“The more things change, the more they stay the same.” We're stuck in Security Groundhog Day re-living the same problems we’ve had for the past 20+ years. Many organizations suck at cybersecurity (by the number of breaches and often their own admission), but they don’t have to. In this humorous talk, Ron looks at our failures to understand how we can succeed. You'll leave with survival techniques to end (or at least reduce) common organizational cybersecurity and data privacy risks and hopefully not suck at cybersecurity.

Session objectives:

• How “those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it” applies to cybersecurity
• Why Cybersecurity is the epitome of Einstein’s definition of insanity (“Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”)
• “Know your enemies.” How threats have changed over the years (and how they’re the same)
• “True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.” What’s causing our pain (root cause analysis)
• “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.” If they’re “best practices,” why doesn’t everyone follow them
• “Turn your wounds into wisdom.” Creatively solving security Groundhog Day through people, process, and technology