CISO Series Podcast

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining us is Todd Carroll, vp of information security, Aspect.

In this episode:

• Surviving the CISO change
• Trust over demos
• The mid-pack tax
• When guardrails block the defenders

A huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Edward Contreras, senior evp and CISO, Frost Bank. Joining us is Jerich Beason, CISO, WM.

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at CYBR.SEC.CON. in Houston.

In this episode:

• Contain first, ask questions later
• Borrowed rules break in the field
• Buy the thing everyone else already needed
• Somebody still has to own the mistake

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Dragos

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Dragos protects critical infrastructure with industry-leading OT threat detection and asset visibility. Six hundred organizations globally trust Dragos Platform, OT Watch, and Expert Services to safeguard their operational environments. Built on over a decade of OT-specific intelligence and frontline incident response experience. Learn more at http://dragos.com.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series, and Jacob Combs, CISO, Tandem Diabetes Care. Joining us is Alexandra Landegger, corporate CISO, RTX.

In this episode:

• The bug that wasn't a bug
• Nobody reopens the decision
• Outrun the slowest guy, not the tiger
• Four questions every CEO should ace

Thanks to Dutch Schwartz of SideChannel for providing our "What's Worse" scenario.

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta

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Your GRC team is dealing with more and more frameworks, vendors, and risk. The board wants it all in one place, but your compliance data lives all over. Vanta's agentic trust platform connects compliance, risk, and trust at enterprise scale and delivers a 526% ROI over three years. 16,000+ companies trust Vanta, including Snowflake, Atlassian, and Ramp. Visit http://vanta.com/CISO to learn more.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining us is Chad Rubin, svp cybersecurity, Publicis Re:Sources.

In this episode:

• Getting started beats getting it perfect
• Bring security in before the concrete dries
• The instruction was never the control
• If everyone likes your idea, you're already too late

Thanks to Joshua Carpenter of Alliance InfoSystems for providing our "What's Worse" scenario.

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Adaptive Security

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Adaptive Security helps organizations stay ahead of AI-powered social engineering, including deepfake phishing, vishing, and multi-channel attacks. With simulations and personalized training, teams learn to recognize and respond to modern threats before they cause harm. Turn human risk into resilience with security awareness built for the AI era. Learn more at http://adaptivesecurity.com/.

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining us is Jake Lorz, vp information technology and CISO, Cintas.

In this episode:

• Security's identity crisis
• The AI that never has a bad day
• Your permissions have secrets
• Nobody wrote it down

A huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

https://www.threatlocker.com/ciso

An AI-generated attack may be new, but it still needs to execute, access data, and move through your environment. ThreatLocker applies enforceable controls at each of those points, limiting what attackers can do regardless of how their code was created. Book a demo at http://threatlocker.com/ciso.

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Geoff Belknap. Joining us is our sponsored guest Ryan Lloyd, chief product officer, GuardSquare.

In this episode:

• Determinism was never the point
• Every MCP server is an uncontracted vendor
• Mobile security, the version everyone's tired of hearing
• Architectural vanity

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Guardsquare

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Guardsquare delivers mobile app security without compromise, providing advanced protections for both Android and iOS apps. From app security testing to code hardening to real-time visibility into the threat landscape, Guardsquare solutions provide enhanced mobile application security from early in the development process through publication. Learn more about how to protect your app at http://Guardsquare.com.

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining us is Aaron Stanley, former vp of security, DBT Labs.

In this episode:

• Saying no just hides the agent
• Communication is not a side project
• Even OpenAI can't buy enough coverage
• Identity governance beats the illusion of control

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Arctic Wolf

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Security leaders need to reduce complexity, strengthen resilience, and prove value. Arctic Wolf's Security Operations ROI Calculator helps estimate operational value, potential risk exposure reduction, and projected payback based on your environment. See what a modern, AI-powered security operations model could mean for your business at http://arcticwolf.com/CISO today, right now.

