Steve King

Managing Director, Cybersecurity Marketing Advisory Services, CyberTheory

Steve King has served in senior leadership roles in technology development and deployment for the past 25 years. He is an author, lecturer and serial startup founder, including three successful exits in cybersecurity, and served for six years as the CISO for Wells Fargo Global Retail banking. As a co-founder of the CyberTheory Institute, King is passionate about the role Zero Trust must play in the future of cybersecurity defense. He is currently the managing director of CyberTheory and has held leadership roles in marketing and product development, operating as CEO, CTO and CISO for several startups, and served as CIO for Memorex and was the co-founder of the Cambridge Systems Group.

What Kind of People Do Cybersecurity for a Living?

Steve King • July 9, 2024

What kind of people do cybersecurity for a living? In the past, there was a formula potential practitioners followed, but today there are many ways to get into the field and having people from diverse backgrounds is valued. The Curry brothers discuss the cybersecurity profession.

Taking an AI-First Approach to Securing Your Organization

Steve King • July 8, 2024

Securing an organization often requires making fast decisions, said Tom Corn of Ontinue, and AI can gather information that you can use to answer the questions you have about how to handle a security problem. Corn discusses operationalizing an AI-first approach to security.

Purple Teaming: Evaluate the Efficacy of Security Controls

Steve King • July 1, 2024

Red teaming is not effective for evaluating the efficacy of preventative or detective security controls, said Jared Atkinson of Specter Ops, but purple teaming is. Purple teaming as "the evaluation of security control efficacy through atomic testing, using deliberately selected test cases."

Collaborate on Shifting Left: Why 'AppSec Is a Team Sport'

Steve King • June 27, 2024

Developers are using more and more open-source code because they "want to move fast," said Cycode's Lotem Guy. But the speed of development and the continuous deployment that follows means security teams have to catch up to the fast-moving development life cycle.

Fighting Payment Fraud by Integrating Security Into Finance

Steve King • June 24, 2024

Payment fraud is the top risk to companies across the globe. Business email compromise is continually on the rise. Johnny Deutsch, co-founder and CEO of B2B payments protection company Creednz, discusses the need to integrate security into financial processes.

Collaborative Security: The Team Sport Approach

Steve King • June 7, 2024

By decentralizing the ownership of cybersecurity and increasing security consciousness among everyone in the organization, businesses can improve their security posture, said Dom Lombardi, the vice president of security and trust at Kandji. He discussed the concept of collaborative security.

Enterprise Technology Management: No Asset Management Silos

Steve King • May 6, 2024

Oomnitza co-founder and CEO Arthur Lozinski discusses enterprise technology management - a solution that brings software, hardware and infrastructure asset management together in a single database and uses automation to set and enforce policies for the enterprise as a whole.

Regulating AI: 'It's Going to Be a Madhouse'

Steve King • May 3, 2024

Information Security Media group CTO and CISO Dan Grosu discusses the challenges of realistically implementing the directives in President Joe Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence. Hint: He thinks it's going to be "a madhouse" if enterprises don't get more educated about AI.

Correlating Cyber Investments With Business Outcomes

Steve King • May 1, 2024

SecurityGate CEO Ted Gutierrez said the SEC's new cybersecurity mandates give "more teeth to the idea that cybersecurity is a business problem." He discussed the need for CISOs to link cyber risk and business outcomes and other ways in which the rules affect the field of cybersecurity.

Benefits of a Unified CNAPP and XDR Platform

Steve King • April 22, 2024

In this episode of the "Cybersecurity Insights" podcast, Uptycs CEO Ganesh Pai discusses unifying XDR and CNAPP to improve visibility and explains the coming shift from behavioral detection to outlier or anomaly detection, which uses sophisticated ML and AI.

How to Start a Career in Cybersecurity

Steve King • April 17, 2024

Our dependence on technology has introduced new and sophisticated cyberthreats that elevate the demand for skilled cybersecurity professionals. The field is expected to experience a surge in job opportunities. Follow these steps to kick-start your career in this challenging yet rewarding field.

Employees Are 'Quiet Quitting' - What Can Employers Do?

Brandy Harris , Steve King • April 9, 2024

"Quiet quitting" is when employees strictly adhere to their job descriptions and meticulously avoid any tasks that fall outside their defined responsibilities. Here's how employers and employees can prevent it and create a workplace culture that promotes engagement, satisfaction and shared success.

The US or the UK: Where Should You Get a Cybersecurity Job?

Steve King • April 3, 2024

The differences between working in cybersecurity in the U.K. and U.S. are not just a matter of accent or office culture; they are a study in how national security priorities, regulatory environments and cultural attitudes toward privacy and surveillance affect cyber workers' professional lives.

Is It Generative AI's Fault, or Do We Blame Human Beings?

Steve King • March 29, 2024

AI is on the way to embedding itself in our daily lives. CISO Sam Curry and his brother, CMO Red Curry, discuss what generative AI means for copyrights and plagiarism, the "AI bubble," and whether governing AI-derived speech will wind up limiting free speech.

Turning to a Career in Cybersecurity

Steve King • March 27, 2024

The transition to a career in cybersecurity is not just a change of professional direction; it represents a commitment to defending the digital world. Here's how you can get the critical technical skills needed to fill the 4-million-job shortfall and protect our interconnected world.