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Welcome to this special edition
of the Cybertraps podcast.

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We are here live at the Inch360
event in Spokane, Washington on

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the beautiful Gonzaga campus.

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In fact, I'm looking over the
soccer field, which is pretty cool.

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It's nice here.

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Today, I have Sean Hafen with me
from Spokane Teachers Credit Union.

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Sean, welcome to the podcast.

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Tell us a little bit about
who you are and what you do.

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Thank you.

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Uh, so yeah, I've been at STCU for
about nine years now and I manage the

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wonderful C Cybersecurity team there.

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And we have a team of five
individuals that, uh, keep

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everybody's information safe.

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I also teach for the bachelor's
program for C Cybersecurity at SFCC.

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um, lot of connect points and touch
points with some of the individuals here.

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Okay, very cool.

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So, uh, what brought you to
this conference, yourself, but

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then also as, uh, STCU as an

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organization?

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I think we, as an organization, find
that it's extremely important to be

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engaged with the community, uh, when
it comes to all facets and all events,

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but, uh, for my team specifically and
everyone, uh, that I work with, the

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cybersecurity component of it we see as
a Very necessary and needed component.

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In the Spokane area, we need to make
sure that we have, you know, an awareness

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and involvement, you know, just make
sure that everybody knows that there

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is something like this event going on.

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Uh, it's very important to see who's
interested in this stuff, who's out

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there, what are they doing, who are
they doing it for, and just build those

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connections, uh, those are, uh, important.

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handy.

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It'll be valuable.

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Yeah.

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and can you talk a little bit about why
it's important for these really hyper

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local type of events, especially because
it's one thing to go to a national or

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state level cybersecurity conference, but
this is really focused here in Spokane.

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And what are your thoughts on

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that?

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Yeah, it is very important in
Spokane, specifically, because

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we are so far from Seattle.

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Seattle does seem to get
a lot of the attention.

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Um, With the conferences.

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Uh, but because we are close to the Idaho
border, we have, you know, Idaho area

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and the Spokane area kind of combined
into one for some of these events.

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So it's just, it's important that
the vendors that show up to these

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or sponsor these, uh, know that it
is a four hour drive to Seattle.

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Mm-Hmm.

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. And we do have an audience here
in the Spokane vicinity, so it's

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nice to see that that's starting
to be recognized a little bit more.

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Uh, with events like this coming
up, I think this is the second one.

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Um, and we've got some more events
coming up in the future, first

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quarter next year, similar to this.

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Uh, so it's just nice to see that,
grow and expand and a lot of the

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people who live in the area or
the students that attend the cyber

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security type classes in this area.

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Uh, you need to have more resources to
pull from, such as these conferences.

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Yeah, I, I agree.

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I think that's so powerful for, the
students, but then also, uh, small

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businesses who wouldn't necessarily go to
a cyber security conference in Seattle.

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It's honestly kind of hard to justify
that, but it's here in your backyard.

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It makes it a lot easier.

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what are some of the things
that you're hoping to get out of

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this, for yourself personally?

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I think aside from just touching base
with my peers and cohorts and the

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different, you know, businesses that
are here, answering questions, you get

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a lot of questions from people who,
you know, they may have just showed up

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to this first time they've been to a
conference, pertaining to cybersecurity,

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and they're going to ask you the
typical questions you would expect.

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How do I protect myself?

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If I have a small business, how
do I protect that small business?

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How do I keep my employees safe?

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Um, what tools are out there
that aren't expensive and they're

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not going to break the bank.

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And I love talking about the kind of
things that you can get for low or no

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cost that will give you that solution.

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And so at events like
this are perfect for that.

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You also do learn a lot of new things.

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I've been in this field for a long
time, but I'm still learning and You

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talk to the other people who are doing
this, and you bounce ideas off of each

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other, you ask each other questions, and
there's a lot of information sharing.

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Very valuable.

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Yeah, so, let's talk about some of those
strategies, tools, resources, whatever

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you wanna, whatever you wanna share.

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Uh, Najee, who we just talked to a
little bit ago, he mentioned having,

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uh, good cyber security hygiene.

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And so, what is one thing that you
regularly recommend to small buisness

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owners about what they can do

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I would say no matter how small
your buisness is, or if its

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just you Jethro, Jethro, Jethro,
podcast or blog post or article

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Jethro, Jethro, Jethro, Jethro,
Jethro, Uh, scams around taxes or

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Amazon shipments and things like that.

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So if you have that awareness, that's
your first step into knowing, you know,

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what should I look out for in my inbox?

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Uh, sent email we all know is one of
the most common forms that somebody

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can kind of get into your business.

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Uh, it's very important for people
to be aware that they can look

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out for those type of scams,
especially this time of year.

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Yeah.

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Um, and are there any blogs,
podcasts that you recommend that

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people should pay attention to?

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Uh, there are some quick hit podcasts.

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There's one called the, um,
Daily Internet Storm podcast.

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It's just a quick ten minute, this is
what's going on out in the industry

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and in the cyber security realm.

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Uh, he just kind of breaks
things down on a daily basis.

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Uh, and it's a quick one, so you
don't really have to set aside

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a half hour or an hour to just
sit and listen to it, you know.

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There's a lot of things out there, if you
just search for cyber security podcasts,

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uh, you can come up with quite a few.

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If you want one that's funny and
entertaining, uh, I recommend

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one called Smashing Security.

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Very, um, Light hearted and not
always cyber security related so

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you can have fun listening to it.

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Okay,

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good.

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And, uh, we try to have a fun time
here on Cybertraps also when Fred is

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here, he's my co host, uh, typically.

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so that was Smashing Security
and what was the other one again?

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Uh,

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it's Icecast or Internet
Security Stormcast.

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Okay.

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Uh, it's just, like I said, it's just
a nine or ten minute quick one that.

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He puts out every morning.

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Okay, alright.

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Uh, Sean, any resources that you
want to share on behalf of STCU?

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Uh, yeah, we do have a lot of information
that we can provide if any of our

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members or non members are out there
and they have questions about security.

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We're always happy to help, whether
it's, you know, fraud or identity

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theft or cybersecurity itself.

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Um, we see a lot of the bad guys making
their attempts to get into your banking

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information or to get you to give up
your passwords and your usernames.

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So we have some resources
on our external website.

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Um, but we're also at events
like this, we're open to discuss

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or answer any questions too.

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Okay, well thank you Sean,
appreciate you being here and taking

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the time to chat with us today.

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Absolutely, thank you so much.

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And thanks for your support of
Ench360, it's really awesome

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that you're doing that.

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Thank you.