Bill Murphy's Redzone Podcast | World Class It Security

This week my guest is Capitan Tom Chaby. Tom has been an active duty US Navy SEAL for 26 years and was a task force commander of 400 men in Iraq and Afghanistan. Retired a few years ago, he now specializes in leadership performance optimization. Tom works with sports teams and corporations that are looking to learn from his experience and his circle of influence. In this interview, we discuss leadership and team culture from Navy SEAL’s perspective. What I find extraordinary about Tom is that most things we talk about are so transferable to you: leadership style, the way you lead and perform under pressure, and how to be a high performance leader. For those leaders in innovation, transformation, entrepreneurship and leadership of any sort, you will love my interview with Captain Tom Chaby. I hope you receive as much benefit and value from it as I did. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: 1. The importance of good mentors in leadership. 2. Leadership styles discussed building a team does not happen by acci

This week my guest is Ann Cavoukian, Distinguished Expert-in-Residence, leading Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence at Ryerson University. Ann and I talk about privacy, GDPR and the concept of privacy by design, which Ann created. Privacy by design was recognized by the International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners as an essential component of fundamental privacy protection and it is a core part of the European Union GDPR regulations. It is really interesting that GDPR is the next thing, from a privacy prospective, that is hitting security. I like GDPR, the privacy it promotes and freedom it will bring to the individual in a long run. It will ultimately force security to respect the individual right. Listen to the interview and learn more on how to win GDPR with Privacy by Design, Positive Sum Mindset and how to embed privacy and security in your operations. If you have any questions about preparing for GDPR or need help facilitating this process, email privacy@redzonetech.net Major Take-Aw

This week my guests are Mark Mandel and Francesc Campoy Flores who run the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Podcast. They produce a weekly podcast discussing everything on Google Cloud Platform that would benefit your business. As you look at alternatives like Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, you should also look at Google Cloud Platform. Our conversation is super techy, but very informative. Listen to the interview and learn more about Google Cloud Platform Major Take-Aways From This Episode: The GCP Podcast interviews Google product managers and engineers who answer questions from listeners. Google’s philosophy of Open Cloud is explained. Google App Engine and managed services explained. Kubernetes and Container Orchestration (Google Container Engine) at scale - @ 16:00 Google Cloud is open as it is the best place to run Open Source technologies. No vendor lock-in; minimizing all operations that are not a part of your business. The concept of “Lift and Shift”. “On Demand” managed services - Helping cust

My guest this week is James Crifasi, Vice President and CTO of RedZone Technologies. In this interview we discuss the importance of password security. Implementing a strong password policy and educating users is vital to your organization’s IT Security Immune System. Listen to the interview to learn about how to create a strong password in order to protect your company from hackers and fishing attacks Major Take-Aways From This Episode: • A lot of customer calls about hacks in reality are a lost password issue (because someone lost their password and someone else used it). • Password cracking systems use dictionaries that include not only a word dictionary, but also movie and book titles. • The main issues of easy-cracked passwords: habitual passwords and poor password policy. • Passwords that work best are phrases intermixed with numbers or symbols. • Two-factor authentication prevents someone from using your password against you. • Make your password interesting, not more complicated! Once malware star

This episode is sponsored by the CIO Innovation Insider Offense and Defense Community. My guest this week is Scott Berinato, author of Good Charts: The HBR Guide to Making Smarter, More Persuasive Data Visualizations, and Senior Editor at Harvard Business Review. In this interview we discuss bridging the world of data science and the art of data visualization. Scott and I focus on how we make good use of Data Visualization skills that I believe are critical for CIOs to have. Listen to the interview to learn more on how to be a better data visualization guy and methods of being a good data storyteller. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: Why to avoid “click+vis” The importance of incorporating prototyping, sketching, and charting your data visualizations The key to presenting data is not the data or the perfect design, it is the design thinking process Automatic output of data tools is not enough to convey your ideas How to overcome obstacles with conveying ideas + concepts; How to avoid being intimidated To

