48 min

Ep. 176 - Security Awareness Series - Bottom Up Context is better than Top Down Control with Nishant Bhajaria The Social-Engineer Podcast

    • Social Sciences

This month, Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Nishant Bhajaria. Nishant is an executive leader and industry-expert in the privacy and security space and currently serves as the Director of Privacy Engineering and Governance at Uber. 

He plays the critical role connecting engineering, legal, and leadership to ensure data protection for both the user and the business. Prior to Uber, Nishant spearheaded compliance and privacy engineering programs at Google, Netflix and Nike. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science from Arizona State University 

In addition to speaking extensively in this space, Nishant also teaches courses around privacy, security and career development on LinkedIn Learning. Nishant authored Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers - a deep dive into strategies on effectively identifying, communicating and addressing privacy risks using technical strategies. [Aug 15, 2022] 

00:00 – Intro 
00:20 – Intro Links 
Social-Engineer.com Managed Voice Phishing  Managed Email Phishing Adversarial Simulations Social-Engineer channel on SLACK CLUTCH innocentlivesfoundation.org 02:17 – Nishant Bhajaria Intro 
03:33 – How did your career path start? 
05:44 – Balancing security and the end-user experience 
09:29 – How to introduce security and privacy concepts into a pre-existing infrastructure 
13:50 – Balancing technological freedom with security for your family 
19:28 – Bridging divisions for the sake of privacy and security 
22:09 – Creating better industry standards 
26:28 – How to handle your platform becoming weaponized 
30:53 – The ethical issue of data use 
35:11 – The role of Social Engineering in privacy and security 
39:14 – 3 action steps that companies should start doing right now 
42:56 – Find Nishant online 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantjb/  Certification: https://dataprotocol.com/pe-certification  44:24 – Book Recommendations 
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny – Robert Wright Team of Rivals– Doris Kearns Goodwin Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers – Nishant Bhajaria 47:13 – Wrap Up  
47:41 – Outro 
www.social-engineer.com  www.innocentlivesfoundation.org 

This month, Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Nishant Bhajaria. Nishant is an executive leader and industry-expert in the privacy and security space and currently serves as the Director of Privacy Engineering and Governance at Uber. 

He plays the critical role connecting engineering, legal, and leadership to ensure data protection for both the user and the business. Prior to Uber, Nishant spearheaded compliance and privacy engineering programs at Google, Netflix and Nike. He has a Master’s Degree in computer science from Arizona State University 

In addition to speaking extensively in this space, Nishant also teaches courses around privacy, security and career development on LinkedIn Learning. Nishant authored Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers - a deep dive into strategies on effectively identifying, communicating and addressing privacy risks using technical strategies. [Aug 15, 2022] 

00:00 – Intro 
00:20 – Intro Links 
Social-Engineer.com Managed Voice Phishing  Managed Email Phishing Adversarial Simulations Social-Engineer channel on SLACK CLUTCH innocentlivesfoundation.org 02:17 – Nishant Bhajaria Intro 
03:33 – How did your career path start? 
05:44 – Balancing security and the end-user experience 
09:29 – How to introduce security and privacy concepts into a pre-existing infrastructure 
13:50 – Balancing technological freedom with security for your family 
19:28 – Bridging divisions for the sake of privacy and security 
22:09 – Creating better industry standards 
26:28 – How to handle your platform becoming weaponized 
30:53 – The ethical issue of data use 
35:11 – The role of Social Engineering in privacy and security 
39:14 – 3 action steps that companies should start doing right now 
42:56 – Find Nishant online 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantjb/  Certification: https://dataprotocol.com/pe-certification  44:24 – Book Recommendations 
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny – Robert Wright Team of Rivals– Doris Kearns Goodwin Data Privacy: A Runbook for Engineers – Nishant Bhajaria 47:13 – Wrap Up  
47:41 – Outro 
www.social-engineer.com  www.innocentlivesfoundation.org 

48 min