Masha Sedova, cofounder of Elevate Security
This week’s bout of the Security Stories podcast was among my favorites to report, for a couple reasons.

Our interview has been a remarkable woman called Masha Sedova, who co-founded Elevate Protection. Elevate uses information and analytics to invoke cultural and behavioural alter in a business’s method towards cybersecurity.  I fulfilled Masha at RSA when she have been introduced as finalist for the 2020 Advancement Sandbox award just, which lets you know something how unique and interesting her solution is approximately.

Before Elevate, Masha was a Safety Executive at Salesforce where she constructed and led the security engagement team centered on improving the security mindset of employees, customers and partners. And it’s where she had the theory for Elevate there.

I’ve loved that within the safety industry always, you can make an improvement really. Masha saw a thing that could change, and got the courage to proceed and established something up herself out, than wait for another person to accomplish it rather. “The doesn’t need to be this method” may be the mantle she had when she went for it.

There’s multiple reasons why this has been one of the best interviews.  For anybody tempted to listen, I’d say – arrive for the initial insights into human behaviour and just why the security is manufactured by us choices that people do sometimes.  And remain for the discussion on establishing a business then, as a female, in the security market.

During the job interview, Masha recalls a particular and very personal exemplory case of gender discriminatory actions she came against whilst she had been attempting to raise investment 3 years back.  This resulted in Masha developing a hiring policy in her organization which focusses on hiring more women, and embracing diversity generally.

It struck the chord with me really. Because this sort of sex discrimination isn’t uncommon for ladies in the technology industry (dare I say many sectors). I myself can recall still, extremely vividly, when it’s happened certainly to me. I it&rsquo know;s happened to close friends of mine.  It can remain with you, and contains lasting impact.

So I needed to talk about this important information to state that it doesn’t need to be this real way, and Masha can be an example of the sort or sort of leadership that’s required to guarantee it doesn’t need to happen to other people. Thanks to Masha&rsquo also;s co-founder Robert Fly, who had her for the reason that investor meeting back.

I have several friends with daughters that are growing up, and I soon wish that, the worldwide world is available to whatever they would like to do making use of their lives and careers.

In this episode also, Ben discusses the resurgence of digital extortion scams, what they have a tendency to include, and how to proceed about them.

And we’ve our &lsquo finally;On this Day’ feature. Because of this, we go back in to the cybersecurity archives and choose significant activities that happened for this right time, many years ago however.  We’ve gone back again to the 70s to speak about the initial ever network attack, and the 90s were visited by us within the last episode to speak about the start of Snort onto opensource, but for this event we’re only likely to go three years back, because, well we all couldn’t not.

Because on, may 12^th 2017, something called WannaCry begun to wreak havoc within personal computers over the global globe.  We revisit the timeline of the strike, how everything unfolded, nowadays and the importance that WannaCry nevertheless has.

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