Ep. 156 - Security Awareness Series - Are You Speaking My Language with Les Correia
This month Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Les Correia, who leads the evangelization of Estee Lauders Application Security. In his position Les wears many hats, but they are all worn with the mission of protecting Estee Lauders critical assets from the risk of a security breach. Prior to this, Les held Senior and Advisory roles providing thought leadership at companies such as AT&T and Lucent. Les also holds an MSc in Cyber Security as well as an exhaustive list of certifications. In his free time, Les pilots small aircraft and drives racecars. October 18, 2021 00:00 – Intro www.social-engineer.com Managed Voice Phishing Managed Email Phishing Adversarial Simulations Social-Engineer channel on SLACK CLUTCH www.innocentlivesfoundation.org Human Behavior Conference – website coming soon 05:10 – Les Correia Intro 09:15 – How did you get into this industry? 12:05 – How are you trying to be proactive in stopping breaches? 14:00 – How important has top level support been? 15:03 – How do you get other business units to give you time for what you’re doing? 16:30 – Understanding the business like a business consultant helps them know you care about that business unit 20:19 Whisky 24:08 – What kind of attacks have you seen in the wild that people need to be aware of? 26:10 – How do we get people that may not think they can be a victim to understand these threats can still be against them? 27:55 – Being a worldwide company, how do you translate your security processes through all those different cultures? 32:01 – How important is it to have hobbies outside of your work? 34:41 – How do you help your team deal with burnout when you have so much work on your plate? 37:56 – Has there anyone you could consider your greatest mentor? Dr. Tafar INS (International Network Services) Dr. Patarsh Dr. Menamen – NYU 39:32 – Book Recommendations Thinking Fast and Slow Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Good To Great Chris’ Books 41:57 – Guest Wrap Up 42:20 – Reaching Les on social media: QvittlbBgZseL100xP0S linkedin.com/in/les-correia 43:12 – Outro www.social-engineer.org www.social-engineer.com www.innocentlivesfoundation.org QvittlbBgZseL100xP0S QvittlbBgZseL100xP0S QvittlbBgZseL100xP0S