Collaboration in Cybersecurity Policy and Practice (GUEST: Edna Conway)

Edna Conway, an innovative executive and thought leader with over 30 years of experience leading cybersecurity, risk management, and value chain transformation at Fortune 10 technology companies, highlights how collaboration in cybersecurity is critical for the development of and adherence to policy and practice in this Kitecast episode. Edna is currently a Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and CEO and Founder of EMC Advisors. She currently is an advisor or board member for a long list of technology and professional services startups and nonprofit organizations. One theme from the discussion with Edna centered on the cybersecurity workforce shortage. She emphasized the need to look beyond traditional sources and backgrounds to find talent. This requires partnerships between companies, academia, and nonprofits focused on training and upskilling people from diverse backgrounds for cybersecurity roles. Apprenticeship and mentorship models were discussed as potential solutions. #cybersecurity #Kitecast #podcast #riskmanagement More podcasts: kiteworks.com/kitecast Learn more: https://www.kiteworks.com/kitecast/co... Additional Links: LinkedIn:   / ednaconway   EMC Advisors:   / emcadvisors   Follow us on Social Media: Twitter: twitter.com/Kiteworks Facebook: facebook.com/KiteworksCGCP LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/kiteworkscgcp Subscribe to Kiteworks' YouTube Channel:    / @kiteworkscgcp   Kiteworks enables organizations to effectively manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content. To this end, we created a platform that delivers content governance, compliance, and protection to customers. The platform unifies, tracks, controls, and secures sensitive content moving within, into, and out of their organization, significantly improving risk management while ensuring regulatory compliance on all sensitive content communications. With on-premises, private cloud, hybrid, and FedRAMP deployment options, the Kiteworks platform provides the security and governance C-suite leaders need to protect their organizations, mitigate risk, and adhere to rigorous compliance regulations such as NIST CSF (National Institute of Standards & Technology Cybersecurity Framework), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act), SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), GLBA (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act), and FISMA (Federal Information Security Management Act), among others.