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Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 005 Chad Skipper, VP of Competitive Intelligence and Product Testing at Cylance, is my guest for this episode of the Inner Circle podcast. We talk about the importance of anti-malware testing, and how and why you should do the testing yourself. Does your anti-malware solution work? If you are looking at the available options and trying to choose a new anti-malware tool, how can you effectively determine which one is best? You can review information and product specs

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 004 My guest on the Inner Circle podcast this week is Cesar Cerrudo, CTO of IOActive. Our topic revolves around ransomware--but with a twist that involves robots. I think we can all agree that ransomware is annoying. When it comes to the standard ransomware business model of encrypting data and holding it hostage, though, there's a simple solution. As long as you have current backups of your data, you can simply ignore the ransomware demand and restore your unencrypted

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 003 Brandon Board, Senior Director of Corporate Security, IT Compliance and Audit at Alert Logic, is my guest for the Inner Circle podcast this week. Alert Logic is a security company and helps customers achieve and maintain compliance with various regulations and frameworks. First and foremost, though, Alert Logic is itself a company--which means it must also comply with those same mandates. I thought it would be interesting to chat with Brandon about the issues and

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 002 In this episode of the Inner Circle podcast, my guest is Christer Edwards from Adobe Security, Christer is a developer and a member of the team that developed HubbleStack--an open source security compliance tool. Christer and I discuss the origin of HubbleStack and why they decided to create it in the first place. We also talk about what it does, why they chose to make it an open source project, and what the future might hold for HubbleStack. This is only the

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 001 Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new Inner Circle podcast. We wanted to find a way to simultaneously spotlight interesting products and knowledgeable experts, while also providing additional value for the TechSpective audience--so the Inner Circle podcast was born. Each week we will invite a guest or guests to join us to chat. We might talk about breaking news from the tech world in general, or products and research, or upcoming events. We might just talk

Prevention is always better than a cure. With IT environments continuing to become more and more complex, even the most sophisticated cyber security teams find it hard to fully prepare, and they constantly need tools at their disposal to strengthen their security postures. Simulation software, while helpful, often doesn’t cut it in reproducing real-world environments and their vulnerabilities. That’s why more enterprises, service providers and defense agencies alike are building cyber ranges that