Malicious Life Podcast: Why Aren't SMBs Investing in Cybersecurity?

Attacks against Small-to-Medium size businesses (SMBs) currently represent roughly 40% to 50% of all data breaches. Josh Ablett, founder and CISO of Adelia Risk, speaks with Nate Nelson about the kind of security he usually finds in SMBs when he’s called in to make an initial security assessment - spoiler: not a pretty picture - the impact of data breaches on SMBs, and what role do insurance companies play in improving the state of security in that often overlooked segment of the industry - check it out…

About the Guest

Josh Ablett

Founder and CISO of Adelia Risk

Josh Ablett is a cybersecurity expert who makes small, highly regulated companies secure simply and easily.

About the Host

Ran Levi

Born in Israel in 1975, Malicious Life Podcast host Ran studied Electrical Engineering at the Technion Institute of Technology, and worked as an electronics engineer and programmer for several High Tech companies in Israel.

In 2007, created the popular Israeli podcast Making History. He is author of three books (all in Hebrew): Perpetuum Mobile: About the history of Perpetual Motion Machines; The Little University of Science: A book about all of Science (well, the important bits, anyway) in bite-sized chunks; Battle of Minds: About the history of computer malware.

About The Malicious Life Podcast

Malicious Life by Cybereason exposes the human and financial powers operating under the surface that make cybercrime what it is today. Malicious Life explores the people and the stories behind the cybersecurity industry and its evolution. Host Ran Levi interviews hackers and industry experts, discussing the hacking culture of the 1970s and 80s, the subsequent rise of viruses in the 1990s and today’s advanced cyber threats.

Malicious Life theme music: ‘Circuits’ by TKMusic, licensed under Creative Commons License. Malicious Life podcast is sponsored and produced by Cybereason. Subscribe and listen on your favorite platform: