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Greg Tomchick is a former professional athlete. He played in the minor league for three seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is the author of the book Growing into you. He is driven by a passion for cybersecurity from an experience he had with a former company. He is currently the Partner and CEO of Valorr. They focused on identifying and mitigating cyber threats upfront and when necessary, countering cyber attacks with targeted and strategic responses.
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Gregs Origin Story
04:15 Incubation Technologies
05:42 The right mindset
10:26 Cyberattack
15:12 Cybersecurity is a business problem
15:56 100% Cyber security?
16:56 Stimulation Output
17:50 How much cybersecurity is enough?
19:17 The process at Valor
22:38 Communicating with the Department of No
24:50 Advise for CEOs when talking about digital risk
27:16 Talking to the executive team
30:02 The Proactive side
31:58 Threat Actors
34:00 Third-Party Risk and Communicating with Vendors
37:50 Laws
43:12 Gregs Book
46:00 More about Greg
To learn more about Greg visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-tomchick/
To learn more about Dark Rhino Security visit https://www.darkrhinosecurity.com
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Greg Tomchick is a former professional athlete. He played in the minor league for three seasons for the St. Louis Cardinals. He is the author of the book Growing into you. He is driven by a passion for cybersecurity from an experience he had with a former company. He is currently the Partner and CEO of Valorr. They focused on identifying and mitigating cyber threats upfront and when necessary, countering cyber attacks with targeted and strategic responses.
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Gregs Origin Story
04:15 Incubation Technologies
05:42 The right mindset
10:26 Cyberattack
15:12 Cybersecurity is a business problem
15:56 100% Cyber security?
16:56 Stimulation Output
17:50 How much cybersecurity is enough?
19:17 The process at Valor
22:38 Communicating with the Department of No
24:50 Advise for CEOs when talking about digital risk
27:16 Talking to the executive team
30:02 The Proactive side
31:58 Threat Actors
34:00 Third-Party Risk and Communicating with Vendors
37:50 Laws
43:12 Gregs Book
46:00 More about Greg
To learn more about Greg visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-tomchick/
To learn more about Dark Rhino Security visit https://www.darkrhinosecurity.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: Stay connected with us on our social media pages where we'll give you snippets, alerts for new podcasts, and even behind the scenes of our studio!
Instagram: @securityconfidential and @OfficialDarkRhinoSecurity
Facebook: @Dark-Rhino-Security-Inc
Twitter: @darkrhinosec
LinkedIn: @dark-rhino-security
Youtube: @DarkRhinoSecurity
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