CISO Series Podcast
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CISO Series Podcast

by David Spark, Mike Johnson, and Andy Ellis

Discussions, tips, and debates from security practitioners and vendors on how to work better together to improve security for themselves and everyone else.

102 episodes
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1
Why Highlight Diversity When We Can Just Hope You Don't Notice?
38:26 Mar 24, 2026
2
They're Less "Best Practices" and More "Sounds Good on LinkedIn"
41:54 Mar 17, 2026
3
It's Okay to Put All Your Eggs in One Basket as Long as You Really Trust the Basket
48:29 Mar 10, 2026
4
Our Security Team's Love Language is Buying New Tools
41:22 Mar 3, 2026
5
If We Can't Do Better, at Least Do It Faster
41:37 Feb 24, 2026
6
We Gave the CISO Risk and Liability, and Now They Want Authority. The Nerve.
42:14 Feb 17, 2026
7
When We See White Smoke, We Know We Have a New CISO
42:32 Feb 10, 2026
8
Take Two-Factor Authentication and Call Me in the Morning
38:43 Feb 3, 2026
9
I'll Show You Our Resilience Plan Once Our Cloud Storage Is Back Online
37:47 Jan 27, 2026
10
AI Is Very Efficient at Making Us Forget the Value of Humans
41:07 Jan 20, 2026
11
Managing Risk Has Been a Priority Ever Since You Asked About It (LIVE in NYC)
40:37 Jan 13, 2026
12
Imagine Scaling Mistakes 5x Faster. Thank You, Automation! (LIVE in NY)
43:53 Jan 6, 2026
13
How Much Risk Would a CISO Risk if a CISO Could Risk Risk? (LIVE in Boca Raton)
44:30 Dec 16, 2025
14
I'm Worried That We're Not Worried About the Right Worries With AI
39:56 Dec 9, 2025
15
You Can't Fall Behind in AI if You Never Start
35:08 Dec 2, 2025
16
Why Architect for Human Error When We Can Make People Feel Really Bad About It?
39:23 Nov 25, 2025
17
Are You Implying This Line Graph Isn't a Compelling Cybersecurity Narrative?
41:01 Nov 18, 2025
18
Our CISO Certainly Puts the Tool in Multi-Tool (LIVE in LA)
45:26 Nov 11, 2025
19
I Don't Just Guess About Effectiveness, I Make Educated Guesses!
39:26 Nov 4, 2025
20
It's a Little Hard to Evaluate New Solutions When You're Screaming "AI" at Me All the Time (Live in Houston)
44:01 Oct 28, 2025
21
Dear Abby: Why Should I Trust a Vendor Selling Me Zero Trust?
30:08 Oct 21, 2025
22
The Difference with AI Red Teaming is We Added the Word AI
37:31 Oct 14, 2025
23
Don't Worry, We'll Get to Solving Your Problem on Slide 87
36:41 Oct 7, 2025
24
Time to Choose a Security Vendor: Dart Board or Spin the Wheel?
44:17 Sep 30, 2025
25
Now That You Mention It I HAVE Heard Some Hype Around These AI Tools
34:24 Sep 23, 2025
26
Wait, SMS Doesn't Stand for "Super Mega Secure?"
42:55 Sep 16, 2025
27
We All Agree That Prevention Is the Best Advice We're Never Going to Follow
44:27 Sep 9, 2025
28
We're All for a Responsible AI Rollout as Long as It Goes as Fast as Possible
40:00 Sep 2, 2025
29
New Study Finds No Email Has Ever "Found You Well"
34:13 Aug 26, 2025
30
I Just Can't Communicate With the Business. I've Tried Condescension AND Derision.
35:44 Aug 19, 2025
31
Impressive! Our AI is Approaching "One 9" of Accuracy.
39:43 Aug 12, 2025
32
They Can't Hack All Our Tools If We Keep Buying New Ones
34:18 Aug 5, 2025
33
Cosmo Quiz! 23 Ways to Make Your Vendors Obsessed With Your Security Standards
38:45 Jul 29, 2025
34
We'll Worry About Recovering From the Attack Once We Ace This Audit
43:23 Jul 22, 2025
35
Once You Memorize the Manual, Our User Interface is Very Intuitive
38:33 Jul 15, 2025
36
Not Enough Hallucinations? Let's Outfit Your LLM with Another LLM
35:54 Jul 8, 2025
37
We Require 3-5 Years of Experience to Qualify for the Cyber Skills Shortage
37:49 Jul 1, 2025
38
We Can Either Build Resilience or Just Always Be Perfect
38:09 Jun 24, 2025
39
We Checked the "Yes" Box for Cybersecurity. What Else Do We Have to Do?
41:24 Jun 17, 2025
40
Aside From Text, Images, and Videos, GenAI Can't Fool Me (Live in Boston)
46:53 Jun 10, 2025
41
AI Isn't Going to Take Your Job, It's Going to Eliminate It! (LIVE at BSidesSF)
44:44 Jun 3, 2025
42
I Can't Choose. I Love All My Assets Equally.
34:18 May 27, 2025
43
Why Learn Security Fundamentals When We Could Just Chase Our Tails?
34:01 May 20, 2025
44
I'm Not Looking Down at You, I'm Looking Down at What You're Doing
41:40 May 13, 2025
45
They're Not AI Mistakes, They're Happy Little Incidents
45:35 May 6, 2025
46
Get ALL the Challenges of Cybersecurity AND Fewer Resources
40:22 Apr 29, 2025
47
Data Minimization Means We Don't Tell You What We're Collecting
41:53 Apr 22, 2025
48
Welcome to Cybersecurity: Where Everything Is Made Up and the Points Don't Matter
40:53 Apr 15, 2025
49
With AI, Don't Think Like a Hacker, Think Like the Whole of Society
39:04 Apr 8, 2025
50
This Security Control Is So Good We Don't Even Have to Turn It On (LIVE in Clearwater, FL)
45:00 Apr 1, 2025
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