Imanuel Babadostov is the Lead BISO at Blackbaud. He has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience in various industries including Government, Healthcare, Managed Services, and SaaS. He is a leader, presenter, trainer, writer, scrum master, and highly certified - CISSP, CEH, GDAT, GSLC, GSEC, CHFI, GMON, Security+. He is focused on performing the role of a BISO - Business Information Security Officer. He is on a mission to clarify what the role entails, how to better the company using it, and define the concrete skills and KPIs one can use to improve as a BISO or a BISO team lead.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imanuelb2/

Website: https://ibabadostov.wixsite.com/the-blog

The podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Odysee, Apple Podcast, Pandora, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcast, Podcast Index, Podcast Addict, iHeartRadio, Listener Notes, Deezer, and RSS dot com.

TIMESTAMPS:

1:50 - Imanuel's Background

3:58 - What's Happening in Cyber

4:28 - Cyber Skills Gap

5:49 - The BISO role, what is it?

8:17 - BISO versus GRC

10:02 - How BISO's Divide Responsibilities

11:23 - How to Find Your Way Into a BISO role

13:15 - Apprenticeship Program Advocacy

15:12 - Bureau of Ocean Energy Management

16:56 - Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity

19:10 - Is Work More Stressful at Home or In-Office?

22:21 - Amazon's RTO 5 Days Per Week

23:31 - Layoffs from AI

24:07 - How Imanuel is using AI

27:51 - Hackers Using AI to Their Advantage

30:32 - ChatGPT o1

31:15 - AI's Mad Cow Effect

32:32 - Did The Movie Wall-E Predict Our Future?

33:44 - Black Mirror on Netflix

36:24 - Idiocracy Movie & Concern for Our Kids

45:36 - Ask Me Anything - Recruiter Edition

57:46 - Love, Death, Robots on Netflix

59:23 - How to Measure BISO Performance

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Shankar Viswanathan serves as Senior Director, Head of Cloud Security at Credit Karma. He has over 15 years of experience in IAM, Applied Crypto, Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, especially in the FinTech industry. He's a Startup Advisor and Forbes Technology Council Member.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankarnviswanathan/

TIMESTAMPS:

2:39 - How he landed in Cybersecurity

4:07 - Forbes Technology Council

5:06 - What is Applied Crypto?

6:58 - What's happening in cyber?

9:14 - Non-Human Identity Security

22:24 - What Keeps Cyber Talent Engaged & Happy

26:20 - His Approach to Hiring Junior Level

28:54 - What tools would he learn first?

30:07 - Sources of threat intel

32:10 - Favorite Movies (it's not Star Wars)

33:12 - Hiring

33:46 - Questions for a recruiter

37:02 - Resume Reviews & Coaching

38:44 - Why AI Can't Write Your Resume For You

40:35 - What's led to his success 44:57 - Cruise Ship Mucker Story

48:34 - How he deals with stress of the job

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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Brandon Mathis is a talented Full Stack Developer in Raleigh, NC currently serving as CTO of vTestify. He runs Triangle Devs, a prominent local meetup/slack/discord group. He is a lifelong tinkerer, coder & product builder. He's also a husband, dad, gamer, and writer. His has a focus on web development using: Javascript (Node, React, ect), Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, Chef), DevOps (AWS, Ansible, Docker), Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Design, REST API Development, and SQL/NoSQL. If you're trying to build high quality software products at scale and planning to leverage local Raleigh talent you should start by scheduling a conversation with Brandon.

GUEST:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathisbrandon/

Website: www.brandonmathis.me

GitHub: https://github.com/BrandonMathis

Triangle Devs: https://triangledevelopers.com/

Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/triangle-devs/

TIMESTAMPS:

1:36 - Favorite movie

5:28 - Star Wars chat

9:07 - Acolyte cancellation

13:57 - How he landed in software engineering

21:26 - Golang vs Rust

24:59 - His favorite language

26:58 - JavaScript vs TypeScript

29:57 - Where he recommends newbies start coding

33:09 - Would he recommend getting in a dev career

35:05 - GitHub Go-Pilot

37:21 - Dev skills becoming part of life

43:03 - Mac or PC

46:15 - Alfred on Mac

46:43 - Spotlight on iPhone

51:28 - His recent focus on Cybersecurity

54:34 - Polyfill.js hack

58:48 - Reallocation from QA to Cybersecurity

1:00:17 - Why can't devs test their own code

1:04:44 - No size company is immune to cyber attacks

1:05:34 - Ethics of storing passwords properly

1:08:26 - What happened to Agile / Scrum

1:13:32 - Best way to measure dev performance

1:19:53 - Cheaply made Agencyware vs American Made Software

1:28:14 - Roller skates vs Rollerblades

1:29:50 - Snowblades

1:31:18 - Future of AI writing code

1:34:19 - What Shopify did to eCommerce development

1:37:49 - Gen Z never leaves social media

1:39:00 - Where can you find Brandon

HOST:

Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting

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