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Rene Tarun is the Deputy CISO & Information Security Leader for Fortinet. Rene is a leader in enterprise security. compliance and governance and product security. Prior to Fortinet she served as special assistant to the Director of National Security Agency (NSA) Cyber Task Force. In this conversation we discuss her recent book Fighting fire with fire some of the key points in what it means o be proactive, the skills gap, diversity, and the evolution CISO role.   https://www.fortinet.com/blog/business-and-technology/proactive-cybersecurity-strategies-is-an-essential-survival-guide-for-security-leaders?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fortinet%2Fblogs+%28Fortinet+All+Blogs%29

Derek is the Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs. He is an experienced thought leader and innovator who has helped to build global collaborative frameworks in the cyber security industry. Strategist to global leaders/heads of state, private public sector relations, C-Suite consultant, threat intelligence expert on cybercrime. We discuss the new Fortinet Threat Landscape report, Evolution of data for response, heat map predictive modeling, Ransomware and threat intel. https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekmanky/ https://www.fortinet.com/fortiguard/labs

Derek is the Chief, Security Insights & Global Threat Alliances at Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs. He is an experienced thought leader and innovator who has helped to build global collaborative frameworks in the cyber security industry. Strategist to global leaders/heads of state, private public sector relations, C-Suite consultant, threat intelligence expert on cybercrime. We discuss the importance of threat partnerships across the public/private sector, the current state of ransomware, evolution of treat intelligence and other various topics like state of AI in security. https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekmanky/ https://www.fortinet.com/fortiguard/labs

Dr. Cole, a unique mixture of technologist, entrepreneur, and motivational coach who in addition to the above has sold two companies for $400M and $2.3B With more than 30 years of network security experience, Dr. Eric Cole is a distinguished cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker who helps organizations curtail the risk of cyber threats. Dr. Cole has worked with a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to top international banks, to the CIA. He has been the featured speaker at many security events and has been interviewed by several chief media outlets such as CNN, CBS News, FOX News, and 60 Minutes. Dr. Eric Cole has also been a member of many key organizations including the Commission on Cybersecurity for the 44th President, SME for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Purdue University Executive Advisory Board, and more!  https://secure-anchor.com/

Ayal Yogev is the CEO and Co-Founder of Anjuna Security. He has over 20 years of experience building enterprise security products for companies like Cisco formerly Open DNS, Imperva, Lookout etc. In this episode we discuss the evolution of hardware level encryption and take a deep dive into secure enclaves and where the entire industry is headed in regards to data security.  Anjuna.io  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayalyogev/

Daniel Hoban is Chief Strategy Officer for Nuspire. Dan has been working in the Managed Security space for over 15 years helping less mature companies in securing their networks.  In this episode we discuss the evolution of managed detection response, and we discuss how Nuspire is seeing a uptick in Cybercrime targeting less mature Industry like Manufactoring and Construction.  www.nuspire.com 

Chris Gerritz is Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Infocyte. Chris led the initial cadre for the standup of US Air Force 67th Cyberspace Wing's Defensive CounterCyber capability, which was the world's first enterprise-scoped Hunt Team.  In this episode we discuss incident response, managed detection and response and cloud workload protection. https://www.infocyte.com/resources/mid-market-threat-and-incident-response-report/

Daniel Jensen is a 20-year cybersecurity professional with a career focused on holistic cybersecurity working on firewalls, routers, switches, siems, ids, ips, virus scan, vulnerability detection and more.  In this episode, we discuss passion based security and we discuss how working in cybersecurity can and is saving lives in addition to other general topics around the industry. 

Arun Lakhotia is a 30 year professor of computer science at the University of Lousiana Lafayette, CEO of Cythereal and expert in  Malware Analysis. In this episode Arun teaches us about malware analysis, using machine learning to automate malware analysis, how attackers are using shared malware code to target organizations and his thoughts on artificial intelligence.   https://www.cythereal.com/ Cythereal Datasheet - https://buff.ly/2MzKlJp

Ryan Chapman is a very seasoned information security professional with experience across multiple domains like technical training, hands-on incident response, and security operations.  In this episode, we learn from Ryan about the role of a CIRT team, day in the life of an incident response analyst, red/blue/purple teaming, and all other general topics related to information security. https://incidentresponse.training/ samsclass.info

Gary Hayslip is a very seasoned Chief Information Security Officer with experience across multiple domains like the Department Of Defense, City Agency, and Private Sector.  In this episode, we learn from Gary about the evolution of the CISO role, the modern challenges CISO's face, and all other things related to the day in the life of a CISO.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghayslip/ https://www.amazon.com/CISO-Desk-Reference-Guide-Practical/dp/0997744111 https://chewbooks.com/product/ciso-desk-reference-guide-volume-2-a-practical-guide-for-cisos/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIodPq-ruq4gIVgbbACh32PQgzEAQYAyABEgLsOPD_BwE

B.A Rehl is a machine cognition and artificial general intelligence theorist and researcher. Human-Level AGI & Cognitive Theory Research (2013-present) In this episode, B.A discusses the complexities of creating an AGI system, the theoretical work behind AGI, he discusses his work on creating a model of the awareness system in the brain and we discuss various topics like self-driving cars, brain computing interfaces, and other general AI topics.

In this episode, we talk to David Friede CEO of Omnicron Security about marketing security to small businesses, we discuss the importance of security for small businesses and the key things these smaller companies should be doing.  https://www.omnicronsec.com/  https://www.omnicronsec.com/purchase-omnicron-here

Omar Quimbaya is a seasoned software developer, technical security sales engineer, public speaker, and podcast host. He is the founder of CyberDEF Dojo and Board Member of InnoTech. In this episode, we learn from Omar about how to transition into sales from technical backgrounds, we explore the challenges with the security market and how it pertains to sales, we discuss modern cyber threats and all things related to the modern security challenges. 

Loris Minassian CEO of Cyberstash, is a very experienced information security business and technology executive with over 20 years’ experience in developing and leading very successful managed security services business for both Dimension data and NTT Security. In this episode, Loris discusses what to look for when choosing a managed security provider, the top challenges with managed security, who should be using an MSS provider, and all other things managed security.    https://www.cyberstash.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorisminassian/

Christopher Murphy is a scientist, inventor, founder, author, and cybersecurity theorist who developed a method to prove presence on the internet by creating a digital state-of-existence. In this episode, Chris discusses the problem with public access to the internet, why modern 2FA technologies are really only using one form of (data) authentication, and dives into Vint Cerfs (father of the internet) post from January 20th, 2019 (the day cybersecurity changed forever).  https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismurphyvirsec/ http://www.cybersafetyharbor.com