One of the A-caliber CIOs I know recently asked me this amazing question: 'Bill, do you realize how much it is costing me to secure my systems?'   I decided to ask this question during my interview with Raj Samani, Chief Scientist and McAfee Fellow at McAfee.  How DO YOU scale your security defenses when it is very difficult to get people to scale? In this week's interview Raj shares his passion for the Security Industry and his ways of diving deep into his craft. We talk about the power of learning and the need for an IT leader to be an articulate communicator. LIsten to Raj and I discuss how we can solve Enterprise Security challenges across the globe. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: Being Innovative does not mean we should ignore privacy or care. Power of choice and making a decision. Power of ongoing learning. The importance of developing communication skills. Key questions to ask about improving your skills for future: Are you willing to learn? Do you have aptitude + ability to learn? Do you have

My guest this week is David Cross and it is my second discussion with him. I loved talking to David when he was on the Microsoft side of the fence. Two years later, he is on the Google side of the fence as a Cloud Security Engineering Director, and I decided to bring him back on for another fun conversation. We discuss Google's on-premises Solutions, Data Custodian Model (SAP), the story behind BeyondCorp, Google's beta product called Identity-Aware Proxy and much more. Our conversation is a deep dive into IT Security and highly technical... Regardless of your title within IT Security realm, you will benefit from this conversation. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: Google’s beta product - Identity-Aware Proxy, BeyondCorp Model at Google and Anti-Phishing, Importance of two-factor authentication; U2F Security Keys, FIDO U2F Protocol, OAuth, YubiKeys – security keys for two-factor authentication, Gsuites - Gmail, Docs, Drive and Calendar for business, everything in one package, Building trust in cloud ser

My guest this week is Matthew Markus, co-founder and CEO of Pembient. We discuss digital biology, cellular agriculture, 3D printing, security of species, big visions, entrepreneurship and envisioning a world without wildlife poaching and the destruction of species. What does it take to disrupt the illegal trade of animals and envision a world that has an increasing population of rhinos? Pembient is leveraging advances in biotechnology to fabricate wildlife products, such as rhino horn and elephant ivory, at prices below the levels that induce poaching. Their goal is to replace the illegal wildlife trade, a $20B black market, and the fourth largest after drug, arms, and human trafficking, with sustainable commerce. About Matthew Markus Matthew is Co-founder and CEO of Pembient, a company biofabricating wildlife products. A serial entrepreneur, Matthew has 15 years of startup experience. His past ventures include PrivacyBank.com, an internet company that was acquired by InfoSpace (now NASDAQ: BCOR). Matthew’s

My guest this week is Seth Familian, who specializes in connecting powerful web-based tools and services to create highly customized marketing + analytics experiences for product and content marketing teams. He is the founder and principal of Familian&1, a visual insights and automation consultancy whose work has benefitted companies including Cisco, RingCentral, Adorama and Cloud9. Seth is also an avid educator with experience teaching over 800 students in 40+ workshops on Visual Design with Data, Working with Big Data, Digital Tools for Business and Affordable Web Design. He has lectured at General Assembly, Galvanize, Impact HUB SF, Presidio Graduate School, the Haas School of Business and KQED.  Seth received his MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business in 2007 and his BA from Harvard University in 2001. He is based in Boulder, CO and works from Galvanize Boulder. If you are a CIO, CMO, an entrepreneur, a CIO who is expected to also be a CMO or a CISO who wants to better present data…Regardless

My guest this week is Jeff Williams, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer at Contrast Security. The reason that I wanted Jeff on the program is that his technology was massively interesting to me, given that application attacks are the single biggest vector for security breaches. In 2017 There will be 111 billion new lines of code produced resulting in endless complexity. His product was an Innovation Sandbox Finalist at RSA this year. So I wanted to understand more. I have tried to integrate application level firewalls and experienced working through real & hard human challenges of coders and network security people trying to defend and deploy at the same time I wanted to understand his technology better AND because iterative application development is going to be even more important for companies for their security to move at the pace of the business innovation and applications development and testing becoming more and more iterative and agile. So how do we do this? Major Take-Aways From This Episode

