Cloud Out Loud Podcast

Episode 20 - How You Should Manage Security in the Enterprise from Marsha Wilson, CEO ScaleSec

September 23, 2022 Jon and Logan Gallagher
Cloud Out Loud Podcast
Episode 20 - How You Should Manage Security in the Enterprise from Marsha Wilson, CEO ScaleSec
Show Notes

Diminishing Risk, Increasing Profit, and Reducing Costs Through Security with Marsha Wilson of ScaleSec

Episode 20: Show Notes

Today we continue with Part 2 in our conversation with Marsha Wilson, CEO of ScaleSec. While the first episode covered Martha's advice to startups on how to create a foundation of security, this episode delves into how to deal with security issues a few years down the line if you didn't follow Martha's advice in the beginning. A lot of the recommendations included in this podcast aren't specifically directed only to those in software or hardware startups, but apply across the board as security affects all users of technology in a business. Tuning in you'll hear how to make sure that security is inherent to your business, how to convince an organization that certain secunty barriers are worth the inconvenience to your developers, and how you can reduce risk, increase profit, and reduce costs by spending money on security. We discuss the 'Cloud and Web Security Challenges in 2022' report and the hot topic of data loss prevention and compromise through third-party vendors. Martha also shares her advice to any organization that has already been breached. Tune in to hear more about the true value of your data and why your entire organization needs to understand this and be responsible for its security.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Today's episode: how to deal with security issues in your company a few years down the line.
  • How to make sure that security is inherent to your business
  • Why you should attach security work to the business drivers in the company itself.
  • How you can reduce risk, increase profit, and reduce costs by asking for training money for a development team to learn how to incorporate security and deploy code.
  • How to convince an organization that certain security barriers put in place are worth the inconvenience to your developers.
  • How security personnel can inform sales personnel about the level of security they're able to provide.
  • The tension between security and monetary reward and how we can ensure a minimum level of security can be created with financial feedback.
  • How to get security into all parts of the organization through forming relationships in the company.
  • Thoughts on how modern technology is more secure.
  • The value of the human brain and expertise over security systems.
  • Insight into the Cloud and Web Security Challenges in 2022 report.
  • The hot topic of data loss prevention and compromise through third-party vendors.

Tweetables:

“You can never have enough security. Security is never going to max out.” — Marsha Wilson [0:16:57]

“You’re not going to get the data to begin with if you don’t prove to the customers that trusted you with their data that you’re going to keep it safe ” — Marsha Wilson [0:33:31]

“You have a commitment that you’ve made in gathering this data, that it is valuable to your company, you’re going to process it, it’s obviously valuable to the end user. You are therefore making a moral and many times legal commitment to preserving that data.” — Jon Gallagher [0:35:49]


Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Marsha Wilson on LinkedIn

ScaleSec

Cloud and Web Security Challenges in 2022  

Cloud Data Loss Prevention

Jon Gallagher on LinkedIn

Logan Gallagher on LinkedIn