The Cyber Business Podcast

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Adam Palmer is the CISO of First Hawaiian Bank, the largest bank in the state of Hawaii, with almost $30 billion in assets and operations across Hawaii, Guam, and Saipan. With 25 years in cybersecurity, he began as a U.S. military officer, worked on both the vendor and operational sides of the industry, and spent ten years in cybersecurity roles in Europe before taking on his curre...

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Michael McAndrews is the CISO of Archwell Capital, a family of companies working primarily in financial services, with a focus on mortgages, insurance, and the technology behind them. Its largest organization, Motor, is a business process outsourcing group and an AI development group, and Michael secures a globally distributed workforce with very few brick and mortar offices. A han...

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Tony Bryson is the CISO of the Town of Gilbert, Arizona, and returns to the show to talk about the risk he named when his CTO asked him, six years ago, what the town's greatest risk was: critical infrastructure. Gilbert runs water, wastewater, water collection, and traffic operation systems, the same kinds of operational technology that municipalities and private operators across t...

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Marina Kelly is the CISO for the City of Raleigh, North Carolina, the state capital and, as she points out, the 39th largest city in the country, home to a thriving Research Triangle tech community, several universities, and roughly two dozen city departments that she describes as separate business verticals. Her team is responsible for cybersecurity across that entire stack, from ...

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Matthew Sanders is the CISO at Slingshot Aerospace, a company that combines a global sensor network with AI and advanced analytics to help government and commercial customers understand what's happening in space and operate safely. Because of the nature of Slingshot's work, Matthew's biggest concern isn't financially motivated criminals, it's patient nation-state actors willing to ...

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Michael Foster is the CISO for the Wisconsin Department of Revenue, an agency he describes as functioning much like the IRS for the state, but with a scope that extends well beyond taxes into the Wisconsin State Lottery and three separate police forces covering everything from lottery fraud to alcohol and tobacco enforcement. His purview covers information security alongside portio...

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Bill Guerrero is the VP of IT at Sacred Heart University, a private, faith-based, residential institution in Fairfield, Connecticut with roughly 10,000 students, 50 buildings, and nearly 2,000 cameras across campus. A proud alum who earned his master's there in 1999, Bill brings an unusual dual background to the role, having started his career at Gartner before spending years as a ...

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Nakeea Neischer is the Director of IT and CISO at RxVantage, a healthcare SaaS platform that serves as a bridge between medical providers and life science companies. With more than 10 years in security, Nakeea has built her approach around a philosophy she describes through baking, gathering the right ingredients of people, process, and tools, then figuring out how those pieces com...

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Andrew Dutton is the Regional Cybersecurity Architect for Sumitomo Chemical America, part of a global chemical manufacturing organization with roots stretching back more than 400 years, from copper mining in Japan to fertilizer production to the diversified chemical business that exists today. The company employs roughly 30,000 people worldwide, and Andrew's region also serves as i...

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Aby Rao is the Deputy CISO at Paylocity, where he leads a wide ranging cybersecurity operation protecting customer data across the company's SaaS platform. With 16 years in the field, Aby has built his approach around a clear hierarchy, talent first, then process, then execution, and now layers AI on top of that foundation to accelerate everything from new hire onboarding to vulner...

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Tony Bryson is the first Chief Information Security Officer for the Town of Gilbert, Arizona, a municipality that has grown from roughly 15,000 residents at the turn of the century to nearly 300,000 today, making it the fourth largest municipality in the state. Tony was recruited into the role by a former colleague from Mesa Community College and has spent six years building Gilber...

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Benny Zhang spent years as VP of IT at Orion Group, where he built and led the company's entire technology organization, including infrastructure, cybersecurity, service desk, and application support, before transitioning into investing full time. Benny's path started in chemical engineering, then shifted into IT when he became a one man department overseeing everything from server...

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Brett Price is the Global CISO at Quint, a publicly owned company that builds hospitality and entertainment packages for major sporting events including Formula One, tennis, the NBA, the NHL, and MotoGP. He oversees cybersecurity, governance, and compliance across the parent organization and five international subsidiaries spanning Australia, the Netherlands, southern Spain, and Mo...

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Erik Miller is the Director of Information Technology at LifePort, an aerospace company that develops and manufactures aircraft interiors including ballistic armor protection, medical inserts, medical devices, high-end cabinetry, and premium seating for corporate and government aircraft. With a career built at the intersection of technology, cybersecurity, business operations, and artificial...

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Andrew Nuxoll is the Managing Director of IT Operations and Cybersecurity at UNICEF USA, the United States fundraising arm of UNICEF Global, a children's charity founded after World War 2 that supports education, clean water, and opportunity for children throughout the world. In his role, Andrew oversees both technology operations and cybersecurity for an organization that sits at the converg...

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Alexander Tushinsky is the CISO of Educate 360, a global education company offering IT training, cybersecurity courses, compliance programs, and professional development across multiple brands and industries. He came to Educate 360 through the acquisition of TCM Security, where he served as CTO, and brings a career that spans 35 years of software development, small business consulting since 1...

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Matthew Matturro is the CISO of TriNetX, a global health intelligence platform that describes itself as the truth engine for better human health. By connecting distributed clinical data nodes across more than five continents through partnerships with health systems, research institutions, and pharmaceutical organizations worldwide, TriNetX makes real patient data computable for clin...

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Bobby Barts is the CIO of VT Group, a government contractor serving the defense and intelligence communities with a portfolio that spans system installations on naval vessels, fabrication work, and classified intelligence programs across 10 locations nationwide. Eight and a half years into his tenure, Bobby has led the technolog...

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Chris Stierle is the CIO of TemperPack, a sustainable packaging company founded just over a decade ago by materials engineers and chemists who set out to replace Styrofoam and plastic packaging for perishable goods without sacrificing thermal performance. Operating across the United States with a manufacturing infrastructure that...