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Have you ever wondered why cyber attacks are not all equal? Why some of the most significant data breaches in history didn't lead to your personal information being sold on the dark web? When Data Breaches Are Really Espionage? Why did the stolen data from breaches like Anthem, Starwood/Marriott, OPM, and Equifax vanish into the ether, while other breaches see data auctioned off to the highest bidder? Let's delve into these mysteries, each a tale of intrigue and unseen adversaries.Send us a textGrow without Interruption. Stop Breaches. Leverage Advances in Technology with NetGain. Contact NetGain today at 844-777-6278 or reach out online at www.NETGAINIT.com

This week Choice Hotels publicly offered to acquire Wyndham Hotels & Resorts following months of private discussions between the two companies. This was pretty exciting in itself, with the last major M&A deal in the hotel industry being the Starwood-Marriott merger in 2015. However, later that day, more news broke that Wyndham had rejected Choice's offer and saw its stock being halted on the NYSE. All of this drama had Skift's team asking: Are we covering Twitter here or the relatively stable hotel industry? In this episode Pranavi Agarwal, senior analyst at Skift Research, Skift senior hospitality editor, Sean O'Neill, and Alan Woinski, editor of the Daily Lodging Report, talk us through the details of the deal, what might be motivating each side's actions, and what the story tells us about the current state of the hospitality landscape.

Show Notes: Early travel memory to a classic baseball stadium (8:51) The curiosity that led him to the real estate industry and to Marriott Hotels (15:45) Peter's philosophy around creating a community through travel (22:10) Learning to travel in an RV during the pandemic (34:30) Handling the Starwood/Marriott merger (40:26) Struggles and successes with updating the group's Rewards Program (47:30) What Does Travel Mean to You (54:38) Speed Round (55:40)   Peter B. Cole; Founder, Eclectic Companies Peter was born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin.  Yet, he didn't really appreciate the “Midwestern Nice”, until he moved to the East Coast, went for a run and said good morning to everyone in Central Park, only to be looked at like a crazy person. Peter is a lifelong hospitality veteran, whose eclectic sense of curiosity has led him to distinct leadership positions.  He started his career at Marriott in the world of finance supporting the company's M&A efforts.  His financial skills allowed him to experience various sides of the hospitality business from hotel development through operations to corporate office. Peter gained a deep understanding of the luxury industry and international operations during his time as the CFO of The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company.  Later, his knowledge and wealth of expertise enabled him to successfully lead the Marriott/Starwood integration as Managing Director.  During this time he oversaw a wide array of activities, including hotel operations, organizational design, talent management, loyalty programs, system integration, financial management, and unit growth. Most recently, Peter was the CEO of Design Hotels, a highly curated portfolio of independent, design-driven hotels that function as social hubs and spaces for purposeful experiences.  This time helped Peter deepen his belief in the power of working through a community and of curating experiences.  Under his leadership the company launched Further, a laboratory for collaborative culture, and won a Skift Innovation award for its original Virtual Retreats. Through these experiences Peter saw an opportunity to help forward-thinking entrepreneurs capture emerging trends by leveraging his background and expertise.  Consequently, he formed the Eclectic Companies. Peter is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds an MBA from the University of Maryland.  He is an avid swimmer and cyclist, and he loves to travel and explore new places.  He enjoys a strong espresso, a good glass of wine or a neat pour of bourbon while listening to an eclectic collection of music.

Ragan began her sales career in 2005 with Four Seasons Hotel & Resorts. She then worked for the legendary Little Nell Hotel in Aspen Colorado where she helped produce nationally recognized events like the Food & Wine Festival as well as the X Games.     Ragan returned to Four Seasons in corporate sales where she covered multiple geographic territories, developed training programs for new hires, and was part of a transition team that assisted in rebranding new hotels added to the Four Seasons portfolio. In 2016, Marriott hired Ragan as the Director of Sales at the Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale Arizona due to her luxury background. She led the department of thirteen through not only the Starwood/Marriott merger, but also through a complete, two year, $120M renovation. Ragan now helps train sellers across all industries, and speaks about how to effectively navigate the corporate culture.   Contact Ragan:  Sales Stamina: A Five Step Process To Help You Sell Anything LinkedIn

