What Cybersecurity Practitioners Can Learn from Honeybees

Explore the fascinating parallels between honeybee colonies and cybersecurity organizations in this 59-minute webcast from RSA Conference. Discover how bees employ cybersecurity best practices to protect their hives, offering a unique perspective on risk assessment, threat detection, attack response, intrusion prevention, and security gap closure. Learn from presenters Dan Watson and Gianna Whitver as they draw insightful comparisons between beekeeping and cybersecurity, covering topics such as organizational structure, decision-making processes, threat actors, and zero trust principles. Gain valuable insights on how cybersecurity teams can adopt bee-inspired strategies to enhance their operations and effectiveness in protecting digital assets.

Intro
Beekeeping and Cybersecurity?!?!
Agenda
What's a Bee?
Similarities Between Beekeeping & Cybersecurity
Superorganism & Organization: Mission-Driven
Frames & Frameworks
Newer Species, New Department
Threat Actors & Attackers
What Mission Critical Decisions do Bees Make?
Bees are Democratic
How Bees Make Decisions
Difference of Decision Making Process
What Cybersecurity Teams Can Do to BEE more like Bee
Differences Between Beekeeping & Cybersecurity
Bee Promotions and Job Rotation
Cybersecurity Promotions and Job Rotation
Bee Threat Actors
Varroa Mite
Third-Party Risk: Listening to a Beekeeper Who Doesn't Know What They're Doing
Fancy Bears
Bee Inspector
Zero Trust & Honeyben
How cybersecurity teams can be more like bees
Summary