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Kevin Coppins: Shrinking the Data Security Target Jun 06, 2020

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"There are leaders and there are those who lead. Leaders hold a position of power or influence. Those who lead inspire us.

Whether individuals or organizations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves."

-- Simon Sinek; Start with Why, 2009

Once upon a time, not that long ago… the music industry was flying high, peaking at over $22 BILLION in global sales then was laid low by a combination of events and technology it was not ready for.

There were decisions to be made which could have not only saved the industry, but made it thrive.

Leadership did not make those.

There were relationships to be forged with users that could have done the same.

The industry began suing their consumers.

What if industry leaders made a point to really look out for their users and their employees first? You think that might be a catalyst for a company to grow and thrive even though it is facing a potential disaster?

In today's episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson sits down with Spirion CEO Kevin Coppins for a chat about the role of a new leader in the middle of the most tumultuous time in the modern computing era. Having spent time in the music+tech upheaval of the Napster era, Kevin Coppins has steered through some whitewater rapids in his time. What do we do when the whole world gets turned upside down? Stay tuned and find out…

About Kevin Coppins

As President and CEO of Spirion, Kevin Coppins (@ktcoppins) wakes up every day on a mission to protect what he knows matters most—your sensitive personal data. With a team of passionate data privacy professionals at his back, Kevin is working to re-envision the culture of entire industries, putting privacy at the forefront where it belongs.

Kevin's more than 25-year track record of growth, leadership, and achievement spans multiple roles and industries. In addition to handling finance and procurement for non-tech giants ExxonMobil and Bausch & Lomb, he's served in senior executive positions across the tech space at Novell, Alcatel Lucent, Meru Networks, EasyVista, CyFIR, and NEC. He has a BS in Marketing from Penn State, an MBA from Loyola University New Orleans, and a Certificate of Professional Development from University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

This unique diversity of experience and education equipped Kevin with the depth and breadth of skills needed to thrive at the helm of Spirion—a company whose data discovery and classification solutions have empowered the data privacy, security, and compliance strategies of thousands of organizations worldwide.

Kevin is determined to help C-suite execs understand the importance of minimizing their sensitive data footprint and preventing data breaches—not only to minimize the risks, costs, and reputational damage of successful cyberattacks and regulatory violations, but because it's the right thing to do.

About Matt Stephenson

Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Security Technology team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and host of CylanceTV

Twenty years of work with the world's largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Stephenson to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come

Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization's security posture and bottom line.

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Justin Kallhoff: Growing an MSSP in the COVID19 era Jun 01, 2020

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What would you do if, overnight, the number of things under your protection increased by an order of magnitude?

Would you be ready?

Would you even know what to do?

On today's episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson talks with Justin Kallhoff, founder of Infogressive, on the impact Quarantine and Shelter-in-Place orders have impacted the role Managed Security Service Providers. Suddenly, a company who already protected users in 21 countries had an entirely new ecosystem surrounding the one they already ran. What did they do? They started hiring… check it out

About Justin Kallhoff

Justin Kallhoff (@justinkallhoff) founded Infogressive Inc. in October of 2006 with a dream of creating a world-class team of information security professionals that could make a difference for clients spanning the globe. Over the past decade, Justin and the crew at Infogressive have built an enterprise spread over 46 states and 20 countries, comprising nearly 60,000 seats.

About Matt Stephenson

Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the broadcast media team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and video series at events around the globe.

Can't get enough of Insecurity? You can find us at ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and GooglePlay as well as Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, I Heart Radio and wherever you get your podcasts!

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Chris Blask & Fred Cohen: DBOM and the Record of Everything May 23, 2020

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Nothing you are about to hear is true… but it all happened…

-- Fred Cohen 11 May, 2020

What happens when you get two legends of the security industry together for a chat about everything? Well… first, you can throw the carefully created outline right out the window because there is no way anyone can corrall these two into talking about just a few topics. The best you can hope for is that they agree to come back and do it again… because there's just too much ground to cover and not nearly enough time to get into all of it in a single episode.

Let's just say that we set out to have a discussion on creating a way to catalog all of the things that go into making things. That catalog would also include where those things were made and what they were made of and how they arrived from their place of origin. The catalog would then include data on the place of origin and what went on there… see where we're going with this? It's a bit like a fractal version of the periodic table of elements.

