CSO Perspectives (public)

Rick Howard, N2K's CSO and The Cyberwire's Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, interviews Andy Greenberg about his 2024 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame book: “Tracers in the Dark.” References: Andy Greenberg, 2022. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book]. Goodreads. Larry Pesce, 2024. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. Rick Howard, 2024. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. Ben Rothke, 2024. Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. TheScriptVEVO, 2012. The Script - Hall of Fame (Official Video) ft. will.i.am [Music Video]. YouTube. Satoshi Nakamoto, 2008. Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System [Historic and Important Paper]. Bitcoin. Rick Howard, 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Goodreads. RSA Presentation:  May. 9, 2024 | 9:40 AM - 10:30 AM PT Rick Howard, Simone Petrella , 2024. The Moneyball Approach to Buying Down Risk, Not Superstars [Presentation]. RSA 2024 Conference. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this bonus episode of CyberWire-X, N2K's CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, Rick Howard, is joined by guest Rohit Dhamankar, Fortra's Vice President of Product Strategy, and Hash Table member Steve Winterfeld, Akamai's Advisory CISO to discuss CISO initiatives such as vendor consolidation, automation, and attack surface management as a way to determine if it's possible to achieve both increased security maturity and decreased operational load. This session covers common mistakes when adopting security technologies, including the pros and cons of AI, and how to better collaborate together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Rick Howard, N2K's CSO and The CyberWire's Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, discusses the latest developments in mapping the MITRE ATT&CK(R) wiki to your deployed security stack with guests James Stanley, section chief at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, John Wunder, Department Manager for Cyber Threat Intelligence and Adversary Emulation at MITRE, and Steve Winterfeld, Akamai's Advisory CISO. Howard, R., Olson, R., 2020. Implementing Intrusion Kill Chain Strategies by Creating Defensive Campaign Adversary Playbooks [Journal Article]. The Cyber Defense Review. URL https://cyberdefensereview.army.mil/CDR-Content/Articles/Article-View/Article/2420129/implementing-intrusion-kill-chain-strategies-by-creating-defensive-campaign-adv/ Staff, 2023. The Ultimate Guide to Sigma Rules [Blog]. THE GRAYLOG BLOG. URL https://graylog.org/post/the-ultimate-guide-to-sigma-rules/ Seuss, Dr., 1990. Oh, the Places You'll Go! [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/191139.Oh_the_Places_You_ll_Go_?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_14 Beriro, S., ishmael, stacy-marie, 2023. Crypto Hackers Stole Record Amount in 2022, Fueled by North Korea's Lazarus [Podcast]. Bloomberg. URL https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/crypto-hackers-stole-record-amount-in-2022-fueled-by-north-korea-s-lazarus cisagov, 2023. Decider: A web application that assists network defenders, analysts, and researchers in the process of mapping adversary behaviors to the MITRE ATT&CK® framework. [Code Repository]. GitHub. URL https://github.com/cisagov/Decider/ Hutchins, E., Cloppert, M., Amin, R., 2010. Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense Informed by Analysis of Adversary Campaigns and Intrusion Kill Chains [White Paper]. Lockheed Martin. URL https://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed-martin/rms/documents/cyber/LM-White-Paper-Intel-Driven-Defense.pdf JupiterDoc, 2011. Law & Order Full Theme (High Quality) [Theme]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4-aEGvqQM Nickels, K, 2019. Introduction to ATT&CK Navigator [Video]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcclNdwG8Vs Page, C., 2022. US officials link North Korean Lazarus hackers to $625M Axie Infinity crypto theft [website]. TechCrunch. URL https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/15/us-officials-link-north-korean-lazarus-hackers-to-625m-axie-infinity-crypto-theft/ Page, C., 2022. North Korean Lazarus hackers linked to $100M Harmony bridge theft [Website]. TechCrunch. URL https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/30/north-korea-lazarus-harmony-theft/ Staff, n.d. Lazarus Group (G0032) [Wiki]. Mitre ATT&CK Navigator. URL https://mitre-attack.github.io/attack-navigator//#layerURL=https%3A%2F%2Fattack.mitre.org%2Fgroups%2FG0032%2FG0032-enterprise-layer.json Staff, n.d. Lazarus Group, Labyrinth Chollima, HIDDEN COBRA, Guardians of Peace, ZINC, NICKEL ACADEMY, Group G0032 [Wiki]. MITRE ATT&CK®. URL https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0032/ Staff, n.d. Lazarus Group [Wiki]. Tidal Cyber. URL https://app.tidalcyber.com/groups/0bc66e95-de93-4de7-b415-4041b7191f08-Lazarus%20Group Staff, January 2023. Best Practices for MITRE ATT&CK® Mapping [White Paper]. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). URL https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/best-practices-mitre-attckr-mapping Staff, March 2023. CISA Releases Decider Tool to Help with MITRE ATT&CK Mapping [Announcement]. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). URL https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/03/01/cisa-releases-decider-tool-help-mitre-attck-mapping Staff, n.d. List of top Cryptocurrency Companies - Crunchbase Hub Profile [Website]. Crunchbase. URL https://www.crunchbase.com/hub/cryptocurrency-companies Strom, B.E., Applebaum, A., Miller, D.P., Nickels, K.C., Pennington, A.G., Thomas, C.B., 2020. ATTACK Design and Philosophy March 2020 Revision [White Paper]. Mitre. URL https://www.mitre.org/sites/default/files/publications/pr-18-0944-11-mitre-attack-design-and-philosophy.pdf

