Technology and its Impact on Users and Cybersecurity, with special guest, David Willis

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Episode Summary
Technology is everywhere in society these days from our communication, shopping, and commerce capabilities. Whether email, online purchases, or using the blockchain, it amounts to large amounts of data being collected about people. All of this data, while easy to store, is also harder to manage and protect. As users, people exhibit behaviors when using this data, and the technology is learning those behaviors to effectively identify if it's this person based on geography, time, and frequency. All of this, along with being able to help people properly secure their data, and when they make an error, they receive a small learning mission to complete to help understand the mistake without feeling inadequate or reprimanded.
In this month's podcast, David Willis shares his experiences with technology, human behaviors, and micro-learning based on his years of military and technical expertise over the past twenty years.

David Willis, Head of Technology Integrations for the Business Development Team
David is an experienced business, security, and technology leader with over 20 years experience across telecommunications, financial services, and software industry verticals.
David currently serves as Head of Technology Integrations for the Business Development Team, focused on addressing tactical and strategic security and IT solution integration needs at scale for Netskope customers. David also leads the building and expansion of new routes to market for Netskope.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrwillis/
• Netskope page: https://www.netskope.com/blog/author/davidwillis

Show Links

• Bright Shiny Object Syndrome (BSOS) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_object_syndrome
• GDPR - https://gdpr-info.eu/
• California Privacy Act - https://oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
• New York Protection Act - https://opengovernment.ny.gov/what-you-should-know-nys-personal-privacy-protection-law-pppl
• BJ Fogg Tweet - https://twitter.com/bjfogg/status/53486588944056321
• Rorschach Test - ​​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test
• Death by many duck bites - https://www.amazon.com/Death-Duck-Bite-Novelty-T-Shirt/dp/B07DMTTLBB

KnowBe4 Resources

• KnowBe4 Blog - https://blog.knowbe4.com
• Erich Kron - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erichkron
• Jelle Wieringa - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jellewieringa
• James McQuiggan, Producer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jmcquiggan
• Javvad Malik, Producer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/javvad
• Music Composed by: Brian Sanyshyn - https://www.briansanyshynmusic.com
• Announcer: Sarah McQuiggan - https://www.sarahmcquiggan.com

Luvut

1. Introductions (00:00:00)

2. How I got into cybersecurity (00:01:11)

3. How the military shaped me as a person and cybersecurity (00:04:24)

4. Humans & Technology (00:12:45)

5. Is the cloud a help or a hinderance? (00:18:45)

6. Cybersecurity Value Proposition between tech and users? (00:24:31)

7. Risk & Your Perspective (00:30:07)

8. Biggest cyber threat in the next decade? (00:34:27)

9. How can the industry improve? (00:38:25)

10. Wrap-up / Outros (00:40:12)