On today's episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson did his best to stay out of the way in a freewheeling jam session with security legends Chris Blask & Dr Fred Cohen. Trying to describe their chat is like chasing mercury. Let it be known that the conversation included discussions of a Digital Bill of Materials for… pretty much everything, and the positive effect having access to this record could produce. But that doesn't come near to doing justice to what all they covered… check it out

About Chris Blask

Chris Blask's (@chrisblask) career spans the breadth of the cybersecurity industry for more than 25 years.

He invented one of the first firewall products, built a multi-billion dollar firewall business at Cisco System, co-founded an early SIEM vendor, authored the first book on SIEM, founded an information sharing center for critical infrastructures, and has advised public and private organizations in every sector around the world.

In his role within the Office of Innovation at Unisys, Chris created and leads the Operational Technology and IoT practices, invented the Digital Bill of Materials (DBoM) structure, and established the Unisys Marine Living Research Center.

Today he chairs a range of non-profit cybersecurity organizations and contributes to a wide range of global security efforts.

About Fred Cohen, PhD

Dr. Fred Cohen (@fc0) is widely considered to be one of the leading security/risk experts in the world. He is best known as the person that defined the term "computer virus" and inventor of the most widely used computer virus defense techniques.

Dr. Cohen was also the principal investigator whose team defined information assurance as it relates to critical infrastructure, did seminal research in the use of deception for information protection, a leader in the science digital forensic examination and leading information protection consultant and analyst.

He has authored over 200 published research articles, authored several books and established Masters and Ph.D. security programs now part of Webster University. In 2002 Dr. Cohen revived the "Techno-Security Industry Professional of the Year" award and in 2009 he was named the "most famous hacker of all time" by ABC news.

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Chris Coleman: Reversing the Economics of Cyber Defense May 18, 2020

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Chris Coleman: Reversing the Economics of Cyber Defense

"When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness."

-- Napoleon Hill

On today's episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson & Michelle Moskowitz chat with Chris Coleman, Advisor to the Chairman fo Lookingglass Cyber Solutions. In a wide-ranging discussion they take a look that escalating cybersecurity arms race, the role of Venture Capital in growing or stifling innovation and the need for standards in interoperability across the world of hardware and software in order to increase the security industry's chancing of winning this battle.

About Chris Coleman

Chris Coleman (@cdeltac) has over 20 years of experience in information security and technology industry. He currently serves in an Advisor to the Chairman at Lookingglass Cyber Solutions. Prior to his stint as CEO at Lookingglass, Coleman served as the Director of Cyber Security for Cisco Systems' U.S. Public Sector Theater. Chris focused on driving Cisco and partner technology into solutions that helped address customer problems and leverage the core value of Cisco's network technologies. Coleman served as a liaison between sales and engineering with regards to cyber security technology and development. Coleman also served as Vice President and Director of Engineering Services for ManTech International. During his tenure at ManTech, he was responsible for direct contract PNL and PNL associated with ManTech's, remote security monitoring services and data center hosting services. In addition, Chris was responsible for ManTech IS&T's Divisional IT services and operations, and a subset of ManTech International's IR&D. He also managed the NetWitness product development team, developed the initial architecture for moving from pure technology into a commercially viable product, defined the business case for developing a sales team and conceived the spin out of the technology and product team from ManTech International.

About Michelle Moskowitz

Michell Moskowitz is Vice President of Business Development & Chief of Staff at Sublime Communications. In her previous lives, she spun up the New Media Division for Lifetime network as well as working with numerous cybsecurity startups.

With a career spent swimming in the waters of digital marketing and consulting Michelle has somehow found the time to also be a journalist at the Greenwich Sentinel.

Michell will be joining us as a recurring co-host to bring additional perspective to the important role that communication plays in a world that grows increasingly technical.

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Matt Preschern: How Can Companies Adapt & Evolve to Help Others and Themselves? May 11, 2020

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Be formless… shapeless like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle… you put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash… Be water my friend."