My guest this week is the Greg Satell. Greg is a popular writer, speaker and innovation advisor, whose work has appeared in Harvard Business Review, and Forbes. I met Greg through the two gentlemen at Experian who have been on the show recently, Eric Haller, Executive Vice President of Experian’s DataLabs, and Barry Libenson, CIO of Experian. Birds of a feather flock together, as they say. As Greg and I were setting up the conversation, he just released his first book called Mapping Innovation: A Playbook for Navigating a disruptive age.   It was published in May of 2017. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: My conversation with Greg is a refreshing perspective on innovation largely because of his concept of an innovation matrix. This is a framework that he created to help companies frame problems so that they can find the approach that will most likely solve them. I love the concept of “looking for problems to solve” versus just generating ideas. I always appreciate the “mental judo” that innovative thinkin

My guest this week is Jim Linn, Managing Director of Information Technology of American Gas Association. In an association, this simply means he is the “top dog” with IT. What is fascinating about my guest today is that he built his own ISAC (information Sharing and Analysis Center) from scratch to service his industry - Natural Gas, which is part of the critical infrastructure of the US. He is the Executive Director for the Downstream Natural Gas Information Sharing and Analysis Center (DNG-ISAC). By Far Jim has the most industry certification I have ever seen: B.S. degree in Computer Systems Management from Drexel University and an M.B.A. from Drexel University He is a Certified Chief Information Security Officer Certified Information Systems Security Professional Certified Association Executive  Certified Information Systems Auditor. Jim is quiet spoken but as I talked with him the word WISDOM kept popping up for me. Lessons and wins for you as you listen are: Learn what an ISAC is and what it does. Wh

My guest this week is Barry Libenson, Global Chief Information Officer of Experian. During our interview Barry and I discuss what Experian is doing with innovation and his role in it.  Some of the big ideas we discuss: The shifts Barry sees of customers requiring access at the API layer to micro services so they can consume only what they want How to build a micro services environment for internal and external use How IoT is shifting what customers are asking for Taking costs and complexity out of the business Speeding up innovation Better experience for customers Agile performance to respond to organizational threats Smart Hubs The API Economy Tools for Microservices: Red Hat OpenShift, Pivotal Labs, Mirantis  The importance of portability and use of portable containers for Azure and AWS using Cassandra, PostgreSQL, or MySQL or one of the more portable container. About Barry Libenson:  Barry Libenson is Chief Information Officer (CIO), with responsibility for the design and delivery of Experian’s gl

My guest this week is the Global VP of IT of Seacret Direct, Stephanie Nelson. If you are a young IT Leader or the one that doesn’t want your clock cleaned by young talent, you need to listen to my conversation with Stephanie to see how someone, working with a rapidly growing worldwide company as a VP of IT, is executing. Major Take-Aways From This Episode:  Stephanie and I discuss how she has been able to achieve so much so young and we get into a lot of fun details and big ideas, such as: The importance of self- learning The importance of ‘White Boarding” your ideas Best lesson she learned about how to convey technical information to the business Lessons she has learned about working with the ‘C’ Suite, and the importance of being able to answer their question of ‘why’ How she uses questions in meetings How she has found mentors and how to find the best ones Innovation mindset, big egos, and how she solves this problem How to partner with business analysts to get things done CIO and CMO - M

My guest this week is the Global VP of IT of Seacret Direct, Stephanie Nelson. If you are a young IT Leader or the one that doesn’t want your clock cleaned by young talent, you need to listen to my conversation with Stephanie to see how someone, working with a rapidly growing worldwide company as a VP of IT, is executing. Major Take-Aways From This Episode:  Stephanie and I discuss how she has been able to achieve so much so young and we get into a lot of fun details and big ideas, such as: The importance of self- learning The importance of ‘White Boarding” your ideas Best lesson she learned about how to convey technical information to the business Lessons she has learned about working with the ‘C’ Suite, and the importance of being able to answer their question of ‘why’ How she uses questions in meetings How she has found mentors and how to find the best ones Innovation mindset, big egos, and how she solves this problem How to partner with business analysts to get things done CIO and CMO - M

