Episode 82 - What the Heck is Wrong with Security (Updated)

4.6.23 Update:

If you had downloaded this file before 6pm on April 6th you received the wrong episode. This error has been fixed and you have my sincerest apologies for the mess up!

*Disclaimer* While there was no physical harming of bad security vendors in this episode, there is a lot of honest #RealTalk. Opinions in this episode are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my leadership or my employer. Additionally, this episode is not sponsored and therefore is not influenced by outside sources.

In this episode I finally had some time to go over to the 'Fresh' Coast of West Michigan and sit down with Matt Nelson to talk about the current state of the cybersecurity industry. Matt is a Senior Solutions Architect for GuidePoint Security and brings a plethora of both useful and useless security knowledge to the conversation!

We kept the conversation focused on several different key areas of information security:

• How NOT to work with a business if you are a security vendor
• How are companies dealing with the rising cost of cybersecurity
• Giving some #RealTalk advice to  people looking to break into the information security industry

While this episode went a little bit longer that I would like, it contains a TON of useful advice for not only employees and leaders, but security vendors as well.