Cyber Security Interviews
by Douglas A. Brush | Weekly Interviews w/ InfoSec Pros
There is “no one way” to start and stay in the field of cyber security. Whether you are involved from the military, law enforcement, consulting, or IT services, it doesn’t matter. I have had countless discussions for years with other professionals online, at conferences, or over drinks, which have changed the way I think about cyber security. That is where this podcast comes in. What if I can capture those moments and frank discussions? I want to share the stories from other cyber security leaders and influencers so everyone can learn from their respective journeys and challenges. Why did they take the path they did? Who were their mentors? How did they tackle some of their biggest career challenges? By hearing how the industry leaders and influencers got to where they are and how they overcame some of the problems they faced, I hope to shed light on the path for other professionals. I will discover what motivates them, explore their journey in cyber security, and discuss where they th
Episodes
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#127 – Douglas Brush (Part 5): Analysis Paralysis
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 in our Hang Out A Shingle presentation, what I am doing with Accel Consulting, selling to CISOs, tips to avoid when...
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#126 – Douglas Brush (Part 4): Dollars and Cents, Not Bytes
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, the importance of data governance, the myth of cyber, why I am tired of cybersecurity conferences, and so much more!
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#125 – Douglas Brush (Part 3): What is a Special Master?
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 and Court Appointed Neutral, the reasons I think there will be a continued convergence of legal, cybersecurity…
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#124 – Douglas Brush (Part 2): Words of Advice
This is the 2nd part of the return of the podcast after a brief hiatus. Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this second part, we will discuss how I got started in the industry, defining moments of my career, my first computer, early entrepreneurship, characteristics I look for in...
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#123 – Douglas Brush (Part 1): Guess Who’s Back, Dougie’s Back
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 traumatic events that made me take a break from several endeavors. However, it has allowed me to reprioritize...
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#122 – Leeann Nicolo: Go For It
Leeann Nicolo is the Incident Response lead at The Coalition and specializes in digital forensics and cyber investigations. She has conducted investigations into ransomware, phishing, hacking, data breaches, trade secret theft, and employee malfeasance. Leeann has investigated thousands of…
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#121 – Shannon Brazil: Teach Business to Tech People
Shannon Brazil is a Senior Cyber Security Specialist working within a CIRT of a Canadian Fortune 500. She has been in IT for over 12 years, with the last three years in Cybercrime investigations with law enforcement and recently moving into the private sector to focus on Digital Forensic analysis...
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#120 – Cimone Wright-Hamor: Cybersecurity Is An Applied Field
Cimone Wright-Hamor works at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a cybersecurity researcher while pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. She has spent the last decade of her life interning at a variety of organizations. She has had ten internships at more...
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#119 – Jenna Waters: This Is My Team
Jenna Waters is a Cybersecurity Consultant at True Digital Security where she specializes in information security program development, industry compliance assessments, threat intelligence, and cloud security controls. She is an experienced professional who consults with companies across multiple...
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#118 – Nato Riley: Reinvent Reality and Reinvent the World
Nato Riley is an Integrations Engineer at Blumira and the Co-founder of Cloud Underground. Nato provides infrastructure, code, and security across all his efforts and is focused on helping Blumira build the most effective and efficient SIEM on the market for small to mid-sized businesses. He is…
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#117 – Sara Avery: Go After What You Want
Sara Avery is a Regional Sales Manager at Zscaler. She has held various positions over the past 20 years in the Information Technology field and discovered her passion for information security 15 years ago. Her career has largely been spent in sales and account management with a laser focus on my...
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#116 – Jennifer Brown: This Is A Wakeup Call
Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, diversity and inclusion consultant, and author. As the successful founder, president, and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, headquartered in New York City, Jennifer is responsible for designing workplace strategies that have been…
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#115 – Alyssa Miller: We Are Lacking Empathy
Alyssa Miller leads the security strategy for S&P Global Ratings as Business Information Security Officer (BISO), connecting corporate security objectives to business initiatives. She blends a unique mix of technical expertise and executive presence to bridge the gap that can often form between...
