Christopher s the CISO and Vice President of Cyber Risk Management at Gillware. He is a technical lead with over 15 years of information security experience. He has experience in the challenges of information security in cloud-based hosting, DevOps, managed security services, e-commerce, healthcare, financial, and payment card industries

 

•                Author of Managing Network Security with Snort and IDS Tools

•                He has worked in mature information security teams

•                Built information security programs from scratch and leading them into maturity in wide variety of compliance regimes.

•                An expert in the theoretical aspects of information security best practice, he is also experienced in the practical aspects of building secure technical environments

 

 

Episode Summary:

 

In this episode of the Be Real Show, Travis is joined by Christopher Gerg and they discuss the threats against information security, ransomware and challenges businesses face. They talk about the importance of penetration test to ensure your information security program is working correctly.

 

Connect:

 

Christopher Gerg - cgerg@gillware.com

Website -  https://www.gillware.com

Twitter -  https://twitter.com/gwdatarecovery?lang=en

LinkedIn -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-gerg-8aa0a66a/

 

 

Resources Mentioned:

 

Managing Security with Snort & IDS Tools - http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596006617.do

 

YubiKey - https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/

 

Carbon Black - https://www.carbonblack.com/products/solutions/use-case/next-generation-antivirus/

 

Malware bytes - https://www.malwarebytes.com

 

Sophos - https://home.sophos.com/en-us.aspx

 

Slack - https://slack.com

 

My Brother, My Brother and Me - https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/my-brother-my-brother-and-me/

 

 

People Mentioned

 

Mr. Robot - https://twitter.com/whoismrrobot

 

Dalai Lama - https://www.dalailama.com