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of cybersecurity risk forecasting with guests Fred Kneip, CyberGRX's founder and President of ProcessUnity, and Kevin Richards, Cyber Risk Solutions President. Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.   Howard, R., 2023. Bonus Episode: 2023 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame inductee: Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Dr Phil Tetlock and Dr Dan Gardner. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/5567/notes Howard, R., 2022. Risk Forecasting with Bayes Rule: A practical example. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/88/notes Howard, R, 2023. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction [Book review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL icdt.osu.edu/superforecasting-art-and-science-prediction. Howard, R., 2022. Two risk forecasting data scientists, and Rick, walk into a bar. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/89/notes Howard, R., Freund, J., Jones, J., 2016. 2016 Cyber Canon Inductee - Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR approach [Interview]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpAnSBaGM Hubbard , D.W., Seiersen, R., 2016. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26518108-how-to-measure-anything-in-cybersecurity-risk Clark, B., Seiersen , R., Hubbard, D., 2017. “How To Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk” - Cybersecurity Canon 2017 [Interview]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o_mAavdabg&t=93s Freund, J., Jones, J., 2014. Measuring and Managing Information Risk: A FAIR Approach [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22637927-measuring-and-managing-information-risk Katz, D., 2021. Corporate Governance Update: “Materiality” in America and Abroad [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. URL https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2021/05/01/corporate-governance-update-materiality-in-america-and-abroad/ Posner, C., 2023. SEC Adopts Final Rules on Cybersecurity Disclosure [Essay]. The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance. URL https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/08/09/sec-adopts-final-rules-on-cybersecurity-disclosure/ Linden, L.V., Kneip, F., Squier, Suzie , 2022. Threats Across the Globe & Benchmarking with CyberGRX [Podcast]. Retail & Hospitality ISAC Podcast. URL https://pca.st/a49enjb1 Lizárraga, C.J., 2023. Improving the Quality of Cybersecurity Risk Management Disclosures [Essay]. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. URL https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/lizarraga-statement-cybersecurity-072623 Staff, 2022. Benchmarking Cyber-Risk Quantification [Survey]. Gartner. URL https://www.gartner.com/en/publications/benchmarking-cyber-risk-quantification Tetlock, P.E., Gardner, D., 2015. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction [Book]. Goodreads. URL https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23995360-superforecasting Winterfeld, S., 2014. How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk [Book review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL https://icdt.osu.edu/how-measure-anything-cybersecurity-risk

