Radio interview on WWJ-AM

As CISOs make plans to secure operating budgets for the new financial year, they face the age-old challenge of convincing stakeholders, who often see cybersecurity and privacy as a cost center, to invest in this area. It’s time to change the narrative. Discover how to drive more productive conversations about cybersecurity as a strategic growth enabler. Take home actionable ideas for proactively managing controls and risks, increasing efficiency and reducing costs.

Learning Objectives:

Apply techniques and strategies needed to shift the perception of cybersecurity and privacy from cost centers to strategic growth enablers within the organization.

Employ methods for applying proactive control management and risk mitigation methods to enhance an organization’s cybersecurity posture and minimize potential threats.

Identify opportunities for efficiency gains and cost reductions in cybersecurity initiatives, in order to make impactful budgetary decisions for the coming year.

Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof and IEEE Senior Member, noted that the use of generative AI models in business hinges on their ability to provide accurate information. He cited as examples studies of AI models’ abilities to extract information from documents used for financial sector regulation that are frequently relied on to make investment decisions.

“Right now, the best AI models get 80 percent of the questions right,” McGladrey said. “They hallucinate the other 20 percent of the time. That’s not a good sign if you think you are making investment decisions based on artificial intelligence telling you this is a great strategy four out of five times.”

What a delightful surprise! I was nominated and won one of the three “Top Cyber Pro” awards for 2020.

“The absolute best thing is getting up every day and knowing that you’re making a difference, and knowing that your actions are going to help people.”

Presented by

Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO – Hyperproof | Charity Otwell, Director, Critical Security Controls – CIS

Dec 05 2023, 11:00am PST

CIS Critical Security controls are a prescriptive, prioritized, and simplified set of best practices that can strengthen your cybersecurity posture. The CIS Controls include foundational security measures that you can use to achieve essential hygiene and protect yourself against a cyber attack. Are you curious whether CIS Critical Security Controls is the right choice for your organization? Or are you currently using CIS Critical Security Controls and wondering how to maximize your experience? Join Charity Otwell, Director at Critical Security Controls – CIS, and Kayne McGladrey, Field CISO at Hyperproof, to discuss areas of focus for CIS controls and how they can best apply to organizational security.

Participants will:

– Learn the basic foundation of CIS Controls

– Understand how to assess applicability for their organization

– Learn how to adopt best practices around CIS Controls

– Learn the upcoming changes that will be made to the CIS Controls