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This is a bonus episode of our brand new podcast, Super Cyber Friday Express — a 20-minute highlight version of our live one-hour show we do every available Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern.

In this episode, David Spark is joined by Karl Mattson, founder and managing director of Squared Circle Ventures, and Howard Holton, founder and principal analyst at Phronia Counsel LLC, to discuss how your existing environment shapes what you buy next — and whether that's a strategy or just inertia.

Watch the full one-hour show at Crowdcast.

Subscribe to Super Cyber Friday Express, or any show on CISO Series, at http://cisoseries.com/subscribe.

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining us is Gina Ciavarro, former managing director of infrastructure and CISO at Accordion.

In this episode:

• Patching won't evict a squatter
• Boards accept risk by saying nothing
• Fast enough to hide the damage
• Job posting for a unicorn

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Arctic Wolf

http://arcticwolf.com/CISO

Security leaders need to reduce complexity, strengthen resilience, and prove value. Arctic Wolf's Security Operations ROI Calculator helps estimate operational value, potential risk exposure reduction, and projected payback based on your environment. See what a modern, AI-powered security operations model could mean for your business at http://arcticwolf.com/CISO today, right now.

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is Varsha Agrawal, head of information security, Prosper Marketplace.

In this episode:

• Lock-in was never about the tech
• The board wants a green light, not a lesson
• Time was never the constraint
• What founders keep getting wrong about security

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta

https://www.vanta.com/calm-pliance

No, it's not your imagination. Risk and regulations ARE ramping up—and customers now expect proof of security just to do business. That's why Vanta is a game-changer. Vanta automates your compliance process and brings compliance, risk, and customer trust together on one AI-powered platform. So whether you're prepping for a SOC 2 or running an enterprise GRC program, Vanta keeps you secure—and keeps your deals moving. Companies like Ramp and Writer spend 82% less time on audits with Vanta. That's not just faster compliance—it's more time for growth. Get started at http://vanta.com/CISO.

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Will Gregorian, CISO, Galileo Medical. Joining us is Ryan Brown, director and head of cybersecurity operations, Children's National Hospital.

In this episode:

• Policy is easy. The exam room isn't.
• Robotics, Asimov, and the gap before regulation
• The token bill nobody can explain
• The 3 AM call is a warning sign

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Guardsquare

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Guardsquare delivers mobile app security without compromise, providing advanced protections for both Android and iOS apps. From app security testing to code hardening to real-time visibility into the threat landscape, Guardsquare solutions provide enhanced mobile application security from early in the development process through publication. Learn more about how to protect your app at http://Guardsquare.com/CISO.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Edward Contreras, senior evp and CISO, Frost Bank. Joining is sponsored guest Rob Allen, chief product officer, ThreatLocker.

In this episode:

• Not my job, still my problem
• The tools people actually use
• Mac, Windows, and the debate that won't quit
• Hiring for imagination, not acronyms

A huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

ThreatLocker delivers Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust Cloud Access that verifies both user and device before granting access to specific applications. No broad access, nothing exposed, and no reliance on credentials alone. It's a smarter way to control access and reduce risk. Learn more at http://ThreatLocker.com/CISO.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining is Julie Davila, president, Security Tinkerers.

In this episode:

• Two paths, one dead end
• One size fits nobody
• Own it or orphan it
• The agent you should worry about

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Guardsquare

https://hubs.la/Q04rSqZy0

Guardsquare delivers mobile app security without compromise, providing advanced protections for both Android and iOS apps. From app security testing to code hardening to real-time visibility into the threat landscape, Guardsquare solutions provide enhanced mobile application security from early in the development process through publication. Learn more about how to protect your app at http://Guardsquare.com/CISO.

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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 Nada Noaman, SVP and CISO, Estee Lauder Companies.

In this episode:

• Skipping the apprenticeship
• Privileged users nobody manages like one
• Findings without the authority to fix them
• Security was always behavioral

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Native

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The Cloud Security Control Plane. Native helps enterprises turn built-in cloud security controls into active, operational defenses across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI, so teams can enforce secure-by-design architecture at the source, preview impact before rollout, and keep guardrails aligned as cloud environments change. Learn more at native.security.