Rick Howard, The CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the current state of Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) prevention with CyberWire Hash Table guests Steve Winterfeld, Akamai's Field CSO, and Jim Gilbert, Akamai's Director Product Management, and Rick Doten, the CISO for Healthcare Enterprises and Centene. Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.   Azure Network Security Team, 2023. 2022 in review: DDoS attack trends and insights [Website]. Microsoft Security Blog. URL https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/02/21/2022-in-review-ddos-attack-trends-and-insights/ Howard, R., 2014. Fatal System Error [Book Review]. Cybersecurity Canon Project. URL https://icdt.osu.edu/fatal-system-error Mashable, 2019. The World's First Cyber Crime: The Morris Worm [KERNEL PANIC] [Video]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2dj2gnxjtU (accessed 8.8.23). Montgomery, D., Sriram, K., Santay, D.J., 2022. Advanced DDoS Mitigation Techniques [Website]. NIST. URL https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/advanced-ddos-mitigation-techniques. Schomp, K., Bhardwaj, O., Kurdoglu, E., Muhaimen, M., Sitaraman, R.K., 2020. Akamai DNS: Providing Authoritative Answers to theWorld's Queries [Conference Paper]. Proceedings of the Annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication on the applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication. URL https://groups.cs.umass.edu/ramesh/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/07/sigcomm2020-final289.pdf Sparling, C., Gebhardt, M., 2022. The Relentless Evolution of DDoS Attacks [Blog]. Akamai Technologies. URL https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/relentless-evolution-of-ddos-attacks. Staff, January 2023. The Evolution of DDoS: Return of the Hacktivist [Akamai White Paper]. FS-ISAC. URL https://www.fsisac.com/akamai-ddos-report. Staff , 2023. 2023 The Edge Ecosystem [White Paper]. AT&T Cybersecurity. URL https://cybersecurity.att.com/resource-center/infographics/2023-securing-the-edge. Winterfeld, S., 2023. Ransomware on the Move: Evolving Exploitation Techniques and the Active Pursuit of Zero-Days [Website]. Akamai Technologies. URL https://www.akamai.com/blog/security/ransomware-on-the-move-evolving-exploitation-techniques Radware, 2012. DNS Amplification Attack [Video. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTKjHWkDwP0  Chickowski, E., 2020. Types of DDoS attacks explained [Website]. AT&T Cybersecurity. URL https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/security-essentials/types-of-ddos-attacks-explained Nilsson, J., 2010. The Book of Numbers: A History of the Telephone Book [Website]. The Saturday Evening Post. URL https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2010/02/book-numbers

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses the meaning of quantum computing through a cybersecurity perspective with CyberWire Hash Table guests Dr. Georgian Shea, Chief Technologist at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Jonathan Franz, the Chief Information Security Officer at ISC2. Research contributors include Bob Turner, Fortinet's Field CISO – Education, Don Welch, New York University CIO, Rick Doten, CISO at Healthcare Enterprises and Centene, and Zan Vautrinot, Major General - retired. Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.   Deen, S., 2008. 007 | Quantum of Solace | Theme Song [Video]. YouTube. URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMXT3aJxH_A  Dungey, T., Abdelgaber, Y., Casto, C., Mills, J., Fazea, Y., 2022. Quantum Computing: Current Progress and Future Directions [Website]. EDUCAUSE . URL https://er.educause.edu/articles/2022/7/quantum-computing-current-progress-and-future-directions. France, J., 2023. Quantum Compute and CyberSecurity, in: ISC2 Secure Summits.  France, J., 2023. The Race Against Quantum: It's Not Too Late to be the Tortoise that Beat the Hare [Essay]. Infosecurity Magazine. URL https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/opinions/race-quantum-tortoise-beat-hare/.  Shea, Dr.G., Fixler, A., 2022. Protecting and Securing Data from the Quantum Threat [Technical Note]. Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. URL https://www.fdd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/fdd-ccti-protecting-and-securing-data-from-the-quantum-threat.pdf  

Rick Howard, The CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, discusses cybersecurity first principle strategies with CJ Moses, CISO of AWS. Howard, R., 2023. Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics [Book]. Wiley. URL: https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-First-Principles-Strategy-Tactics/dp/1394173083.   Staff, 2022. AWS Security Profile: CJ Moses, CISO of AWS [Bio]. Amazon Web Services. URL https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws_security_profile_cj_moses_ciso_of_aws/