Host Jeremy Cherny interviews Steve Moscarelli, Regional Sales Manager at Thales Cloud Security “I knew that the internet was going to be the future when I was in college. I had roommates working at the New Media Lab at MIT and they were involved in building a precursor to the internet for DARPA. I also saw very clearly that the internet was built with no security at all - which really propelled me into my career.” What are some of the things you read to stay on top of what's happening in the world of security? So I'd recommend that everybody pay close attention to Dark Reading. In many people's opinion, it is often considered the number one site for keeping up with the constantly changing threat landscape. There's the Phil Venables website, the Bruce Schneier website, Security Current, Security Weekly, Security Week, SANS, Brian Krebs’ website, the MIT Cybersecurity Review. If I was to rank these, I'd have to say, probably Dark Reading, krebsonsecurity, SANS, Security Current. And then there's a lot of specialties, there's Healthcare Information Security, there's Data Breach Today, Payment Security. There's a myriad of places that nobody has enough time to check - Threat Post. Cyber Scoop and HelpNet. However, I think most people look at Dark Reading as often as possible. You work with a lot of Fortune 500 companies. What do they do for security awareness training? They do try to trick their own employees sometimes. Having them open attachments or click on URLs from emails for them to learn from a safe source. They’re also certainly emphasizing multi-factor authentication and two factor authentication. At the end of the day, if you're doing anything financial, you want a phone call. I see people doing more things on Slack and on Teams, which is not going through the traditional mail filters and SMTP gateways. People are also shying away from email. People are getting more into channels that are not monitored as much with everybody working from home, which makes things now the Wild West. What do you see as the future of information security? We have to get away from passwords, and that's going to be very difficult to do. If you talk to some of the leaders out there, Bruce Schneier, and Winchmore, Tao and people at SANS like Lance Pfitzner, or perhaps Anton Tuvok I think that they all would like to find a way to get away from passwords. But that's a very, very difficult proposition. To do that third-party risk management is going to keep being a bigger and bigger thing. Every Tom, Dick and Harry is talking about the hack at SolarWinds right now. And SolarWinds is going to wake up a lot of companies to be very, very careful of their third party connections. It's obviously the way that a lot of companies are adversely impacted because they might not be paying attention as much as they should to who they're connected to. Like with the Target breach, that was their HVAC contractor. Starwood Marriott - they had the keys for their Oracle on the Oracle, they had the keys for VMware on their VMware. So the key for your VMware and the key for your Oracle are all on the same machine. So there were two people named in China that not only took the key for the VMware and the key for their Oracle, but they encrypted that data. So in the merger of Starwood and Marriott, there were situations where things fell through the cracks during a merger, and nobody was paying attention to the keys for their VMware and their Oracle. And, you know, obviously, with people going in an often haphazard manner to clouds, things happen, like at Capital One, I think most people know their s3 buckets were very leaky.

In today's episode of Money Tales, we talk with Louis Roden about his midwestern steel town values, to flirtations with bright shiny objects and back to the values that drive him. Louis is an honest storyteller and you will enjoy the tales he tells, including one about him buying a ridiculously expensive watch that he did not need, but was certain would become a treasured family heirloom. As you will hear, life unfolded a little differently than that… Louis has over 20 years of international Organizational Development, Human Capital and Brand Communication experience. His transformational roles include serving in leadership positions in government, global transportation and logistics, finance and technology. His most recent corporate role was with Starwood Hotels & Resorts as Director of Organizational Capability, responsible for Starwood's signature global leadership programs as well as the enterprise-wide team building and leadership retreat practice. In 2008, Louis founded Inspire Consulting Group, an international consultancy dedicated to practical, reality-based leadership development programs, brand development and communication strategies and exemplary service culture curriculums. ICG has worked with global hotel companies such as Wyndham, Starwood/Marriott, Hilton, Intercontinental and many other established and growing hospitality organizations. They have also worked with professional sports teams such as the Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, LA Lakers and others. Learn more about Money Tale$ > Subscribe to the podcast Recent episodes See all episodes > Form CRS Form ADV Terms of Use Privacy Rights and Policies

