Podcasts by Cyber Security Interviews

#127 – Douglas Brush (Part 5): Analysis Paralysis from 2023-09-25T06:00

This is the 5th part of the podcast's return after a brief hiatus. 

Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this fifth part, we will discuss the start-up resources we provided ...

#126 – Douglas Brush (Part 4): Dollars and Cents, Not Bytes from 2023-04-17T06:00

This is the 4th part of the podcast's return after a brief hiatus. 

Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this fourth part, we will discuss my first forensic litigation case,...

#125 – Douglas Brush (Part 3): What is a Special Master? from 2023-04-03T06:00

This is the 3rd part of the podcast's return after a brief hiatus. 

Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this third part, we will discuss what I am doing as a Special Master...

#124 – Douglas Brush (Part 2): Words of Advice from 2023-03-20T06:00

This is the 2nd part of the return of the podcast after a brief hiatus.

Daniel Ayala continues his interview of Listen

#123 – Douglas Brush (Part 1): Guess Who’s Back, Dougie’s Back from 2023-03-06T06:00

After a hiatus, the Cyber Security Interviews podcast is back!

A lot has happened in my life over the past 18 months. I have endured death, despair, divorce, and car theft, to name a few t...

#122 – Leeann Nicolo: Go For It from 2021-07-19T06:00

Leeann Nicolo is the Incident Response lead at The Coalition ...

#121 – Shannon Brazil: Teach Business to Tech People from 2021-06-28T06:00

Shannon Brazil is a Senior Cyber Security Specialist working within a CIRT of a Canadian Fortune 500. She has been in IT ...

#120 – Cimone Wright-Hamor: Cybersecurity Is An Applied Field from 2021-06-21T06:00

Cimone Wright-Hamor works at Pacific Northwest National Labor...

#119 – Jenna Waters: This Is My Team from 2021-06-14T06:00

Jenna Waters is a Cybersecurity Consultant at True Digital Sec...

#118 – Nato Riley: Reinvent Reality and Reinvent the World from 2021-06-07T06:00

Nato Riley is an Integrations Engineer at Blumira and the Co-founder ...

#117 – Sara Avery: Go After What You Want from 2021-03-15T06:00

Sara Avery is a Regional Sales Manager at Zscaler. She has he...

#116 – Jennifer Brown: This Is A Wakeup Call from 2021-03-01T06:00

Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, spe...

#115 – Alyssa Miller: We Are Lacking Empathy from 2021-02-22T06:00

Alyssa Miller leads the security strategy for S&P Gl...

#114 – Chloé Messdaghi: How Can We Do Better from 2021-02-15T06:00

Chloé Messdaghi is the Chief Strategist at Point3 Security. In ...

#113 – Julian Waits: Diversity of Thought from 2021-02-08T06:00

Julian Waits is the general manager of cybersecurity at Devo Technology...

#112: Douglas Brush – Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional from 2021-02-01T06:00

This is the last episode in the five-part series on mental health, self-care, and neurodiversity. This will not be the last time I speak about these issues on the podcast. I encourage ever...

#111 – Danny Akacki: Work Worth Doing from 2021-01-25T06:00

Danny Akacki is just a storyteller perpetually looking for a stage. He loves nothing more than attending conferences, giving ta...

#110 – Ryan Louie: Security Starts In the Mind from 2021-01-18T06:00

Ryan K. Louie, MD, Ph.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist focusing on the mental health impact of cybersecurity, and the psychiatry o...

#109 – Amanda Berlin: Happier People Stay Longer from 2021-01-11T06:00

Amanda Berlin is the Lead Incident Detection Engineer for Blumira a...

#108 – Bill Hudenko: The Mind Body Connection from 2021-01-04T06:00

Bill Hudenko, Ph.D. has significant experience in the fields of both mental health and technology. Dr. Hudenko is a licensed ...

#107 – Daniel Wood: We Don’t Have Enough Skilled People from 2020-12-28T06:00

Daniel Wood is the Associate Vice President of Consulting at Bishop Fo...

#106 – Jasson Casey: Hire Missionaries, Not Mercanaries from 2020-12-21T06:00

Jasson Casey is the CTO of Beyond Identity, a passwordless identity manage...

#105 – John Hammond: Raise The Cyber Security Poverty Line from 2020-12-14T06:00

John Hammond is a Security Researcher at Huntress as well as a c...

#104 – David Wong: Many Layers of Complexity from 2020-12-07T06:00

David Wong is a security engineer working on the libra Blockchain...

