Expert Insights Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

77% of organizations say data privacy is one of the biggest barriers to their adoption of GenAI. But there is a way for organizations to embrace these new technologies without sensitive data leaving the business.

We caught up with Alastair Paterson, CEO and Co-Founder at Harmonic Security, on this month’s episode of the Expert Insights Podcast to discuss how businesses can embrace GenAI without compromising their security.

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Expert Insights is a B2B research and review platform for IT solutions and services. We help over one million IT managers, CISOs, small business owners, and other professionals discover the best IT and cybersecurity solutions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

74% of all successful breaches involve the human element—typically social engineering, stolen credentials, or privilege misuse. But clunky user authentication processes mean that less than half of teams are using MFA to prevent account compromise.

We caught up with Will LaSala, Field CTO at OneSpan, on this month’s episode of the Expert Insights Podcast to discuss why businesses should switch to FIDO as a stronger, more intuitive authentication method.

About Expert Insights
Expert Insights is a B2B research and review platform for IT solutions and services. We help over one million IT managers, CISOs, small business owners, and other professionals discover the best IT and cybersecurity solutions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

SMBs face unique challenges when it comes to cybersecurity. They often have fewer resources than larger businesses and tend to have less expertise internally.

Expert Insights spoke with Tony Anscombe, the Chief Security Evangelist at ESET, a global cybersecurity provider with over a billion users worldwide, to get his advice for SMBs on improving cybersecurity resilience, including the importance of implementing cybersecurity insurance. 

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How can IT can security teams work together to stop attacks that are coming from within the organization? And, just as importantly, how can they do this without losing the trust of their end users?

To find out, we spoke to Joseph Bell, CISO at Everfox. In his current role, Joe is building an information security program that will ensure Everfox is ready to target and prevent some of the most complex cyberthreats organizations are facing today.

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Expert Insights provides leading research, reviews, and interviews to help organizations make the right IT purchasing decisions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

Zscaler’s Global CISO and Head of Security Research and Operations, Deepen Desai on encrypted malware attacks, generative AI trends and building a robust and effective Zero Trust architecture in 2024.

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Expert Insights provides leading research, reviews, and interviews to help organizations make the right IT purchasing decisions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

In a phishing attack, the adversary tries to manipulate their target—usually via email—into downloading malware or sharing sensitive information with them, such as login credentials or credit card details.

In the past, these attacks would be relatively easy to spot, but phishing attacks have evolved. Today, attackers carefully research their targets, tailoring their emails so they’re more believable and more difficult for both humans and email security technologies identify.

So how can organizations stop phishing attacks if legacy email security solutions can’t detect them?

To find out, we spoke to Conor Hynes, Director of Product Management & Data Strategy at TitanHQ. In his current role, Conor is responsible for TitanHQ’s SpamTitan, WebTitan, and ArcTitan products—in particular, identifying new market opportunities and developing innovative solutions to meet evolving customer needs.

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Expert Insights provides leading research, reviews, and interviews to help organizations make the right IT purchasing decisions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

Since the public release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT just over one year ago—and the subsequent release of numerous other generative AI tools—many users have embraced the productivity benefits of gen AI and large language models. However, though end user adoption is high, many IT and security leaders share concerns about the use of these technologies in the workplace.

But despite these concerns, less than half of organizations are currently monitoring their employees’ use of AI, only 46% have acceptable use policies in place, and only 42% train users on the safe use of these tools.

Jamie Moles is Head of Technical Marketing at ExtraHop, a leading network detection and response (NDR) provider. In this episode of the Expert Insights Podcast, Moles discusses the findings of ExtraHop’s recent report, The Generative AI Tipping Point, focussing in particular on the importance of governing the use of generative AI tools, and whether this a challenge that businesses will have to tackle alone.

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Expert Insights provides leading research, reviews, and interviews to help organizations make the right IT purchasing decisions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

Is it finally time to ditch passwords? For decades now, the default security for devices and online accounts has been a username and password. But passwords can be a major headache. They’re a hassle to remember and manage, but more importantly are open to compromise by password cracking malware and phishing scams.

John Bennett is the CEO of Dashlane, a leading password management company. In this episode of the Expert Insights Podcast, he explains how Passkeys work, why they're more secure than passwords, and what a future without passwords might look like. Read more.

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Expert Insights provides leading research, reviews, and interviews to help organizations make the right IT purchasing decisions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

How can an organization identify a cyber-attack? What tools should they be using to block vulnerabilities activity? And how can vendors protect their customers in the event that they themselves experience a breach?

Morey Haber is Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust, a leading identity security provider that specializes in PAM technologies. In this episode of the Expert Insights Podcast, Haber gives us his top tips on how organizations can secure themselves against supply chain attacks, and how vendors can protect their customers in the event they experience a breach.

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Expert Insights provides leading research, reviews, and interviews to help organizations make the right IT purchasing decisions. For more, visit: https://expertinsights.com

Securing user identities is a challenge for organizations of all sizes, but particularly for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The cost, complexity and resources required to implement a service that can securely and seamlessly connect employees to the services they need can be daunting for SMEs who often lack in-house security resources. 

Antoine Jebara is the co-founder and general manager of JumpCloud’s MSP business. In this conversation we discussed the identity challenges and roadblocks facing the SME market today, how smalls businesses can build a robust identity strategy for the future, and why it’s so important to consider end user experience as a top priority when doing so. Read More.

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Expert Insights provides leading research, reviews, and interviews to help organizations make the right IT purchasing decisions. For more, visit: ⁠https://expertinsights.com