Adopting Zero Trust

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Adopting Zero Trust With Ismael Valenzuela: Less Trust Jan 26, 2023

This week we chat with Ismael Valenzuela, VP of Threat Intel at Blackberry, a 13-year SANS instructor, and has balanced his time between educator and practitioner for decades. Before peppering Ismael with our usual questions and falling down the rabbit hole, we dug a bit deeper into his background and what drives him to split his time between educating peers and working for some of the biggest names in tech.

On the docket for this week is Zero Trust as a philosophy, why Less Trust is a more applicable term, and the need for a threat model to narrow down your protect surface. As a side note, Ismael also just published a new post highlighting findings from BlackBerry’s new global threat intel report. The team will also discuss these findings today (Jan 26) on LinkedIn live.

Adopting Zero Trust: Season One is Wrapped Dec 15, 2022

Welcome to the last episode of season one, where Neal and I go on a rambling adventure and look back on some of the interesting and eye-opening conversations we’ve had over the past few months. To wrap things up, and what was supposed to be a 20-minute conversation, we felt it was time to better introduce ourselves to our listeners, discuss some plans for season two, highlight perhaps some aspirations of bringing AZT into the real world at a conference or two in 2023, and that we will finally open the doors to Zero Trust technology vendors.

Since this is our season one wrap episode, and much of what we cover is a stream of consciousness, there are no key takeaways. Swing back around in January as we kick off the next season with another group of amazing guests. We have plenty of surprises in the works, too!

We hope your year winds down well, and we will cross our fingers for no X-mas cyber incidents.

Adopting Zero Trust with Chase Cunningham: The Doctor is in Nov 22, 2022

This week we chat with Chase Cunningham, Doctor Zero Trust himself, about the decade-overnight success of Zero Trust, how he got involved with the concept, and methods for navigating vendors wanting to shape the concept. For those initiated into the world of Zero Trust, you are no doubt familiar with his podcast, regular LinkedIn musings, and history as a Forrester analyst. Beyond the podcast, Chase is the CSO for Ericom Software, has a long history in threat intel, and built a significant track record while at the NSA as a chief cryptologic technician.

Adopting Zero Trust with Chris Reinhold: Pen Testing Zero Trust Nov 10, 2022

This week we chatted with Chris Reinhold, Director of Innovation at Core BTS, a managed security service provider (MSSP) and IT consulting firm. We dig into the long-awaited answer to our previous call, pen testing Zero Trust systems. Plus, we chat about the idea of Zero Trust as a certification and the always relevant factoid that compliance is not security.

Adopting Zero Trust with J. R. Cunningham: The Moat Has Dried Up Oct 20, 2022

This week we chat with J. R. Cunningham, Chief Security Officer at Nuspire, and we dig into Zero Trust as a journey. Nuspire is a managed security service provider that provides support ranging from managed detection and response (MDR), endpoint detection, vulnerability management, and of course supporting their customers with adopting Zero Trust. This week we chat about unpacking the idea of Zero Trust when a brand wants to pursue it, the increasing threats targeting the automotive industry, and Nuspire’s ongoing threat reports.

Adopting Zero Trust With Maureen Rosado: Selling Zero Trust Oct 06, 2022

This week we chat with Maureen Rosado, a Zero Trust Strategist for BT, who has an outstanding history of business development for enterprise companies like IBM and Microsoft. This week we break away from our norms of the technical ins and outs of Zero Trust, and take a look at the ideal way to consult and coach security teams through the process of adopting Zero Trust.

For those who have been on the receiving end of cyber security solution pitches, and there are twice as many wrong ways as those that are considered beneficial. Fortunately, Maureen has seen it all, is a wonderful example of being a neutral party, and has a long history of speaking to the subject (including recently with Dr Zero Trust).

Get the full recap on adoptingzerotrust.com

Adopting Zero Trust with Christine Owen: Searching For the Finish Line Sep 22, 2022

This week we chat with Christine Owen, Director at Guidehouse, and we dig into Zero Trust as an approach to harden your identity and access management strategy, her dislike of passwords, and phishing-resistant multifactor authentification. Christine brings to the table the expertise of an IAM (identity and access management) pro and an attorney, who currently consults and educates federal departments and commercial enterprise organizations on IAM and Zero Trust.

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Adopting Zero Trust with Lexmark’s Bryan Willett: Culture of Security Sep 08, 2022

This week we chat with Bryan Willett, Lexmark’s CISO, who has built a legacy over the past 25 years working for the global company. Starting from his early days as a firmware developer, transitioning into managing teams and projects, and now as the CISO, Bryan has built a long-standing successful career. During our chat, we talk about how security professionals can advance their careers from protecting products and users and converting that into business language that CISOs navigate on a daily basis.

