Protecting Personal Information Online Amid World Digitization with James Mottola

In this episode of CHATTINN CYBER, Marc Schein interviews James Mottola, the Vice President of Data Privacy, Investigations, and Security for Porzio Compliance Services. He served 25 years in the United States Secret Service as former Special Agent in charge of the Newark Field Office of the United States Secret Service. Jim discusses how he leverages his experience to advise clients on matters of information security, data privacy, physical security, schools’ safety, internal corporate investigations, incident response management, and other compliance-related matters.

Over his 25-year career, Jim worked on many cases pertaining to financial fraud. In that time, fraud schemes have grown more sophisticated and entered into online spaces. Most businesses are underprepared and under matched to defend against these new tactics, making them easy targets. Jim explains how the greater presence of digital information has made it easier for criminals to commit identity theft.

The digital world continues to grow exponentially, particularly in light of the COIVD-19 pandemic. Jim unpacks how e-commerce giants are influencing user behavior. How we can control the digital world and live normally when it is evident that cybercrime disruptions will increase?

Jim advises people to take control of their information since technology is evolving:

“I think as a society we got to take a hold of our information and we have to, unfortunately, put more obligation on businesses on how they have our information, what they do with our information.”

Jim continues on why there’s a need for public and private co-operation to protect individual rights. “Together we need to figure out what are the threats we need to work on, focus on those, and then collaborate as best as possible.”

What You Will Learn:

  • How the digitization of information is aiding in the facilitation of identity theft cybercrimes.
  • The future of eCommerce in influencing consumer behavior and how it will create cyber disruptions.
  • How to install resilient measures to combat cybercrime
  • Why public and private sectors need to partner to protect individual’s rights.

 

Cybersecurity: How COVID-19 has Increased the Risk of Cyberattacks with guest, Joe Mann

In this episode of CHATTINN CYBER, Marc Schein interviews Joe Mann, Founder, and CEO of Arete. He is a recognized industry leader in information risk, with over 20+ years of experience serving corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Joe has developed information-sharing initiatives across the Financial and Legal sectors to synchronously align the interests of organizations and C-Suite decision-makers to create “win/win” scenarios for complex risk issues.

Joe started Arete 5 years ago to create solutions that bring more impact in investigation matters, an area which was not being provided by big consulting companies. Cybercrime has become an active issue in the last 4-5 years targeting SMEs, the economic impact is alarming, which is why security companies are growing as fast as they can.

Joe explains the difference between organizations that have insurance against cybercrime and those who do not.  He also explains how they track cryptocurrency dealers to understand their behavior and know how to negotiate.

“There is one group that refines its people, processes, and technology every day and other groups that are in business just not in the cybersecurity business.”

Arete doesn’t want to negotiate with criminals and works closely with the FBI and the likes although joe admits the ransom problem is a huge issue and how they follow the set guidelines. Joe explains, “The important thing here is that enforcement, government, and industry work together to develop set of standards that really end in the best fit for these companies that’re being victimized not exacerbating the issue.”

On politics 2020, Joe terms the voting issue as just a way to pull people apart and make them less decisive and compares it to cyberattacks on US companies.

Relevant Links:

Website: https://areteir.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mann-5654969b