360- Cyber Crisis turned opportunity with Jason Torrez

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Listen now: subscribe and join 1,000s of IT Leaders changing the face of IT. ON THIS EPISODE: ➤ The critical elements of incident response planning➤ Strategic approaches to cyber insurance and vendor alignment➤ Methods for maintaining business operations during cyber events➤ Techniques for communicating with executive leadership➤ Essential partnerships and resources during cyber incidents From Crisis to Opportunity: A Cyber Incident Success Story Experience a deep dive into real-world cyber incident management with Jason Torrez, Executive Director of IT at Grede Holdngs. Learn how proper preparation and leadership turned a potential crisis into an opportunity for organizational improvement. This...

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0:00.0	You're not building walls to keep the bad guys out.
0:02.9	You need to believe in your heart.
0:04.7	They're already in your house.
0:08.0	Because you will come into the job different.
0:10.3	You will run your shop differently if you believe you're already breached.
0:14.0	Everybody's constantly under some form of inspection or attack, but there is a day, right?
0:18.6	The day came where we had something real to deal with.
0:21.4	And when I contacted our CTO and said, like, this is the morning. We knew this was coming and here it is.
0:28.2	And you can address that calmly, even with all of the unknown. It's a, yeah, we knew it was coming now.
0:34.0	We're going to rally the troops.
0:44.8	So anyways, welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds. This is, I've been off for like three weeks.
0:47.1	So I don't know if anyone noticed or anyone even cared.
0:49.9	It'd be great.
0:50.7	Maybe we'll get like, you know, maybe someone out there like yeah i missed you phil uh
0:55.2	but anywho um it's great to to be back in and jason torres um you know transformational technology
1:02.8	executive um you know extraordinary um executive director information technology at is it greed holdings
1:10.5	am i getting that correctly
1:11.5	grady great great great okay well that's good just slap me around a little bit but i want to start
1:17.1	breaking these shows go ahead that's that's very common i want to uh i really want to make sure that
1:24.3	we are more effective in breaking these shows up because I can
1:27.6	talk forever and go off on in tangents. And you had some, well, first of all, you've had a cyber
1:34.7	event as of recent. And it sounds like it was a successful cyber event, not that people
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