State CISO 🎙️ Episodes

177
July 18, 2024

#177: Ryan Murray, Ralph Johnson, Owen Zorge, Cátia Pereira - Building Resilient Cybersecurity: Strategies for Teams, Tech, Talent in the Public Sector

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Recorded at the 2024 Phoenix Live Podcast Tour at GMI on April 1st to 3rd.


Featuring:

Ryan Murray, Deputy Director and Chief Information Security Officer, State of Arizona

See Ryan's past episodes here: https://podcast.techtables.com/guests/ryan-murray/

Ralph Johnson, Chief Information Security Officer, State of Washington
Owen Zorge, Chief Information Security Officer, City of Chandler
Cátia Pereira, Manager - Sales Engineering at Kitewor...
151
Sept. 6, 2023

Ep.151 From the Red Zone to the End Zone: CISO Cyber Strategies that Won't Bust Your Bracket

Show Notes
Featuring Ryan Murray, State CISO, State of Arizona; Krishna Edathil, CTO/Assistant Commissioner, Texas Higher Ed. Board, and Tim Roemer, ThriveDX President & Fmr. State CISO, State Arizona


We're all talking to the same people... How do we replicate that out to those other entities and then help give them the resources to do it? ~ Ryan Murray
I'm not the CTO; I'm the Chief Trust Officer... You can achieve [that] through the people and the relationship and then the trust that you bu...
148
Aug. 25, 2023

Ep.148 Cybersecurity Defenders Unite: The Do's and Don'ts of Protecting Real People in Real Time

Show Notes
🔗 Connect with Dr. Chris Mitchell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-p-m-b4130b168/
🔗 Connect with Ryan Murray: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-murray-az/
🔗 Connect with Jeremy Deckert: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremydeckert/
🎙 About the episode
You have to start with a risk assessment and oh, we're not defending against ghosts, right? - Dr. Chris Mitchell


"We don't necessarily need all of this fancy machine learning stuff. It helps us respond to machine-based threats at ...
126
March 14, 2023

Ep.126 Pioneering the Frontier of Cybersecurity with Michael Gregg, CISO, State of North Dakota

In this episode of The Public Sector Show by TechTables we interview Michael Gregg, CISO, State of North Dakota where we talk about cybersecurity OKRs, how his team is setting the bar with "Operation Limbo" for automated phishing defense, bridging the workforce gap with mentorships and apprenticeships, why continuous improvement in cybersecurity mirrors the disciplined effort of a gym workout, and Michael’s latest books.


Connect with Michael: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelgregg01/
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Guest: Michael Gregg
116
Jan. 10, 2023

Ep.116 Interview with Ray Yepes, CISO, State of Colorado

Featuring Ray Yepes, CISO, State of Colorado


Summary
Ray Yepes, CISO of Colorado, believes a centralized IT infrastructure model is most beneficial for security, economics, personnel resources, scalability, and disaster recovery. It provides better control, cost savings, and fewer people needed to manage the infrastructure, as well as increased scalability, better risk mitigation, and continuity of operations.


Before we get into this week’s podcast, I wanted to give a special shout-out to ...
Guest: Ray Yepes