Rick Howard, the CSO, Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at N2K Cyber, formerly the CyberWire, discusses how to use the cybersecurity first principle strategy of zero trust with commercial applications and in-house software development. Chris Niggel, Okta Field CSO, joins him for the discussion. Howard, R., Bittner, D., 2023. What is data centric security and why should anyone care? [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cyberwire-x/46/notes. Howard, R., 2020. Your security stack is moving: SASE is coming. [Podcast]. The CyberWire. URL https://thecyberwire.com/podcasts/cso-perspectives/1/notes

Rick Howard, The CyberWire's Chief Analyst, CSO, and Senior Fellow, and the cast of the entire CyberWire team, honor our U.S. veterans on this Memorial day.

Rick Howard, N2K's CSO and The CyberWire's Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, the cybersecurity workforce skills gap with N2K's President, Simone Petrella regarding how security professionals might learn from the movie “Moneyball” about how to train their team in the aggregate about first principles.

Rick Howard, N2K's CSO and The CyberWire's Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, interviews Dan Gardner about this 2023 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame book: “Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction.”

Rick Howard, N2K's CSO and The CyberWire's Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, interviews Nicole Perlroth about her 2023 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame book: “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends.”

Rick Howard, N2K's CSO and The Cyberwire's Chief Analyst and Senior Fellow, and Andy Hall, Cybersecurity Canon Committee Member, discuss the 2023 Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame book inductee: “The Hacker and the State” by Ben Buchanan.

Chaos Engineering started in the mid 2000s. It was made famous by the Netflix engineering team under an internal app they developed, called Chaos Monkey, that randomly destroyed pieces of their customer-facing infrastructure, on purpose, so that their network architects could understand resilience engineering down deep in their core. But the concept is much more than simply destroying production systems to see what will happen. This elevates the idea of regression testing to the level of the scientific method designed to uncover potential and unknown architectural designs that may cause catastrophic failure. I make the case that the CSO should probably own that functionality.

The 2021 Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack: We can use cyber sand tables to enhance our cybersecurity first principle defenses since the concept, in various forms, have been used by military commanders, coaches, and athletes since the world was young. This show puts the Colonial Pipeline hack on the cyber sand table to see what might have been done differently.

Since the early 2000s, most infosec practitioners have agreed that a public/private partnership to share threat intelligence is a cybersecurity first principle tactic. Since the first CERT in the late 1980s to the CISA Shields Up program this year (2022), the community has come a long way but it's safe to say that there is much room for improvement. In this Rick the Toolman episode, we discuss the history and current state of information sharing and where it needs to go in the future.

Zero trust is a cybersecurity first principle strategy. Key to deploying a robust program is the Identity and Access Management tactic (IAM). The old perimeter defense model, designed in the 1990s, where network architects allowed good guys (and bad guys) through the perimeter to validate IAM policy seems ridiculous in hindsight. The new model, Software Defined Perimeter (SDP), is not as well known but is probably a better design. In this episode, Rick Howard discusses the history and current state.

In 1995, AT&T patented the idea of two-factor authentication (2FA). They said that to identify an authorized user, a system needed to check at least two of three factors: something they have, something they are, or something they know. But the early systems were clunky, hard to manage, and only used in environments that needed the most security. Today, the industry has come a long way and there are several different choices for 2FA with some more secure than others: SMS, Email, Authenticator Soft Tokens, Push, and Universal 2nd Factor (U2F). In this show, we talk about how each works and the relative security merits of each.

Single Sign-On (SSO) in the real world is complicated and messy and how we got there is a byzantine maze of innovation and standards that has taken years. But, if zero trust is the first principle strategy we are all trying to pursue, getting Identity and Access Management (IAM) right is the most important tactic. And, SSO is a piece of the entire Identity and Access Management puzzle. Rick summarizes the history and current state of Single Sign-On with some Rick the Toolman thrown in.

