Cybersquawk
5 [Whitehawk] Seeing your online profile through a cyber criminals eyes
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Have you ever wanted to see your online presence through the eyes of a cyber-criminal? Rather than using traditional methods, the world’s first cyber exchange platform provides a “hacker view” of your risk profile to assess your threats and cyber maturity.
In this episode we hear from Terry Roberts, Founder, President and CEO of Whitehawk, on how she went from the US Navy to founding Whitehawk in her kitchen a few years ago.
In this episode Terry shares:
- How her journey from the US navy led her to cyber security
- What changes she has seen in cyber security since the 90’s
- How she got Whitehawk off her kitchen bench and into a global exchange program
- What exactly Whitehawk do in the cyber space and how they can help your business
- How they have successfully helped businesses gain cyber insurance
- The process small businesses go through when signing up with Whitehawk
- Her policy recommendations for company CEO’s
- What type of focus she thinks infrastructure and local government should have on regulatory practices
- The 3 risks that every business in the world faces
Key Quotes
“We all saw what had been hitting primarily financial institutions…moved to everybody.”
“Our windows are still open. We still haven’t put the right risk processes in place.”
“If you’re just doing traditional cyber security, looking within your network, you're not getting the hacker view of your risk.”
“This is continuous, cyber risk doesn’t start and end.”
“You can mitigate the impact, but everybody can be hit (by a cyber attack).”
“Any hardware that is over 10 years old and any software that has not been updated over the past 5 years is completely open.”
“We’re throwing our economic growth down the drain to cyber criminals.”
“How does the board know what their company is telling them about their current cyber posture is right. outside or posture is right? Only by getting an outside group to (objectively review it)risk rating assessment do you have something to bounce off what your inside team is telling you.”
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About Cybersquawk
After working on Cybersecurity opportunities for a few years and despite having experts in the team, the Cybersquawk founders saw how technical heavy information in this space was. As this is a problem and responsibility that affects everyone, Cybersquawk has been created to democratise the Cyber conversation. Created by generalists for generalists.
Series 1 covers high level issues and considerations, threats and recent hacks and some technologies attempting to solve the problems for large and small operators.
About Maysaffron www.maysaffron.com
Maysaffron, established 2015, is an investment professional led firm that connects companies and funds with the Middle East and Asia Pacific. In 2021 the firm commenced direct investments in future themes. Cybersecurity is an area of focus for the firm and its partners. Maysaffron: Overview | LinkedIn
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