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#114 – Chloé Messdaghi: How Can We Do Better
Chloé Messdaghi is the Chief Strategist at Point3 Security. In addition to her passion for keeping people safe and empowered both on and offline, she is also interested in increasing the numbers of marginalized genders in information security. She is the Co-Founder of Women of Security (WoSEC)…
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#113 – Julian Waits: Diversity of Thought
Julian Waits is the general manager of cybersecurity at Devo Technology. He has over 30 years of experience in senior leadership roles at technology companies, specializing in security, risk, and threat detection. He serves on several industry boards, including the International Consortium of...
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#112: Douglas Brush – Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional
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 everyone to take these issues seriously and help remove stigmas and champion differences in the way our brains...
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#111 – Danny Akacki: Work Worth Doing
Danny Akacki is just a storyteller perpetually looking for a stage. He loves nothing more than attending conferences, giving talks, writing blogs, and finding new ways to reach as many people as he can to educate about cybersecurity. For him, there is no greater satisfaction than community...
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#110 – Ryan Louie: Security Starts In the Mind
Ryan K. Louie, MD, Ph.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist focusing on the mental health impact of cybersecurity, and the psychiatry of entrepreneurship. Ryan received his MD and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford University School of Medicine and completed residency training in psychiatry at the...
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#109 – Amanda Berlin: Happier People Stay Longer
Amanda Berlin is the Lead Incident Detection Engineer for Blumira and the CEO and owner of the nonprofit corporation Mental Health Hackers. She is the author of a Blue Team best practices book called "Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices for Securing Infrastructure” with Lee Brotherston...
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#108 – Bill Hudenko: The Mind Body Connection
Bill Hudenko, Ph.D. has significant experience in the fields of both mental health and technology. Dr. Hudenko is a licensed psychologist, a researcher, and a professor who holds a joint appointment as a faculty member at Dartmouth's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Dartmouth’s...
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#107 – Daniel Wood: We Don’t Have Enough Skilled People
Daniel Wood is the Associate Vice President of Consulting at Bishop Fox, where he leads all service lines, develops strategic initiatives, and has established the Applied Research and Development program. Daniel has over 15 years of experience in cybersecurity and is a subject matter expert in…
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#106 – Jasson Casey: Hire Missionaries, Not Mercanaries
Jasson Casey is the CTO of Beyond Identity, a passwordless identity management provider. He also serves as a Fellow in CyberSecurity with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the National Security Institute (NSI). Previously, Jasson was CTO of SecurityScorecard, VP of...
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#105 – John Hammond: Raise The Cyber Security Poverty Line
John Hammond is a Security Researcher at Huntress as well as a cybersecurity instructor, developer, red teamer, and CTF enthusiast. John is a former Department of Defense Cyber Training Academy curriculum developer and teacher for the Cyber Threat Emulation course, educating both civilian and...
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#104 – David Wong: Many Layers of Complexity
David Wong is a security engineer working on the libra Blockchain at Facebook. He is an active contributor to internet standards like Transport Layer Security and to the applied cryptography research community. David is a recognized authority in the field of applied cryptography; he’s spoken at...
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#103 – Jeff Hussey: Try Not To Make More Than One Mistake In a Row
Jeff Hussey is the President and CEO of Tempered. Jeff, the founder of F5 Networks, is an accomplished entrepreneur with a proven track record in the networking and security markets. He maintains several board positions across a variety of technology, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations and...
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#102 – John Ford: Keeping The Organization Informed
John Ford is the Cybersecurity Strategist at IronNet and is an information security veteran with over twenty years in a wide variety of roles. Prior to IronNet, John was CISO for ConnectWise, the global leader in providing software solutions for Managed Services Providers. In this role, he was...
