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VP of Information Security and IT @ Front

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Does your organization use vCISOs or CISOs?

Team & Organizational Design

vCISO

CISO

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Which browser do you use at work?

Applications & Platforms

Internet Explorer

Microsoft Edge

Google Chrome

Mozilla Firefox

Safari

Brave

Other

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Do you have remote employees on your team?

Talent Management & Performance

Yes

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Today I believe you could and should be able to work anywhere. Where do most organizations have employees work? What's working, what's not?

Co-working

Home Office

Hotel

Restaurants, Coffee House

Company Office | Open Office Concept

Company Office | Closed Office Concept

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Is your company or team accounting for business assets or processes that depend on shadow IT?

Cloud Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery

Yes

Not yet, but we plan to

Unsure

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What motivation for malicious insider threats are you most concerned about?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Security & GRC

Fraud

Monetary gain

IP theft

Sabotage

Espionage

To cause reputation damage

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Which departments/groups within your organization present the biggest risk for insider threats?

Governance, Risk & Compliance Security & GRC

Finance

Customer success

R&D

BoD/executive management teams

Sales

General administration

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Do you have remote employees on your team?

Talent Management & Performance

Yes

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What is the #1 threat to cloud security at your organization?

Cloud Security & GRC Compute+6 more

Malware

Data Exposure

Weak/Broken Authentication

Insider Threats

Application Vulnerabilities

Overprovisioned Access

Other

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Which type of test failure do you frequently encounter during software testing? Select all that apply

Productivity Tools Technical Product Management Software Development+11 more

"Real" errors/defects

False positives (issues that aren't defects)

False negatives (missed defects)

Failures due to fragile/flaky test automation

Errors due to environment or setup issues

Unhandled user errors

None of the above

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How would you handle crisis communications following a major incident, given that CISOs/CSOs are often blamed?

Threat Intelligence & Incident Response Threat & Vulnerability Management Security Strategy & Roadmap

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

Crisis communications are difficult but the information aspect goes back to transparency and humility. Transparency and humility are admirable character traits, but they’re also powerful tools in our space when it comes to ...read more

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What types of threat actors are hardest to protect against, and why?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Threat Intelligence & Incident Response Threat & Vulnerability Management

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

What I found interesting about the Okta compromise, and with the Lapsus$ group in general, is how completely confused everyone was by the return of the chaotic threat actor. We've dealt with nation states and ransomware ...read more

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Were you impacted by the Okta compromise announced in March 2022? What were your thoughts on it?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Threat Intelligence & Incident Response Threat & Vulnerability Management

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

Luckily I was not impacted. We did the typical password resets for everybody, which is a good exercise to go through anyway. It happened in January, so by the time we heard about it, it was too late. But we change passwords ...read more

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What improvements are you seeing in cybersecurity tools?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Security Vendor/Product Assessment

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

We're not doing a great job as an industry when it comes to tools. We have a million security tools and things are changing very slowly and incrementally. We had MPLS at one point but that turned into SD-WAN, which turned ...read more

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Will ransomware incidents decrease now that ransomware operators are being arrested?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Threat Intelligence & Incident Response Risk Management

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

You see these ransomware operator takedowns and arrests time after time, but it's a blip on the radar. The ransomware operators come back rebranded or a different crew takes over. I don't think these arrests are going ...read more

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Have nation state cyber attacks become a concern for all organizations?

Security Strategy & Roadmap Threat Intelligence & Incident Response Risk Management

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

I'm not affiliated with the government anymore, so I'm not as concerned about cyber attacks from other nation states as I once was. But one of the interesting things about my role at Front is that Front is an email ...read more

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Thoughts on cybersecurity mesh architecture (CSMA)? Is it just a new buzzword or a genuine step up from Zero Trust and SASE?

Zero Trust Security Security Strategy & Roadmap+1 more

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

The idea has a lot of merit. If you can consider your security strategy to be puzzle pieces fitting together, rather than overlapping silos, there is much to be gained. Between better analytics, using "best in class" ...read more

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How do you approach hiring candidates who don’t have tech industry experience?

Team & Organizational Design Talent Sourcing & Hiring IT Strategy & Roadmap

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

I grew up a musician, so I'm hyper-focused on creativity, performance and other things that are part of my creative pedigree. When I started working with people I realized that although musicianship doesn't involve ...read more

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How much consideration do you give non-tech experiences when hiring new staff?

Team & Organizational Design Talent Sourcing & Hiring IT Strategy & Roadmap

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

When I was hiring tier-one IT people, they would always have a resume with only one experience listed, which was often a short internship. I'd ask them where else they’ve worked, and initially they’d say, "Nowhere." ...read more

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Can you increase retention by establishing a career path for your employees?

Talent Management & Performance Employee Engagement Mentoring & Coaching

Joseph DoyleVP of Information Security and IT @ Front in Software2 years ago

Retention is so hard and if people don't have a career path you can't retain at all right now. I have folks who would love to stay but now that they have a new skill or certification, there's no upward mobility. ...read more

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