Best Moments from “Hacking User Access” – CISO Series Video Chat

Here are six minutes of the best moments from “Hacking User Access: An hour of critical thinking on managing initial and ongoing access to network and data”.

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Best Bad Ideas

A respectable 45 bad ideas were delivered in last week’s CISO Series Video Chat with brand new winner Kevin Hakanson, principal cloud solutions architect for OpsCompass taking top prize. Here are a few of the honorable mentions.

“‘Single’ sign-on. Sign in once and stay authenticated forever.” – Sam Small, CSO, ZeroFOX

“Hire a human authentication team and have all access requests be approved manually 24/7.” – Danielle Simon, director – channel, alliances, partnerships, CybelAngel

“Your MFA key is inside the Game of Operation. You have 5 seconds to extract it from the funny bone, else it resets.” – Dutch Schwartz, strategic lead, AWS Global Security Services Team, AWS

“You keep every privilege ever granted you, even from prior companies.” – Larry Rosen, manager, security architect, GBQ Partners

Best quotes from the chat room

“Even bad MFA can be better than none at all…Remember the SIM porting attacks are possible, but not something that my mother can do.” – Ian Poynter, consultant

“Jokes aside, as a Cyber Vendor , if you can let the user pay to “not do anything with security – purely “nothing” , you are RICH!” – Eli Migdal, CEO, Boardish

“In my experience achieving true SSO is unrealistic. The goal really is to reduce access accounts as much as possible, not necessary having ONE account.” – Carlos Rodriguez, director, IT security & risk, Citizens Property Insurance Corporation

David Spark
David Spark is the founder of CISO Series where he produces and co-hosts many of the shows. Spark is a veteran tech journalist having appeared in dozens of media outlets for almost three decades.