#103 – Jeff Hussey: Try Not To Make More Than One Mistake In a Row from 2020-11-30T06:00

Jeff Hussey is the President and CEO of Tempered. Jeff, the foun...

#102 – John Ford: Keeping The Organization Informed from 2020-11-23T06:00

John Ford is the Cybersecurity Strategist at IronNet and is an information sec...

#101 – Brandon Hoffman: Align Security To Business Outcomes from 2020-11-16T06:00

Brandon Hoffman is the CISO & Head of Security Strategy at Netenric...

#100 – Douglas Brush: Cybersecurity Is Psychological from 2020-11-09T06:00

This is a special episode where we celebrate the 100th episode of the Cyber Security Interviews podcast! In this episode, I have the mic turned back on me by a past guest, great friend, and an a...

#099 – Fredrick Lee (Flee): Security Should Be Lovable from 2020-08-24T06:00

Fredrick "Flee" Lee is the Chief Security Officer at Gusto, where he lead...

#098 – Andrea Roberson: Reach Out to Others from 2020-08-10T06:00

Andrea Roberson is a product manager at Centrify Corporation, where she directs the product roadmap for Centrify Privile...

#097 – HD Moore: The New Normal from 2020-08-03T06:00

HD Moore is the founder and CEO of Rumble Network Discovery; a platform d...

#096 – Gabe Gumbs: Data Is An Asset from 2020-07-20T06:00

Gabe Gumbs has a deep-rooted passion for technology, information security, and problem-solving. As Chief Innovat...

#095 – Shahrokh Shahidzadeh: Education Is a Big Part of IT from 2020-07-13T06:00

Shahrokh Shahidzadeh is the CEO of Listen

#094 – Deborah Golden: How Can I Support You Today from 2020-07-06T06:00

Deborah Golden is the US Cyber & Strategic Risk leader for Listen

#093 – Kyle Hanslovan&Chris Bisnett: Crimeware Is a Business from 2020-06-29T06:00

Kyle Hanslovan comes to Huntress Labs from the U.S. Int...

#092 – Jack Kudale: You Gotta Have More Cowbell from 2020-06-22T06:00

Jack Kudale is Founder and CEO at Cowbell Cyber with over two dec...

#091 – Daniel Ayala: Does This Help Us from 2020-06-15T06:00

Daniel Ayala is the Founder, and Managing Partner for Secratic, a stra...

#090 – Anthony Bettini: Building What No One Else Has from 2020-06-08T06:00

Anthony Bettini is the CTO for WhiteHat Security Listen

#089 – Ed Bellis: Complexity is the Enemy from 2020-06-01T06:00

Ed Bellis is a security industry veteran and expert and was once named “Information Security Executive of the Year”. He currentl...

#088 – Mikko Hyppönen: You Might Have an Enemy In the Future from 2020-05-25T06:00

Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert and has worked at F-Secure since 1991. Currently, he serves as Listen

#087 – Steve Moore: It’s a Balancing Act from 2020-05-18T06:00

Stephen Moore is a Vice President and the Chief Security Strategist at Listen

#086 – Dave Kennedy: The Basics Are Still Challenging from 2020-05-11T06:00

David Kennedy is the founder of Binary Defense and Listen

#085 – John Strand: Making the Industry Better from 2020-05-04T06:00

John Strand is the owner of Black Hills Informati...

#084 – Adam Hunt: A Game We Play from 2020-03-23T06:00

Adam Hunt is the CTO and Chief Data Scientist at RiskIQ. As Chief Data ...

#083 – Nate Fick: Give Teams Autonomy from 2020-02-17T06:00

Nate Fick is the General Manager of Elastic Security and former CEO of Endgame. He is also an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture ...

#082 – Jamil Jaffer: Not All Nation-state Activity Is the Same from 2020-02-10T06:00

Jamil Jaffer is Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships & Corporate Development at Listen

#081 – James Patchett: Make Small Businesses Safe from 2020-01-20T06:00

James Patchett is the President and CEO of the New...

#080 – Heather Mahalik: Earn The Tool from 2020-01-13T06:00

Heather Mahalik is the Senior Director of Digital Intelligence at Cellebrite and a Senior Instructor, author an...

#079 – Mari DeGrazia: Not Just One Technology from 2020-01-06T06:00

Mari DeGrazia is a Senior Vice President in the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps. Over the c...

