The Virtual CISO Moment

05/14/2024

Darren Ritch has been in the IT Industry for 34 years, with AT&T about 20 and work in the CSO office. He also volunteers as a CISO for the past several years for a non profit and have helped them with HIPAA compliance, and recently earned the Certified Business Coach designation from Mindvalley.

05/10/2024

Curt Vincent is cyber security maverick and entrepreneur. Founder and leader of the 400 person Morgan Stanley Cyber Security Division for 15 years, Senior Vice President and COO for both the Global Networking and Applications Operations Command Center at Bank of America, VP of a Dev/Ops team at Goldman Sachs and a founder of 5 startup companies. Curt is also a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel where he played cyber cat and mouse with nation states as the Operations Officer of the Army's Global Network Operations and Security Center.

Curt Vincent is cyber security maverick and entrepreneur. Founder and leader of the 400 person Morgan Stanley Cyber Security Division for 15 years, Senior V...

05/06/2024

Chris Kimpland is a cybersecurity leader with a passion for helping organizations advance their security posture and succeed in today's threat landscape. He has extensive Governance Risk and Compliance experience across multiple frameworks, standards, and regulations such as DFARS, HIPAA, PCI, and NCUA. In this episode we cover a variety of topics including information security risk management and a great upcoming initiative to combat online predators.

Chris Kimpland is a cybersecurity leader with a passion for helping organizations advance their security posture and succeed in today's threat landscape. He ...

04/29/2024

Chris Kimpland joins us on tomorrow's episode of The Virtual CISO Moment where we tackle one of my favorite topics, information security is risk management. In this snip, he emphasizes the importance of understanding and accepting acceptable information security risks, especially for those who are new to the industry. It is impossible to completely eliminate risks, but rather it is crucial to assess the risks, their impact, and determine what level of risk is acceptable. Join us tomorrow at 8 AM for the full episode on YouTube at https://youtube.com/, on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregoryschaffer/, and the major podcast outlets!

04/22/2024

Joshua Copeland is a seasoned cybersecurity professional and educator with 25 years of experience, with a focus on holistic cloud and on-prem security approaches and specific expertise in building and operating security stacks, SOC operations, and cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes. Additionally, he served 20 years in the US Air Force. Also, since 2021 he has been the purveyor of as the "Unpopular Opinion Guy" SM or "UOG" on LinkedIn, covering topics like hiring, mentoring, and cybersecurity.

Joshua Copeland is a seasoned cybersecurity professional and educator with 25 years of experience, with a focus on holistic cloud and on-prem security approa...

04/22/2024

Joshua Copeland is a seasoned cybersecurity professional and educator with 25 years of experience, with a focus on holistic cloud and on-prem security approaches and specific expertise in building and operating security stacks, SOC operations, and cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes. Additionally, he served 20 years in the US Air Force. Also, since 2021 he has been the purveyor of as the "Unpopular Opinion Guy" SM or "UOG" on LinkedIn, covering topics like hiring, mentoring, and cybersecurity.

04/17/2024

Media Updates -

Providing quality, experienced virtual CISO services is just one component of my mission of helping small and midsized businesses (SMBs) with their information security posture. Here are some recent media efforts to help that mission:

04/10/2024

Troy Bowman, Information Security Analyst, provides his thoughts on those looking to enter cyber from military service in this wide-ranging discussion on cybersecurity.

Troy Bowman is an Information Security Analyst for Costco Wholesale, specializing in application security. He is also a Navy veteran and has some excellent a...

04/04/2024

Darius Davis is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years of information technology experience. He's worked in a wide-range of areas from tech support, system administration, to networking and security engineering. In this episode, he provides four excellent points of wisdom for those looking to enter and advance in their cybersecurity career. A hint: you have to crawl before you walk. He also is a great example of serving the infosec community, holding board positions in not one but two local professional security organization chapters.
Darius can be reached on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/ddbna and X at .

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Darius Davis is a cybersecurity professional with over 15 years of information technology experience. He's worked in a wide-range of areas from tech support,...

03/29/2024

Richea Perry is a seasoned GRC and Cybersecurity Professional with an unwavering passion for securing today's digital environments. Throughout his journey, he has been at the forefront of shaping resilient network infrastructures, robust Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance strategies that are not just benchmarks, but catalysts for business growth. We discuss AI risks for SMBs, GRC (of course), and his career path from IT (networking) to cybersecurity. He is also the host of the CyberJA podcast - and I finally learned what the JA means! Hint - I definitely overthought it.

Richea Perry is a seasoned GRC and Cybersecurity Professional with an unwavering passion for securing today's digital environments. Throughout my journey, h...

03/28/2024

Stanley Charles is the Founder of the Charles Technology Group and Senior Manager, Information Security and Compliance at Pixel United. I realized early in the discussion that we have similar career paths, from aircraft maintenance in the United States Air Force, to an early career in networking as a network engineer, to eventually land in the information security and cybersecurity space. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, including advising SMBs on how to get the most out of their relationship with their MSP/MSSP.

Stanley Charles is the Founder of the Charles Technology Group and Senior Manager, Information Security and Compliance at Pixel United. I realized early in t...

03/26/2024

To Use or Not to Use a Custom Email Domain -

A few weeks ago I received an unsolicited email to help enhance my Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for one of my web sites. Honestly, I don't remember which site, because I didn't get much past the fact that this solicitation came from a Gmail email address.

03/18/2024

Nick Oles is an author, cybersecurity professional, and veteran. We cover many topics including his book How to Catch a Phish (available at https://lnkd.in/e35B8YHz) and career paths, including this preview where he reviews his beginnings in IT in college. I often say that working at a university is a great place to get foundational IT experience, and he is a great example.

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Nick Oles is an author, cybersecurity professional, and veteran. We cover many topics including his book How to Catch a Phish (available at https://lnkd.in/e...

03/18/2024

Metrics - security leaders talk about them often. But what is the one critical question they, and you, should ask about information security metrics? A Virtual CISO Moment throwback from 2020, but the point is just as valid today.

Metrics - security leaders talk about them often. But what is the one critical question they, and you, should ask about information security metrics?