Protecting Executives: Why The Home Is The New Battle Ground – Chris Pierson – BSW #341
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1. Protecting Executives: Why The Home Is The New Battle Ground – Chris Pierson – BSW #341
When you think of executive protection, you think of work related activities such as security details, travel planning, and other physical security protections. But in the world of Artificial Intelligence and DeepFakes, the risk landscape for executives goes far beyond work and into their personal lives. The home is now the new battle field and family life will never be the same.
Chris Pierson, CEO at BlackCloak, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the changes in the risk landscape for executives, including Generative AI, and its impacts on social engineering, personal attacks, and family threats. Executive protection must now include digital protection, both at work and at home.
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Having served in various cybersecurity and privacy leadership roles over the past 20-years, Chris saw firsthand the emerging gap forming between enterprise security teams and the need to protect corporate executives, high-profile and high-net-worth individuals and their families from financial fraud, cybercrime, hacking, reputational damage, privacy exposure, and identity theft. Chris’ inability to find solutions to reduce risk to this burgeoning threat led him to launch BlackCloak and bring to market the industry’s first Concierge Cybersecurity & Privacy Protection Platform.
Prior to BlackCloak, Chris served for over a decade on the Department of Homeland Security’s Privacy Committee and Cybersecurity Subcommittee, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute. He has also held leadership roles as the Chief Privacy Officer for Royal Bank of Scotland, the world’s 3rd largest bank, leading its US privacy and data protection program; as the Chief Information Security Officer for two FinTechs, and as President of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Arizona InfraGard.
Previously, Chris was a founding executive of Viewpost, a FinTech payments company, serving as their CISO and General Counsel. Chris began his career as a corporate attorney for Lewis and Roca, where he established its CyberSecurity Practice representing companies who were hacked and fell victim to data breaches.
Chris is a globally recognized keynote speaker on digital executive protection, a cybersecurity thought leader, and board advisor for startups. He is frequently quoted by prominent trade and mainstream media such as Bloomberg, Business Insider, CSO and the Financial Times, and selected to speak at international events such as RSA, ISSA and SecureWorld, among others.
Chris received his B.A. and M.A. from Boston College and his Ph.D. and J.D. from the University of Iowa.
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2. CISO’s Guides to Engaging The Board, Artificial Intelligence, and Cyber Insurance – BSW #341
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- 2. Cybersecurity in the C-Suite: A CISO’s Guide to Engaging the Board
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And yet, according to a PwC report, only 30% of CISOs feel they receive sufficient support from their CEO.
- 4. The CISO’s Guide to AI: Embracing Innovation While Mitigating Risk
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Of course, I am talking about Artificial Intelligence. We have entered the AI age. From this point on, the delicate dance between innovation and risk mitigation will be even more complex. While AI promises groundbreaking solutions and increased efficiency, its nascent nature raises security, ethical, and moral concerns.
- 5. Cyber Insurance Strategy Requires CISO-CFO Collaboration
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- 6. Top cybersecurity salaries shoot past $780k
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The top 10% of cybersecurity professionals in the US drew as much as $783,000 on average in 2023, according to a joint IANS and Artico Search study.
