Author: Chris Castaldo

Chris Castaldo is a veteran cybersecurity expert with 17 years of offensive and defensive experience. Chris helps organizations build and mature their cybersecurity programs to defend against breaches and leaks. In his spare time Chris enjoys smoking BBQ for friends and co-workers.

From the Spring 2018 Issue

Better than (Project) Zero: A Cybersecurity ROI Roadmap

Author(s):

Chris Castaldo, Senior Director of Information Security, 2U

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Since 2014 the mission of Google’s Project Zero has been to make the Internet a more secure place through the discovery and responsible publishing of vulnerabilities. While Google works with vendors to ensure a patch is available before details of a vulnerability are released, nothing is actually made more secure until that patch is applied … Read more

From the Fall 2017 Issue

Cybersecurity Morbidity and Mortality Conferences

Author(s):

Chris Castaldo, Senior Director of Information Security, 2U

Current cybersecurity paradigms are not adequately supporting the global information technology community. Billions of sensitive records are compromised each year, data is held for ransom and people’s lives are put at risk. Despite numerous well-publicized failures, 2017 has been a banner as measured by the volume of venture capitalist funding for cybersecurity startups . It’s … Read more

From the Summer 2017 Issue

A Case for Collaboration

Author(s):

Chris Castaldo, Senior Director of Information Security, 2U

In my many years of working in cybersecurity, I’ve found the only thing that can truly secure an organization is collaboration. The most important part of “people, process, technology” is the people. No one in their right mind would tell you it’s possible to prevent 100% of breaches — but, through powerful internal and external … Read more

From the Summer 2015 Issue

Get Tested: Penetration Testing as an Integral Part of Your Company’s Cybersecurity Plan

Author(s):

Chris Castaldo, Senior Director of Information Security, 2U

Cybersecurity is now more than ever a business requirement in every industry.  The 2015 Verizon Data Breach Report estimates 700 million compromised records in all of 2014.1  Worse yet, that number only represents known/reported breaches. A survey of attendees at the 2008 RSA Conference indicated that 89% of breaches they were aware of went unreported.2 If … Read more

From the Spring 2015 Issue

Calm Your Bits: Why the Internet of Things Doesn’t Have to Be a Security Nightmare

Author(s):

Chris Castaldo, Senior Director of Information Security, 2U

Industry buzzwords are a dime a dozen, but few survive the passage of time. A term that popped into our lexicon in approximately 2006, according to Google Trends, and has been gaining traction in 2014, is the “Internet of Things,” or “IoT.” “Internet of Things” and “Internet of Everything” are terms that have been given … Read more