This week on Dark Rhino Security’s Security Confidential podcast, Host Manoj Tandon speaks with Ryan Leirvik. Ryan is the CEO of Neuvik and the author of the book “Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk”. His past adventures include growing a cyber research and development company, formerly serving as Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Cyber for the U.S. Department of Defense, a cybersecurity strategist for McKinsey, and a technologist at IBM.
Chapter Titles:
00:00 Introduction
00:17 Our Guest
01:08 Behind the name Neuvik
02:20 What does Neuvik do?
03:29 Imperfect Technology layered on Imperfect Technology
05:35 Is the next gadget worth it?
07:54 Guiding a newbie CXO
10:50 What is it that you’re protecting?
22:54 Which framework has worked the best?
25:56 Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk
35:39 Leveraging vulnerabilities for offensive purposes
40:35 Connecting with Ryan
Dark Rhino Security’s Security Confidential is a weekly Cybersecurity podcast where Host, Manoj Tandon, talks to Infosec and Cybersecurity professionals about the current issues going on in our industry. Guests are able to share their stories about how they began their journey into cybersecurity and connect with our audience. Listeners are able to tune in through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Youtube, LinkedIn, and more.
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Check out the other episodes in Season 12:
Ep. 1 Marius Poskus – Tech talk overwhelms the nontechnical
Ep. 2 Robert Black – Who is responsible for Cybersecurity?
Ep. 3 Eric Allard – Your Guide to SBOMs
Ep. 4 Ryan Leirvik – Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk
Important Links
Ryans’ Linkedin
Learn about Neuvik
Link to Ryan’s Book “Understand, Manage, and Measure Cyber Risk”
About Ryan Leirvik
With considerable US government and commercial sector experience, Ryan has employed his professional passion for cybersecurity at almost every level within an organization. A frequent speaker on the topic of information security, Ryan fields several questions on “How do I make sure I have a sustainable cyber program?” This book was written to help answer that question.
Ryan has been the CEO of a cybersecurity research and development company, Chief of Staff and Associate Director of Cyber for the US Department of Defense, and a cybersecurity strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company. Ryan’s technology career started at IBM, and he has a master of IT degree from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Case Western Reserve University, as well as a bachelor of science from Purdue University. Ryan is also on the faculty at IANS.
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