Ep. 120: Prevent Before You Respond: Mastering Cybersecurity

About this episode

Greg van der Gaast discusses the failures in modern cybersecurity and the importance of treating security as a quality discipline.

Greg van der Gaast, cybersecurity leader and founder of Sequoia Consulting, shares why modern security keeps failing — and it’s not because attackers are getting smarter. Drawing from his path from teenage hacker to government witness to CISO, Greg reveals how weak IT foundations, broken processes, and poor data habits create the conditions for most breaches. He explains why security must be treated as a quality discipline, how unstructured data quietly multiplies risk, and how AI can finally...

People in this episode

Hosts: Dux Raymond Sy, Mario Carvajal

Guest: Greg van der Gaast

Topics covered

• cybersecurity
• IT foundations
• data habits
• AI in security
• breach prevention

Keywords

• cybersecurity
• breaches
• IT security
• data risk
• AI

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Organizations: Sequoia Consulting

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