Special Guest Michael Chaoui | Drafting Compliance Ep. 24

McGladrey advocated for “persistent engagement” with employees on cybersecurity risks as well as testing. Testing can include fake phishing attacks to see what “your users are susceptible to,” he said. The IRS has warned that phishing attacks are a top HR threat.

“This is a journey, not a one-and-done conversation,” he says. Make a habit of checking in with kids about what they saw on the internet that day, what they thought about it, and if they thought it was safe or not, and why. And you can’t outsource your parenting to a computer, so McGladrey cautions parents not to solely rely on controls and monitoring programs.

“As a result, those companies with solutions and products in the cybersecurity industry are heavily reinvesting their profits into research and development of artificial intelligence-based solutions intended to automatically detect and remediate actions from these increasingly well-funded adversaries,” McGladrey tells Fortune. “This cycle will continue so long as it remains profitable for cybercrime actors, barring remarkable changes in how companies prioritize and address their cyber risks.”

Featured Presentation: “Best practices for cyber security training programs” by Kayne McGladrey, CISSP Employees dread the meeting invitation that reads ‘Annual mandatory cyber security training in the break room at 1 PM Wednesday’. In this presentation, we’ll discuss best practices for creating a reality-based training program that encourages employee participation and builds organizational muscle memory for responding to active threats.

For some organizations CCPA will require a total overhaul on their privacy policies, while others might only need to make minor changes due to existing GDPR compliance. But as Kayne McGladrey, Chief Information Security Officer at Pensar Development, pointed out, there will certainly be another round of endless privacy disclosure emails.

“In this episode, we’re talking with Kayne McGladrey about cybersecurity, cyberterrorism and how to defend against these attacks at the personal, corporate, and national levels. I’ve been working on research for my next book and I knew that I had to talk to him to see what we could do to defend against this new and pernicious form of war.”