Andy Ellis

All right, real quick.

Remember we had Andy Ellis on the show? He is part of the Green Party running for governor here in the state of Maryland.

He announced yesterday that he did make it on the ballot.

So I just wanted to share that with you.

And so if you're not, you know, along the same lines as myself, you know, that is what it is.

It's just a difference.

But I just want to tell you, Andy Ellis did make it on the ballot.

So this year, when you get your ballot, you will see the gubernatorial race.

The Bastlum tournament was just a little idea we had two years ago now.

And really, you know, the hero of the whole tournament, honestly, is Andy Ellis this year.

He absolutely crushed it.

I was busy guiding and he just...

My name is David Spark.

I'm the producer of said CISO Series, and joining me is my cohost, one of your favorites, the principal of Duha, none other than Andy Ellis.

Andy, say hello to the audience.

Hello to the audience.

Well, that brings us to the end of the show.

Gina, thank you so much for joining us.

That was Gina Siavera, who is the former managing director of infrastructure and CISO over at Accordion, and also Andy Ellis, who did not ever work at Accordion, correct? [laughs]

That is correct, and I don't think I've ever actually played one.

And in area news, Bluffton names new deputy chief.

The city of Bluffton on Wednesday announced the retirement of Deputy Chief of Police Andy Ellis following 27 years of dedicated service.

His 27 years with the city have been defined by professionalism, steady leadership, and a genuine dedication to public safety and the residents that he has served, officials in a news release said.

His experience, knowledge, and commitment have made a lasting impact on the department and the community.

And obviously my co-host Chudders has been a massive supporter and has helped me on my journey and I do the YouTube show with.

And to my friends Lee Nunes, Andy Ellis and Giselle Ellis who have... been there a lot and helped me a lot and supported me a lot and given me many opportunities behind the scenes that you guys don't know so just a huge thank you to everybody who has been involved who was even briefly on my journey throughout this so this is a very long-winded and i do apologize way of just wanting to say thank you to everybody for everything really so Let's get down to the show, shall we? As I mentioned, 143, episode 143, mailbag episode, and you have been sending in my questions.

So thank you to everybody.

I hope I get to them all.

And I hope that I've answered it in both ways.

Okie dokie, so I've had two questions, very, very similar.

Andy Ellis asks, on a scale of one to gronk, which I love, one to gronk, How do you feel about the tight end position? And Jameson has also asked, how do you feel about our tight endage? So generally kind of same question, really.

And in regards to the, I don't know how I feel about them on a scale of one to Gronk.

I felt like somebody's got to mount a serious challenge and that the Greens here in Maryland are quite together.

Andy Ellis is running for governor and he and people around him got on the ballot.

I've known people who run as an independent or as their party, and 90 percent of their effort is to get on the ballot and to overcome all of the obstruction that the Democratic Party rolls out for that.

Well, so the Green Party people came to me and one of them was like calling me, you know, every two weeks, are you going to run? Are you going to run? Are you going to run?

It's sensory overload, you know, and it's like mostly sales, you know, and it's like as a CISO, it's like, you come out of it and you're like, what the hell just happened?

You know, in that article that I was talking about earlier, I did something where Andy Ellis and I were walking the floor because he goes through Andy grades.

Like he literally goes through every single booth and does like, you know what they do and does it like, it's amazing how much work incredible.

And I was walking the floor with him for just a little bit with my old camera.

Quote, "As long as the CISO stands in front of the runaway train, no one is going to stop it," end quote.

Now that's our own Andy Ellis in Cybersec Media.

He was in a piece there who's arguing about the vuln-pocalypse.

AI-discovered vulnerabilities arriving faster than CVEs can even catalog them isn't the CISO's problem to fix, he says.