Here is a six minute highlights video from last week’s CISO Series Video Chat: “Hacking Systemic Risk: An hour of critical thinking around the inherent risk in running a digital business”.
Our guests this week were:
- Mike Wilkes (@eclectiqus), CISO, SecurityScorecard
- Krista Arndt, deputy CISO, Customers Bankl
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Best Bad Idea
Congrats to Ian Poynter, information security consultant for winning this week’s Best Bad Idea.
Other honorable mentions go to:
“When presented with risk, follow the Rules of Improv and AGREE then say ‘YES AND’ to assume even more risk.” – Kevin Hakanson, principal cloud solutions architect, OpsCompass
“Buy every single vendor’s solution to ‘index’ your risk like an index fund so you’re not over exposed to any single vendor.” – Bryan William Solari, regional sales manager, AppOmni
“Make sure your Chief Risk Officer has anterograde amnesia and can then claim they don’t recall accepting it.” – Kevin Hakanson, principal cloud solutions architect, OpsCompass
“Privatize all infrastructure to non-publicly traded companies so they don’t have to disclose any risk they may ever discover.” – Carlota Sage, CEO, Tulle Software Services
“Define ‘too big to fail’ by the number of interns at a company.” – Ian Poynter, information security consultant
Best quotes from the chatroom
“If you’re “too big to fail” because of the dramatic impact to the company and are in danger of failing because of malfeasance, then when the government comes in to bail you out, they should also take control of the company” – Andrew Aken, zero trust lead technical architect, Twitter
“confidence = if you ask a person if they are going to win, they say yes. egotistical = unasked, telling everyone you are going win” – Dutch Schwartz,
principal security specialist, AWS
“I think we in the industry need to work out how to present what appears to be failure as actually learning (and success).” – Ian Poynter, information security consultant
“Hubris is the opposite of confidence. Behind all hubris is insecurity” – Bryan William Solari, regional sales manager, AppOmni
“I feel like recency bias comes into place with risk, people think recent events are likely to happen again.” – Kevin Hakanson, principal cloud solutions architect, OpsCompass