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In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, seasoned professionals offer invaluable insights into emerging trends, challenges, and strategies. In this blog post, we engage in a conversation with Dan, an experienced security expert, as he shares his perspectives on key topics such as zero trust, cloud consolidation, response and recovery, and the intersection of cybersecurity and ethics. From discussing industry dynamics to sharing recommendations on must-read books, Dan's expertise sheds light on navigating the complexities of cybersecurity in the digital age.

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o zero trust I believe has got a very interesting future uh I'm I'm very curious to see how things span out um Cloud definitely is another because that's going to help in consolidation as an industry that consolidation Drive can happen in many ways but there are these couple of very powerful kind  Dynamics which are planning out right now and and last but not the least I would definitely love to highlight the topic which is response and Recovery in other words right um it's not just about trying to protect but it's also about having the right kind of response and recovery program in place which can be done through many different approaches which could be having the right kind of backups having these crisis drills and having the right kind of processes in place having bcpd etc etc many of these may not be very costly you don't need to go and buy that Appliance and shiny new device Etc these are more basic stuff but that basic stuff is becoming very very important uh so to conclude Dan um anything you want to add before we kind of wrap it up with the last question I your points are well well taken and I think the complexity it's it's funny I I I agree that you know so many organizations um don't have they don't even use the tools they have first of all and they're always you know always being asked to add more or you know you're missing this you're missing that um it's a huge challenge it's a huge challenge so simplifying you know the architecture I agree with you on zero trust um it's a challenge because I also think play Devil's Advocate the other thing they've been talking about industry consolidation for years and years and years and yet we see more and more startups all the time so it just keeps growing and and I I think there's been predictions that you know there's going to be a big industry consolidation coming and as long as the stock Market keeps going up and as long as new companies keep getting bought and and and you know if if if we have a obviously a big stock market correction that may that could flush out a lot of things and cause that consolidation but um I'm not sure 2021 is going to be the year we're going to see a industry consolidation it's not going to happen in 2021 but I guess that we are kind of gradually moving towards that so s was a movement towards consolidation age zero trust is a movement toward consolidation Cloud as a general play is a movement through consolidation because that kind of gives you this real estate to do the consolidation earlier it was very hard whereas Cloud kind of uniform creates an uniform playing Ground right so what what I mean to say is that the drivers are gradually kind of falling in place and which is going to win in the long run time will sa but the good thing is that I'm kind of seeing some of those drivers gradually falling into is and and you're absolutely right it's probably we are a decade away or five years away sometimes things can happen faster or slower but definitely I believe five to 10 years y i I agree with that so Dan the last question um what are some of I I can see a lot of books behind you so let me ask you what what which are some of your favorite books and favorite podcast sure so start off I just want to mention I I we talked about this earlier I brought my book virtual Integrity you can all look at this this is actually um there's actually believe it or not an Indian version that came out so it was uh uh this this version here which actually brings together um we talked about it earlier because um uh brings together kind of my faith and online life you know so you know the importance of of uh of protecting yourself in cyers space um brings in cyber security and everything but also brings in ethics and the importance of cyber ethics brings in kind of puts it to light you know real real meat on the bones around that so I I've been those are um some books I've read um I've been a part of a couple books CIO leadership um for state and local governments emerging Trends and best practices another book I did a a chapter in I've done chapters in about five or six books C leadership for cities and counties merging Trends and best practices again all these are available at Amazon you asked me about other books that I've read I like you this was by Bruce schneer secret and lies um he's got a number of great books topics you know we're uh my wife and I both grew up as um children of pastors.