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.

As the pandemic shifted a large sector of the workforce to remote operations, it also tore down many of the secure perimeters built around the traditional office. In this episode, Tim Dzierzek, former CISO for Smarsh, shares what he believes is the new challenge CISO professionals are facing, to be proactive in identifying new threats and as an advisory function to businesses, ensuring the company’s leadership understands the risks and what controls are needed to best mitigate them.

The pandemic resulted in a sudden need to support an ever increasing remote workforce, which may be with us for the long-haul. In this episode, Jason Lish, CISO of Lumen Technologies, a global enterprise technology platform that combines networking, edge cloud, collaboration and security to deploy, accelerate and protect your applications, shares how Lumen has pivoted to protect their customers through continuous monitoring and testing of their vendors, and controls.

More than ever, companies are employing third-party vendors to make their businesses run more efficiently. But with that expansion comes a much greater risk to cybersecurity. In this episode, Ishan Girdhar, Founder and CEO of Privva, a cutting edge software company focused on supply chain risk management, discusses what to look out for as your company engages a third-party vendor, and the questions to ask to ensure you and your data remain secure and encrypted along the way.

During the pandemic, ransomware attacks skyrocketed over 350%. Cybersecurity industries witnessed some of the largest breaches of all time, hitting companies like SolarWinds to Kaseya, Colonial Pipeline, and even Microsoft. But when it comes to cybersecurity, reacting to a threat isn’t always enough; you have to get ahead and stay ahead of the escalating risks. This season, join Sid Yenamandra, co-founder & former CEO of Entreda, as he interviews business professionals about what’s keeping them up at night, and how they’re successfully mitigating the looming vulnerabilities that may exist within their firms, from ransomware to cybersecurity compliance.