FBI Cyber Expert Saves Your Business - M.K. Palmore
4/1/20261 hr 4 min
Most people think cybersecurity is complicated. MK Palmore disagrees. With 32 years in the federal government, two decades as an FBI special agent, and executive roles at both Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks, MK has seen every angle of the threat landscape, and his message is simple: the basics will save you.
Charles and MK go deep on what everyday consumers and small business owners are getting dangerously wrong about their digital security, why a data breach can be the last thing a company ever survives, and how the adversary is quite literally banking on your laziness...
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First 90 secondsCharles· Host0:00
Welcome to the Proven Podcast, where we don't care what you think, only what you can prove. Imagine your data being protected on the same levels of the United States Marine Corps and the FBI. That's what today's guest brings in. M.K. tells us all about risk assessments, how to protect our data in an ever-evolving world, and how even with AI, you can remain safe. The show starts now. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. M.K., I'm really excited to have you here.
M.K. Palmore· Guest0:22
Excited to be here. Appreciate it, Charles.
Charles· Host0:25
So for the four or five people on the planet who actually don't know who you are, can you kinda give a little debrief what, what you are, what you've done, how you got here?
M.K. Palmore· Guest0:32
I'm sure there's more than four or five, but, uh, M.K. Palmore, I'm a, uh, consulting leader of a firm called Apogee Global RMS. Um, my career spans a career in government, thirty-two years in the US Federal Government. I'm a US Naval Academy graduate, United States Marine Corps officer. Uh, I then, uh, went on from the Marines to spend twenty-two years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a special agent. Retired from the FBI as an executive leading the largest cybersecurity team that the FBI has here in FBI San Francisco. Uh, and then I went on to work for two Fortune five hundred companies, Palo Alto Networks, and a Fortune five company, Google Cloud, um, as a, uh, essentially a field chief information security officer. So great experience working at the, uh, at the enterprise level, uh, and then broke off, uh, out on my own in order to support SMBs and the global public sector through Apogee Global.
Charles· Host1:27
So there, there's a lot to unpack