THREATCON1

THREATCON1

THREATCON1 is the place to go for insights on emerging cyber threats. Hosted by VulnCheck’s Security Researcher Patrick Garrity, and Chief Marketing Officer Tom Bain, THREATCON1 will give listeners critical cyber insights through discussions with top cybersecurity practitioners and leaders in the industry that drive innovation and thought leadership. Patrick and Tom will dive into emerging news stories and cyber threats, and trends that are materially shaping the industry with sharp analysis and fresh perspectives that matter related to national security and economic viability.

Episodes

January 13, 2026 48 mins

In this episode of THREATCON1, hosts Tom Bain and Patrick Garrity sit down with Nathan Rollings, Field CISO at Zafran, and Yonatan Keller, Analyst Team Lead at Zafran, for a deep, practitioner-focused conversation on the realities of modern vulnerability management.

Together, they explore why patching alone can’t keep up with today’s threat landscape — and how security teams can dramatically reduce risk by prioritizing what actually...

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In this episode of the Threatcon1 Podcast, Tom and Patrick sit down with Tyler Shields, Cybersecurity Strategy Analyst at Omdia, for a wide-ranging conversation on where cybersecurity is heading — and what actually matters to practitioners right now.

Tyler brings a rare perspective shaped by years spent across research, offensive security, vendor strategy, and analyst work. Together, they unpack how AI is reshaping cybersecurity wor...

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In this episode of THREATCON1, Tom and Patrick sit down with Nabil Hannan, Field CISO at NetSPI, AI-focused startup advisor, and host of the Agent of Influence podcast. Nabil shares his unique perspective on today’s most pressing cybersecurity challenges, including:

  1. Insecure software and why vulnerabilities are becoming increasingly dangerous in our hyper-...
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Tom and Patrick sit down with Christine Fignar, Cybersecurity Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, to unpack one of the most misunderstood areas of security: insider threats and human-driven risk. Christine’s background spanning aviation, HR, communications, and counterterrorism gives her a rare perspective on stress, behavior patterns, and the subtle signals that often precede incidents.

We get into her “Cone of Unce...

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Tom and Patrick welcomed Simon Goldsmith, CISO, Ovo Energy to the show, to chat about the emerging threat landscape across different industries he’s served in - from the CISO’s perspective. We dig into some of his cyber experiences throughout his career, talk rugby, debate Oasis vs Blur and even drill down into how to counter coordinated nation-state attacks!

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Tom and Patrick host Mike Privette, Founder, Return on Security, to get a sense of Mike's perspectives on how he's used his operational background in cyber as a former multi-time CISO to pivot into something entirely different in the cyber market today! Mike brings insights on how he tracks and slices data on all cyber funding and M&A activity with his broad-ranging dataset and his leading newsletter. They cover ground on ...

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Tom and Patrick sit down with VP of Security Research, Tod Beardsley. We talk to Tod about his current role leading cyber research at RunZero, his time at CISA, emerging cyber threats he's currently engaged in researching, his perspective on the CVE program and its future - and finally, horror movies, of which Tod is an aficionado and active podcast host himself of Podsothoth: A Lovecraft Book Club. This session isn't THAT scary re...

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In this episode, Tom and Patrick chat with former Director of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence, Andrew Boyd, about the root of today’s emerging cyber threats to both business and to citizens. They dive into his experience in offensive cybersecurity across multiple former government roles, how he grew his skillset into cyber and experiences in serving the U.S. in many innovation-led cyber capacities, and his ...
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In this episode, Tom and Patrick chat with Jen Easterly, former Director of CISA, for the U.S. government. Topics covered range from public-private collaboration efforts to better protect our national security, to her perspectives on defending against threat actors targeting U.S. interests as well as the impact AI is having on cyber today, with a sneak peak into a few of her upcoming key initiatives. And we go to l...
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