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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, Khush Kashyap, senior director of GRC at Vanta.

In this episode:

• Running up the token meter
• Some risks resist a price tag
• Resilience isn't a vacation policy
• Compliance is the wrong finish line

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta

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Still stuck on the quarterly audit treadmill? Meet Calm-pliance. Vanta combines compliance, risk, and proof on one Agentic Trust Platform—and continuously monitors your controls, keeping you audit-ready all year round. Find your Calm-pliance here.

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining is Pavi Ramamurthy, Global CISO and CIO, Blackhawk Network.

In this episode:

• Numbers that make the board feel good and nothing else
• The audit is not the same thing as the truth
• Receipts aren't a strategy
• Stop blaming the human, fix the system they're standing in

A huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

ThreatLocker delivers Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust Cloud Access that verifies both user and device before granting access to specific applications. No broad access, nothing exposed, and no reliance on credentials alone. It's a smarter way to control access and reduce risk. Learn more at http://ThreatLocker.com/CISO.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series, and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining is our sponsored guest, Brian Long, CEO, Adaptive Security.

In this episode:

• Nobody clocks out anymore
• The rules nobody wrote down are the ones that count
• AI doesn't drain your empathy, it just shows your hand
• Loyalty runs both directions, even out the door

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Adaptive Security

https://www.adaptivesecurity.com/demo/security-awareness-training

Adaptive Security helps organizations stay ahead of AI-powered social engineering, including deepfake phishing, vishing, and multi-channel attacks. With simulations and personalized training, teams learn to recognize and respond to modern threats before they cause harm. Turn human risk into resilience with security awareness built for the AI era. Learn more at adaptivesecurity.com.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series, and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining them is Tim Callahan, CIO/CISO, AFLAC.

In this episode:

• Week one is the wrong time to overreach
• Nobody has the AI playbook
• Vulnerability management wasn't built for this clock
• Stop blaming the human, fix the system

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Vanta

https://www.vanta.com/calm-pliance

No, it's not your imagination. Risk and regulations ARE ramping up—and customers now expect proof of security just to do business. That's why Vanta is a game-changer. Vanta automates your compliance process and brings compliance, risk, and customer trust together on one AI-powered platform. So whether you're prepping for a SOC 2 or running an enterprise GRC program, Vanta keeps you secure—and keeps your deals moving. Companies like Ramp and Writer spend 82% less time on audits with Vanta. That's not just faster compliance—it's more time for growth. Get started at Vanta.com/CISO.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series, and Andy Ellis, principal of Duha. Joining is Patti Degnan, operating partner, Andreessen Horowitz.

In this episode:

• Identity built for one person at a time
• Patching can't outrun the exploit timeline
• The exception hiding inside zero trust
• A revenue question nobody's answered yet

A huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

https://www.threatlocker.com/ciso

ThreatLocker delivers Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust Cloud Access that verifies both user and device before granting access to specific applications. No broad access, nothing exposed, and no reliance on credentials alone. It's a smarter way to control access and reduce risk. Learn more at http://threatlocker.com/CISO.

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Nick Vigier, CISO, Oscar Health. Joining is our sponsored guest, Mitchem Boles, field CTO, Intezer. This episode was recorded live at Intezer's AI SOC event held at the NASDAQ in NYC.

In this episode:

• Who owns the risk
• Before it gets better
• The SOC of zero
• The decision bottleneck

A huge thanks to our sponsor, Intezer

https://intezer.com/

Intezer Forensic AI SOC is designed for enterprises managing high alert volumes across SIEM, EDR Network, identity, phishing, and cloud systems. These organizations often rely on MDRs to fill coverage gaps but face frustration with limited visibility, too many escalations, and missed incidents hiding in low-severity alerts. Learn more at https://intezer.com/.