One way to reduce the risk of software supply chains is with a concept called a Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs). Standards bodies have been slowly working in the background for the past decade to move this concept into reality. On this episode Rick Howard discusses the current state of SBOMs, and throws some Rick the Toolman in as well.

Rick Howard, N2K's CSO and the CyberWire's Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow, interviews Andy Greenberg, Senior Writer at WIRED, regarding his new book, “Tracers in the Dark.”

In order to understand the current state of the cybersecurity landscape, you must understand the history of how we got here. Rick summarizes the history along several threads: Firsts, adversary playbook names, government-commercial-academic entities, important papers and books, people, law, technologies, tools, and strategy-tactics.

We've been wrestling with the idea of software development methodologies (Waterfall, Agile), infrastructure-as-code (cloud deployments, DevOps, DevSecOps) and coding best practices (OWASP, BSIMMS, SAMM) going on for two decades now. These are not independent systems. They overlap and interact. Up to this point, at least for the security side, they have been manual tasks, toil, that are prone to mistakes. We all know that automation can reduce the impact, at least be consistent with mistakes we make, and can offer a uniform fix across the enterprise once we have decided what to do. Automation is the key first principle strategy to get this done and DevOps/DevSecOps is the tactic we will all use to get there.Rick Howard takes us through the topic. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

Big thinkers from Lockheed Martin (kill chain), the Department of Defense (Diamond Model), and Mitre (ATT&CK Framework) gave us the blueprints of how to do intrusion kill chain prevention over a decade ago. It's taken us that long for the rest of us mere cybersecurity mortals to get our heads around the key concepts. Rick Howard takes us through the models. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

In this “Rick the Toolman” episode, Rick rethinks vulnerability management as a first principle zero trust tactic. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

The 2014 OPM hack: We can use cyber sand tables to enhance our cybersecurity first principle defenses since the concept, in various forms, have been used by military commanders, coaches, and athletes since the world was young. The show puts the OPM hack on the cyber sand table to see what might have been done differently. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic. To access CyberWIre Pro only bonus material for CSO Perspectives, listen here.

Rick Howard, the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst, is joined by Hash Table member Amanda Fennell, the Relativity CIO and CSO, to discuss strategies and tactics to reduce digital supply chain risk. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

Rick explains the history of digital supply chains and the potential future of securing them. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

Rick Howard, the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst, chats with Steve Winterfeld, the Akamai Advisory CISO, and Errol Weiss, the Health-ISAC CSO, about recommended sources of infosec content that they found valuable in 2021. Links to content mentioned in the show: Documentaries “Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections,” by Harri Hursti, Published by HBO, 26 March 2020.  “The Perfect Weapon.” by David Sanger, Published by HBO, 16 October 2020. Podcasts “Darknet Diaries – True Stories from the Dark Side of the Internet,” by Darknetdiaries.com, 25 January 2022. “The Lazarus Heist,” BBC, 2021. Books “Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin's Most Dangerous Hackers,” by Andy Greenberg, Published by Doubleday, 7 May 2019. “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends the Cyberweapons Arms Race,” by Nicole Perlroth, Published by Bloomsbury Publishing 9 February 2021.  Author Interviews “A Conversation with Nicole Perlroth, Author of ‘This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends,'” American Writers Museum, YouTube, 2 March 2021. “Andy Greenberg - Sandworm: Lessons from the Cyberwar,” by CS3STHLM, YouTube, 25 October 2021.  “Bonus: Cybersecurity Canon Hall of Fame Interview with Andy Greenberg,” By Rick Howard, The CyberWire, 12 July 12 2021. ‌“‘Sandworm' Author Andy Greenberg,” by David Bittner, The CyberWire, 11 November 2019.  ‌Video Content “LockPickingLawyer.” YouTube, 2022. “RSA Conference.” YouTube, 2022. Twitter Subject Matter Experts Phil Venables (@philvenables) Bonus - Gate 15 / Andy Jabbour (@Gate_15_Analyst) Errol Weiss (@errolw65) Rick Howard (@raceBannon99) News and Topic Summaries “Daily Briefing.” The CyberWire, 2022. “SmartBrief.” SmartBrief, 2018. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

