After a nearly 21-year career in the FBI, Roberts joined Bristol Myers Squibb in April, 2020, and has spent the past 7 months navigating the pandemic impact on the pharmaceutical giant. For BMS, like many organizations, the rapid shift to wide-

Serving up a risk management culture at McDonald's

Oct 16th, 2020 27m 45s

In addition to being the largest fast food restaurant in the world, McDonald's is also one of the world's largest employers, real estate companies, and toy companies, thanks to the Happy Meal. It has also been transitioning into a tech company

Building board relationships

Oct 14th, 2020 22m 51s

Over the past decade, CSOs have had significantly more interaction with their boards of directors, becoming critical partners and driving risk management in many organizations. And cybersecurity, information security and privacy have become key

TikTok don’t stop: Data privacy and the transparency imperative

Aug 10th, 2020 16m 36s

After 10 years as CSO of payroll and HR solutions provider ADP, Roland Cloutier was looking for a challenge. He found one in his new role as Global CSO at TikTok, the fast-growing social media startup that has found itself in the news over priv

Don’t be Batman: Why CISOs should embrace the sidekick role, Part 2

May 27th, 2020 19m 2s

In this second half, Akamai CISO Andy Ellis and host Bob Bragdon continue their talk about the good guy/bad guy dynamic in the infosec community and why it can result in you being marginalized in your organization. Ellis’ advice: Don’t try to b

Don’t be Batman: Why CISOs should embrace the sidekick role, Part 1

May 13th, 2020 18m 15s

There is a prevailing attitude in the infosec community that security pros are the good guys and the bad guys are, well, just about everyone else — users, developers, senior leadership. This good guy/bad guy dynamic can result in you being marg

Healthcare security in a time of crisis

May 1st, 2020 23m 39s

Balancing security and business needs is challenging in the best of times, but in the midst of a global pandemic it takes on new urgency. For Gary Gooden, CISO at Seattle Children’s, this means protecting patient data while enabling frontline w

Security in a time of crisis

Apr 8th, 2020 29m 10s

The biggest risk from the scramble to move to remote work at scale will likely be an increase in data exposed from misconfigured cloud storage buckets, says Christopher Burgess, a writer and speaker on security issues and former senior security

Building security in

Mar 25th, 2020 17m 1s

We can all remember a time not so long ago when security was thedepartment of no. “We have moved past that to ‘yes, but,’" says MikeTowers, CSO at Takeda Pharmaceuticals International. For Towers, gettingto a place where it is easy for the b

In security, soft skills are king

Mar 11th, 2020 18m 8s

For Chad Teat, CISO of Atlanta-based specialty retailer Floor & Decor, the secret to balancing risk and business opportunity comes down to reducing friction with the business. To do that, Teat says, the CISO, engineers, and analysts all need to

Reducing risk vs. enabling the business: finding the balance

Feb 26th, 2020 14m 58s

"We're [CSOs] all focused on this balance of being able to reduce risk while enabling the business," says Lionbridge CSO & CPO Doug Graham. But, he adds, "There's no real hard-and-fast rules about how much risk and what that recipe is." For Gra

Succeeding with security as code

Feb 12th, 2020 14m 29s

As more organizations move to the cloud and to continuous deployment, security needs to “follow the ‘as code’ model,” says Marnie Wilking, global head of security & technology risk management at Wayfair. Where historically security engineers an

Security nightmares: 3 things that keep Biogen CISO Bob Litterer up at night

Jan 29th, 2020 16m 54s

Bob Litterer, VP and CISO of biotech giant Biogen, isn’t a worrier at heart, but there are a few things that keep him up at night. High on that list is the interdependencies in his company’s third-party network; a data breach anywhere in that e

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Introducing 'CSO Executive Sessions'

Jan 9th, 2020 1m 56s

Join CSO publisher Bob Bragdon for a new audio podcast series, CSO Executive Sessions which will feature conversations with leading security and risk executives from around the country about the challenges faced by their organizations.You'll h

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