Tag Archive for: Ray Rothrock

We’re All Going to Get Hacked

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Harvard Business School  | February 13, 2019

In November 2014, Sony Pictures suffered a massive, high-profile data breach, with hackers breaking in and stealing everything from confidential employee data to unreleased films. And not long after, on a Saturday morning, Ray Rothrock’s cell phone rings. Rothrock (MBA 1988) is the CEO of the cybersecurity firm Red Seal, and a higher-up at Sony was looking for his help. After the breach, he told Rothrock, the company essentially hit factory reset on their entire network. The phones were down. They were doing payroll by handwritten checks. They had burned it all down. And now they needed someone to help them rebuild it.

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New year, new tactics to keep your personal info safe after Marriott data breach

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Los Angeles Times  | January 14, 2019

As consumers, we’re thinking about data breaches all wrong. We ask how something like this can happen. We are shocked when 383 million people, more than the population of the United States, are potentially affected by digital evil-doers. We think nothing will happen to us. And we continue on our merry way. Wrong, wrong, wrong, and especially wrong, experts say.

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Cybersecurity: The Hackers Are Already Through The Utilities’ Doors, So What’s Next?

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Forbes | December 20, 2018

In a recent conversation on the topic of cybersecurity, Ray Rothrock – CEO of cybersecurity firm RedSeal, and author of the 2018 book Digital Resilience – offered some interesting and sobering insights on the state of the cyber world and utilities. He commented that hackers are already likely sitting in various U.S. utility systems and reconnoitering, in what the Department of Homeland Security calls an Advanced Persistent Threat mode. The critical question, then, is what to do about that fact, and how to create resilient responses.

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Cyber Security Hub: How Digitally Resilient Is Your Company?

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Cyber Security Hub | November 7, 2018

Unlike the game Whack-a-Mole, where the object is to clobber a mole as it pops its head out of a hole, cyber threats are becoming more targeted and harder to whack, said Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal, and author of the book, Digital Resilience: Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat? on Monday’s episode 55 of Task Force 7 Radio. Rothrock was the guest of host George Rettas, the president and CEO of Task Force 7 Radio and Task Force 7 Technologies.

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Podcast: Why Digital Resilience Is The Answer

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Taskforce 7 Radio | November 5, 2018

With Ray Rothrock, Chief Executive Officer

Ray Rothrock, the CEO of Redseal and Board Member of cyber security incubator Team 8 appears on Episode #55 of Task Force 7 Radio to talk about his new book, “Digital Resilience – Is Your Company Ready for the Next Cyber Threat” and why Digital Resilience is the only way to win the Cyber Security battle we are all engaged in on a daily basis.

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Resilient regulation can help end the tech-consumer stalemate

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The Hill | October 21, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

The reason for the absence of meaningful dialogue and meaningful movement is that the two sides persist in choosing the wrong adjectives. They argue over preemptive federal legislation versus state legislation. They fight over tough legislation versus soft legislation.

What they should do is discard all of these modifiers and instead embrace, together, just one type of legislation: resilient. We need privacy regulation that promotes the resilience of data privacy and security. And we need it whether we run Google and Facebook or use Google and Facebook.

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DriveScale TechNow Podcast with Ray Rothrock

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DriveScale TechNow Podcast | October 3, 2018

With Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

In this edition of TechNow with Tom Lyon, Tom talks to Ray Rothrock, venture capitalist, nuclear engineer, cyber security expert, and current CEO of RedSeal, a firm that helps organizations quantify their digital resilience.

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Cybersecurity: Duck and Cover or Stand Up and Do Business?

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CEOWORLD | October 1, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

Cybersecurity isn’t working today.  In 2016, the Ponemon Institute reported that each of the 383 companies it surveyed had a “26 percent probability of a material data breach involving ten thousand lost or stolen records” within the “next twenty-four months.” Take this beyond two years—say to the projected life of your business—and you must accept the certainty of data breach. If cybersecurity were working, that certainty would not exist.

What has gone wrong with cybersecurity?

The exponential development of digital technology has left it in the cyber dust.

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How do we build digitally resilient organizations?

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CSO Online | September 4, 2018

So, what does a digitally resistant organization look like? In a recent column, Ray Rothrock, a CEO who has written a book on Digital Resilience, says: “Instead of cowering behind a wall and hoping for the best, those who lead digitally resilient businesses ensure that they know the strengths, weaknesses, gaps and vulnerabilities of their networks.”

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Five Tips For Building Digital Resilience Into Your Business Plan

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Chief Executive | September 3, 2018

By Ray Rothrock, RedSeal CEO

The security advisory firm Herjavec Group reports that cybercrime damages are set to cost businesses $6 trillion annually by 2021, with cybersecurity spending topping $1 trillion from 2017 to 2021. A trillion here, a trillion there … pretty soon you’re talking real money — more than enough to acknowledge that managing an organization’s cyber risk has truly become a CEO and Board-level responsibility.

It is essential today that enterprises build digital resilience into their business plans—and do so deep and wide.

Tip #1: Understand the difference between digital security and digital resilience.

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