The Monica Talks Cyber Show

In this episode Monica Verma talks with Deidre Diamond, CEO and Founder, CyberSN, aboutcareer challenges cyber security talent face in our industryimportance of succession planing and retentionand what can we do about it to help both young talent and professionals in our industry, as well as to build a business that’s not only successful but also cost effective. Looking to become an influential and effective security leader? Don't know where to start or how to go about it? Follow Monica ...

In this episode Monica Verma talks with Lars Eirik Berg, CSO and CISO, DNB, about1. a business leader’s perspective on cybersecurity, threats and risks2. is security really just about securing or does it serve a bigger purpose and3. how to approach security, risk and crisis management to help businesses and society They talk about COVID-19, pandemic, deep fakes, phishing, data breaches and more.This episode is for every security leader, business leader, risk management leader and a...

Monica Verma in conversation with Lance Spitzner, Director at SANS Security Awareness, on top human risks, key questions leadership should be asking, and key behaviors we need in order to secure and manage those human risks. You can only make so many behavioral changes. In this episode, we talk about how to focus and prioritize, what strategies to use and how to understand the psychology behind a successful security awareness program. Looking to become an influential and effective securi...

We have talked in the previous episodes that 100% security doesn’t exist. But what about traceability? How do you know what digital footprint do you have out there? Can you manage, protect and “truly” delete all or even a part of it? Once you are online, your existence and your data is out there.You are a target, even when you don’t believe so and your data is valuable, even when you don’t care about it. In this episode, Per Thorsheim and I talk about the myths around digital identities ...

Join CISOs and Ethical Hackers, Chris Roberts and Monica Verma, on the latest episode of We Talk Cyber as they talk aboutthe era of cyborg the security risks, ethics and the privacy implicationsdata security and awareness around augmentation, artificial intelligence and more.Looking to become an influential and effective security leader? Don't know where to start or how to go about it? Follow Monica Verma (LinkedIn) and Monica Talks Cyber (Youtube) for more content on cybersecurity, tech...

This episode of We Talk Cyber is dedicated to HACKER to HACKER conversation.In this episode, Chris Dale from River Security talks with Monica Verma about1. upstream thinking to security2. high-value pen-testing & the psychology behind it3. the threat landscape & its global consequencesLooking to become an influential and effective security leader? Don't know where to start or how to go about it? Follow Monica Verma (LinkedIn) and Monica Talks Cyber (Youtube) for more content on cybers...

In this episode Chris Kiønig from Watchcom talks with Monica Verma about the EU standard and framework called TIBER - Threat Intelligence Based Ethical Red Teaming. - What's the goal and purpose of the framework?- How to implement and build resilience and ensure financial stability during external events such as cyber attacks?- What's are the challenges, for example with regards to budgets, real attack simulations, GDPR, etc?If you are in financial sector or any other sector that i...

In this episode, Monica Verma talks with Carsten Maartmann-Moe, CEO, Transcendent Group, about hacking, the big bang of the internet, connected devices, Internet of Things and emerging technologies. They talk about the evolution and the threat landscape, risks and consequences of both legacy and emerging tech, the ethics behind it, use of data and more.Looking to become an influential and effective security leader? Don't know where to start or how to go about it? Follow Monica Verma (Lin...

“By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.” Eliezer YudkowskyIn this episode, Monica Verma talks with our guest Eirik Gulbrandsen from the Norwegian Data Protection Authority, about Artificial Intelligence, demystifying its possibilities and perils, use cases and challenges, and what it could mean for cybersecurity, privacy and society.Looking to become an influential and effective security leader? Don't know where to sta...

In one corner we have privacy. On a very fundamental level, privacy is a basic human right recognized in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Even though it's not yet a human right in every constitution globally, we have seen regulations like GDPR and CCPA come into place in the last years. We have also had discussions on this in the US congress, EU parliament and in the world in the wake of Cambridge Analytica scandal.In the other corner lies security. Under the umbrella of security, l...

In this episode of We Talk Cyber with Monica, we talk with Bjorn R. Watne, CISO, Storebrand on - threat landscape over last decade and amidst pandemic- how to build robustness, visibility and detection amidst increasing digitalization - how do you know you are doing enough? Need for security leaders at the executive levels is vital to understand and manage cyber threats and risks in today’s landscape. As Bjorn Watne says it: “With Covid19 pandemic and everyone working from...

The goals of security isn’t confidentiality, integrity and availability but to understand, support and enable organization’s goals and mission. Business acumen, leadership and communication play a vital role in that. Security is not an IT problem but everyone’s responsibility. In this episode, we turn the tables and talk to a business leader on his role and involvement in security as well as expectation of and support for security leaders. Monica Verma talks with Christoffer Hernæs on di...

Here we are with the season finale and an absolutely engaging topic for you - Robotics vs. Security.On the season finale, Monica talks with Mark Folmer, VP Security and Industry, Robotic Assistance Devices, on the robotics industry, the state of security within the robotics industry, Industry 4.0, augmentation, challenges, risks and implications, opportunities it brings with itself and more.Looking to become an influential and effective security leader? Don't know where to start or how to go ...

Monica Verma talks with Anton Chuvakin, Head of Solutions Strategy at Google and former Research Director at Gartner. It this episode they talk about some of the security issues with cloud, especially with regards to cloud migration. Can we trust cloud less to trust more? What are some of the key paradoxes when it comes to cloud breaches and how can we increase accountability when it comes to cloud breaches? How do we help organizations and security leaders shift to a cloud securit...

In today’s episode Monica Verma talks with an industry leader and a technology lawyer. Yup, hard to find those combinations. Monica sits down and talks to Jan Sandtrø, who is a renowned legal expert and has been working with technology, privacy and their intersections for more than two decades. In this episodes engaging conversations, they coveringWhat is Schrems I, Schrems II, and how did they came to be? Why are business within Europe in this whole data transfer limbo with American com...