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Episode 209: Fortinet’s Renee Tarun on Scaling InfoSec To Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges

The Security Ledger

The information security industry needs both better tools to fight adversaries, and more people to do the fighting, says Fortinet Deputy CISO Renee Tarun in this interview with The Security Ledger Podcast’s Paul Roberts. The information security industry is simultaneously robust and beset by problems and challenges.

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Episode 205 – Google’s Camille Stewart: InfoSec’s Lack of Diversity is a Cyber Risk

The Security Ledger

Here’s the deal with the information security industry in the United States: our country doesn’t have nearly the number of information security professionals that it needs. According to an estimate from Cybersecurity Ventures, the shortage of US cyber security workers could reach 500,000 people in 2021.

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The Case for Cyber-Risk Prospectuses

Threatpost

Cyber-disclosure statements noting how long a company can go without a breach can help customers understand the reality of cyber-incidents and their exposure to loss.

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CyberSaint STRONGER 2022 Conference Call for Speakers is Open!

CyberSecurity Insiders

BOSTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– CyberSaint , the developer of the leading platform delivering cyber risk automation, today announced that the company is seeking speaker submissions for its virtual STRONGER conference, set to occur September 13th-15th 2022. InfoSec 360. Abstracts for each of the themes can be found below.

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Episode 207: Sarah Tatsis of BlackBerry on finding and Keeping Women in Cyber

The Security Ledger

In this week’s episode of the podcast (#207) we speak with Sara Tatsis of the firm Blackberry about her 20 year career at the legendary mobile device maker and the myriad challenges attracting women to- and keeping them in the information security field. Read the whole entry. »

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Episode 207: Sara Tatsis of Blackberry on finding and Keeping Women in Cyber

The Security Ledger

In this week’s episode of the podcast (#207) we speak with Sara Tatsis of the firm Blackberry about her 20 year career at the legendary mobile device maker and the myriad challenges attracting women to- and keeping them in the information security field. Read the whole entry. »

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Spotlight Podcast: Security Automation is (and isn’t) the Future of Infosec

The Security Ledger

We talk about the growing demand for security automation tools and how the chronic cyber security talent shortage in North America and. In this Spotlight Podcast, we speak with David Brumley, the Chief Executive Officer at the security firm ForAllSecure * and a professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.