-- Bruce Lee

According to our friends at the International Labour Organization (ILO) the COVID-19 pandemic will wipe out 6.7 percent of working hours in the second quarter of this year. To put that in perspective, that is the equivalent of 195 million full-time workers. Huge losses are expected across different income groups, especially in upper-middle income countries (7.0%, 100 million full-time workers)

Fear not though… we're not here to just lay a bunch of bad news on you! We want to show what ingenuity and adaptability can do for a company, for their personnel and for the the rest of us as well.

Textiles company American Roots converted its facility to produce medical supplies.

LVMH Group has turned its perfurmery brands, including Dior, Givency and Bulgair, into hand sanitizer manufacturers.

Tito's Vodka converted production facilities to make hand sanitizer. Thanks to the combination of their attitude and ingenuity, they now have the ability and capacity to manufacture over 60 tons a week.

What is corporate leadership doing to adapt to and overcome a situation that has shown devastating consequences?

On this episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson welcomes new co-host Michelle Moskowitz for a chat with Forcepoint CMO Matt Preschern. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affecting us all, we learn how Forcepoint adapted quickly to get the most out of their 2800 employees and give them the opportunity to adapt in order to help their customers and themselves. How can companies help themselves in order to help others? Check it out..

About Matt Preschern

Matt Preschern (@mattpreschern) is the chief marketing officer for Forcepoint. He leads the company's global marketing organization that includes brand management, corporate communications, events marketing, digital and web marketing, revenue and field marketing, and sales enablement. He joined Forcepoint in January 2019.

Preschern is a veteran technology marketing leader with more than 25 years of experience in brand, digital marketing, demand generation and revenue management, customer experience, and corporate communications. Previously, Matt was senior vice president of marketing at CA Technologies where he was responsible for the development and execution of global, regional and partner marketing programs across all businesses. He has also served as the CMO of HCL Technologies where he led the effort to substantially increase HCL's brand recognition as a digital solutions, IT services and technology consulting company and supported its rapid, multi-billion dollar growth. He also served as the Enterprise CMO of Windstream Communications. Early in his career, he held numerous vice president roles at IBM across marketing strategy and performance marketing and played an integral part in launching IBM's Smarter Planet initiative.

Matt is an award-winning marketer, having been named among the top 20 most influential CMOs by Forbes and recognized for his success in driving marketing innovation by the CMO Club.

About Michelle Moskowitz

With a career spent swimming in the waters of digital marketing and consulting Michelle has somehow found the time to also be a journalist at the Greenwich Sentinel.

Michell will be joining us as a recurring co-host to bring additional perspective to the important role that communication plays in a world that grows increasingly technical.

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Pat Craven: Garfield and the Center Keep Kids Safe Online May 05, 2020

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Sometimes the best person to teach kids about online safety… is a fat orange cat who loves lasagna… and his friends. Well... he loves his friends, but let's be real... he loves lasagna more

The Center for Cyber Safety and Education, formerly the (ISC)² Foundation, is a global non-profit charity formed in 2011 as a conduit to reach society and empower students, teachers, parents and the general public to secure their online life with award winning cyber safety education and awareness programs in the community. They hold the exclusive global rights to Garfield to teach young children how to be safe and secure online.

Pat Craven is far too selfless to spend any time telling you what he does, so we're going to do that for him. He and his team have spent nearly a decade helping to educate children, parents, seniors and cybersecurity professionals on the things they can do to protect themselves and their loved ones safe online.

On this episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson talks with Pat Craven of the Center for Cyber Safety Education about the work they are doing to provide teachers, parents and seniors with the tools they need to keep themselves and their children safe online. Did we mention that Garfield (yes that Garfield) and his friends are helping out too?

About Pat Craven

Pat Craven (@cravenpat) is the Executive Director of the Center for Cyber Safety and Education. In his prior lives he has served as the Regional Executive Director of Pinellas County / Chief Development Officer Big Brothers Big Sisters of Tampa Bay.

Pat also was the Vice President of Development for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund in Washington DC.

Prior to that, Pat spent 24 years with Boy Scouts of America in various capacities.

We think it is fair to say that Pat Craven has spent his entire career putting in work to help pretty much anyone besides himself. If you need someone to help you help someone else… Pat Craven is your man. Like we said… he would never tell you this stuff, but we thought you should know.

