Making Cybersecurity Faster and More Responsive

Defense in Depth

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Knowing is only one-third the battle. Another third is responding. And the last third is responding quickly. It’s not enough to just have the first two thirds. We need to be faster, but how?

Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Our guest is Jason Elrod (@jasonelrod), CISO, MultiCare Health System.

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Eclypsium

Eclypsium is the enterprise firmware security company. Our comprehensive, cloud-based platform identifies, verifies, and fortifies firmware and hardware in laptops, servers, network gear and devices. The Eclypsium platform secures against persistent and stealthy firmware attacks, provides continuous device integrity, delivers firmware patching at scale, and prevents ransomware and malicious implants.

In this episode:

• What can we do as a pragmatic first step to make our cybersecurity teams quicker and more responsive?
• Would continuous authorization and real time emergency messaging help?
• Should we improve test automation?
• What about people - better teaching & work conditions?