Phoram Mehta

Job - Information Security, Career - Cyber Risk Leadership, Purpose - Social Impact

[CNBC-TV18 @CNBCTV18News]

#CNBCTV18GLS | Who Owns The Future Of Money?

@_RituSingh in conversation with Amitabh Malhotra - Vice Chairman, Capital Markets & Advisory, @HSBC_IN, @dilipasbe, MD & CEO, National Payments Corporation of India (@NPCI_NPCI), Phoram Mehta (@phoram), VP & Head, International Cyber Risk, @PayPal

@HSBC_IN @TheEmbassyGroup @GoogleIndia @ITCCorpCom #GlobalLeadershipSummit #TheIndiaAdvantage #CNBCTV18 #Legacy #2ndEdition #CNBCTV18Digital

[David Senra @FoundersPodcast]

Some of my favorite @naval ideas:

1. If you don't know yet what you should work on, the most important thing is to figure it out.

2. Books make for great friends, because the best thinkers of the last few thousand years tell you their nuggets of wisdom.

3. You will get rich by giving society what it wants but does not yet know how to get. At scale.

4. To make an original contribution, you have to be irrationally obsessed with something.

5. The internet has massively broadened the possible space of careers. Most people haven't figured this out yet.

6. Learn to sell. Learn to build. If you can do both, you will be unstoppable.

7. Fortunes require leverage.

8. Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment.

9. Arm yourself with specific knowledge, accountability, and leverage.

10. Specific knowledge is found by pursuing your genuine curiosity and passion rather than whatever is hot right now. Building specific knowledge will feel like play to you but will look like work to others.

11. Work as hard as you can. Even though who you work with and what you work on are more important than how hard you work.

12. Become the best in the world at what you do. Keep redefining what you do until this is true.

13. If you're not 100 percent into it, somebody else who is 100 percent into it will outperform you. And they won't just outperform you by a little bit—they'll outperform you by a lot because now we’re operating in the domain of ideas, compound interest really applies and leverage really applies.

14. Technology democratizes consumption but consolidates production. The best person in the world at anything gets to do it for everyone.

15. Escape competition through authenticity.

16. If you are fundamentally building and marketing something that is an extension of who you are, no one can compete with you on that.

17. When I talk about specific knowledge, I mean figure out what you were doing as a kid or teenager almost effortlessly. Something you didn't even consider a skill, but people around you noticed. Your mother or your best friend growing up would know.

(My mom told me that when I was a kid and ran out of things to read, I'd read the back of cereal boxes)

18. The more you know, the less you diversify.

19. The best jobs are neither decreed nor degreed. They are creative expressions of continuous learners in free markets.

20. Whenever you can in life, optimize for independence rather than pay.

21. You decide it's important to you. You prioritize it above everything else. You read everything on the topic.

22. The really smart thinkers are clear thinkers. They understand the basics at a very, very fundamental level.

23. The most important skill for getting rich is becoming a perpetual learner.

24. If you're evenly split on a difficult decision, take the path more painful in the short term.

25. What are the most efficient ways to build new mental models? Read a lot—just read.

26. I probably read one to two hours a day. That puts me in the top .00001 percent. I think that alone accounts for any material success I've had in my life and any intelligence I might have.

27. In the intellectual domain, compound interest rules.

28. All the real scorecards are internal.

29. A calm mind, a fit body, and a house full of love. These things cannot be bought. They must be earned.

30. Your real résumé is just a catalog of all your suffering. If I ask you to describe your real life to yourself, and you look back from your deathbed at the interesting things you've done, it's all going to be around the sacrifices you made, the hard things you did.

31. What you want in life is to be in control of your time.

32. Being at the extreme in your art is very important in the age of leverage.

33. Enjoy yourself. Do something positive. Project some love. Make someone happy. Laugh a little bit. Appreciate the moment. And do your work.

[Security BSides Ahmedabad @bsidesahmedabad]

🚀 Get ready to be blown away as we present Phoram Mehta (@phoram), an esteemed speaker gracing our CXO Panel!

💼 Holding the esteemed position of CISO and Senior Director, APAC at @PayPal . He boasts an impressive 20+ years of experience in the cyber security industry.

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[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Attractiveness Bias in the Legal System https://t.co/N5wYdwnIsT

[DSCI @DSCI_Connect]

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[Trail of Bits @trailofbits]

For the last year, a 9-person team from @trailofbits has deeply studied the security of blockchains for @DARPA. Today, our analysis and tools are public:
https://t.co/mEdw24mo0m

[Marin Ivezic @infosec]

Whispering Buildings and Things That Listen to Us in the Night - Marin Ivezic - we must recognize the complex issues surrounding the lifecycle of smart city data, especially when these data are aggregated or open to abuse or malicious exposure https://t.co/i3jwZuPiK8

[Jeremiah Grossman @jeremiahg]

We can also ask the inverse. If InfoSec spending were halved, would breaches and impact double? I think no as well. In fact, I think we’d see very little change.

[Brett Callow @BrettCallow]

The FBI has released its 2021 Internet Crime Report. With adjusted losses of ~$49.2 million, #ransomware is not among the top 6 threats in terms of its cost. For comparison, romance scams caused >$950 million in losses. Unfortunately .... 1/2

https://t.co/UZndmly7H0

[Jonny Johnson @JonnyJohnson_]

For those that either don't know where to start in detection engineering/research I would like to share some tools/projects that have helped me over the time of my career.

(If I miss some and people would like to add, please do so :) )

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

The person who talks the most is the most likely to become the leader.

Data: regardless of intelligence and expertise, groups elevate those who command the most airtime.

It's time to stop rewarding people for dominating the discussion, and start valuing quality over quantity.

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

Leaders who refuse to hear criticism choose not to learn.

The higher you climb, the more people hesitate to challenge you. Silencing dissent is a step toward becoming a dictator.

A culture of voice begins with admitting gaps in your knowledge and rewarding those who speak up.

[Patrick Collison @patrickc]

Where does one find good "long-form" (>30 mins, say) YouTube videos? We have lots of useful mechanisms for discovering good books, but what about videos? (I find that the YouTube recommender gets stuck in gravity wells.)

[Guru Bhat @_gurubhat_]

I run a series at @PayPalIN called #BeAGuruToGuru where many generous colleagues donate time from their calendar to educate me about all the stuff I should know, but unfortunately don’t.

[𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐬𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧 @laraghavan]

“Whether in combat
or in day-to-day life, we encounter situations that call for us to assume a reasonable amount of risk to achieve our goals, and if we try to make ourselves "bulletproof" we may ultimately collapse under the weight of our gear.”

- General Stanley McChrystal

[NSA Cyber @NSACyber]

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[𝐋𝐚𝐤𝐬𝐡 𝐑𝐚𝐠𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧 @laraghavan]

Checkout my latest blogpost on #leadership which is also a special tribute to Steve Jobs:

https://t.co/CV1rrQand2

[Steve Weis @sweis]

An Intensive Introduction to Cryptography course by @boazbaraktcs: https://t.co/eZ6kni1CmQ

[Bil Corry @bilcorry]

FTC is threatening fines if you don’t remediate your Log4J vulns.

[Bil Corry @bilcorry]

TIL there’s a ‘strict’ mode for Microsoft’s Authenticode signature verification.

It’s off by default and is actively being exploited. Turning it on has the side effect of rendering some executables as untrusted.

Fun choice.