teissPodcast - Cracking Cyber Security

• Executive cyber liability - new regulations and the responsibility to act
• Supporting your C-Suite with a framework for defining, tracking, and reporting security KPIs
• Bridging the gap to your C-Suite - leveraging attack surface management and employee insight for strategic governance

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Edd Hardy, Director Cyber Security, AlixPartners
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• Identifying the causes and effects of stress and burnout within security teams 
• Building personal resilience through mindfulness – regulating stress, strengthening focus and enhancing clarity
• Tech tools to reduce burnout while increasing wellbeing and limiting turnover among security teams

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Johann van Duyn, Chief Information Security Officer,...

• Transferable lessons - how overlooking fundamental security and data trust leads to Generative and Agentic AI failures
• Steps for embedding security checkpoints and governance directly into your AI pipeline
• Strategies to scale AI safely - avoiding costly retrofits - and positioning security as a key competitive advantage

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Tim Roberts, Managing...

• Why fundamental security best-practices are overlooked by SMBs despite advanced threats
• Addressing the unmanageable digital exposure surface - identifying critical assets to prioritise for investment
• Scalable actions that enable smaller IT teams to transition from reactive incident response to targeted, proactive cyber defence

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Steven Furnell...

• Aligning application and API security with the demands of the modern AI era
• Enabling secure, high-performance infrastructure for AI and LLM environments
• Securing APIs and your network without overspending on security

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Tiago Rosado, Chief Information Security Office, Asite
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagorosado/

Jamison Utter, Fi...

• Understanding the anatomy, infrastructure and automation of modern information-stealing malware
• Tracking delivery methods, evasion technique and high-value data targets
• Building effective, multi-layered defences against the prevalent info-stealer families

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Jim Walter, Senior Threat Researcher, SentinelOne

Brett Taylor, SE Director UK...

• Exploitable vulnerabilities within OT devices and how this is expected to change
• Cyber warfare risk in 2026 - how organisations can defend themselves
• Securing the supply chain and expanding XIoT attack surface

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Jordan M. Schroeder, CISO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/schroederjordan/

Zia Ush Shamszaman, Senior Lecturer in Compu...

• How cyber criminals are weaponising AI to defeat your threat detection and response
• Beyond encryption – how ransomware has evolved to include data exfiltration, publication threats and supply chain compromise
• How geopolitical tensions are increasing nation-sponsored cyber-campaigns - proxy attacks, IT worker scams and supply chain risks

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Ed T...

• How modern ransomware actors are deploying multidimensional tactics to outpace traditional defences
• Strategies to reduce data loss and sustain business operations after an attack
• AI and automation – enhancing visibility and accelerating response to ransomware threats

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Edward Starkie, Director, GRC | Cyber Risk, Thomas Murray
https://www.l...

• Identifying critical assets and dependencies to focus investment where impact is highest
• Designing for rapid recovery with tested runbooks and clear RTO/RPO targets
• Strengthening resilience through training, playbooks, and cross-functional drills

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Scott Hardy, CISO, Sargent-Disc
https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-hardy-cissp-ccsk-44882a45<...

• Leveraging AI-powered solutions to anticipate, detect and contain asymmetric cyber threats
• Augmenting security teams through AI efficiencies – reducing alert fatigue whilst improving detection speed and accuracy
• Best AI security practices on safeguarding critical systems and sensitive data against AI-driven cyber threats

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Michela Resta, Solic...

• Bridging the CISO-board disconnect which hinders your cyber-security progress
• Measuring cyber-risk in financial, economic and operational terms and demonstrating value in cyber-investments
• Focusing on governance and compliance – how to answer when asked “are we compliant?

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Zia Ush Shamszaman, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Teesside Univ...

• How appreciation and gamification can improve your employees’ security awareness
• Making security behaviours stick – reframing mistakes as opportunities for growth
• Fostering a culture of continuous improvement with an inclusive learning environment

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Sara Carty, Founder & CEO, Unboring
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saracarty/

Pen...

• Which techniques and methods use by threat actors are bypassing security parameters
• Reducing your cyber risk - using lessons learned from recent high-profile attacks
• Strategies to protect your service desk against identity-based attacks

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Paul Holland, Cyber Capability Manager, Royal Mail
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulinfosec/

L...

• 70% of critical security debt stems from third-party code - what can be done upstream?
• How real-time threat intelligence and policy enforcement are closing the gap
• Why DORA and modern CI/CD pipelines demand pre-emptive visibility and automation 

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Paul Holland, Cyber Capability Manager, Royal Mail
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulinfosec/

• Protecting against sophisticated AI-powered attacks on APIs - identifying anomalies and threats
• Meeting API compliance and data protection challenges with emerging technologies
• Moving towards a mature posture for API security

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Satyam Rastogi, Director of Information Security & DevOps, BAMKO
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hackersatyamrast...

• Protecting against sophisticated AI-powered attacks on APIs - identifying anomalies and threats
• Meeting API compliance and data protection challenges with emerging technologies
• Moving towards a mature posture for API security

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Tiago Rosado, Chief Information Security Officer, Asite
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagorosado/

Anne Co...

• Analysing how your teams cope with a cyber incident or a failure scenario
• Learning from crises - building resilience strategies to mitigate future incidents
• Building a cyber resilient mindset within your infosec team and in the wider organisation

Thom Langford, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomlangford/

Raza Sadiq, Head of Enterprise Risk, MQube
https://www.linkedin.com/in/razasadiq7/

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• Risk-based prioritising using severity scoring and patch analysis
• Escaping the silo trap - bridging the gap between IT and security teams
• Automate rules to handle high-severity vulnerabilities and zero-days

Jonathan Craven, Host, teissTalk
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanbcraven/

Tiago Rosado, Chief Information Security Officer, Asite
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagorosado/

Cameron Brown, Head of Cyber Th...