Rick recommends podcasts and books that he found valuable in 2021, and makes the case for why reading books and listening to podcasts makes security professionals better students of the cybersecurity game. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

In this “Rick the Toolman” episode, Rick interviews Steve Winterfeld, from Akamai, on the current state and future of the Mitre ATT&CK Framework. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

In this “Rick the Toolman” episode, Rick interviews Jon Oltsik, from the Enterprise Strategy Group, on the current state and future of XDR. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

In this “Rick the Toolman” episode, Rick breaks down XDR in terms that busy security executives can understand and apply to their first principle security strategy. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

In this episode of CSO Perspectives, Rick Howard examines the MITRE ATT&CK® framework for the security executive. Rick explains how your infosec team can use it to support your intrusion kill chain strategy. More importantly, Rick describes the framework in terms that busy security executives can understand. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

The 2016 DNC hack: We can use cyber sand tables to enhance our cybersecurity first principle defenses since the concept, in various forms, have been used by military commanders, coaches, and athletes since the world was young. The show puts the DNC hack on the cyber sand table to see what might have been done differently with host Rick Howard, the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst. For a complete reading list and even more information, check out Rick's more detailed essay on the topic.

Security compliance is a cybersecurity first principle strategy. Can security compliance add value to your organization as a first principle strategy? Or is it a distraction? In this session, we learn about the value of technology compliance and compliance technologies. Rick digs into the fundamentals of compliance and reviews case studies that reveal the potential material impact to your organization due to a compliance incident. As Rick says, “Compliance is a ticket to ride.” On the Hash Table, Tom Quinn of T. Rowe Price argues for why compliance is both good for business and good for security. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: privacy and security compliance, compliance support services, the value of investing in compliance, CyberWire's spreadsheet of cybersecurity laws and standards  CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more compliance and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Security compliance is a cybersecurity first principle strategy. Can security compliance add value to your organization as a first principle strategy? Or is it a distraction? In this session, we learn about the value of technology compliance and compliance technologies. Rick digs into the fundamentals of compliance and reviews case studies that reveal the potential material impact to your organization due to a compliance incident. As Rick says, “Compliance is a ticket to ride.” Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: privacy and security compliance, compliance support services, the value of investing in compliance, CyberWire's spreadsheet of cybersecurity laws and standards  CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more compliance and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Adversary playbooks as a cybersecurity first principle strategy. They told us the adversary has an asymmetric advantage; that cyber defense has to be right every time while the offense only has to get it right once. Rick proves that proactive defense and adversary playbooks can flip that dynamic on its head. With the world of cyber defense and threat intelligence upside down, Rick and the Hash Table discuss the history of shifting the offense/defense balance, the three components of a proactive defense, and the evolution of adversary playbooks and the intrusion kill chain. with Rick Howard, the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst, joined by Ryan Olson, the Palo Alto Networks VP on Threat Intelligence (Unit 42). They discuss the history and next steps for the adversary playbook concept. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: adversary playbooks and proactive defense, flipping the offense/defense balance, the 3 components of a proactive defense, ISACs and ISAOs CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more adversary playbooks and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Adversary playbooks as a cybersecurity first principle strategy. They told us the adversary has an asymmetric advantage; that cyber defense has to be right every time while the offense only has to get it right once. Rick proves that proactive defense and adversary playbooks can flip that dynamic on its head. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: adversary playbooks and proactive defense, flipping the offense/defense balance, the 3 components of a proactive defense, ISACs and ISAOs CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more adversary playbooks and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Orchestrating the security stack is a cybersecurity first principle strategy. Our security stack has grown unwieldy. The complexity breeds vulnerability. Orchestration may be our only hope. Rick reviews SOAR/SIEM platforms, SASE, and DevSecOps strategies from the perspective of orchestrating the security stack. He discovers key methods to build zero trust, intrusion kill chain prevention, resiliency, and risk forecasting within these tools. The Hash Table identifies data governance and policy strategy as a crucial first step. They also talk about the first principles of speaking with the C-suite, as well as the darkside of automation and orchestration. With Rick Howard, the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst, joined by Bob Turner, the Fortinet Field CISO for Education, and Kevin Magee, the CSO for Microsoft Canada, discuss orchestration as a first principle strategy. