Karla Reffold is an experienced and passionate recruitment business owner, having set up BeecherMadden over 6 years ago. In October, she successfully sold her company to the global recruitment company, Nicoll Curtin - although she is still the CEO. Despite the tests of being a single parent to two young children, her corporate governance and cyber security recruitment company operates in UK, Europe and US. As well as this she has recently been recognised as a contributor for Forbes and a judge for the Cyber Security Awards in London.

Three takeaways:
- Transition people from relevant sectors where people have the soft skills required to be successful
- Money isn't everything
- Build your network

Find Karla on LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/karlajobling 
& at Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/forbeshumanresourcescouncil/people/karlareffold/#608939103b9c

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This podcast is sponsored by:
BeecherMadden - www.beechermadden.com
Cyber Security Professionals - www.cybersecurity-professionals.com

Karla Reffold - Talent, Networks & Money in Corporate Governance

Zane Lackey is the co-founder and Chief Security Officer at Signal Sciences and serves on the advisory boards of the Internet Bug Bounty Program and the US State Department backed Open Technology Fund. Prior to Signal Sciences, Zane was the Director of Security Engineering at Etsy and a Senior Security Consultant at ISec Partners. He has been featured by BBC, Forbes and Wired. As well as a frequent speaker at BlackHat, RSA and Microsoft BlueHat. 

Three takeways:
- Cyber Security is a business risk
- Security isn't the winner, the business is
- Implement security at the heart of every transformation

Follow Zane on Twitter: @zanelackey
Read Zane's thoughts: https://medium.com/@zanelackey

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Website: www.karlsharman.com

This podcast is sponsored by:
BeecherMadden - www.beechermadden.com
Cyber Security Professionals - www.cybersecurity-professionals.com

Zane Lackey - Risk, Transformation & his parents

Helen Rabe is an internationally experienced security professional who specialises in complex deliveries with a strong emphasis on security service management. Helen is currently the CISO at CBRE, previously holding the Director of Information Security role at Costa Coffee.

Three takeaways:
- Security needs to be a lifestyle choice
- Make the security department accessible
- Use a relatable and understandable language for all

Find Helen Rabe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenrabe/

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This podcast is sponsored by:
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Cyber Security Professionals - www.cybersecurity-professionals.com

Helen Rabe - Communication, Execution & Lifestyle within Security

Rob Knake is a Senior Fellow for Cyber Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. He focuses on governance, public and private partnerships as well as cyber conflict. 

He served from 2011 to 2015 as the Director for Cyber Security Policy at the Whitehouse. Rob was responsible for the development of the presidential policy on Cyber Security. He also built and managed federal processes for cyber incident response and the policies for international cyber conflict.

Three takeaways:
- Automate audits and reviews to get continuous feedback
- Nuclear is the only bigger threat than cyber war to our environment
- Cyber Conflict will affect company's and the public, meaning that every person should have 72 hours worth of living supplies. 

Follow Rob on Twitter: @robknake

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This podcast is sponsored by:
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Rob Knake - Cyber Policy, War & Conflict

Richard Merrygold is the Director of Group Data Protection at HomeServe. He is responsible for the protection of data across the European and UK business. He has recently developed and implemented a group wide privacy framework in preparation for GDPR covering all aspects of compliance for over 4 million customers.                                   

Three takeaways:
- There is no difference between Information Security, Data Protection, 
Data Privacy and Data Security - they are a combination.
- GDPR is a fantastic opportunity to provide a better relationship and insight into your customers. 
- GDPR will more likely lower your costs and drive up revenue. 

Follow Richard on Twitter: @RichMerrygold
Connect with Richard on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-merrygold-7856847/

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Richard Merrygold - Data Protection, Profit & GDPR

Welcome to the latest episode of the Zero Hour podcast and your host today is Karla Reffold. Today, we are joined by Anthony Johnson. Anthony has served as the Global CISO and Managing Director for multiple Fortune 100 companies, where he led some of the largest, most complex cybersecurity programs in the world. In addition to advising emerging and startup companies, Anthony is currently a Managing Partner at Delve Risk, where he leads a practice focused on driving technology and risk management transformation.

Key Minutes:
3:55 - Diversity
6:40 - Delve Risk
13:55 - Supporting the security vendors
16:40 - Buying patterns following Covid-19
18:50 - The reporting lines for a CISO
21:22 - C-suite recognising the value of cybersecurity
23:12 - Are we prepared for risk?
26:20 - Changes following Covid-19
29:43 - Entrepreneurship for CISOs 
32:35 - Limiting burnout
36:35 - Lessons from a start-up
42:55 - Biggest tips for anyone entering the security space
44:00 - Ten Quick Fire Questions

You can find Anthony at:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthony-johnson-delverisk/
Website: http://www.delverisk.com

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BeecherMadden - www.beechermadden.com
 Cyber Security Professionals - www.cybersecurity-professionals.com

Anthony Johnson - How to sell to CISOs using empathy

Welcome to the Zero Hour Podcast hosted by Karl Sharman and Karla Reffold, sponsored by Cyber Security Professionals. The podcast that speaks to the best talent in the cybersecurity industry. Each episode provides insights, techniques and tools required to be successful in the cybersecurity space. This podcast is now available on Stitcher, ITunes, SoundCloud and Spotify. Please follow our content at:
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Music by: Clark Henry-Brown

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