InSecurity 2020: The Best of the Worst Year EVAR, Fourth Quarter

This is not the end - it's just another song
It's only one opinion, right or wrong
Open up your heart - just one more time for me
Before we turn to face reality
Don't stop to think
This perfect chance may never come again
This is not the end

Let me use your ears - just for a little while
I've got to find a way to make you smile

This is not my fault, I'm not responsible
These tiny grooves can only take so much
There's only one more thing I have to say to you
So long for now, be sure to keep in touch
This is not the end

 

 -- Agent Orange; This Is Not the End, 1986

 

 

We did it… We finished the Worst Year EVAR! 4th Quarter 2020 seemed a fitting end for the wildest year on record. All year we spoke with the experts around the spectrum of security. From stopping stupid behavior among humans to securely developing applications to the role of insurance in pre and post breach events, we found the right people with the inside dope. We also stepped out of security into the notion of leadership, who is doing what in the world of international relations and how that can impact the security of our economy, elections and government. 2021 has to be better… right?

 

 

Ira Winkler: You CAN Stop Stupid Jillian Lappetito: Fearlessly Authentic Leadership in a Time of Fear and Fake News Stanton Gatewood and Jeffrey Smith: Is Cyber Insurance Really a Thing? John McClurg: Securing Our Democracy Ryan Chapman and John Wood: Anatomy of a Breach George Finney and Rich Thompson: The Effect Users’ Habits Have on Cybersecurity Mike Fraser: Can DevSecOps Really Be Radically Simple? Grace Chi and Dan Sherry: Is Open Source the Future of Security? Ted Harrington: You Need to Secure Your App… then PROVE It Alan Pentz: What is the Long Competition?

 

About Matt Stephenson

 

 

 

 

Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the Broadcast Media team at BlackBerry, which puts me in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. I am the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and video series at events around the globe.

 

I have spent the last 10 years in the world of Data Protection and Cybersecurity. Since 2016, I have been with Cylance (now BlackBerry) extolling the virtues of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and how, when applied to network security, can wrong-foot the bad guys. Prior to the COVID shutdown, I was on the road over 100 days a year doing live malware demonstrations for audiences from San Diego to DC to London to Abu Dhabi to Singapore to Sydney. One of the funniest things I've ever been a part of was blowing up a live instance of NotPetya 6 hours after the news broke... in Washington DC... directly across the street from FBI HQ... as soon as we activated it a parade of police cars with sirens blaring roared past the building we were in. I'm pretty they weren't there for us, but you never know...

 

Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, I get to interview interesting people doing interesting things all over the world of cybersecurity and the extended world of hacking. Sometimes, that means hacking elections or the coffee supply chain... other times that means social manipulation or the sovereign wealth fund of a national economy.

 

InSecurity is about talking with the people who build, manage or wreck the systems that we have put in place to make the world go round...

 

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