On this episode of What Lies Beneath, we’re featuring a conversation from Interos’ 2020 summit for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) featuring Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations, in conversation with Nick Beim from Venrock.

Richard is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the leading voices on American foreign policy and the changing nature of the global order. He served in the Pentagon and the State Department, where he was the Director of Policy planning. He’s the author of 14 books on American foreign policy, most recently The World in Disarray and The World: A Brief Introduction.

Building on his decades as a global diplomat and leading voice in American foreign policy, Richard provides a glimpse into the future. Our discussion included:

• Core technological shifts as they relate to the future of globalization
• The impact those shifts will have on the industry as a whole
• What most discussions centered on the future seem to miss
• The American relationship with China and why it’s more important now than ever before
  

All guests’ participation in our summit was purely as a public service and is in no way an endorsement of Interos.

On this episode of What Lies Beneath, we’re featuring a conversation from Interos’ 2020 summit for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) featuring Valerie Abend from Accenture and Jason Harrell from DTCC.

How can the financial service industry build greater resiliency in a time of such uncertainty and unprecedented disruption? What are the greatest risks to resilience? In this session Valerie and Jason detail the core considerations that should drive supply chain risk management strategy.

As part of the summit, the panel discussed:

• What financial services professionals need to be thinking about in terms of third party resilience and risk management
• The positive things that have come out of the COVID-19 pandemic
• The supervisory and regulatory role in enhancing financial institutions resilience
• How COVID-19 has impacted cyber resilience
  

All guests’ participation in our summit was purely as a public service and is in no way an endorsement of Interos.

On this episode of What Lies Beneath, we’re featuring a conversation from Interos’ 2020 summit for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) featuring Meg Anderson from Principal Financial Group, Jim Routh from MassMutual, and Phil Venables from Goldman Sachs, in conversation with Kevin Mandia, CEO of FireEye. With decades of experience in digital risk, they provide lessons learned on how to integrate into C-suite and Board conversations and priorities to help improve enterprise resilience against epic business disruptions. 

As part of the summit, the panel discussed:

• The biggest supply chain risks facing companies as a result of the COVID pandemic
• What we worry about in the supply chain, and how to address those supply chain risks
• The new normal that we’re all facing as we navigate through a global pandemic
• Some of the challenges facing those in the cybersecurity industry are facing at this point, and how they’re protecting enterprise operations in the midst of it all.
  

All guests’ participation in our summit was purely as a public service and is in no way an endorsement of Interos.

On this episode of What Lies Beneath, we’re featuring a conversation from Interos’ 2020 summit for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) featuring Manuel Rios from Fidelity in conversation with EVP of Risk Recon, Pete Kobs. Cyber risk in digital supply chains is widely acknowledged as a major source of disruption to enterprise resilience yet much of it remains hidden deep in enterprise digital supply chains. Pete Kobs and Manny Rios discuss their experience working with assessment and operations managers in enterprises and their suppliers to mitigate those risks.

As part of the summit, Mr Kobs and Mr. Rios discussed:

• The number one requirement to having a robust readiness plan
• The role of supply chain risk management moving forward, and and the best practices in that space
• What challenges people across the cybersecurity industry are dealing with in the wake of the COVID crisis
• How to work with a physical security vendor that you can’t physically interact with.
  

Both guests’ participation in our summit was purely as a public service and is in no way an endorsement of Interos.

On this episode of What Lies Beneath, we’re featuring a conversation from Interos’ 2020 summit for the Financial Services Industry (FSI) featuring Senator Mark Warner in conversation with investor Ted Schlein. A former investor & venture capitalist, Sen. Warner is intimately familiar with the intersection of business, technology, & government. As a part of his official duties, Sen. Warner serves on the Senate Finance & Banking Committees.

As part of the summit, Mr. Schlein and Sen. Warner discussed:

• The history of American investment in technology
• The United States’ increasingly tense relationship with China
• Why we need to do a better job of explaining decoupling from China to our allies, or risk alienating them
• The perception generated by differing approaches to industrial policy
  

Sen. Warner’s participation in our summit was purely as a public service and is in no way an endorsement of Interos.

On this episode of What Lies Beneath?, we talk to Edna Conway, Vice President of Global Security, Risk & Compliance for Microsoft Azure. Having served at Cisco for 20 years prior to her time at Microsoft, Edna is a renowned expert in third party risk, and is consistently recognized as one of the most important innovators in the field. She is a recipient of the 2019 Cyber Futurist Award, and we talked all about:

• Digital transformation, and what we should be doing to capture opportunities while recognizing the risks.
• The need for a holistic approach to managing third party risk
• The role of private-public partnerships and how it is shaping up to evolve over the next few years
• The approach needed to start addressing the complexity of today’s global supply chain in the wake of the current pandemic

On this episode of What Lies Beneath?, we talk with Trey Herr, & Stewart Scott, co-authors of the recent Atlantic Council report, “Breaking Trust: Shades of Crisis Across an Insecure Software Supply Chain.” 

For too long, when people have talked about supply chain security, it’s been all focused on the physical hardware. Where is the physical box? What chips make up that box? Who built it? Where does it live? But the digital supply chain is something that needs to be paid attention to. 

Attacks against the digital supply chain can impact nearly any company, but the defense organizations are particularly susceptible to these kinds of attacks. But why is that? Is it similar to the reasons we see for other kinds of supply chain attacks? 

Trey & Stewart spend the better part of this episode talking us through their report, and highlighting, among other things: 

-Why digital supply chain security is so crucial

-Why defense organizations are especially vulnerable to these attacks

-Untrusted technology, specifically in the 5g space

-Why you can't talk about 5g security without accounting for software security

You can access the Atlantic Council paper here!

COVID has affected every business differently, forcing many to make increasingly difficult decisions, many of which have unintended consequences for cybersecurity. 

On this episode of What Lies Beneath?, we talk to Kevin Mandia, the CEO of FireEye. Prior to assuming his current role, Kevin served as FireEye’s President, and before that was the founder and CEO of his own company Mandiant, which rose to national prominence in 2013 after exposing Chinese cyber-espionage. We talk about:

-The top 5 Risks in Cyber right now

-Unique challenges presented by data Storage 

-How achievable is the Zero Trust Supply Chain?

-Check out our October 1 Digital Summit here for more from Kevin, along with Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), Dr. Richard Haass, Jim Routh (MassMutual), and others!