In today's episode of Money Tales, we talk with Louis Roden about his midwestern steel town values, to flirtations with bright shiny objects and back to the values that drive him. Louis is an honest storyteller and you will enjoy the tales he tells, including one about him buying a ridiculously expensive watch that he did not need, but was certain would become a treasured family heirloom. As you will hear, life unfolded a little differently than that… Louis has over 20 years of international Organizational Development, Human Capital and Brand Communication experience. His transformational roles include serving in leadership positions in government, global transportation and logistics, finance and technology. His most recent corporate role was with Starwood Hotels & Resorts as Director of Organizational Capability, responsible for Starwood's signature global leadership programs as well as the enterprise-wide team building and leadership retreat practice. In 2008, Louis founded Inspire Consulting Group, an international consultancy dedicated to practical, reality-based leadership development programs, brand development and communication strategies and exemplary service culture curriculums. ICG has worked with global hotel companies such as Wyndham, Starwood/Marriott, Hilton, Intercontinental and many other established and growing hospitality organizations. They have also worked with professional sports teams such as the Oakland Raiders, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, LA Lakers and others. See all episodes >

Would it surprise you that the average length of time a company has been breached before a cyber-attack or physical theft happens is 242 days. #JennyRadcliffe is the #PeopleHacker. Her company, #HumanFactorSecurity helps corporates mitigate the single biggest threat to your security. This weak point is responsible for 80-90% of breaches of security in corporates. £millions are spent each year on IT & physical security - firewalls, password access management, email security, identity badges, fingerprint scanners, security guards - yet each week we hear about attacks like those on #Starwood (#Marriott etc), #Visa, #MumsNet, #Facebook and #Aadhaar (1,000,000,000 records!!)   What is the chink in your armour? People. Common or garden human beings. Whether through malice, stupidity, carelessness, naivety or ignorance, your people are probably leaving you exposed. Jenny discusses how her clients employ her fascinating and very rare skillset of people hacking and explore the subject in the context of security, law enforcement, management, interviewing & recruitment, negotiation and sales. She teaches you a simple but powerful set of tactics to build trust and rapport quickly. These psychological tools can be used to open up even the hardest negotiator and toughest security. Jenny takes a deadly serious subject and makes it engaging, entertaining and eye opening. She uses real life examples to explain what human hacking is, how anyone can be deceived and how important it is to raise awareness in your business before someone does you lasting harm. Under new rules in Europe and the UK, you can be fined 4% of your global turnover or £25,000,000 for EVERY breach that is discovered. Security is not a box-ticking exercise. It can make the difference between survival as a business and career ruin for senior executives. It can mean sensitive strategic and financial information is stolen, competitive advantage lost or personal details of minors and medical records abused, criminal investigations compromised and governments toppled. "There are only 2 type of business. Those who've been hacked ... and those who don't know they've been hacked" - Jenny Radcliffe Contact Jenny on LinkedIn or via her website. She is a fantastically engaging speaker who will have your audience on the edge of their seats and raise awareness of how they need to think and behave differently to safeguard their data and your business 

On this week's Checklist by SecureMac:  A very convincing phishing scam… Trouble in the App Store walled garden… Following up on the Starwood/Marriott data breach…   It's the first Checklist of 2019! Don't forget to check out our show notes:  SecureMac.com/Checklist And get in touch with us like John did: Checklist@Securemac.com

Starwood / Marriott, Quora & “You’ve Been Scraped” Data Breaches; Australia’s Assistance & Access Bill; HIBP Birthday, Stickers & AMA; Sponsored by Gold Security https://www.troyhunt.com/weekly-update-116/

Rangeley Capital's Portfolio Managers, Chris DeMuth and Andrew Walker, wrap up the Starwood / Marriott drama and then discuss Tesla's Model 3. Finally, they discuss the best April Fool's jokes of this year, including Netflix, Opentable, and Google's, and then the impact of Tesla's epic Model W joke.

Rangeley Capital's Portfolio Managers, Chris DeMuth and Andrew Walker, talk about Anbang's attempt to break up the Starwood / Marriott marriage and then some potentially devastating news for MLP investors.