Part 2 with Deb Radcliff - CISO struggles and creating cyber thrillers
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Welcome to part two of Davida Dinerman\\u2019s fascinating conversation with Deb Radcliff. Deb is the first person to recognize cybersecurity as a reporting beat. She was immersed in the hacking community in the mid-1990s, when few people were familiar with hacking. Deb has won several awards for her investigative reporting, most notably two Jesse H. Neal Awards, one for best individual feature, for \\u201cHackers, Terrorists and Spies\\u201d in Software Magazine, and the other for group reporting, best news story, Computerworld, \\u201cWireless LANs: Trouble in the Air.\\u201d
Deb\\u2019s business, DeRad CyberSecurity Publishing Services, built a white paper and webcast program for SANS institute. She has also written for the SANS Security Insights blog, including Top Three COVID-Related Risks from earlier this year.\\xa0
Radcliff has recently created a new cyber thriller screenplay, Breaking Backbones, as part of a hacker trilogy TV or streaming series.
In this portion of the conversation, Deb Radcliff shares her insights on the role of the CISO and gives us a preview of her cyber thrillers.
00:49 - The term \\u201chacker\\u201d has been mangled through the years
04:37 - CISOs are in a tough place
07:12 - CISOs must be able to speak the language of the business - not just security
11:21 - Deb\\u2019s latest cyber thriller, \\u201cBreaking Backbones\\u201d
13:56 - Story characters are based on real-life personalities
18:37 - Getting started as a book author
19:32 - Privacy issues related to chips embedded in humans
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