CheckMates Go: Cyber Security Podcast from Check Point

PhoneBoy and fellow Cyber Security Evangelist Grant Asplund talk about the current state of the workplace in the era of Covid and some stories of pre-Covid business travel.

Part 2 of PhoneBoy's conversation with Adam Gray at Novacoast about Incident Response, Remote Access, and the challenges of doing cyber security in a distributed world.

Part 2 of PhoneBoy's conversation with fellow Cyber Security Evangelist  who hosts the CISO's Secrets podcast as well as the Talking Cloud podcast. We talk a little bit about MetaInfo, a company Check Point acquired in 1998, and a bit more technology history that is still impacting cyber security today.

That diagram from 1997 mentioned in the show is on the CheckMates post for this episode.

PhoneBoy talks with Adam Gray, a founding and current member of the Board of Directors of Novacoast. We talk a bit about the early days of Cyber Security, how that led to the NovaSOC offering, then a bit about the potential security issues with browser extensions.

PhoneBoy talks with fellow Cyber Security Evangelist Grant Asplund, host of the CISO's Secrets podcast as well as the Talking Cloud podcast. Grant's got quite an interesting history, which we get into in this episode, talking his history opening up an Apple dealer back in the 1980s and what networking looked like back then.

PhoneBoy talks with Check Point Product Manager Yoni Nave about Check Point's upcoming Extended Detection and Response (XDR) offering which will also incorporate some Managed Detection and Response (MDR) elements if you need it.

PhoneBoy talks with Product Manager Yoni Nave about the evolution from Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to Extended Detection and Response (XDR). 

In April of 2021, PhoneBoy talked with Tim Otis and Jon Niccolls of the Check Point Incident Response Team about Ransomware. Since then, things have gotten worse. How was Colonial Pipeline compromised with Ransomware? An older VPN account.

PhoneBoy talks with Tim Otis and Jon Niccolls from the Check Point Incident Response Team about what the recent Solarwinds Suburst attack and Microsoft Exchange Hack have in common from an incident response point of view.

Part 2 of our conversation with Product Manager Yoni Nave about Check Point's participation in the recent MITRE Engenuity Enterprise Attack Evaluation 2020, the excellent results Check Point received, and why it matters.

The report from MITRE: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/enterprise/participants/checkpoint/results.html?adversary=carbanak_fin7

Check Point's blog post on the topic: https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/04/20/mitre-engenuity-attck-evaluations-highlight-check-point-software-leadership-in-endpoint-security-with-100-detection-across-all-tested-unique-attck-techniques/

Part 1 of the conversation: https://community.checkpoint.com/t5/CheckMates-Go-Cyber-Security/S03E09-MITRE-Engenuity-ATT-amp-CK-Evaluation-Part-1/ba-p/118020 

Part 1 of a 2 part conversation with Product Manager Yoni Nave about Check Point's participation in the recent MITRE Engenuity Enterprise Attack Evaluation 2020, the excellent results Check Point received, and why it matters.

The report from MITRE: https://attackevals.mitre-engenuity.org/enterprise/participants/checkpoint/results.html?adversary=carbanak_fin7

Check Point's blog post on the topic: https://blog.checkpoint.com/2021/04/20/mitre-engenuity-attck-evaluations-highlight-check-point-software-leadership-in-endpoint-security-with-100-detection-across-all-tested-unique-attck-techniques/

PhoneBoy talks with Shay Levin and Val Loukine about some recent community projects:

• CloudMates: Our new cloud-focused community on CheckMates
• CheckMates Toolbox: A collection of useful tools developed by Check Point R&D and the CheckMates Community
• TechTalks: Our regular series designed to educate you on the latest information security technology and trends, including practical advice on protecting your critical assets from cyber attacks!

And register for our CPX 360 2021 Wrap-Up happening on April 20th @ 8am PDT/ 5pm CET.

PhoneBoy talks with Eric Anderson at Atlantic Data Security about the psychology of always being on the defense in cyber security.

What value does a value added reseller actually add? PhoneBoy talks with Eric Anderson at Atlantic Data Security about it.

Also, if you missed all the great content at CPX 360 2021, we have it on CheckMates!

The mics are turned around and PhoneBoy's the one being interviewed, this time by fellow Check Point Evangelist Grant Asplund for his Talking Cloud podcast.

In this episode, we'll hear from Gera Dorfman, Benny Shlesinger, Oded Gonda, and Itai Greenberg who will give you a preview of what we'll be speaking about in more detail as part of Check Point's CPX 360 2021 conference coming up on the 23-24 February 2021 around Network Security and how we will be expanding the Infinity vision. Make sure you listen to Part 1 of our CPX 360 2021 preview if you haven't already!

In this episode, we will hear from Dr. Dorit Dor, TJ Gonen, and Neatsun Ziv who will give you a preview of what we'll be speaking about in more detail as part of our CPX 360 2021 conference coming up on the 23-24 February 2021 around Cloud and Endpoint Security.

Is there really a talent shortage in Cyber Security? PhoneBoy talks with Eric Anderson at Atlantic Data Security about the reality of the situation.