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Debra Baker
Debra Baker
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Debra Baker

Debra Baker has 30 years of experience in Information Security. As CEO of TrustedCISO, Debra provides strategic cybersecurity CISO Advisory Services. She has an AI first startup aiming to power through the pain of Third Party Vendor Assessment and Compliance. Previously, Debra was CISO at RedSeal where she led the security program successfully getting SOC2 Type 2. Previously, she served as Regulatory Compliance Manager at Cisco. While at Cisco she founded the cryptographic knowledge base, CryptoDoneRight in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Debra was named one of the top 100 Women in Cybersecurity, "Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime."
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Okta hack

The Okta hack was one of the biggest hacks of 2022. A tweet was sent on Twitter where the LAPSUS$ hacker group was bragging that they had hacked Okta. The tweets included screenshots of a customer support engineer’s computer:

Figure 5.1 ‒ LAPSUS$ announcing they had hacked Okta

Figure 5.1 ‒ LAPSUS$ announcing they had hacked Okta

Within the screenshots was a picture of the hacker logged in as a Cloudflare employee.

I was a CISO at this point, and someone at my company forwarded the tweets to me. Twitter (or X, as it is now called) is a good place to stay up on all of the latest hacks since hackers will brag on X. Also, there is a great number of cybersecurity researchers who post information on the site. If your company has an incident, then you need to do a write-up of the incident, detailing how you found out about it and the steps you took to address it. When there is an active incident at your company, you need to create a Tiger team or IR interim working group to focus on...

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Debra Baker

Debra Baker has 30 years of experience in Information Security. As CEO of TrustedCISO, Debra provides strategic cybersecurity CISO Advisory Services. She has an AI first startup aiming to power through the pain of Third Party Vendor Assessment and Compliance. Previously, Debra was CISO at RedSeal where she led the security program successfully getting SOC2 Type 2. Previously, she served as Regulatory Compliance Manager at Cisco. While at Cisco she founded the cryptographic knowledge base, CryptoDoneRight in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. Debra was named one of the top 100 Women in Cybersecurity, "Women Know Cyber: 100 Fascinating Females Fighting Cybercrime."
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