Here is a six-minute video from CISO Series Video Chat, “Hacking Self-Defending Data: An hour of critical thinking on how and when your data can intelligently protect itself.”
Our guest’s this week were:
- Elliot Lewis (@elliotdlewis), CEO of Keyavi Data
- Steve Zalewski, CISO, Levi Strauss.
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HUGE thanks to our sponsor Keyavi Data
Best Bad Ideas
Congrats to Mathew Biby, CISO, Satcom Direct for winning this week’s Best Bad Idea!
Other honorable mentions go to:
“All data is laser engraved onto small white balls. Security team plays Hungry Hippos to self-defend the data.” – Dutch Schwartz, principal security specialist, AWS
“Give the data a personality that determines if it likes the end-user based on their browser history.” – Craig Hurter, director security operations, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology
“Place your self-defending data in GitHub and then offer a ‘Lifelock’ commercial on YouTube saying ‘if you can get my data, you can have it.'” – Dutch Schwartz, principal security specialist, AWS
“Transfer all data onto punch cards, fold those into a massive paper airplane armada.” – Steve Tatem, senior IT director, information security, Aspen Dental Management, Inc.
Best Strategies
“Have a Data Protection Champion (preferably a business executive) leading the effort.” – Ron Woerner, CEO, president and chief cybersecurity consultant, Cyber-AAA
“Start a data automation project to build “smart data” that is self-classifying and protecting.” – Ron Woerner, CEO, president and chief cybersecurity consultant, Cyber-AAA
“Create a new layer for the OSI model that deals directly with data self awareness below the presentation layer.” – Craig Hurter, director security operations, Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology
Quotes from the chatroom
“One could argue that the move to MDM solutions was a variation of self defending data, meaning following the data to protect it.” – Mathew Biby, CISO, Satcom Direct