About The Center for Cyber Safety and Education

The nonprofit Center for Cyber Safety and Education (@ISC2Cares) was founded in 2011 with the purpose of empowering students, teachers and whole communities to secure their online life through cyber safety education and awareness. They achieve this goal by providing Safe and Secure Online educational program, college scholarships and industry research.

Their educational content was developed by the Center along with members of (ISC)², the top cyber security professionals in the world. With their knowledge, the Center turned to legendary cartoonist Jim Davis to bring it all to life, using everyone's favorite cat, Garfield. The first series of Garfield's Cyber Safety Adventures tackles issues such as Privacy, Safe Posting, and Cyberbullying. This program is perfect for elementary education and is currently in 14 countries.

In addition, the Center provides educational materials for parents and seniors to grow their knowledge about the dangers of the internet and ensure our mission of making the cyber world a safer place for everyone.

Learn more about their programs at www.iamcybersafe.org

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Cybersecurity At the Movies: Sneakers Apr 27, 2020

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Cybersecurity At the Movies: Sneakers

The world isn't run by weapons anymore, or energy or money.

It's run by ones and zeroes, little bits of data. It's all just electrons…

There's a war out there, old friend, a world war… and it's not about who's got the most bullets… It's about who controls the information ...what we see and hear, how we work, what we think.

It's all about the information.

-- Cosmo; Sneakers, 1992

We are stepping WAY out of the box for a technical deep dive examination of one of the great Hacker movies of all time… Sneakers. Maybe the last great techno-thriller before the emergence of the commercial internet… Sneakers features everything you want from a hacker movie… wire tapping, social engineering, a little black book and tech that looks/feels familiar enough that you recognize it, but aren't quite sure what it actually does.

On this week's episode, Matt Stephenson takes a technical look at the 1992 classic hacker film Sneakers with people who, in real life, do what the heroes of Sneakers do onscreen. Dr Jessica Barker, Freaky Clown and Death's Pirate (or… just Dave) have broken into banks, kidnapped executives and, some times, just straight up hacked networks (while wearing White Hats of course)… Let's sit down with real life experts to see if Hackers got it right!

About Dr Jessica Barker

Dr Jessica Barker (@drjessicabarker) is a leader in the human nature of cybersecurity. She has been named one of the top 20 most influential women in cybersecurity in the UK and awarded as one of the UK's Tech Women 50. She is Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Cygenta, where she positively influences cybersecurity awareness, behaviors and culture in organizations around the world.

Dr Barker is a popular keynote speaker and shares her expertise in the media, for example on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 News and in Grazia magazine and the Sunday Times. She is Chair of ClubCISO, a peer-based members forum of over 300 information security leaders. In the last year, Dr Barker has given cybersecurity outreach sessions to over 5,000 school students.

Jessica's new book Confident Cyber Security is coming in 2020, published by Kogan Page.

About Freaky Clown

Freaky Clown (@_Freakyclown_) is a well-known ethical hacker and social engineer. He has been working in the infosec field for over 20 years and excels at circumventing access controls. He has held positions in his career such as Senior Penetration Tester as well as Head of Social Engineering and Physical Assessments for renowned penetration companies. As Head of Cyber Research for Raytheon Missile Systems, and having worked closely alongside intelligence agencies, he has cemented both his skillset and knowledge as well as helped steer governments take correct courses of action against national threats.

As an ethical hacker and social engineer, FC 'breaks into' hundreds of banks, offices and government facilities in the UK and Europe. His work demonstrating weaknesses in physical, personnel and digital controls assists organisations to improve their security. He is motivated by a drive to make individuals, organisations and countries more secure and better- able to defend themselves from malicious attack.

Now Co-Founder and Head of Ethical Hacking at Cygenta Ltd, he continues to perform valuable research into vulnerabilities. His client list involves major high-street banks in the UK and Europe, FTSE100 companies and multiple government agencies and security forces.