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#101 – Brandon Hoffman: Align Security To Business Outcomes
Brandon Hoffman is the CISO & Head of Security Strategy at Netenrich. Brandon is an admired security executive responsible for Netenrich’s technical sales and security strategy for both the company and its customers. Most recently, he oversaw solution architecture for Intel 471’s dark web threat...
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#100 – Douglas Brush: Cybersecurity Is Psychological
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 amazing asset to the community, Nadean Tanner. She crowdsourced some questions, but head plenty of her…
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#099 – Fredrick Lee (Flee): Security Should Be Lovable
Fredrick "Flee" Lee is the Chief Security Officer at Gusto, where he leads information and physical security strategies including consumer protection, compliance, governance, and risk. Before Gusto, Lee spent more than 15 years leading global information security and privacy efforts at large...
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#098 – Andrea Roberson: Reach Out to Others
Andrea Roberson is a product manager at Centrify Corporation, where she directs the product roadmap for Centrify Privileged Access Service. She was previously a technical support engineer at the company for almost two years and has held several engineering and support roles during her career...
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#097 – HD Moore: The New Normal
HD Moore is the founder and CEO of Rumble Network Discovery; a platform designed to make asset inventory quick and easy by combining active scanning with innovative research. Prior to starting Rumble, HD was best known as the founder of the Metasploit Project, the foremost open-source exploit...
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#096 – Gabe Gumbs: Data Is An Asset
Gabe Gumbs has a deep-rooted passion for technology, information security, and problem-solving. As Chief Innovation Officer of Spirion—a leader in rapid identification and protection of sensitive data—he’s channeling that passion to make the digital world a safer place. Wielding a unique mix of...
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#095 – Shahrokh Shahidzadeh: Education Is a Big Part of IT
Shahrokh Shahidzadeh is the CEO of Acceptto. Shahrokh is a seasoned technologist and leader with 29 years of contribution to modern computer architecture, device identity, platform trust elevation, large IoT initiatives, and ambient intelligence research with more than 25 issued and pending...
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#094 – Deborah Golden: How Can I Support You Today
Deborah Golden is the US Cyber & Strategic Risk leader for Deloitte Risk & Financial Advisory. In the prior six years, Deborah served as the Government & Public Services (GPS) Cyber Risk Services leader, as well as the GPS Advisory Market Offering leader, GPS Empowered Well-Being leader and the...
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#093 – Kyle Hanslovan & Chris Bisnett: Crimeware Is a Business
Kyle Hanslovan comes to Huntress Labs from the U.S. Intelligence Community, where he supported defensive and offensive cyber operations for the past decade. He previously co-founded the defense consulting firm StrategicIO and actively participates in the ethical hacking community as a Black Hat...
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#092 – Jack Kudale: You Gotta Have More Cowbell
Jack Kudale is Founder and CEO at Cowbell Cyber with over two decades of business executive experience. Previous senior roles include COO at Cavirin, CEO at Lacework, both cloud security startups; SnapLogic, a leader in hybrid cloud integration; and CA Technologies, where Jack led DevOps sales…
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#091 – Daniel Ayala: Does This Help Us
Daniel Ayala is the Founder, and Managing Partner for Secratic, a strategic information security, and privacy consultancy focused on helping companies protect data and information, and be prepared before incidents happen. Daniel is also currently serving as the Interim Chief Information Security...
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#090 – Anthony Bettini: Building What No One Else Has
Anthony Bettini is the CTO for WhiteHat Security, the leader in Application Security, enabling businesses to protect critical data, ensure compliance, and manage risk. Previously, Anthony ran Tenable Research where Anthony joined via Tenable’s acquisition of FlawCheck – a leading Container…
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#089 – Ed Bellis: Complexity is the Enemy
Ed Bellis is a security industry veteran and expert and was once named “Information Security Executive of the Year”. He currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Kenna Security. He founded Kenna Security to deliver a data-driven risk-based approach to remediation and help...