My conversation with Bill Granger, CTO of Walker & Dunlop, continues down my path of exploring superpowers, skills, strategies and tactics that make top A+ Chief Information Officers succeed. As I reviewed the transcript of my conversation with Bill, I was reminded that as you progress in your career, the truly successful transition is from I/me success, to we/us, to helping others succeed. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: How to influence and lead positively as one of the core foundation skills The role of exercise for busy, successful leaders Paying attention to experimental and disruptive technologies The huge impact of finding a mentor and being a mentor The importance of continuous learning Unique project management skills I loved How to pitch solutions using strong financial literacy Fun story of the flea at 42:00 About Bill Granger: Bill Granger, chief technology officer, joined Walker & Dunlop in 2010. Mr. Granger is responsible for managing and expanding the company’s information technol

My guest for this episode is Bob Fecteau who is the CIO of SAIC. SAIC is a 15000 employee, $4.0 billion publicly-traded company. He is one of the four top people who travel to Wall Street to report on the company performance along with the CEO, CFO and COO. He signs off on the SOX control documents for his publicly traded company. From my perspective of working with and interviewing hundreds of CIOs, he is a visionary, and is one of the best in the profession. He is a giver who wants to elevate the whole profession and share his wisdom. I think every early, mid and late career CIO with gas in the tank will benefit from listening to Bob's perspective as it rang true for me. Here are the quick wins for you. I warn you that you will want to take notes on this one because as I read through the show notes I had a difficult time choosing which points to put in this list because there were so many. I encourage you to go to the show notes page at www.redzonetech.net to see the show transcript and see the links to ven

I am excited to share with you my conversation with Eric Haller as this is the first time I have had someone on the show that is in charge of a major innovation lab so our conversation will give you a window of visibility into several areas. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: Why he believes that “Ruthless Competency Wins”. Innovation is more powerful when linked to a higher purpose. Managing an innovation portfolio and the development of the Intellectual property comes out of these efforts. The organizational structure he reports to. The culture of Experian from the types of people Eric hires as well as the culture of the Experian business as it supports the development efforts of the Innovation Lab. LDA – Machine Learning Techniques. Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Unsupervised and supervised Machine Learning. Unsupervised is based on recognizing patterns. Supervised – modelling known outcomes. About Eric Haller Eric Haller is the Executive Vice President of Experian DataLabs. Experian DataLabs is respon

This episode is sponsored by the CIO Scoreboard My guest for this episode is Lisa Kay Solomon. If you are into Design Thinking, expanding you leadership skills, innovation, want to learn how to be agile, flexible, nimble and execute both personally and collaboratively with your teams as an IT Business leader, this conversation is for you. The reason that I asked Lisa onto the show is that she is one of the foremost experts in Design Thinking. We discuss: Why the study of Design Thinking is so important moving forward? The importance of the unique human ability to tell stories. MBA is now called the “Masters in Business Ambiguity”. The definition of Design Thinking. How do you answer the question, "Is it just drawing pictures?" Resistance, Hero's Journey, Corporate Anti-bodies:How to generate ideas and protect yourself against naysayers. What is the definition of a strategic conversation? When is the last time you felt comfortable not knowing the answers? Leading with Curiosity. Best Question on All: If thin

My guest for this episode is Shola Oyewole, CIO of United Therapeutics. As a member of the Senior Executive Leadership of United Therapeutics Corporation, Shola provides technology, vision, and leadership in the development and implementation of the global information technology (IT) program. In that role he supports the Finance, HR, R&D, Manufacturing, Sales & Marketing, and various business units in planning and implementing enterprise information systems to support both distributed and centralized business operations, and achieve more effective and cost beneficial enterprise-wide IT operations. Additionally, Shola provides strategic and tactical planning, budget development, evaluation, and coordination of the information and technology systems for the corporation. He facilitates communication between staff, management, vendors, and other technology resources within (and outside) of the organization. Major Take-Aways From This Episode: 1. In our discussion we highlighted the importance of conti