Steve King

Director, Cybersecurity Advisory Services, Information Security Media Group

King, an experienced cybersecurity professional, has served in senior leadership roles in technology development for the past 19 years. He has founded nine startups, including Endymion Systems and seeCommerce. He has held leadership roles in marketing and product development, operating as CEO, CTO and CISO for several startups, including Netswitch Technology Management. He also served as CIO for Memorex and was the co-founder of the Cambridge Systems Group. He has been granted engineering patents encompassing remote access multi-factor authentication using adaptive machine learning, applied cyber-threat intelligence networks, a universal IoT security architecture, contextual semantic search technologies, web-enabled multimedia transfers, image capture and database smart query processing.

Challenges in the World of Cybersecurity Marketing

Steve King • February 1, 2022

Ravi Patil, director of product management and strategy at Broadcom, says partnering with customers to develop cybersecurity marketing "offers a markedly superior customer experience than a traditional vendor that might just sell the software and walk away until the contract is up."

Brand Narratives and Awareness in Cybersecurity

Steve King • January 25, 2022

Kyle Flaherty has worked with a range of companies, changing the worlds of big data, IoT, BYOD, SaaS, open-source software, network security, fraud detection, data analytics, marketing automation and network management. He weighs in on brands and how metrics feed different audiences.

Making Cybersecurity Marketing People-Centric

Steve King • December 17, 2021

Sherry Lowe, who has been in senior leadership in the marketing space for over a decade, focuses on not letting metrics kill marketing. She discusses injecting more creativity into cybersecurity marketing strategy and standing out in a market full of look-alikes.

The 'Doctor of Zero Trust' Says 'Change and Get Better'

Steve King • December 9, 2021

With the support of the recent executive order on improving the nation's cybersecurity, Zero Trust strategy is gaining greater recognition. But there is still a degree of resistance to Zero Trust adoption. Dr, Chase Cunningham, CSO of Ericom, discusses this and other issues around Zero Trust.

Cybersecurity Unplugged: Improving Healthcare Security

Steve King • November 26, 2021

In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," Dan Bowden, CISO at Sentara Health, discusses telemedicine, IoMT, and explains why we’re lagging so far behind in healthcare security. "It’s because of how the data is managed, data standards, data integrity."

Cybersecurity Unplugged: Start on the Zero Trust Journey

Steve King • November 23, 2021

Drawing on his deep background in technology, government and law, cybersecurity adviser Tony Scott delves into many pressing issues in cybersecurity today - including zero trust. In this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged," he says organizations should get started on the journey now.

A Security Strategy for the Blockchain

Steve King • November 16, 2021

Ari Redbord of TRM Labs, who has had an extensive career in law enforcement, points out that 2020 was a pivotal year for putting cybersecurity on the agenda throughout the government. He discusses securing cryptocurrecy, the blockchain and other elements of the "digital battlefield."

Applying Critical, Systems and Design Thinking to Security

Steve King • September 24, 2021

Brian Barnier, a director of analytics who is developing a course on critical and design thinking in cybersecurity for CyberEd.io, is a firm believer in the importance of critical thinking today. He discusses how that, plus systems and design thinking, can improve the way cybersecurity functions.

Ongoing Issues With Security, Privacy, Complexity

Steve King • August 13, 2021

Rebecca Herold, host of the podcast show "Data Security and Privacy with the Privacy Professor," weighs in on the state of cybersecurity and privacy education and gives her recommendations on how to remedy the many issues the security community faces today.

Autonomous Real-Time Patching and Penetration Testing

Steve King • August 3, 2021

David Brumley, CEO of ForAllSecure, is the creator of Mayhem, a machine that applies patching and continuous penetration testing autonomously and in real time. He discusses software flaw detection and more in this episode of "Cybersecurity Unplugged."

Cybersecurity's Impact on the Global Economy

Steve King • July 30, 2021

Macroeconomist Katheryn "Kadee" Russ analyzes how the deployment of 5G networks and technologies will lead to a change in the growth of the digital economy and digital trade.

Waging a War on Cybercrime With Big Data and AI

Steve King • July 28, 2021

Some 95% of today’s compromises are either zero-day exploits or malware-free attacks; that means that signature-based behavioral defenses only work for 5% of attacks, says Joe Head of Intrusion Inc. He discusses how to use massive lists of historical data to train AI to spot and stop malicious activity.

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