Fresh from Austin, here are the top headlines from (ISC)2's 2017 Security Congress: Let's talk about risk, baby. That's the language c-level executives and board members want to hear from the security team. Keynote speaker and Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI, Donald Freese, spoke about a non-emotional approach to security.  CSO Online quotes Dylan Thomas, who was probably talking about cybersecurity practitioners when he said "Do not go gently into that good night." Garfield loves lasagna and hates cyberbullying. Infosecurity Magazine was with us in Austin and spoke to the CISO of the state of Missouri, Michael Roling, CIO of the Truth Initiativev, Derrick Butts, and CISO of the U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services, Steven Hernandez.  Ransomware – Tales from

If you’ve attended any of our (ISC)² ThinkTank Webinars (and we hope you have!) you know that moderator Brandon Dunlap shares your questions with panelists to answer during the session. While we can’t get to all questions, we’d like to address a few more here on our blog. Last week’s webinar was “The Human Target – The Tip of the Spear is Aimed at You”, with panelists Ira Winkler, president of Secret Mentem, Sylvester Gray, security product specialist at Sophos and Johnny Deutsch, senior manager, advanced security center at Ernst & Young, LLP. Thank you to our panelists for sharing their expertise - let’s continue the conversation, shall we?  To what extent are the “phishermen” sharing information about potential targets