#078 – Nadean Tanner: Boil It Down from 2019-12-16T06:00

When my 7-year-old introduced me to his second-grade class, he put it best: "My Mom teaches the good guys how to keep the bad guys out of their computers. She has a blue lightsaber." Listen

#077 – Frank Downs: Know When To Leave from 2019-12-10T06:00

Frank Downs is the director of cybersecurity practices at Listen

#076 – Lesley Carhart: You’ve Got to Play the Game from 2019-09-30T05:00

Lesley Carhart is a Principal Threat Analyst at the Threat Operations Center at Listen

#075 – Brian Martin (Jericho): The Hacker Mindset from 2019-09-23T06:00:22

Brian Martin (a.k.a. Jericho) has been poking about the hacker and security scene for over 22 years, building valuable skills such as skepticism and anger management. As a hacker-turned-security...

#074 – Bill Conner: You Cannot Have Privacy Without Security from 2019-09-16T06:00:22

Bill Conner is the President and CEO of ...

#073 – Bernard Harguindeguy: Identity Is The Keystone from 2019-08-19T06:00:32

Bernard Harguindeguy is the Chief Technology Officer & General Manager Intelligence from Listen

#072 – Vinny Sakore: This Was Crime from 2019-07-08T06:00:19

Vinny Sakore joined the NetDiligence ...

#071 – Renaud Deraison: Complexity Breeds Insecurity from 2019-05-27T06:00:26

Renaud Deraison is known in the global security community as the father of the Nessus vulnerabi...

#070 – Lorrie Cranor: Help Open The Doors from 2019-05-20T06:00:29

Lorrie Faith Cranor, IEEE Fellow, is...

#069 – Ben Johnson: Break Down The Problems from 2019-05-06T06:00:37

Ben Johnson is CTO and co-founder of Listen

#068 – Deborah Blyth: Security Is Everybody’s Job from 2019-04-29T06:00:41

Deborah Blyth is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Listen

#067 – Fred Kneip: Compliance Doesn’t Equal Security from 2019-04-22T06:00:54

Fred Kneip is the CEO and Founder of Listen

#066 – Alissa Torres: A Well Balanced Approach from 2019-04-15T05:00

Alissa Torres is a SANS analyst and Principal SANS...

#065 – Lizzie Cookson: Attackers Adapt With Us from 2019-04-08T05:00

Lizzie Cookson is an Associate Director of Cyber Investigations at Listen

#064 – Georgia Weidman: Cyber Security Lion Repellent from 2019-04-01T05:00

Georgia Weidman is the founder and CTO of Shevirah and is a seria...

#063 – Dean Sysman: You Are Swamped With Data from 2019-03-25T06:00

Dean Sysman, is the CEO and co-founder, Axonius. Dean is a world reno...

#062 – Chad Loder: Just Because It’s Basic, Doesn’t Mean It’s Easy from 2018-12-10T07:00

Chad Loder is the CEO and co-founder of Habitu8, a Los Angeles-based cy...

#061 – Yonathan Klijnsma: If They Get Compromised, You Get Compromised from 2018-12-03T08:00

Yonathan Klijnsma is a threat researcher at RiskIQ, leading threat resp...

#060 – Mike Johnson: Let’s Do The Right Thing from 2018-09-24T05:00

Mike Johnson is the Listen

#059 – Jacob Williams: What Didn’t We Catch from 2018-09-17T05:00

Jacob Williams is the Founder and President of Rend...

#058 – Josh Corman: The Absence of Good from 2018-09-10T05:00

Joshua Corman is a Founder of I am The Cavalry (dot org) and CS...

#057 – Ron Gula: Encourage People To Be Entrepreneurs from 2018-07-23T05:00

Ron Gula is the President of Gula Tech Adventures. Ron started his cyb...

#056 – It’s Just Data! from 2018-07-16T05:00

This is a special episode where my guests actually turn the mics and spotlight on me. In this episode, I speak with Kris...

#055 – Mark Greisiger: What Could a Future Breach Cost Me from 2018-06-25T05:00

Mark Greisiger has led NetDiligence, a Cy...

#054 – Brian Vecci: Understanding the Value of What We Have from 2018-06-20T05:00

Brian Vecci is the Technical Evangelist at Listen

#053 – Cameron Williams: Make Your Day Easier from 2018-05-14T05:00

Cameron Williams is the Founder and CTO of OverWatch...

#052 – Jeremiah Grossman: The Cavalry Is Not Coming from 2018-04-30T05:00

Jeremiah Grossman is the CEO of Bit Discovery. Jerem...

#051 – Robert M. Lee: The Adversary’s Ability to Change Their Trade Craft is Difficult from 2018-04-24T05:00

Robert M. Lee is the CEO and Founder of the industrial (ICS/IIoT) cyber security company Listen

#050 – Chris Roberts: Make New Mistakes from 2018-04-09T05:00

Chris Roberts is the Chief Security Architect at A...

