AGL 218: Cyber War… and Peace with Nick Shevelyov

About Nick

Cyber WarNick Shevelyov is a specialist in cybersecurity, information technology, data privacy, and risk management with experience in multiple industries—from an engineering to executive and board advisory level. See his LinkedIn profile for career history. He is also the Chief Security Officer at Silicon Valley Bank.

A guest speaker at a variety of industry events, Nick has an undergraduate degree in economics, an executive MBA, and CISSP, CIPP, and CISM industry certifications.


Today We Talked About

  • Nick’s background
  • Zero Trust
  • IT Risks
  • “know thyself”
  • Asset Inventory
  • MFA
  • Behavioral Economics
  • Introspection
  • Storytelling
  • Childhood memories and bugs
  • Changing Cyber landscape
  • Data is the new oil
  • Next Gen Cyber Donations
  • Failures
  • Learn from other’s failures
  • Red Swans – what you know that ain’t so.
  • Pre-mortems

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