Tony Sager, Senior Vice President and Chief Evangelist at CIS (Center for Internet Security) joins us to discuss the best approaches to the changing security landscape in the wake of COVID-19. Tony is a lifelong defender, with more than 44 years of experience. He spent most of his career at the NSA and now leads the development of the CIS Controls, a worldwide consensus project to find and support technical best practices in cybersecurity.

 The following is an edited excerpt from a recent episode of Tripwire’s Cybersecurity Podcast.

Tim Erlin: Welcome everyone to the Tripwire Cybersecurity Podcast. This is Tim Erlin. I’m the vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire. Today, I am joined by Tony Sager, senior vice president and chief evangelist at CIS. Welcome, Tony.

Tony Sager: Thank you very much. It’s a pleasure to be here with y’all.

Changes Produced by the COVID-19 Pandemic

TE: Okay. So we’re here to talk about the way that this COVID-19 pandemic is changing the information security landscape. From your perspective at CIS, what kind of changes are you seeing in the cybersecurity market or the cybersecurity industry as a result of the pandemic?

TS: Yeah, great question, Tim. You know, we’re both observers and we’re participants. So we’re a small but mighty, a technology company, a little nonprofit, and a pretty traditional office environment with a small percentage of people working from home scattered around the country. And almost overnight, maybe a long weekend or so, we find ourselves as a hundred percent remote workforce. So a lot of things happened in a hurry. Most successfully, I’m happy to say mostly because of what we did over the weekend, which was a pretty amazing bit of work, but also the prior year or two in (Read more...)