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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 in a podcast directory/app, please visit https://webandbeyondcast.com/ for clickable links and the full show notes and transcript of this cast.) If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post), or feel free to contact me 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 them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. Cybersecurity for Small Business - Resources Library ( https://w3cinc.com/resources/cybersecurity-for-small-business-resources-library/ ) TwoFactorAuth.org ( https://twofactorauth.org/ ) DarkCubed ( https://darkcubed.com ) Raw Text Transcript Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key 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...