We “Value” Your Privacy: Digital Consent with J Wolfgang Goerlich + Midori
Zero trust offers organizations an approach that can help to significantly improve security posture and help to minimize risk. But what would happen if, let’s say, an organization had fully implemented zero trust and yet at some point several years into the future had a breach? What would be the likely reasons?
Excerpt from: How a pre-mortem can tell you what’s wrong with Zero Trust
“Our out of scope is in scope for adversaries,” Goerlich said.
“Whenever a control reaches critical mass, the control will be bypassed,” he said. “Another way of saying that is all a better mousetrap does is breed better mice.”
He suggests that organizations deploying zero trust today, look at their roadmaps and make sure they have plans to sustain support, interest and engagement for years to come. Goerlich also recommends that zero trust implementers shore up out-of-scope areas to help reduce the attack surface.
Read the full article: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/analysis/how-a-pre-mortem-can-tell-you-whats-wrong-with-zero-trust/2023/04/
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Tanya Janca invited me onto her We Hack Purple Podcast to discuss vulnerabilities beyond code. Along the way, we cover behavior economics and the importance of empathy in cybersecurity design. “Kindness is the original security principle” makes an appearance, as we talk about how all this and more applies to building better products.
Our conversation was sponsored by the Diana Initiative, a conference committed to helping all those underrepresented in Information Security.
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Suppliers who need to achieve Level 1, the most basic certification, may forgo seeking outside help and perform initial and annual assessments themselves.
Excerpt from: Navigating Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 2.0
“Suppliers with strong confidence in their audit and compliance teams, and suppliers with sufficient staffing, are ideally positioned should they decide to achieve Level 1 without external support,” added Wolfgang Goerlich, advisory chief information security officer, Cisco Secure, the portfolio of security products offered by San Francisco-based Cisco. “Such internal compliance initiatives can move quicker than bringing in a third-party when the people on the team have the relationships and understanding of how the practices are performed.”
The approach Goerlich describes may save money, but it won’t provide external validation and new perspectives.
“Achieving Level 1 with an internal project team answers the question, ‘What are we doing?’ but cannot answer the questions, ‘What are others doing, and what should we be doing?’” Goerlich said.
Read the full article: https://www.sme.org/technologies/articles/2023/february/navigating-cybersecurity-maturity-model-certification-cmmc-2.0/
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Ten years ago, I was the first guest on IT in the D podcast. (I won’t go back and listen. It’s like looking at photos of yourself in high school.) I was there to promote the BSides Detroit conference. Now that I’m doing another conference this year, they invited me back to talk about what’s changed in ten years. Take a listen.
IT Security Then and Now, Securing Relationships with Wolfgang Goerlich, Cybersecurity Strategist. This week we met with Wolfgang Goerlich. Not only is he a well respected CISO, he was our guest on Episode 1 (and episode 112). We had fun catching up, talking about security then vs. now, changes in philosophy, and mocked marketing jargon for commonly used tech. We ended by talking about Securing Sexuality, his conference and podcast, prompted by his wife, who is a relationship and sexuality therapist.
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I participated in a Satellite Media Tour to share cybersecurity resolutions for consumers to keep in mind heading into 2023. Resolve to secure your accounts, resolve to protect your toys and tech, and resolve to protect your privacy. These interviews saw more than 300+ airings, including Washington, D.C.’s WJLA, Jackson, Tennessee’s WBBJ-TV, Tampa Bay, Florida’s WFTS, Jacksonville, Florida’s WTLV-TV, Austin, Texas’ KEYE. Here’s the one from South Florida’s WSFL-TV, to give a flavor of the conversation.
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Identity and access management solutions continue a hot streak for their capacity to improve operations.
Excerpt from: Tech Trends: Governments Express High Interest in IAM
At the Virginia Department of Transportation, a ransomware hack targeting the state’s traffic management system made it clear that it was time to beef up VPN security. For the state of Illinois, the issue was siloed technology operations within agencies that made it difficult for employees and residents to access tools and services.
The challenge for the city and county of Denver was what the government’s chief data officer described as multifactor authentication “sprawl.”
While each organization had to deal with its own problems, their IT teams all came to the same conclusion: They had to do better with identity and access management.
“I’ve never seen so much interest in this topic,” says Wolfgang Goerlich, Cisco’s advisory CISO for Duo, an identity and access management platform that both Denver and VDOT now rely on for protection from cyberthreats. “The big picture is that zero trust has become a mandate at multiple levels, and agencies are turning to identity and access management as one of the quickest paths to success.”
Read the full article: https://statetechmagazine.com/article/2022/12/tech-trends-governments-express-high-interest-iam
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“Wolf joins us to talk about some security things that will stretch your mind, like security beyond vulnerabilities, how apps intended functionality can be misused, data privacy, and nudges and behavior science. Wolf challenged my thinking in this episode and pointed out a new area of threat modeling I had never considered. We hope you enjoy this conversation with… J. Wolfgang Goerlich.”
Have a listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZe0Sp9JU3s
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From it’s origins as outlaw entertainment to its modern iteration as a somewhat old fashioned family-friendly activity, join Stef and Wolf at the Seattle Pinball Museum as they discuss what lessons we can learn about life, love, and lust from a decades old game.
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I’m on the Imposter Syndrome Network with Zoe Rose and Chris Grundemann this week. I’m emphasizing trust and relationships in the imposter syndrome conversation. “If they trust you, you can have a degree of freedom to interact, explore, to get it right. But if they don’t, it doesn’t matter how good you are. They are going to doubt you.”
I also cover my imposter syndrome coaching framework: good imposter syndrome, bad imposter syndrome, and systemic imposter syndrome. The good is where you’re feeling the pressure to up your game, where you’re in a room with many brilliant people. The bad is where you let imposter syndrome prevent you from taking opportunities and when it gets in the way of you going into that room. Finally, there is the systemic challenges where the reason you feel like an imposter is because the culture, the people in the room, are actively making you feel like you don’t belong.
“It’s intrinsic, as leaders, to help people move towards good imposter syndrome and recognize and address systemic. If everyone on your team is being a jerk to a few coworkers, doesn’t matter how much you can tell them ‘be confident, you’re okay, you belong here.’ They’re not going to feel it, and it’s really on you as the manager to address that.”
This is my advice to leaders helping people through imposter syndrome. Understand which of the three — good, bad, systemic — and act accordingly. There is always a reason someone is feeling the way they do, and if it’s systemic, it’s on us to address it.
Have a listen here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2016832/11567691
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