About Death's Pirate… okay… it's Dave Mound

Dave Mound (@DeathsPirate) is an Experienced Cyber Security Researcher with a demonstrated history of working in the Computer &Network Security industry along with threat intelligence. He's done a lot of work in Penetration Testing, Reverse Engineering, Agile Methodologies, Computer Forensics, Red Teaming and Threat Intelligence… and… he looks good in a white suit and turtleneck

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Ron Ross: Bringing the NIST Framework Home Apr 20, 2020

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Ron Ross: Bringing the NIST Framework Home

"If you do good software development, most of our security problems will go away because all of the nagging vulnerabilities that we see in software — a lot of those are attributed to people not using secure coding techniques and things we should be doing,"

-- Ron Ross

Things are changing at such a rapid pace, it's hard to keep pace with what used to work, what is working and what we can count on working when we log in tomorrow.

It's almost like we need to count on some kind of established framework to use as a guideline.

While this episode of InSecurity touches on the impact of COVID19 on the global workforce, it's not yet another blog or podcast about the same thing. We talk with NIST Fellow Ron Ross about the future of work, healthcare and the IT industry writ large.

This week on Insecurity, Matt Stephenson welcomes Cybersecurity legend Dr Ron Ross about… well… lots of things. We talk about the quick transition of the world's workforce from on prem to telework as well as his recent move from leading FISMA at NIST to their newly created DevSecOps and why that matters now more than ever

About Ron Ross

Ron Ross (@ronrossecure) is a Fellow at NIST. His focus areas include cybersecurity, systems security engineering, cyber resiliency, security architecture, privacy, and risk management. Dr. Ross leads the FISMA Implementation Project and the Systems Security Engineering Initiative, which includes the development of cybersecurity and privacy standards and guidelines for the federal government, contractors, and the U.S. critical infrastructure. Dr. Ross also leads the Joint Task Force, a partnership with the Department of Defense, Office of the Director National Intelligence, U.S. Intelligence Community, and the Committee on National Security Systems, with responsibility for the development of the Unified Information Security Framework for the federal government and its contractors. Dr. Ross previously served as the Director of the National Information Assurance Partnership, a joint activity of NIST and the National Security Agency. Dr. Ross also supports the U.S. State Department in the international outreach program for cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection.

A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Dr. Ross served in many leadership and technical positions during his twenty-year career in the United States Army. He is a five-time recipient of the Federal 100 award for his leadership and technical contributions to critical cybersecurity projects affecting the federal government and is a recipient of the Presidential Rank Award. Dr. Ross has also received the Department of Commerce Gold and Silver Medal Awards and has been inducted into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame. In addition, Dr. Ross has been inducted into the Information Systems Security Association Hall of Fame and given its highest honor of Distinguished Fellow. During his military career, Dr. Ross served as a White House aide and a senior technical advisor to the Department of the Army. He holds a Bachelors degree in Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics.

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Sara Löfgren and Tom Löfgren: Keeping it in the Family, Cybersecurity from Home Apr 17, 2020

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This is the true story, of 2 security professionals and their kids, living in house in the northern Midwest, now sequestered becaue of a global health crisis. Find out what happens, when Cybersecurity professionals stop being polite, and start getting real… The Real World… Stay Home Order Edition!

Any comic book readers out there? Who's familiar with the Marvel family? Shazam family? Shazamily?

How about Reed & Sue Richards? The Fantastic Four? Mister Fantastc and the Invisible woman? Not sure if that one is appropriate because Sara is definitely not invisible… but Tom is definitely Fantastic

The point is… what happens in house run by pair of superho level cybersecurity professionals in the age of COVID19?

Oh… and did we mention they also own a livestock farm? Cows and horses and lots of other things?

How does a family already swimming in the world of Cybersecurity deal with working from home during the era of COVID19

This week on Insecurity, Matt Stephenson speaks with Sara and Tom Löfgren, a married couple, both elite cybersecurity professionals… who find themselves (along with the rest of us) in a quarantine situation. Is it different for security pros to bring it all in house? How do you balance co-workers, clients, kids and livestock… oh yeah… and still be a person?

About The Löfgren (that's grammatically accurate if you are Swedish)

They have been raising baby chickens in their bathtub (Sara's idea). They have somewhere around 4 kids and an estimated 50 horses but can't really keep count because they don't hold still. Sara's cow's name is either Coco or Norman depending on who you ask.

About Sara Löfgren

Sara Löfgren is the Channel Sales Engineering Manager at Cylance. She has been working in computer security for nearly 20 years with a focus on solving enterprise security problems through the union of technology, people, and processes.

