"I LOVE Cold Calls", Said the CISO on Opposite Day

<p>All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series (<a href= "https://cisoseries.com/i-love-cold-calls-said-the-ciso-on-opposite-day/">https://cisoseries.com/i-love-cold-calls-said-the-ciso-on-opposite-day/</a>)</p> <p>While CISOs are not excited to receive your unexpected phone call, they are excited to listen to this week's episode of <em>CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast.</em></p> <p>This episode is hosted by me, <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidspark/">David Spark</a> (<a href="http://twitter.com/dspark">@dspark</a>), producer of CISO Series and founder of <a href= "http://sparkmediasolutions.com/">Spark Media Solutions</a> and <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikevj/">Mike Johnson</a>. Our guest this week is <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenpatton/">Helen Patton</a>, CISO, <a href="http://www.osu.edu/">The Ohio State University</a>.</p> <p><a href= "https://gitguardian.com?utm_source=David-Spark&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ds1"> <img src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/24425/Ad_D_Spark_small.png" alt="GitGuardian" width="600" height="100" /></a></p> <p><a href= "https://gitguardian.com/?utm_source=David-Spark&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=ds1"> <em>GitGuardian</em></a> <em>empowers organizations to secure their secrets - such as API keys and other credentials - from being exposed in compromised places or leaked publicly. GitGuardian offers a threat intelligence solution focused on detecting secrets leaked on public GitHub and an automated secrets detection solution which tightly integrates with your DevOps pipeline.</em></p> <p><em><!-- wp:paragraph --></em></p> <p><strong>On this week's episode</strong></p> <p><em><!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:heading --></em></p> <h2>Why is everybody talking about this now</h2> <p><em><!-- /wp:heading --> <!-- wp:paragraph --></em></p> <p>Are we making ourselves safer by calling end users "dumb"? <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shaundmarion_cisos-cisolife-leadership-activity-6684178577434456065-FpG7