About this episode
The episode discusses cybersecurity challenges in the hospitality industry and features insights from experts on eliminating identity-based attacks.
Every day, employees at hotels, restaurants, and resorts across the country are doing exactly what they were hired to do: being warm, responsive, and eager to help. It's what makes hospitality work. It's also what makes hospitality one of the most targeted industries in cybersecurity. When your entire workforce is trained to say yes, teaching them to be suspicious is an uphill battle. The smarter solution might be to take the target off their backs entirely. Jasson Casey is the co-founder and CEO of Beyond Identity, a company built around one idea: making identity-based attacks impossible. With over 20 years of experience designing large-scale security infrastructure for global enterprises and carriers, Jasson has spent his career thinking about what happens when stolen credentials open doors they never should have. Beyond Identity's answer isn't better passwords or more authentication hoops, it's eliminating the credential that can be stolen in the first place. Josh Johansen is the Director of IT Systems and Technology at Brandt Hospitality Group, an owner, operator, and developer of hotels under brands including Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, and IHG. Josh came up through hotel…
People in this episode
Host: Chris Parker
Guests: Jasson Casey, Josh Johansen
Topics covered
- cybersecurity
- hospitality industry
- identity-based attacks
- security infrastructure
- credential theft
Keywords
- cybersecurity
- hospitality
- identity theft
- Beyond Identity
- security systems
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Beyond Identity, Brandt Hospitality Group, Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG
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