Why Cyber Resilience Matters – Theresa Lanowitz – BSW #361
What are the barriers to cyber resilience today? Why is it so difficult? And what is coming next, that will generate resilience challenges further down the line?
After five years of focusing on the short- and medium-term future of cybersecurity and edge, this year, LevelBlue wanted to understand what is preventing cyber resilience—and what business leaders are doing about it. Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Evangelist at LevelBlue, joins us to discuss the results of their research.
Segment Resources: LevelBlue.com/futuresreport
This segment is sponsored by LevelBlue. Visit https://securityweekly.com/levelblue to learn more about them!
Theresa Lanowitz is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, former Gartner analyst, and former Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist with AT&T Cybersecurity and LevelBlue.
She is the creator of Executive-led Growth, a strategy that emphasizes the importance of business understanding in the cybersecurity market.
With a distinguished career in the technology industry, Theresa has held influential roles at companies including Gartner, Borland, Taligent, and Sun Microsystems, significantly impacting application security and emerging technologies.
Theresa is a globally respected leader known for her deep and diverse experience in cybersecurity. She frequently speaks at major industry conferences, including RSA and Black Hat sharing her insights on market trends, AI integration, and the evolving threat landscape. She’s been published in Forbes, Dark Reading, SC Media, ISMG, InformationWeek, and more, with her contributions reflecting a deep commitment to advancing cybersecurity practices and fostering innovation within the industry.
Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Navigating Innovation and Risk & Any Browser Can Be A Secure Enterprise Browser – Theresa Lanowitz, Andrew Harding – BSW #361
While CISOs are often responsible for technology implementation, they are not getting the support they need at a strategic level. The Accelerator found that 73% of CISOs expressed concern over cybersecurity becoming unwieldy, requiring risk-laden tradeoffs, compared to only 58% of both CIOs and CTOs.
Understanding the C-suite’s business priorities is critical for shaping effective cybersecurity strategies. Identifying how these essential roles look at the business helps to ensure alignment among CIOs, CTOs, and CISOs, as well as the teams that report into them. It’s a key first step towards bolstering cyber defenses, especially with the CEO and Board support.
This segment is sponsored by LevelBlue. Visit https://securityweekly.com/levelbluebh to learn more about cyber resilience and how to start the conversation in your organization!
Employees spend up to 80% of their working hours in a web browser, and threat actors are increasingly leveraging browsers to target users and initiate attacks. Disrupting the tool employees use for 80% of their job would have massive impact on productivity. Rather than ripping and replacing, enterprises can turn any browser into a secure enterprise browser.
Segment Resources: Menlo homepage: https://resources.menlosecurity.com/videos/browser-security
Menlo research on three new nation state campaigns: https://www.menlosecurity.com/press-releases/menlo-security-exposes-three-new-nation-state-campaigns
Every browser should be a secure enterprise browser: https://www.menlosecurity.com/blog/every-browser-should-be-a-secure-enterprise-browser
Defending against zero-hour phishing attacks: https://www.menlosecurity.com/blog/state-of-browser-security-defending-browsers-against-ever-evolving-zero-hour-phishing-attacks
This segment is sponsored by Menlo Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/menlobh or schedule a demo to learn more about the role of browser security in eliminating the risk of highly evasive threats!
Theresa Lanowitz is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, former Gartner analyst, and former Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist with AT&T Cybersecurity and LevelBlue.
She is the creator of Executive-led Growth, a strategy that emphasizes the importance of business understanding in the cybersecurity market.
With a distinguished career in the technology industry, Theresa has held influential roles at companies including Gartner, Borland, Taligent, and Sun Microsystems, significantly impacting application security and emerging technologies.
Theresa is a globally respected leader known for her deep and diverse experience in cybersecurity. She frequently speaks at major industry conferences, including RSA and Black Hat sharing her insights on market trends, AI integration, and the evolving threat landscape. She’s been published in Forbes, Dark Reading, SC Media, ISMG, InformationWeek, and more, with her contributions reflecting a deep commitment to advancing cybersecurity practices and fostering innovation within the industry.
Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Andrew Harding sees browser security as a significant gap in completing cyber defenses and in his role as VP of Security Strategy at Menlo Security, he is committed to delivering solutions that make every browser a secure enterprise browser. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the security architecture of the Internet. His inventions in endpoint security, lawful intercept, mobility, networking, and overlay networks defend networks and infrastructure around the world. He has worked with teams to define and lead market segments in network security, mobility, networking, and endpoint security. Prior to Menlo Security, he held senior product management, strategy and product marketing positions at companies including Danaher, Juniper Networks, Aruba Networks, and Cisco. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains, near Monterey Bay, in California.
