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Episode 209: Fortinet’s Renee Tarun on Scaling InfoSec To Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges

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The information security industry is simultaneously robust and beset by problems and challenges. For one thing: attacks are proliferating and becoming more stealthy and difficult to detect. Updated virus signatures won’t do you much good these days, when attackers are infiltrating software build processes or “living off the land” using administrative tools like Powershell and WMI to do their dirty work.

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Renee Tarun is the Deputy CISO and Vice President for Information Security at Fortinet Inc.
Renee Tarun is the Deputy CISO and Vice President for Information Security at Fortinet Inc.

Compounding that there is a talent shortage that measures in the millions of workers globally, and hundreds of thousands of workers just in the U.S. To continue to be effective, in other words, the information security industry needs both better tools to fight adversaries, and more people to do the fighting.

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Our guest this week has some ideas on how we might square that circle. To wrap up our coverage of women’s history month and as part of our on-going series on Women in Cyber, we sat down with Renee Tarun is the Deputy CISO and VP of Infosec at Fortinet and a veteran of both the NSA where she served as Special Assistant to the Director for Cybersecurity.

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In this interview, Renee talks about her journey to a leadership role in information security and about how the information security can scale up to meet the challenges of the future. That means both embracing technologies like automation and machine learning to help manage the tsunami of data and threats, and broadening the avenues into information security and attracting a range of skills – both hard and soft- to the industry. We also talk about her latest project: a children’s book to educate kids about basic cyber security concepts. 

As always,  you can check our full conversation in our latest Security Ledger podcast at Blubrry. You can also listen to it on iTunes and check us out on SoundCloud, Stitcher, Radio Public and more. Also: if you enjoy this podcast, consider signing up to receive it in your email. Just point your web browser to securityledger.com/subscribe to get notified whenever a new podcast is posted. 

Episode 207: Sara Tatsis of Blackberry on finding and Keeping Women in Cyber

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In this week’s episode of the podcast (#207) we speak with Sara Tatsis of the firm Blackberry about her 20 year career at the legendary mobile device maker and the myriad challenges attracting women to- and keeping them in the information security field.

Women face many challenges in the workplace and that’s especially true in information security, where women make up less than a quarter of information security professionals. So what does it take to create a workplace that fosters and encourage women?

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We continue our observance of women’s history month by speaking with Sarah Tatsis, who is  the Senior Vice President of the Advanced Technology Development Labs at BlackBerry. Sarah is a 20 year veteran of Blackberry and has held a number of positions within the organization. Today, Sarah and her team of engineers are responsible for taking new technologies from ideation, to incubation, to delivery into BlackBerry products and for helping BlackBerry stay on the cutting edge of security innovation. 

Sarah Tatsis, who is  the Senior Vice President of the Advanced Technology Development Labs at BlackBerry.

Sarah is also the President of Soroptimist International of Kitchener-Waterloo, a volunteer organization that provides women and girls with access to education and training they need to achieve economic empowerment.

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In this conversation, Sarah and I talk about her path to the information security field and how companies can work to both recruit and keep women on board.

We discuss the work Sarah and Blackberry have done with Canada’s Girl Guides (the equivalent of the Girl Scouts in the U.S.) to foster awareness of cybersecurity as a field and discipline. We also talk about the unique challenges that women face in our increasingly technology enabled society and workplaces where threats like deep fake videos, cyber stalking and surveillance disproportionately affect women. 

As always,  you can check our full conversation in our latest Security Ledger podcast at Blubrry. You can also listen to it on iTunes and check us out on SoundCloud, Stitcher, Radio Public and more. Also: if you enjoy this podcast, consider signing up to receive it in your email. Just point your web browser to securityledger.com/subscribe to get notified whenever a new podcast is posted.