#049 – Keith McCammon: We Have An Analysis Problem from 2018-04-02T05:00

Keith McCammon is the Chief Security Officer and Co-founder of Red Canary...

#048 – Tom Brennan: Engage the Community In a Positive Way from 2018-03-26T05:00

Tom Brennan is the Founder of Proactive Risk with two decades of...

#047 – Cody Cornell: Allow People to Focus on Interesting Things from 2018-03-19T06:00

Cody Cornell is the Founder and CEO of Swimlane. Cody is responsible fo...

#046 – Bret Fund: Trying To Solve the Talent Gap Problem from 2018-03-05T06:00

Bret Fund is the CEO of SecureSet. As a founder of the business in 2014, he ...

#045 – Kristinn Gudjonsson: You Don’t Want Analysts Spending All Their Time Extracting Data from 2018-02-26T06:00

Kristinn Gudjonsson is a manager with the Detection & Response team at ...

#044 – James Carder: Automate As Much As You Can from 2018-02-19T06:00

James Carder is the CISO of LogRythm and brings more than 19 years of ...

#043 – David Navetta: The Year Of the Phishing Attack from 2017-11-27T05:00

David Navetta is a US co-chair of Listen

#042 – Jared Coseglia: Those Numbers Are Real from 2017-11-20T06:00

Jared Michael Coseglia, founder and CEO of TRU Staffing Par...

#041 – Andrew Hay: Creative Solutions to Hard Problems from 2017-11-13T06:00

Andrew Hay is an information security industry veteran with close to 20 years of experience as a security practitioner, indus...

#040 – Michelangelo Sidagni: One Size Doesn’t Fit All from 2017-11-06T06:00

Michelangelo Sidagni serves as Chief Technology Officer leading technical development, security research, ...

#039 – James Tarala: What Does the Risk Really Look Like from 2017-10-30T06:00

James Tarala is a principal consultant with Enclave Security and is based out of Venice, Florida. James Tarala has been a s...

#038 – Eric Conrad: You Need To Be Interested Beyond 9 to 5 from 2017-10-09T04:00

SANS Senior Instructor Eric Conrad is the lead author of Listen

#037 – Johannes Ullrich: Solving That Puzzle In Your Network from 2017-10-03T00:26

Dr. Johannes Ullrich is currently responsible for the SANS In...

#036 – Jorge Orchilles: Offense Informs Defense from 2017-09-25T04:00

Jorge Orchilles, author of Listen

#035 – David Kovar: Where Is the Best Application of Your Skill Set from 2017-09-18T04:00

David Kovar is the President and founder of Kovar & Associates wh...

#034 – Harlan Carvey: You Have To Apply the Data To Your Theory from 2017-09-11T05:00

Harlan Carvey is currently the Director of Intelligence Integration at Listen

#033 – Perry Carpenter: Security Culture Management from 2017-09-04T13:06

Perry Carpenter currently serves as Chief Evangelist and Strategy Officer for Listen

#032 – Ryan Kalember: We’ve Moved From Mass Surveillance to Targeted Attacks from 2017-08-28T05:00

Ryan Kalember has over 15-years of experience in the information security industry. Ryan currently leads cybersecurity strateg...

#031 – Jobert Abma: All Bugs Are Shallow from 2017-08-21T05:00

Jobert Abma is a co-founder and technical lead at HackerOne, one of...

#030 – Joseph Carson: We Need a People-Centric Approach from 2017-08-14T11:53

Joseph Carson is a cyber security professional and ethical hacker with more than 25 years’ experience in enterprise securit...

#029 – Don’t Hire Security Consultants from 2017-08-07T04:00

This is a solo episode between interviews.

I have been doing IT and security consulting for a long time. Over this time, I have noticed a few things that are worth noting when hiring a sec...

#028 – Brett Shavers: It’s Not the Machine, But the Examiner from 2017-07-31T04:00

Brett Shavers is a consultant to corporations and government agencies in computer related cases as well as being the author of "Listen

#027 – Lance Spitzner: What Behaviors Do We Care About from 2017-07-24T14:08

Lance Spitzner is the Director of the ...

#026 – Casey Ellis: I Enjoy Thinking Like a Criminal from 2017-07-17T13:27

Casey Ellis is founder and CEO of Bugcrowd. He started life in i...

#025 – Robb Reck&Alex Wood: We Need To Understand the Technology We are Securing from 2017-07-10T05:00

Rob Reck and Alex Wood are both seasoned security professionals in the Denver, CO area and hosts of their own podcast, Listen

#024 – Independence from 2017-07-03T05:00

This is another short podcast before we get back into full interviews next week.