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Adopting Zero Trust with Dom Glavach: Staffing Up Aug 25, 2022

This week we chat with Dom Glavach, Chief Security Officer (CSO) of CyberSN (Cyber Security Network) and a security consultant, and we dig into Zero Trust as a journey, the delta between buzzwords and tool upgrades, and the hunt for red teams focused on prodding Zero Trust architectures. For those unfamiliar with CyberSN, they connect cybersecurity professionals to in-demand jobs and have some of the best visibility into hiring trends and how/if Zero Trust is being staffed up for.

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Adopting Zero Trust With Nicolas Chaillan: From Policy to DHS Aug 11, 2022

Nicolas Chaillan is an Entrepreneur who became a US citizen about six years ago, and immediately joined the DHS where he became the chief architect and special advisor for cyber, leading him to become the first chief software officer for Space Force where he led the shift to DevSecOps for DoD and at the time implementation of Zero Trust. Prior to Space Force, Nic funded 12 tech companies, they built more than 187 products, which were then sold across 45 Fortunate 500 companies. Now, in his spare time, Nic produces an ongoing series, In the Nic of Time, where he discusses everything from Zero Trust to cyber and taps into a diverse set of experts.

Be sure to get the full recap on adoptingzerotrust.com

Takeaways From Nic and Neal

A decade ago, Iran got into federal systems, but Zero Trust would have prevented lateral movement

The days of boots-on-the-ground war is shifting towards cyber, and federal Zero Trust implementation may curb a potentially colossal attack

Beuarcacy is the largest hindrance of momentum when pursuing a cybersecurity-driven digital transformation

It’s easy to become obsolete in IT and cybersecurity, you need to educate yourself constantly

Neutral Zero Trust resources and maturity models are important, but are incredibly complex

Adopting Zero Trust with Ryan Alford: IoT Secured Jul 27, 2022

This week we chat with Ryan Alford, Founder and CEO of Engineering Design Group (EDG), and we dig into how Zero Trust impacts the future of hardware, software, IoT, and access (both human and machine).

EDG provides distributed sensor monitoring through a cloud-based solution and associated hardware for organizations with critical data needs. As a hardware manufacturer, that also provides software with important data sets, they have a double edge sword to consider when securing their products.

Find the transcript and video format of AZT on adoptingzerotrust.com

Episode Takeaways

Access by contractors and third-party vendors should be highly limited, which is why solutions like VPNs do not align with Zero Trust

Through an Identity Provider (IdP) such as Okta, Microsoft, Apple, etc. you can limit access by user to specific cloud-based apps, but these solutions may not support 100% of your items out of the box (may need custom builds via API integrations).

From hardware to software, it should be assumed that nothing is fully secure and that runs under the scope that you already have been infiltrated.

There are no silver bullets in security, ever. Always verify, especially security claims, and lean on third-party validators (pen testing, security or privacy compliance, etc.)

Being transparent and honest is one of the best ways to build trust. Ryan suggests having a continuity plan that includes a vulnerability disclosure plan and a way for people to report issues.

Adopting Zero Trust With Andrew Abel: Translating Zero Trust Into Business Concepts Jul 13, 2022

This week we chat with Andrew Abel, our defacto Zero Trust expert who is currently the EUC Cyber Security Strategy and Architecture Lead for an energy company out of Brisbane Australia.

Andrew has been involved with Zero Trust for some time, holds Forrester’s Zero Trust certification, and has an extensive background with solutions architecture and identity management, both of which play significant roles in the adopting of Zero Trust.

Adopting Zero Trust, Episode Zero: Let’s Make a Podcast Jul 07, 2022

Today, Zero Trust is a fuzzy term with more than a dozen different definitions. Threat Analyst Neal Dennis and Cybersecurity Journalist Elliot Volkman set off on a journey to get a better understanding of Zero Trust and what it truly offers. Is Zero Trust a concept, a strategy, framework, set of technology, or perhaps a mix of each? Each episode Neal and Elliot will chat with those adopting, implementing, and pushing Zero Trust forward without the vendor hype.

Introducing Adopting Zero Trust Jul 07, 2022

Today, Zero Trust is a fuzzy term with more than a dozen different definitions. We are on a mission to give a voice to cybersecurity practitioners and others who have been in these shoes, have begun adopting or implementing a Zero Trust strategy, and to share their experience and insight with peers while not influenced by vendor hype.

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