Hosted by Paul Roberts, The Security Ledger podcast features interviews with leading minds in the area of cyber security, threats and attacks. The Security Ledger is an independent security news website that explores the intersection of cyber security with business, commerce, politics and everyday life. Security Ledger provides well-reported and context-rich news and opinion about computer security topics that matter in our IP-enabled homes, workplaces and daily lives.
What makes a good CSO? In the wake of the Equifax breach, we talk about the controversy over that company’s CSO’s music degree. Also: we talk with Signal Sciences about why companies keep getting hacked via application vulnerabilities like the Apache Struts hole that felled Equifax.
Security Ledger editor Paul Roberts takes a deep dive into the controversy surrounding data broker Equifax, speaking with experts from the firm Signal Sciences about why web application hacks are so common, and talking with Black Duck about the difficulty companies have keeping tabs on their open source software use. In our final segment, Paul speaks with Deidre Diamond of the placement firm CyberSN and Chris Roberts (@sidragon1) about the controversy surrounding Equifax’s CSO’s background in music composition – and about what qualities and qualifications make for a good security officer.
In-brief: In this week’s podcast, Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts talks with noted security researcher Robert “RSnake” Hansen about the data breach at Equifax and why the company’s response to it was so lacking. Also: Chris Sumner of the Online Privacy Foundation talks about why Facebook is a killer app for information operations and we talk to the president of ASPertise: a consulting firm by and of professionals with Aspergers and Autism spectrum disorders.
Security Ledger Editor in Chief Paul Roberts talks the news of the week including Robert “RSnake” Hansen on the Equifax data breach, Chris Sumner of Online Privacy Association on Facebook’s analysis of fake news operations and ASPertise: a consulting firm that specializes in hiring professionals with Aspergers and Autism spectrum disorders.
In-brief: In the latest Security Ledger podcast we talk about pending right to repair laws and their impact on the Internet of Things. Also: Facebook’s Internet Defense Prize went to a better method for spear phishing detection. We talk to a member of the winning team. And, Johannes Ullrich of The Internet Storm Center joins us to talk about a study he did to measure the frequency of attacks on a common IoT device: digital video recorders.
