This month we're joined by Mike Melo, CISO of Ontario’s Life Labs, for a Q&A about his CISO role, what keeps him up at night and the pitfalls of trying to achieve cyber-resilience. If you’re interested in having a sneak peek into the daily life of a CISO, you won’t want to miss this interview.

Hot Topics segment includes: Utilities getting attacked (again!), is quantum computing threatening Bitcoin, vulnerable API headaches and we will see if collaboration is achievable in the face of rising cyberthreats.

Sources:

Topic 1: Jason #1

Article title: Vulnerable APIs and Bot Attacks Costing Businesses Up to $186 Billion Annually

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/vulnerable-apis-and-bot-attacks-costing.html

Topic 2: Bill #1

Article title: America's largest water utility hit by cyberattack at time of rising threats against U.S. infrastructure

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/10/08/american-water-largest-us-water-utility-cyberattack.html

Topic 3: Jason #2

Article title: Chinese researchers crack military-grade encryption: is bitcoin safe?

Source: https://cybernews.com/crypto/quantum-crack-military-grade-encryption-bitcoin-danger/

Topic 4: Bill #2

Article title: Escalating Cyber Threats Demand Stronger Global Defense and Cooperation

Source: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/10/15/escalating-cyber-threats-demand-stronger-global-defense-and-cooperation/

This month we welcome guest and sponsor Lisa Jones-Huff of Elastic to chat about this month’s biggest cyber headlines with our panelists Marco Estrela, Patrick Naoum, Bill Strub and Jason Williams.

Hot Topics:

Topic 1: Jason

Article title: Microsoft summit plots end of kernel access for EDR security clients

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3523753/microsoft-summit-plots-end-of-kernel-access-for-edr-security-clients.html

Topic 2: Patrick

Article title: Mastercard acquires Recorded Future: How will threat intelligence transform the payments industry?

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3518765/mastercard-acquires-recorded-future-how-will-threat-intelligence-transform-the-payments-industry.html

Topic 3: Bill

Article title: TfL directs 30,000 employees to verify identities and reset passwords after data breach

Source: https://www.techmonitor.ai/news/:~:text=Transport%20for%20London%20(TfL)%20has%20directed%20all%20employees,measures%20to%20secure%20the%20organisation%E2%80%99s%20systems%20and%20data.

Topic 4: Lisa

Article title: N/A – Lisa wants to talk about “all the acquisitions and mergers in the SIEM|Analytics space, will the Platform Story drive more organizations to consider consolidating their spending and move away from purchasing best of breed solutions?”

Source: N/A

Extras: 3000 pagers kill several and injuring thousands in Lebanon; Spotlight from Lisa Jones-Huff on how AI is impacting the way cybersecurity analysts do their jobs

Back from our summer hiatus, we have a brand new episode of Behind the Shield! This month we’ve brought back one of our favorite special guests, Chris Vincent, to chat about this month’s biggest cyber headlines with our panelists Marco Estrela, Patrick Naoum, Bill Strub and Jason Williams.

Hot Topics: CrowdStrike’s global blue screen of death debacle, splitting the CISO role, Oracle’s NetSuite woes and, the largest password leak of all time?!?