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Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap (@geoffbelknap). Joining us is Dennis Pickett, vp, CISO, Westat.

In this episode:

• Not all education requires tests
• Understand your users
• Building reflexes
• An ounce of prevention

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All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Russell Spitler, CEO and co-founder, Nudge Security.

In this episode:

• Defining responsibilities
• Understanding the problem
• A different role for security
• Focus on the data

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All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.

Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our guest, Adam Arellano, vp, enterprise cybersecurity, PayPal.

In this episode:

• Accounting for mindset
• The importance of ethics
• A matter of incentives
• Understanding what is teachable

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, ThreatLocker

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