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Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole

The biggest threat to you and this country today is a cyber attack. Are you protected? Find out now with Dr. Eric Cole, former special agent for the CIA and current CEO of Secure Anchor.

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31:27

How to Communicate Cybersecurity Threats to Executives

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/08/13

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole explains that a CISO must communicate what the top threats are, how to deal with them, and what are the costs and risks. A CISO’s job is not to try to fix every single problem. It’s up to the CISO to explain what the top threats are, and that other threats exist, but aren’t a top priority. Listen to this episode to learn how to communicate with your executives that cybersecurity is never “fixed,” but the CISO is on top of things.

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19:28

Mental Exercises to Make You a World-Class CISO

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/08/05

This week on Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole explains how to become a world class CISO by exercising your brain. Being a world-class CISO is much less about technical knowledge and much more about problem solving and out-of-the-box thinking to solve problems that can’t be found in technical manuals. Listen to this episode to learn how exercising your brain can help you become a world-class CISO.

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34:09

The Coming Cyber Crisis

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/07/29

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole continues his assessment of the cyber crisis that is already happening. Cyber attacks are no longer about lone attackers wanting to prove some kind of point or cause random mayhem, they calculate risk/reward just like any other organization, and go after the targets most likely to be vulnerable to attack and pay the largest amount of money. Learn how organizations can defend themselves against different types of attacks, and keep their data more

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29:38

Why Organizations Are Vulnerable to Ransomware

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/07/21

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole is all about why so many organizations are vulnerable to cyber attacks and ransomware specifically. If you don’t cover the basics--strong passwords, never opening email attachments, never patching, etc.-- You might as well leave the front door open and the passcode to the safe written down next to it. To learn more about what you can actually do to protect yourself, read my book, Cyber Crisis.

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32:08

The Cost Of Ransomware

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/07/15

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole is all about Ransomware. Ransomware is when an adversary hacks into your system and makes your critical data inaccessible until you can pay a ransom. Many practices we have to prevent ransomware are ineffective in real-world scenarios. Many of us are careless and use the same device for surfing the web and checking email as we do for accessing critical data. Watch this episode to learn how you can defend yourself against ransomware.

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28:03

What Is Zero Trust?

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/07/08

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole focuses on Zero Trust architecture. What Zero Trust means is that by default, all devices in a network have to be authenticated in order to interconnect with other devices. All the security in the world can’t do anything if you can compromise a person, either by force or by deception, into allowing access to sensitive data. Listen to this episode and learn all the elements a CISO needs to take in account when designing their security.

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27:00

Back to (Cybersecurity) Basics

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/07/01

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole reviews the basics of cybersecurity. It is inevitable that breaches will occur. The job of a CISO is to make sure that those breaches are small, observed and fixed quickly, and contain no critical data. If you do not follow the most basic rules of cybersecurity, it doesn’t matter if your adversary is a state-actor with a large budget or a teenager in his basement, you will be breached. Listen to this episode and learn the basics of cybersecurity.

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26:14

How to make friends with failure to succeed as a CISO

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/06/24

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole is all about failure. In the world of business, failure is one step, or even many steps, closer to success. Successful entrepreneurs are able to embrace failure until they get a formula that works consistently. You will continue to hear the word “no” time and time again, and rather than give up, you will be able to use every “no” as a stepping stone to your next "yes".

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33:49

How To Be A Superhero CISO

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/06/17

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole explains how you can tap into your superpower and be a superhero. Everyone has at least one superpower, and if you can tap into it, that’s when no one can stop you. Listen to this episode and learn how to tap into your superpower and become a superhero CISO today.

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26:30

We Are In A Cyber Crisis

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/06/10

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole expresses the cyber crisis of the Russian Hackers. This breach exploited vulnerabilities in our federal government. No matter how large or small a target you are, if you have functionality, you have a vulnerability. Listen to this episode and learn how to take advantage of this opportunity and make your case to employers that you can be the CISO that keeps their organization safe and enables their business.

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27:22

CISO Ninja Tricks Part 2: Body Language and Verbal...

