Waiting for a cybersecurity threat to reach your perimeter defense is simply not enough. These days, you need to protect the whole environment, in and around the business, including where data may be stored offsite. In this episode, Nimesh Mehta, Senior VP and Chief Information Officer of National Life Group, a life insurance and investment company, discusses what’s really keeping him up at night: finding and training the right cybersecurity talent to protect us from the onslaught of increasing threats before they’ve broken through the line of defense.

It didn’t take long for bad actors to seize the opportunity the pandemic provided to go after newly unprotected digital data. This left the underwriting communities of cyber insurance with a fresh set of risks to mitigate. In this episode, Geoff Moore, CISO of Valmark Financial Group, a full-service broker-dealer, investment advisor and insurance producer, shares the importance of understanding what exactly your insurance policy covers, and the value in implementing preventative cybersecurity policies to address the looming threats.

Working from home may be a more relaxed way to do business for the general employee, but for those of us focused on cybersecurity, it’s an increasing challenge to supervise and protect. In this episode, Ann Robinson, Chief Compliance Officer of Farmers Financial Solutions, discusses why it’s not enough to simply prohibit the use of new technology with policy changes, especially for the remote workforce. Instead, you need to prove you’re supervising and monitoring it at all times.