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2021 Hispanic Heritage Month Pt. 1: A Celebration of Hispanic Heritage and Hope

McAfee

He recognized my passion for infosec (it wasn’t called cyber back then) and provided me with the support needed to make my ideas and projects a reality. Thanks to him I was able to co-found one of the first infosec consulting businesses in Spain in 2000, and I’m still very grateful for that opportunity. it’s on LinkedIn too).

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The Hacker Mind: Shattering InfoSec's Glass Ceiling

ForAllSecure

Booth babes and rampant sexism were more of a problem in infosec in the past. I went to Black Hat in 2000. I know there was a period when several InfoSec people, myself included, said we will not be on panels unless there's diversity represented on said panel. That is, until Chenxi Wang spoke up. So I learned. And it should.

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Y2k + 20: risk, COVID and "the Internet issue"

Notice Bored

For a long time prior to the year 2000, a significant number of software programmers had taken the same shortcut we all did back in "the 90s". Even the government and defence industries would be very hard pressed to demonstrate leadership in this area. IT and infosec pro's aren't. then 00, "coming ready or not!". Make my day.

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Weaving strategies with policies

Notice Bored

How will you satisfy the changing governance, compliance and assurance requirements in a virtual world? As well as infosec policies, what are your business policies for managing the information risk security function? From the information risk and security perspective, virtual working is both a nightmare and, again, an opportunity.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Vamosi: So, finding registration files and election systems exposed online, this, this after a decade of warnings from security experts, from hackers and state governments warning -- where does that leave us today?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of it all -- you know, the classic CIA triad in infosec. Vamosi: So, finding registration files and election systems exposed online, this, this after a decade of warnings from security experts, from hackers and state governments warning -- where does that leave us today?

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CISSPs from Around The Globe: An Interview with Theresa Grafenstine

CyberSecurity Insiders

I actually started off in US government as an auditor at the Office of Inspector General in the US Department of Defense. And we wound our way to “Year 2000” ( Y2K ), which now seems sort of silly, but in retrospect, at the time it was a big deal. It transitioned me from the government space into private industry.