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/06/03

On this episode of Life of a CISO, we dive into more ninja tricks to be a world class CISO. The topics for this episode are body language and verbal communication. Watch the full episode to learn the "Ninja Tricks" to have positive, confident body language whether you feel confident or not and how to convince your potential employer that you are a business enabler, and that you can enable that specific business to improve their bottom line.

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31:07

CISO Ninja Tricks Part 1: How to Overcome Limiting...

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/05/27

On this episode of Life of a CISO, the focus is on the most important “Ninja Super Trick” of becoming a CISO: Overcoming limiting beliefs. Learn some of Dr. Eric Cole's techniques and examples that he has done that you can emulate in order to turn limiting beliefs into empowering truths. Watch the full episode to learn the "Ninja Super Trick" and overcome the limiting beliefs in your life, so you can get one step closer to your dream job of being a world-class CISO.

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27:37

Why I Wrote Cyber Crisis: Protecting Your Business...

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/05/20

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole shares the why behind creating the book Cyber Crisis. This book is filled with years of research and fact checking from not only Dr. Cole himself, but from his peers and mentors in the industry as well. Listen to this episode for more details on the why behind the book Cyber Crisis.

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32:23

How I Became a Cyber Security Innovator (Part 2)

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/05/13

In this episode of Life of a CISO, Dr. Eric Cole will be sharing part two of his career in being a CISO before there was even a word for it. An important lesson Dr. Cole learned from his career was to be true to himself and not to be someone else. This lesson is what gave him the confidence to start his own business. Listen to today's episode to find out more about Dr. Coles career and learn the secret to how he learned to be true to himself.

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32:16

How I Became a Cybersecurity Innovator (Part 1)

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/05/06

Today, Dr. Cole will be sharing his own story of how he became one of the world's first CISO's. How his education and work experience influenced his life and career. In the 1980's Dr. Cole was told that computers and networking would be the future. So he decided to learn both business and computers in college. Dr. Cole learned the most advanced computer systems at the time, and learned that cybersecurity was his purpose in life. Let's open this time capsule together in today's episode.

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33:52

The #1 Trait That Will Turn You Into a World Class CISO

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/04/29

Join Dr. Cole today as he explores CISO traits and " What is required to be a CISO." Too much experience as a security engineer could hinder your ability to get a CISO position; because in order to be a CISO, you have to think like a CISO. Once you do have that CISO mindset, the next step is to get that first interview. This episode includes ways to get yourself out of a powerless mindset, and into a powerful one, and ways to ace every interview, even if you don’t get the job right away. Watch the

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34:09

How World Class CISOs Manage Risk: Does a CISO Need...

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/04/22

Join Dr. Cole today as he answers some viewer questions such as: How do you calculate risk in an organization and communicate that calculation to executives? Do you have to be an expert in cybersecurity to be a world-class CISO? How do you get the first CISO position with no experience? Should I continue my formal education? How do I ace the interview? Tune in to find out the answers to these questions and more in today's episode of LIFE of a CISO.

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27:03

CISO VS CEO: Why CISOs Need to Have a Seat at the...

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/04/15

Join Dr. Cole today as he explains why it’s important that CISOs have a seat at the executive table. Executives all have their specialties, and a CISO is also an executive position. As a CISO, you need to communicate how much, financially, the executives can save by strengthening their defenses against attackers. This is high-level executive management. That’s why a CISO is a “Chief” Information Security Officer. CISOs, lets take our seats at the executive table.

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21:54

How to Prepare for a CISO Interview: CISO Interview...

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/04/08

Join Dr. Cole today as he goes through the steps you must take to prepare for your interview as a CISO. Here is what you need to know to ace the interview: If you want to be a world class CISO, you must own the interview by understanding the business, take control of the first 3 minutes, and speak the language of the executive. Also, know the business, how do they make money, and what is their competitive advantage? Have a world class CISO mindset, not a security engineers mindset. Good luck out

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31:15

How to Develop a World Class CISO Mindset

Life of a CISO with Dr. Eric Cole ·

2021/04/01

Join us today as Dr. Cole discusses world class CISO mindset. If you want to be a successful person, whether it’s as a CISO or anything else in life, you have to find your limiting beliefs, and then turn them into empowering truths. Once you find them, you have to become obsessed. Is your mindset aligned with your ultimate purpose?

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