CISO Resources

  • How to CISO, Volume 1: The First 91 Days

    How to CISO, Volume 1: The First 91 Days

    Just want to download the eBook? Head over to How to CISO, Volume 1: The First 91 Days! It seems to be a rite of passage for all CISOs to, at some point in their career, write down their advice for other CISOs starting a new job, whether they are a first-time or veteran CISO.…

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Security Talks

  • Summary Everybody sells, right? Wrong. Unless you’re taking an order and retiring your quota, you don’t sell – instead, you market. If you’re selling to a CISO, you need to understand the organizational dynamics that surround a CISO’s decision-making process. This talk walks through nine critical questions that CISOs need to understand the answers to…


  • The Untold Story of Fantastical Social Engineering. Hidden inside the story of Harry Potter is a most subtle of social engineering attacks. Explore how J.K. Rowling hid the world’s greatest villain in plain sight. This talk explores the world of Harry Potter from a different angle: that of the villain. In this talk, given in…


  • How do you know what to invest in next, or whether the time and energy that you’re spending on a security technology or program is a good investment?  Learn how veteran CSOs think about security investments, and develop your own rubric for evaluating where to best make your next security improvement.


  • How do you design defenses against DDoS? And how do you think about them from a policy perspective?


  • How do humans make risk decisions, and are they good, bad, or something else?


  • How do the grand challenges of the future look like the grand challenges of the past?


  • What does a Zero Trust journey look like? Explore how we migrated Akamai to a zero trust network access model, before that was even a phrase people knew.



Security Panels

  • Lenovo Late Night I.T: Cybersecurity: Trust No One

    Join Baratunde Thurston, Tim Brown, and Andy Ellis as they demistify security.


  • Cyberweek 2021: Navigating the CISO-Vendor relationship

    The panel discusses the do’s and don’ts of engagements between CSOs and early-stage startups, the concerns around long integration cycles, the value in quick implementations, and the need to show value quickly.


  • Cyberweek 2021: YL Ventures & Scale Fireside Chat

    YL Ventures and Scale Venture Partners hosted a Cyber Week 2021 Fireside chat where Wendy Nather, Sounil Yu, Ryan Gurney, and Ariel Tseitlin discussed the cyber industry challenges and trends. They talked about the burning challenges and the basics that CSOs are still struggling with, and how ransomware attacks undermine our ability to recover. Other…



Security Blog


Security Podcasts

  • Cloud Security Reinvented: Andy Steingruebl
    Cloud Security Reinvented: Andy Steingruebl

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/5vf7duS2OlrUUqjARONtMb When someone says Pinterest, the first thing that comes to mind is a social platform and a place to seek inspiration. But for the people working behind the scenes, it’s more than that. In February 2021, Pinterest had 459 million active monthly users. That’s a lot of data and traffic, and security measures must…

  • Cloud Security Reinvented: Justin Somaini
    Cloud Security Reinvented: Justin Somaini

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/0SidaJEUzBGCyy8yKVtq1E Security and privacy are burning topics in the cloud era. But not many companies have professionals dealing with these issues. Therefore, it’s critical to make the topic of cybersecurity more accessible to business owners and board members. In this episode of Cloud Security Reinvented, we get to hear from Justin Somaini, the Chief Security…

  • Cloud Security Reinvented: Nick Vigier
    Cloud Security Reinvented: Nick Vigier

    https://open.spotify.com/episode/6c3omCDomJUBH3xWEwAx1J Episode Summary Cloud security looks a lot different to an outside observer than to an insider. And everyone thinks that some companies are further along in their cloud maturity journey than they really are. But there’s still a lot of work to be done regarding cybersecurity, so organizations should focus more on becoming cloud-native…