Bringing Your Business Into the Digital Age Securely with Vince Crisler, CEO of Dark Cubed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0WM6YdFr7A When you start a
business cybersecurity is not usually top-of-mind. However, have
you considered how good digital security practices can be a
business’s competitive edge?    If not, listen in on this
episode! W3 Consulting’s President/CEO Ray Sidney-Smith, in honor
of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (October), had the
pleasure of bringing to the show Vince Crisler, CEO of Dark Cubed
(https://darkcubed.com), a cybersecurity expert with more than 20
years of Information Technology and Cybersecurity leadership in
government and private sector roles.   (If you’re reading this
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here about any other questions or comments. In this Cast Ray
Sidney-Smith, Host Vince Crisler, CEO of Dark Cubed, a
cybersecurity expert with more than 20 years of Information
Technology and Cybersecurity leadership in government and private
sector roles. Show Notes Resources we mention, including links to
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context. Cybersecurity for Small Business - Resources Library (
https://w3cinc.com/resources/cybersecurity-for-small-business-resources-library/
) TwoFactorAuth.org ( https://twofactorauth.org/ ) DarkCubed (
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phrases. Read More Raymond Sidney-Smith 0:06 Welcome, everybody to
web and beyond live for this October 26 2020. I'm Marie
Sidney-Smith, President of W three consulting and managing director
of WCC web services, which provides affordable web hosting and
managed WordPress hosting and domain registration services and all
that fun stuff for small business. And so I'm so excited to have
you all here for this edition. As you all know, it is National
Cybersecurity Awareness Month. And these past few weeks, I have
been going through and talking to folks and explaining things all
around cybersecurity, so that you can all stay more cyber
resilient. And today, I am just really excited. We're gonna we're
gonna cover all kinds of fun things about how to really use
cybersecurity as a function for being more cyber resilient, but
really using it as a business competitive advantage. Many of us
don't think about cybersecurity from that perspective. It's all
fear based, response based, reactionary stuff. And what I really
want to do today is really talk about this from a more proactive
perspective, and really thinking about this as a pro, as opposed to
how to mitigate risk and reaction. And to do that today, I have
with me, Vince Crisler, he is the CEO of dark cubed. It is a SaaS
tool, and he's going to explain it more, I cannot possibly do it
justice. But Vince himself is a cybersecurity expert with more than
20 years of information technology and cybersecurity leadership in
government and private sector roles. And so with that, I'm going to
bring Vince on ivens How's it going? Vince Crisler 1:41 Great. Ray,
how are you? Raymond Sidney-Smith 1:42 Good, good. So I cannot
possibly do your CV justice. Can you tell us a little bit about
yourself and, and and what brought you to this point of being the
proprietor but also the the brain genius behind dark cubed? Well,
thank you for that. You know, I like this, this focus of this
overlap of small business and cybersecurity, and I've always been
very entrepreneurial, started my first company in high school doing
some web design. And I remember getting hired to do this web design
for this company in New Jersey. And so as a high schooler driving
to New Jersey t...