Besides malware, her other main areas of interest include privacy, cryptography, and technology regulations. Sara lives in Minnesota with 4 kids, 2 dogs, a cat, and many rescue horses.

Oh… her husband Tom… we're pretty sure he's around too.

About Tom Löfgren

Tom Löfgre n is a Sales Engineer at Ionic Security. He's really good at securing Linux and encryption.

Because he is really good at security, privacy and encryption… we don't know much about him other than the kids, the dogs, cat and rescure horses… and Sara.

According to Sara, Tom plays hockey and has eaten surstromming voluntarily. He has a map of Ikea in his head and thinks it's normal when people eat pasta with ketchup on it (again… according to Sara… because Tom is really good at security and privacy, so we are going to have to take her word for it).

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Theresa Payton & Doug Citizen: Who Do You Trust? Apr 14, 2020

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Theresa Payton & Doug Citizen: Who Do You Trust?

The 2016 Oxford Dictionary word of the year was post-truth

2017 Term of the Year by the Collins English Dictionary was Fake News

Has it really been nearly 15 years since Stephen Colbert brought truthiness into our lives?

It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty.

-- Stephen Colbert; AV Club, 01.25.06

Only in today's modern age can you hate your neighbor but love someone posting something in Germany that you don't even know

-- Clint Watts; 07.15.08

Distorting the truth is not just about elections it's a global issue. It's a war against our minds. Making us not know who or what to believe… manipulating us to create a vacuum and make you not trust reputable sources of information. It's about all social issues. It impacts all countries. The motivations behind it are not what you think and will surprise and shock you.

Reporters and overall traditional news media are at risk… Let's talk about why…

Elections are at risk… Let's talk about why…

Let's see if we can help you get learned up on spotting manipulation campaigns and how to report them.

And… not for nothin… how can we help you avoid being a victim of one?

This week on InSecurity, Matt Stephenson welcomes 3 time defending champion Fortalice CEO and former White House CIO Theresa Payton back to the show. We add a wrinkle this week by inviting Dough Citizen… an undisclosed "regular person" who is a small business owner, voter and someone who genuinely cares about the present & future of his country. This isn't about politics, this is about the mechanics of elections & government. Don't get it twisted… this is more important than ever

About Theresa Payton

Theresa Payton (@TrackerPayton) is President and CEO of Fortalice Solutions, former White House CIO, star of the CBS hit show Hunted, and best-selling author of the book Privacy in the Age of Big Data.

Payton is one of the nation's most respected authorities on information security, cybercrime, fraud mitigation, and security technology implementation.

As White House Chief Information Officer at the Executive Office of the President from 2006 to 2008, Payton administered the information technology enterprise for the President and 3,000 staff members.

Theresa founded Fortalice in 2008 and lends her expertise to government and private sector organizations to help them improve their information technology systems. In 2010, Security Magazine named her one of the top 25 "Most Influential People in Security."

Theresa's new book drops in April.

Manipulated: Inside the Cyberwar to Hijack Elections and Distort the Truth

In her new book, cybersecurity expert Theresa Payton tells battlefront stories from the global war being conducted through clicks, swipes, internet access, technical backdoors and massive espionage schemes. She investigates the cyberwarriors who are planning tomorrow's attacks, weaving a fascinating yet bone-chilling tale of Artificial Intelligent mutations carrying out attacks without human intervention, "deepfake" videos that look real to the naked eye, and chatbots that beget other chatbots. Finally, Payton offers readers telltale signs that their most fundamental beliefs are being meddled with and actions they can take or demand that corporations and elected officials must take before it is too late. In the book, Theresa reveals:

How digital voting machines, voting online, and automatic registration may boost turnout but make us more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
How trolls from Russia and other nations actively stroke discord among Americans in falsely-generated controversies over race relations, vaccinations, fracking, and other social issues.
Whether what we have uncovered from the Mueller investigation so far is only what they wanted us to know.

About Doug Citizen

Doug is a small business owner in a municipality smaller than Tokyo by with more than 10 occupants. He lives in a town somewhere between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and somewhere between the borders of Canada and Mexico. He represents 330,000,000 people in the conversation.

He cares. That's what is important. Respect his security and privacy.

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