Avoiding a False Sense of Cybersecurity with Michael Oberlaender, CISO at LogMeIn, and Wayne Sadin, Board IT Advisor at Via Group Partners

Michael Oberlaender, CISO at LogMeIn, and Wayne Sadin, a Board IT Advisor at Via Group Partners, talk about today’s biggest threats in cybersecurity, risk management responsibility, preparing for a sophisticated digital world, and much more.

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“Cybersecurity is not going away. You cannot ignore it, shortcut it, or underfund it, and the moment you do that – you pay the price later. What has changed is the sophistication on the attacker’s side, and response and preparation needs to take this into account. That is why it’s key to invest in threat intelligence, threat modeling, and similar subjects.”
 – Michael Oberlaender

“We’ve got to be building the ability to deliver whatever services the business wants, which means breaking down the monolithic stacks and breaking down the mindset that we have to do it in house… We’ve got to adapt the IT department, and the company, to the idea that we set a data architecture, a security architecture, a delivery architecture, and then move to a modular IT environment where we would be the stewards of the work, and not necessarily arms and legs of all of them.”
– Wayne Sadin

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Time Stamps:

* (1:41) The current state of cybersecurity 

* (2:42) Ensuring cybersecurity improves employee experience 

* (6:43) Avoiding a false sense of proper security hygiene 

* (10:18) Risk management responsibility and third-party analysis 

* (16:15) Prepping technology stacks for the future of cloud-based work

* (23:52) Predictions for 2022 & adapting IT to the future of remote work 

* (33:39) Michael and Wayne share secrets they wish more executives knew 

* (34:43) Advice on how to ask for funding for preventative security measures

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Links

Connect with Michael on Linkedin

Connect with Wayne on Linkedin

Check out Michael’s books:

• GLOBAL CISO – STRATEGY, TACTICS, & LEADERSHIP: How to Succeed in InfoSec and CyberSecurity
• C(I)SO – And Now What?: How to Successfully Build Security by Design

Learn more about LogMeIn and LastPass

Learn  more about Via Group Partners