251- Securing the Enterprise: David Kiklis on the Evolution of Cybersecurity and Keys to Success

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🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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David Kiklis David Kiklis has over 25 years of experience spanning cybersecurity, infrastructure, and enterprise architecture. He specializes in building defensible cybersecurity programs, utilizing essential tools effectively, and framing cybersecurity as an executive business discussion. David has helped numerous companies improve security strategies and avoid common IT pitfalls. His passion is helping organizations build pragmatic cybersecurity strategies focused on risk and aligned with business objectives Securing the Enterprise: David Kiklis on the Evolution of Cybersecurity and Keys to Success What does it take to build an effective cybersecurity program? How has the landscape evolved over the past 20 years? In this podcast, we tackle these questions and more in an insightful chat with cybersecurity pro David Kiklis. Drawing on decades of experience, David shares perspectives on managing cyber risk, working with auditors, getting leadership buy-in, and using the right tools. Expect a view on where cybersecurity has been, the challenges we face today, and advice for the future as we cover security frameworks, data governance, and shifting conversations. No matter where you are in your cybersecurity career, you will take away valuable lessons on maturing programs and influencing executives.

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0:00.0	All right. Well, welcome back to dissecting popular IT nerds, where we're allowed to geek out with our fellow nerds.
0:14.0	Today, I'm proud to introduce David Gickless, who wants to help shape our discussion with the business around cybersecurity.
0:27.1	So, David, tell us a little about your experience and let's talk about how you suggest we frame that conversation.
0:29.9	So, yeah, thank you for having me. So I've been doing cybersecurity in one shape or another since about the year 2000, even before this was considered a career path.
0:41.3	Yeah, or even really a term.
0:43.5	Yeah, I worked for a company at the time that did a substantial amount of U.S. government
0:47.6	contracting, and, you know, really this was beginning to emerge as a threat.
0:53.7	And so we had to develop programs and tools and language to speak with federal auditors
1:01.3	where there really weren't any standards in place.
1:03.8	So I've been doing this for a long time.
1:06.1	Yeah, because, you know, I started in IT somewhere right around that time.
1:10.8	And our discussions around cybersecurity or just security back then, it was, it's a world
1:18.8	of difference between today and then.
1:21.0	Oh, without a doubt.
1:21.8	Without a doubt.
1:22.4	I mean, in a threat landscape, obviously, the Internet really has progressed and modified so much over the last, you know, 23 years now.
1:34.6	You did now see so in cybersecurity our career fields.
1:38.7	Right.
1:38.9	Back around the turn of the century, they were not.
1:41.2	They were just something you did as an IT person without a lot of standards,
1:45.3	but a lot of guidance. And quite frankly, hope for the best. And then all the vendors that really
1:50.7	help us, you know, looking at the threat landscape and all the various tools that we use,
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