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Host Justin Beals interviews leading privacy, security and technology executives to discuss best practices related to IT security, data protection and compliance. Based in Seattle, he previously served as the CTO of NextStep and Koru, which won the 2018 Most Impactful Startup award from Wharton People Analytics. He is the creator of the patented Training, Tracking & Placement System and the author of “Aligning curriculum and evidencing learning effectiveness using semantic mapping of learning assets,” published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJet). Justin earned a BA from Fort Lewis College.
My first SOC 2 audit as a Chief Technology Officer felt like performance art. Here we were, dancing to the tune of an auditor that had never built a web application, let alone a business. So many of …
In the never-ending vortex of Silicon Valley's hype cycle, it's easy to get lost in the sea of superficial success stories and forget that true innovation often requires patience, persistence, and a …
"If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything" said Ronald Coase. Certainly the advent of AI has created some spectacular progress and failures. In the realm of patient care AI to…
Much of the United States' progress since World War II on the global stage is due to a powerful partnership between private industry and the US government. The internet itself was a DARPA research pr…
I’ve participated or led technology product teams for 25 years. And engaging in effective security practices was three simple activities: least privileges, change management and network/server config…
The state of networked computing systems today relies heavily on a networking architecture designed and implemented by people like David Hotlzman, our guest on Secure Talk. But what if our current “w…
It is election season in the United States and there continues to be a lot of FUD around the security of our elections. We decided to sit down with an expert to discuss election security and how citi…
In this episode of Secure Talk, host Justin Beals sits down with Danny Goodwin and Ed Schwarzschild, the authors of the book 'Job / Security: A Composite Portrait of the Expanding American Security I…
How do we predict the future? In our respective technology and security fields we are often asked to prognosticate on “what’s next?”. Understanding current trends is certainly helpful but what if you…