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Published inApr 2024
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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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Testing your backups

When I was a CISO at RedSeal, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) came back from a training session with a Venture Capital firm. It was a security and leadership conference for all of the CEOs in the Venture Capital Company’s ecosystem. The CEO immediately reached out to me with the top actions that our company needed to take in order to be protected against ransomware. I had already done a lot of research on ransomware for a presentation that I did at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference, which is one of the largest IT Health conferences in the world.

Having good offline backups, as well as testing your backups, was a must. Many times, when it comes to being time to recover from a backup, the company realizes too late that they either don’t have good offline backups or their backups are corrupted in some way. Possibly, the data they thought were being backed up weren’t.

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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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