Category: Talks

  • Security Leadership

    Security Leadership

    This talk delves into the intersection between security–helping make wiser risk choices–and leadership–getting more done with a lower energy cost. It draws on the lessons of the Six Leadership Disciplines and Humans are Awesome at Risk Management talks, providing a handful of examples of specific leadership skills to practice. The 24 skills in the matrix…

  • 9 CISO Questions

    9 CISO Questions

    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…

  • An Inclusion MicroTalk

    An Inclusion MicroTalk

    This talk dives deeper on inclusion from the 6 Leadership Disciplines talk, analyzes the data in the blog post on Leading to Representation, and was part of a panel at Blackhat 2023. Transcript Good afternoon, folks. I’m sorry I’m not joining you in person today at Black Hat, but I figured you didn’t want me…

  • Hacking Harry Potter

    Hacking Harry Potter

    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…

  • Stop Destroying Value: Six Leadership Disciplines

    Stop Destroying Value: Six Leadership Disciplines

    Walk through all of the ways that poor leadership harms the value that team members produce, outlining six key disciplines that leaders need to practice.

  • Four Dimensions of Building a Security Program

    Four Dimensions of Building a Security Program

    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.

  • Defense Against the DDoS Arts

    Defense Against the DDoS Arts

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

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

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

  • Recognizing and Embracing a neurodiverse cybersecurity workforce

    Mobilematics, Inc. presents episode 1 of their #panelcast titled Recogniizing and Embracing a neurodiverse cybersecurity workforce – Why and How with esteemed panelists Diana Kelley, Andy Ellis and Ayesha Prakash hosted by Ashwin Krishnan.

  • 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.