CISO Series Podcast

CISO Series Podcast

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

Episodes

May 6, 2025 45 mins

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series, and Andy Ellis, partner of YL Ventures. Their sponsored guest is Jadee Hanson...

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series, and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is Charles Blauner, formerly of Team8 (at time of recording) and now operating partner, Crosspoint Capital.

In this episode:

  • Expanding collective defense
  • Getting talent to the municipal level
  • A mature reporting structure
  • A pill for that cyberail...
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series, and Andy Ellis, partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Mandy Huth, svp, CISO, Ultra Clean Technology.

In this episode:

  • Start with good defaults
  • Building talent bridges
  • Don’t forget the humans
  • Differentiating with privacy

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Mike D’Arezzo, executive director of infosec and GRC, Wellstar Health Systems.

In this episode:

  • The shift left myth
  • Reconsidering CISO evaluations
  • The power of “how”
  • Building bridges

Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our sponsored guest Nathan Hunstad, director, security at Vanta.

In this episode:

  • Thinking like AI
  • Building off a solid foundation
  • Start with ownership
  • Following the leader

Big thanks to our sponsor, Vanta

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Christina Shannon, CIO, KIK Consumer Products. Joining them is Jim Bowie, CISO, Tampa General Hospital.

In this episode:

  • A journey, not a destination
  • The difference between pressure and stress
  • Fighting commodity deepfakes
  • Getting leadership on the same page

HUGE thanks to our sp...

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Trina Ford, CISO, iHeartMedia. Joining us is our sponsored guest Rob Allen, chief product officer, ThreatLocker.

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Zero Trust World in Orlando, Florida.

In this episode:

  • Severity versus impact
  • Breaking the anti-pattern
  • Take the f...
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Edward Contreras, senior evp and CISO, Frost Bank

In this episode:

  • A gradual language shift
  • Don’t reflexively rise and grind
  • Lean into focus
  • Gauging the unmeasurable 

Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Mike Wilkes, former CISO, Major League Soccer.

In this episode:

  • Are we misusing vCISOs?
  • Cybersecurity is out to sea
  • Planning for your exit
  • Building up your quantum reflexes

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Tines

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy...
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Shaun Marion, vp, CSO, Xcel Energy.

In this episode:

  • Setting policy
  • The hard thing about soft skills
  • Never let a goo...
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February 18, 2025 36 mins

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Danny Jenkins, CEO, ThreatLocker.

In this episode:

  • A zero-day upgrade
  • Don’t let a pentest go bad
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Matt Muller, field CISO, Tines.

In this episode:

  • Seeking the early AI adopters
  • Taking the SOC back to basics
  • Changing our au...
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Deneen DeFiore, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, United Airlines.

In this episode:

  • Minding the gap
  • Copilot overreliance
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Rinki Sethi, vp and CISO, BILL. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Lamont Orange, CISO, Cyera.

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Cyera’s first DataSec conference (November 2024) in Dallas. ...

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is George Finney, CISO, The University of Texas System and author of Project Zero Trust.

In this episode:

  • Aligning on privacy
  • Bringing Zero Trust to OT
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our guest, Brett Perry, CISO, Dot Foods.

In this episode:

  • A new MDR policy
  • Staying on top of the technical debt cycle
  • Beating retention struggles
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Yabing Wang, VP and CISO, Justworks.

In this episode:

  • Building a path to action
  • Cracking the EOL conundrum
  • The burni...
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is our sponsored guest Daniel Daraban, senior director of product management, Bitdefender.

In this episode:

  • Practice makes perfect
  • Shaming doesn’t help anyone
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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Itzik Alvas, co-founder and CEO, Entro.

In this episode:

  • What to expect when you’re offboarding
  • The threats are coming from inside the organ...
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