CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast and Series has moved to CISOSeries.com. Why is our financial institution sending us an email suggesting we click on a link to log into our account? On this episode of the CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast we educate your customers and your marketing department about suspicious looking emails. This show, like all the previous ones is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), founder of Spark Media Solutions and Mike Johnson, CISO of Lyft. Our guest this week is Chenxi Wang, managing general partner, Rain Capital. Special thanks to Virtru for sponsoring this episode. As a reader, I know you're always worried about your data. That's why Virtru is providing a free copy of Forrester's 14-page report on the Future of Data Security and Privacy to readers for a limited time. Click here to grab your copy while it's still available. On this episode Why is everybody talking about this now? While many security professionals' eyes roll when they hear the word "blockchain," it is currently the second most popular area of security research, according to IDG. What is it about blockchain that VCs and security professionals find so attractive? Question for the board What responsibility does the board bear for educating the C-suite about cybersecurity competency? PwC put together a great list of questions the board should be asking regarding cybersecurity competency. It's time to play "What's Worse?!" There's a visual attached to this game. Go ahead and look here and tune in to hear the question. What's a CISO to do? Our guest, Chenxi Wang, provided some excellent advice for startups on getting on the diversity train early on. If you don't, you'll find it's incredibly hard to build in diversity with an established and non-diverse team. And now this... How do VCs play a crucial role in the relationship between buyers and sellers of security products?

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