teissPodcast - Cracking Cyber Security

• Why only 5% of organisations have full visibility into AI tool usage - what a credible approach to access controls and runtime behavioural monitoring looks like
• Moving beyond policy intent to architecture that governs AI workloads, autonomous agents and machine-driven workflows
• Moving from fragmented controls to unified, policy-driven security architectures that deliver consistent enforcement across hybrid and multi-cloud environ...

• Why alert overload is just as much a detection problem, as it is a capacity and consistency problem
• How agentic SOC models shift investigations to machine speed while preserving human analyst oversight
• Why trust, transparency, and data handling are critical as autonomy increases

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

Ken Payton, Director of Detection and Response, Avalara
https:/...

• Balancing compliance, resilience, data sovereignty and uptime across IT and OT environments - whether a cloud-first strategy is viable in CNI
• How the need to harness operations data for optimisation, innovation, risk management, and organisational resilience challenges legacy security models
• Adapting proven resilience models from IT cloud transformation to OT security in CNI and the importance of public-private partnerships in it...

• Quantifying the tangible impact of unplanned downtime, regulatory fines, and equipment damage
• Strategies for security teams and asset owners to present CPS security projects in a language that Finance and Operations understand
• Streamlining asset management and reducing manual audit hours with dedicated IoMT, OT, IoT, and BMS security

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

Danny Dres...

• Strategies for implementing governance guardrails for agentic and shadow AI
• Prioritising risk reduction through design-led controls that balance innovation, governance, and cost efficiency
• Mitigating cascading risk across increasingly complex ecosystems of vendors, contractors and platforms

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

Cameron Brown, Head of Cyber Threat and Risk Analytics...

• Thwarting AI-enabled ransomware-as-a-service attacks
• Identifying security gaps whilst focusing on speed of detection and containment of novel vulnerabilities
• Building and leading organisational resilience to defend against advanced extortion campaigns

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

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

• Evolving beyond traditional perimeters – strategies to embed resilience across your supply chains and shared digital infrastructure
• Building architectures that absorb external shockwaves including AI-driven disruptions without slowing the business
• Moving from reactive incident-driven updates to a test-driven posture using chaos engineering and AI red teaming

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

• Enabling GenAI safely while protecting sensitive data across users, employees and AI-enabled tools
• Managing agentic AI risk through improved visibility, governance, and control across the attack surface
• Leveraging AI to strengthen cyber defence – identifying and preventing zero-day threats

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

David Cartwright, CISO, Santander International

• How geopolitical disruptions are driving sophisticated supply chain attacks within the energy sector
• Shifting towards continuous, intelligence-led supply chain risk management to mitigate 4th and 5th party vulnerabilities
• Best practices on future-proofing the energy sector against next-gen cyber attacks

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

Justin Kuruvilla, Head of Cyber Secur...

• 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
https://w...

• 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 ...

• 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 Di...

• 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, P...

• 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, Field CI...

• 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 Computer Sci...

• 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/

E...

• 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...

• 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
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