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#088 – Mikko Hyppönen: You Might Have an Enemy In the Future
Mikko Hypponen is a global security expert and has worked at F-Secure since 1991. Currently, he serves as F-Secure's Chief Research Officer. Mikko has written on his research for the New York Times, Wired, and Scientific American, and he frequently appears on international TV. He has lectured at...
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#087 – Steve Moore: It’s a Balancing Act
Stephen Moore is a Vice President and the Chief Security Strategist at Exabeam and is also the host of The New CISO podcast. Stephen has more than 15 years of experience in information security, intrusion analysis, threat intelligence, security architecture, and web infrastructure design. Before...
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#086 – Dave Kennedy: The Basics Are Still Challenging
David Kennedy is the founder of Binary Defense and TrustedSec. Both organizations focus on the betterment of the security industry. David also served as a board of director for the ISC2 organization. David was the former CSO for a Diebold Incorporated, where he ran the entire INFOSEC program.…
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#085 – John Strand: Making the Industry Better
John Strand is the owner of Black Hills Information Security, a firm specializing in penetration testing, Active Defense, and Hunt Teaming services. He is also the CTO of Active Countermeasures, a firm dedicated to tracking advanced attackers inside and outside your network. John has consulted…
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#084 – Adam Hunt: A Game We Play
Adam Hunt is the CTO and Chief Data Scientist at RiskIQ. As Chief Data Scientist, Adam leads the data science, data engineering, and research teams at RiskIQ. Adam pioneers research automating the detection of adversarial attacks across disparate digital channels, including email, web, mobile,...
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#083 – Nate Fick: Give Teams Autonomy
Nate Fick is the General Manager of Elastic Security and former CEO of Endgame. He is also an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. Before joining Endgame, Nate was CEO of the Center for a New American Security. He led Marine Corps infantry and reconnaissance units in combat in...
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#082 – Jamil Jaffer: Not All Nation-state Activity Is the Same
Jamil Jaffer is Senior Vice President for Strategy, Partnerships & Corporate Development at IronNet, a startup technology firm founded by former National Security Agency (NSA) Director Gen. Keith Alexander (ret.). Prior to joining IronNet, Jamil served as the Chief Counsel and Senior Advisor for...
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#081 – James Patchett: Make Small Businesses Safe
James Patchett is the President and CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation. James has spent his career building stronger cities through investments in affordable housing, innovation, and 21st-century infrastructure. During his tenure, he has overseen some of the city’s most...
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#080 – Heather Mahalik: Earn The Tool
Heather Mahalik is the Senior Director of Digital Intelligence at Cellebrite and a Senior Instructor, author and course lead for FOR585: Smartphone Forensic Analysis In-Depth. To say that digital forensics is central to Heather's life is quite an understatement. Heather has worked on high-stress...
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#079 – Mari DeGrazia: Not Just One Technology
Mari DeGrazia is a Senior Vice President in the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll, a division of Duff & Phelps. Over the course of a 12-year career in the computer industry, Mari has become a leader within the digital forensics community. Mari joined Kroll from Verizon Enterprises where she served as...
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#078 – Nadean Tanner: Boil It Down
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." - Nadean Tanner Nadean Tanner is the Senior Manager of Technical Education Programs at Puppet. She is responsible...
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There is “no one way” to start and stay in the field of cyber security. Whether you are involved from the military, law enforcement, consulting, or IT services, it doesn’t matter. I have had countless discussions for years with other professionals online, at conferences, or over drinks, which have changed the way I think about cyber security. That is where this podcast comes in. What if I can capture those moments and frank discussions? I want to share the stories from other cyber security leaders and influencers so everyone can learn from their respective journeys and challenges. Why did they take the path they did? Who were their mentors? How did they tackle some of their biggest career challenges? By hearing how the industry leaders and influencers got to where they are and how they overcame some of the problems they faced, I hope to shed light on the path for other professionals. I will discover what motivates them, explore their journey in cyber security, and discuss where they th
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