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: SOAR/SIEM and SASE for large scale orchestration, data governance, the three components of a good SASE platform, data materiality and gap analyses, the dark side of automation CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more orchestration and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Orchestrating the security stack is a cybersecurity first principle strategy. Our security stack has grown unwieldy. The complexity breeds vulnerability. Orchestration may be our only hope. Rick reviews SOAR/SIEM platforms, SASE, and DevSecOps strategies from the perspective of orchestrating the security stack. He discovers key methods to build zero trust, intrusion kill chain prevention, resiliency, and risk forecasting within these tools. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: SOAR/SIEM and SASE for large scale orchestration, data governance, the three components of a good SASE platform, data materiality and gap analyses, the dark side of automation CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more orchestration and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Enterprise backups as a cybersecurity first principle strategy. This session covers the riveting topic of enterprise backup schemes to improve resilience. Rick discusses the value of data backups, workflow models, recent ransomware trends, and platforms for each use case. The Hash Table provides tangible enterprise backup strategies that encompass centralized, decentralized, and DevSecOps techniques, business continuity and disaster recovery plans, and engaging the Executive team in crisis scenarios and recovery training. In data backups, nothing is easy, but Rick breaks it down to first principles and makes it understandable. With Rick Howard, the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst, joined by Jerry Archer, the Sallie Mae CSO, and Jaclyn Miller, the CISO for NTT, discuss enterprise backups as a first principle strategy. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: backup tools and platforms, workflow responsibilities and models, disaster recovery and business continuity plans, backups as a tool to improve resilience CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more enterprise backups and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Enterprise backups as a cybersecurity first principle strategy. This session covers the riveting topic of enterprise backup schemes to improve resilience. Rick discusses the value of data backups, workflow models, recent ransomware trends, and platforms for each use case. In data backups, nothing is easy, but Rick breaks it down to first principles and makes it understandable. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: backup tools and platforms, workflow responsibilities and models, disaster recovery and business continuity plans, backups as a tool to improve resilience CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more enterprise backups and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Enterprise encryption is a cybersecurity first principle strategy. Encryption is like mortar to our first principle wall. It holds together resilience and zero trust for material data. Rick explains the history of famous cryptographic techniques, dives into SolarWinds as an example of zero trust and encryption failure, and identifies some strategies to help implement encryption for data at rest and data in motion. The Hash Table reveals a risk-based approach to deploying encryption and makes a solid case for extensive enterprise encryption to defend against ransomware extortion. With Rick Howard, the Cyberwire's CSO and Chief Analyst, joined by Don Welch, the Penn State University Interim VP for IT and CIO, and Wayne Moore, the Simply Business CISO discuss Enterprise encryption as a first principle strategy. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: cryptographic techniques, data at rest and in motion, encryption for data islands, open source and commercial encryption tools, protection against ransomware and extortion. CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more encryption and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Enterprise encryption is a cybersecurity first principle strategy. Encryption is like mortar to our first principle wall. It holds together resilience and zero trust for material data. Rick explains the history of famous cryptographic techniques, dives into SolarWinds as an example of zero trust and encryption failure, and identifies some strategies to help implement encryption for data at rest and data in motion. Cybersecurity professional development and continued education. You will learn about: cryptographic techniques, data at rest and in motion, encryption for data islands, open source and commercial encryption tools, protection against ransomware and extortion. CyberWire is the world's most trusted news source for cybersecurity information and situational awareness. Join the conversation with Rick Howard on LinkedIn and Twitter, and follow CyberWire on social media and join our community of security professionals: LinkedIn, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program. For more encryption and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Rick Howard, the CyberWire's CSO and Chief Analyst, is joined by Hash Table members Gary McAlum, former USAA CSO, and Dawn Cappelli, the Rockwell Automation CISO, to discuss CxO professional development.