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CISO Cyber Talk with Aflac

A Discussion with Ben Murphy (U.S. CISO of Aflac) on the Importance of Threat Intelligence for Mature Security Programs

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Mario Vuksan's guest - Ben Murphy from Aflac
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ReversingLabs VP of Threat Intelligence, Scott Lambert, sits down for a timely security discussion with Ben Murphy, a 20-year InfoSec veteran and U.S. CISO of Aflac, the largest provider of supplemental insurance in the United States. Together they discuss the importance of threat intelligence for mature security programs, and the need for dynamic and automated threat management for security effectiveness, especially in light of the COVID-19 crisis.

Ben shares his experiences on a range of topics including:

Why

Why proper threat intelligence needs to go beyond acquiring and consuming information, but also creating information to properly defend the network.

How

How a mature security program that focuses on threat response should actively address attacks, while also applying malicious code defense intelligence for blocking verification and attack prediction

Where

Where new threat challenges were discovered as the workforce moved from office locales and infrastructure to home networks and VPNs during COVID-19

What

What the top security priorities are across the insurance industry including risk reduction, talent management, cost reduction, secure coding and cloud migration

How

How best practices within Aflac’s highly-integrated security research “dirty lab” has helped to confront many of these challenges

Ben Murphy

About

Ben Murphy

Ben is Vice President and Deputy Chief Information Officer leading US cybersecurity and cyber fraud prevention operations at Aflac. His focus is on bringing threat intelligence and orchestration to security strategy and to the control environment, as well as implementing data analytics and anomaly detection across security functions. Ben has worked in financial services cybersecurity and governance for 20 years, primarily at SunTrust Bank, Jack Henry Banking, and Aflac. He has a history of developing operational maturity and automation to ensure that security tools, capabilities, and resources are aligned with the appropriate team and accountability processes.