343- Corporate Espionage: Security Stories from the Trenches by Maximo Bredfeldt

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Maximo Bredfeldt Leading technology initiatives at Longship as Chief Information Officer, Maximo Bredfeldt brings 25 years of experience in managed services and security. His approach combines practical problem-solving with deep technical expertise, focusing on understanding business processes to create effective security solutions. The Corporate Espionage What makes an effective cybersecurity strategy? Maximo Bredfeldt shares his journey from taking apart toys to protecting enterprises, highlighting how understanding business processes is crucial for security success. Through compelling stories of corporate espionage and social engineering, he demonstrates why technical solutions alone aren’t enough to protect modern organizations.

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0:00.0	Hi, nerds. I'm Michael Moore hosting this podcast for dissecting popular IT nerds. I'm here with
0:09.1	Maximo Breadfeld, chief information officer at Longship. Maximo, how you doing today? Hey, Michael. I'm doing
0:15.5	fantastic. Thank you. What about yourself? I'm doing great. We're recording this around the holidays, so everybody that celebrates Christmas is going to be
0:27.6	going to be off for the next couple days, apparently.
0:31.6	Yeah, it's too bad that you're not, that we don't have video because I would love for everybody
0:36.6	to see. Michael is wearing a fantastic, the most Christmasy shirt I've seen ever.
0:42.0	We got snowflakes, candy canes, snowman.
0:44.9	You got everything going, man.
0:46.7	I absolutely love it.
0:47.8	Yeah, I walked out of the house today and my girlfriend just, she just shook her head.
0:56.5	Because of all the elves that we're following.
0:57.0	Yeah.
1:03.3	All right, we're going to start things off with random access memories.
1:04.9	It's our icebreaker segment.
1:12.9	I ask a question and then you respond with the answer that comes to your head first. The first question you have is what is the most helpful or supportive IT-related person or mentor that you've ever had?
1:21.3	Oh, gosh. That is, that is a tough one. I've had, I have very many fantastic mentors, thankfully.
1:30.5	I'll have to give you the latest one.
1:33.8	A great friend of mine and great leader and fantastic mentors,
1:39.3	his name is Stephen Jones.
1:40.3	I work with them at my last job at Data Prize for three years.
1:45.1	And he is a kind of guy that I vibe the best with.
1:51.3	So a down-to-earth, a good person, a good leader.
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