In this episode, I explore the concept of Independence. In the US, this week we ar...

#023 – Coming Back from 2017-06-26T19:49

So many of you are wondering why the break in Cyber Security Interviews.

There is a bit of a story that goes along with it. I wanted to share this story because I think sheds light into li...

#022 – Alex Kreilein&David Odom: The Problems In the Industry from 2017-04-24T04:00

Alex Kreilein and David Odom are both Managing Partners at Listen

#021 – Troy Hunt: It’s Fun to Build Stuff from 2017-04-17T04:00

Troy Hunt is an internationally recognized cyber security researcher...

#020 – Jad Saliba: The Thirst For Knowledge from 2017-04-10T04:00

Jad Saliba is the founder and CTO of Magnet Forensics, a lea...

#019 – Theresa Payton: Design For the Human from 2017-04-03T04:00

Theresa Payton is one of the nation’s leading experts in cybersecurity and IT strategy. As CEO of Listen

#018 – Hal Pomeranz: Take a Deep Breath and Relax from 2017-03-20T05:00

Hal Pomeranz is the Founder and Principal Consultant for Deer Run Associate...

#017 – Marie Hattar&Dave Ginsburg: What Keeps the CISO Up at Night from 2017-03-13T12:05

In this episode I am speaking with Marie Hattar and Listen

#016 – Kristin Lovejoy: Security Is a Team Sport from 2017-03-06T05:00

Kristin Lovejoy is the CEO of BluVector. Prior to her role at BluVector, she ser...

#015 – Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue): This Isn’t a New Problem from 2017-02-27T05:00

Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue) is a strategist for Tenable. With more t...

#014 – RSA Conference 2017 from 2017-02-20T05:00

The RSA Conference (or "RSAC") held annually in San Francisco, CA has become one of the largest information security conferences. I w...

#013 – Gary McGraw: Security Is Hard Work from 2017-02-13T05:00

Dr. Gary McGraw is the Vice President of Security Technology at Synopsys (SNPS). Gary quite literally helped create the field of software ...

#012 – Cindy Murphy: Learn How To Learn from 2017-02-06T05:00

Cindy Murphy served in law enforcement  for more than thirty years (twenty-five of those years at th...

#011 – Scott Schober: What Makes It Work from 2017-01-30T05:00

Scott Schober is the President and CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems Listen

#010 – ShmooCon 12 (2017) from 2017-01-23T03:00

Early each year, for the past 12 years, the hacker conference ShmooCon takes place in Washington, DC. This year I was honored and fortunate to ...

#009 – Ismael Valenzuela: Let’s See What Happens from 2017-01-16T03:00

Defined by his peers as a “passionate, experienced and visionary individual who is always striving to improve himself,” Ismael V...

#008 – Darren Hayes: Be Cautious and Think It Through from 2017-01-09T03:00

Dr. Darren Hayes is the Director of Cybersecurity and an Assistant Professor at Pace University, New York and a leading expert in th...

#007 – What I Am Learning So Far from 2017-01-02T03:00

This is going to be the second holiday break episode and the first of 2017.

In this episode, I am taking a quick look back at the Listen

#006 – 2016: A Look Back Through the Year from 2016-12-26T12:00

This is going to be one of two special holiday break episodes as we end out the year. We will be returning to our regular interviews with top security experts right after the start of the new ye...

#005 – Morgan Wright: The Rule of Threes from 2016-12-19T02:00

Morgan Wright is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, identity theft and priv...

#004 – Nicholas Percoco: Don’t Second Guess Yourself from 2016-12-12T02:00

Nicholas Percoco has more than 19 years of information security experience and is currently the Chief Information Security Office...

#003 – Lenny Zeltser: You Can Never Know Everything from 2016-12-05T00:01

Lenny Zeltser is a seasoned business and tech leader with extensive information security expertise. As a product portfolio ...

#002 – David Cowen: Standing On the Shoulders of Giants from 2016-11-23T00:01

David Cowen has more than sixteen years of experience in the areas of security integration, architecture, assessment, programming...

#001 – Chris Pogue: Like a Chihuahua On a Pork Chop from 2016-11-23T00:00

Chris Pogue, Chief Information Security Officer at Listen

#000 – Douglas A. Brush: You’re Always a Student – You Never Stop Learning from 2016-11-22T00:00

Before we tackle the hearts and minds of some of the leaders and influencers in cyber security, I wanted to provide a little background about me and how I got started in cyber security.

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