CISO Series Podcast

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and  Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining them is their sponsored guest, Rajan Kapoor, CEO of Material Security.

In this episode:

• AI creates security's catch-22
• Delegation without abandonment
• Google's security gaps demand better tools
• Trust beats sophistication every time

A huge thanks to our sponsor...

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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 our sponsored guest, Rob Allen, chief product officer, ThreatLocker.

In this episode:

• Large enterprise security demands drive vendor improvements
• Technical expertise becomes leadership liability without delegation
• EDR evolution needs prevention focus
• Career b...

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Peter Clay, CISO, Aireon.

In this episode:

• Purple teaming evolution misses operational realities
• Effective postmortems require systematic failure analysis
• Risk expertise requires business context over methodology
• Compliance and resilience ser...

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), principal, Duha. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Edward Wu, CEO and founder, Dropzone AI.

In this episode: 

• Building context-aware verification frameworks
• Understanding why UX fails
• Moving beyond AI replacement narratives
• Building for a crisis

A huge thanks to our spon...

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Edward Contreras, senior evp and CISO, Frost Bank. Joining us is Anthony Candeias, CISO, Weight Watchers.

In this episode:

• AI agents require structured supervision, not autonomy
• Hiring for potential over credentials in cybersecurity
• AppSec training effectiveness depends on organizational relevance
• AI...

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Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week’s episode co-hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is Anne Marie Zettlemoyer, former vp of security, Activision Blizzard.

In this episode

• SOC automation: Moving beyond alert fatigue
• The entry-level security talent reality
• Learni...

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Edward Contreras, senior evp and CISO, Frost Bank. Joining us is Ryan Bachman, executive vice president and CISO, GM Financial.

In this episode

• Identity consolidation versus simplification
• Entry-level pathways into cybersecurity
• Evolution of the CISO role toward business resilience
• Applying simplific...

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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 Alex Hall, CISO, Gensler.

In this episode:

• Evaluating secure messaging beyond the app
• Reframing compliance as a business enabler
• Incremental security investment vs. crisis response
• Why culture, not punishment, drives secure behavior
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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, Sam Curry, global vp, CISO at Zscaler. This episode was recorded at a Zscaler event in Boston, MA.

In this episode:

• Guardrails for decision making under fatigue
• Preparing for quantum threats
• Strategic use of generative AI
• Reassessin...
  

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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 Alexandra Landegger, global head of cyber strategy & transformation, RTX.

In this episode:

• A cybersecurity fast-track?
• When Ambition Becomes a Liability
• Giving the CVE Program the Credit It Deserves
• Elevating human cyber talent with...

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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 Tim Jacobs, vp, CISO, Commonwealth Care Alliance.

In this episode:

• Starting from zero
• Prepare for decisive decisions
• Working back from unacceptable
• Discovering inefficiencies 

A huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

I host this week’s episode, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Jesse Whaley, CISO, Amtrak. Joining them is their guest Vaughn Hazen, CISO, CN.

In this episode:

• The classics endure
• The rules of the rail
• "Prove It. With data."
• It's all just software

A hug...

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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, Saket Modi, co-founder and CEO, SAFE Security.

In this episode:

• Elevating AI to table stakes
• Security for the real world
• Using dynamic models for TPRM
• The agentic AI augmentation 

Huge than...

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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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