teissTalk: Balancing endpoint security and productivity for your hybrid workforce

teissTalk host Jenny Radcliffe was joined by Chucks Ojeme, Global Chief Information Security and Compliance Officer, Brenntag; Tom Owen, Chief Information Security Officer, Grafana; and Brian Chappell, Chief Security Strategist, BeyondTrust.

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Hundreds of thousands of emails have been sent out from an FBI-operated server containing the header: “Urgent: threat actor in systems.” Recipients had no reason to doubt that the email was sent out by the US Department of Homeland Security. The hacker claimed to have carried out the hack “to point out a glaring vulnerability in the FBI’s system.” The FBI obviously didn’t get the info security basics right.

Vendors and a large section of the industry tend to focus on edgy, shiny cyber security tools and dismiss cyber essentials as boring. Whenever Brian is asked about how he envisages cyber security developments of the next year, his number one prediction is that “we’re not gonna get the basics right yet again.” We need a new approach: as long as security is an add-on, there will be incidents. Instead, we should bake security into the fabric of a business’s activity.