow" of Threat Modeling - With Adam Shostack
Threat Modeling isn't the newest fashion craze hitting the Paris catwalks. It's the process you go through to understand what you're protecting yourself from before you decide what controls need to be in place. And our guest this week, Adam Sho...
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Episode 25
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23:26
Culture Isn't A Buzzword - with Kate Brett Goldman
There's a lot of marketing hype out there about how to create a culture of cybersecurity, but we wondered...can you change your culture with security awareness training? To find out, we asked Kate Brett Goldman, CEO of The Cybermaniacs what wor...
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Episode 24
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21:32
This Is Not A Podcast About Decption - With Rob Black
Ok, it is a podcast about deception. And we think Deception is something that doesn't just belong to the history books or the battlefield, it belongs on your network. Rob Black is the deputy director of the UK National Cyber Deception Laborator...
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Episode 23
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29:44
Helping Veterans Land in Cybersecurity - With Jeff Schilling
There are a huge number of job openings in cybersecurity right now...but there are also a huge number of veterans out there looking to get their start in the civilian world. Jeff Schilling, Global CISO for Teleperformance joins us this week to ...
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Episode 22
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28:26
What Does Zero Trust Even Mean??? With John Kindervag (Part 2)
What does Zero Trust mean? Who better to answer the question than the guy who created it...John Kindervag, currently the SVP for Cybersecurity Strategy at On2IT who offers the worlds first Zero Trust as a Service (ZTaaS) offering.
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Episode 21
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29:10
What Does Zero Trust Even Mean??? With John Kindervag (Part 1)
What does Zero Trust mean? Who better to answer the question than the guy who created it...John Kindervag, currently the SVP for Cybersecurity Strategy at On2IT who offers the worlds first Zero Trust as a Service (ZTaaS) offering.
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Episode 20
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26:45
Cybersecurity for Small Businesses - with Scott Schindler
How do we break the Cybersecurity Poverty Line? We asked Scott Schindler, vCISO Director for Tracepoint, who specializes in supporting security for small to medium enterprises to find out whether it's really just about lack of funding...or if t...
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Episode 20
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23:42
What Does Cybersecurity Culture Even Mean??? With Dr. Keri Pearlson
Everyone talks about Cybersecurity Culture, but if you asked 100 people for a definition, you'd probably get 200 answers. Which is why this week we're talking to Dr. Keri Pearlson, Executive Director of the research group Cybersecurity at MIT S...
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Episode 19
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28:49
We Want YOU For A Career in Cybersecurity!
Want to know how to get started in your cybersecurity career? Want to hire some of those people getting started in cybersecurity? We asked our guest this week, Zach Vinduska US CISO for Credera, what we can do differently about recruiting the n...
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Episode 18
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29:43
Beta Testing ENGAGE...with Decepticons?
You may have heard of the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which helps network defenders understand the methods attackers use to penetrate networks. But have you heard of ENGAGE? This week, we welcome back MITRE's chief mad scientist for deception, ...
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Episode 17
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31:49
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People are the ONLY link - with Andy Bennett
"No security person really works in security,” says Andy Bennett, VP of Technology and CISO for the Apollo Information Systems. There's a reason we say People, Process, and Technology - people always come first. We build cars, we are bankers, w...
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Episode 16
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23:07
The Cybersecurity Leadership Shortage - With Brian Mork
ISC2 last year reported that almost 70% of workers surveyed in the US and UK wouldn't want to work in security. This week, we discuss whether we have a cybersecurity skills shortage or whether what we actually have is a cybersecurity leadership...
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Episode 15
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25:20
For CISOs By CISOs - With Randy Potts, Jamin Shah, and Cecil Pineda
The cybersecurity habit of the week is Community. Lots of conferences bill themselves as being "For CISOs, by CISOs" but many don't actually live up to the billing of being run or created by CISOs. Randy, Jamin, and Cecil are hoping to ch...
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Episode 14
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24:53
Aligning Security With The Business - With Jason Fruge
How do you know when you're in the Goldilocks zone when it comes to security? Not too much or not too little? We think it's by making sure security is aligned with the business. Our guest this week is Jason Fruge. Jason is the CISO for Rent-A-C...
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Episode 13
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21:42
Securing The Future - With Val Mukherjee
There are millions of unfilled jobs in the cybersecurity industry today...what do we need to bridge that gap? Our guest this week is Val Mukherjee, Chairman and Founder of the Cyber Future Foundation. This week, CFF announced a partnership with...
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Episode 12
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25:57
We Put The Success in Succession Planning - With Malcolm Harkins
We know that there's a huge talent shortage in cybersecurity, which leads to high turnover. This makes succession planning even more important because we know that we have to manage the "churn" on top of everything else. Veteran CISO and Cyber ...
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Episode 11
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28:37
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Danger Will Robinson, Your Security Training Stinks
The biggest complaint I hear from people about security training is that it’s a waste of their time. And if you’re doing a 5 minute awareness video once a year to check a compliance box, you probably are wasting your employee’s time. Our guest ...
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Episode 10
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22:31
Culture Eats Cybersecurtiy For Breakfast - with Jessica Nemmers
Fellow SMU Mustang and former Ballerina Jessica Nemmers joins the show this week to talk about how culture impacts cybersecurity. Jessica has been a CISO and Global IT leader for the past 24 years for Fortune 500 companies like Perot Systems an...
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Episode 9
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22:35
Your Career Path in Cybersecurity - with Patrick Benoit
How do you get started in Cybersecurity? Interested in being a CISO one day? Patrick Benoit, Global head of Governance, Risk, and Compliance at CBRE joins the show to talk about how you can use the habit of cybersecurity literacy and lifelong l...
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Episode 8
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22:28
All Warfare is based on Deception - Dr. Stanley Barr and the MITRE Shield.
It's April Fool's day, so it's the perfect time to talk about why developing the habit of Deception is critical to a strong defense. Our guest this week is Dr. Stanley Barr, Principal Scientist, and Capability Area Leader for Cyber Denial, Dece...
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Episode 7
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30:59
Looking for Lt. Cmdr. Data - Your First 90 Days As a CISO
As Julius Cesar once said...Experience is the best teacher. This week's guest is no stranger to the CISO role...Sarah Hendrickson has been a CISO or deputy CISO at 5 different companies in multiple industries, and she shares her secret 90 day p...
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Episode 6
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24:30