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Is Our Dated Hiring Process Creating Vulnerabilities?

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How the SDLC Evolves Once You Deploy LLM-Based Code Scanners

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How Do You Demonstrate Resilience?

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How Should Security Be Architected for Human Error?

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Can SMBs Get the Same Security as Everyone Else?

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Why Do We Keep Complaining About the Same Issues in Cybersecurity?

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Securing AI-Generated Open Source Code

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BONUS EPISODE: Super Cyber Friday Express - Hacking Vendor Selection

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How AppSec Needs to Change For the Speed of AI

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Building Resilience for Microsoft 365

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Recommendations to Reboot the Security Vendor Pitch

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Market Confusion Is Responsible for the Biggest Gaps in Cybersecurity

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Will AI Replace Detection Roles in Cybersecurity?

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What Makes a Good AI Security Deployment?

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The Office Politics of Remediation

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Why is Preventative Security So Difficult?

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Identity and Access Management (IAM) in an Agentic AI World

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Protecting AI Agents in O365 and Google Workspace

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Humans Are Bottleneck in a Machine-Speed World

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Even With All These Security Vendors We Still Have Glaring Gaps

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Is the "Attackers Only Need to Be Right Once" a Misnomer?

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What It Takes To Be Successful in Cyber Media

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CISOs Buy For Selfish and Politically Risk-Averse Reasons (Not Because Your Product is the Best)

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Has Cybersecurity Become a Cult?

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What Does the Next Generation of Cloud Security Look Like?

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The Dangers of Picking the Wrong Vendor

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Why Cyber Startups Need CISO Advisors

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Breaking the Reactive Cycle of Cybersecurity

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How Do You Know If Your Backups Will Survive a Ransomware Attack?

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What Makes a Successful Security Vendor Demo?

31

Should You Use Native or 3rd Party Cloud Management Tools?

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How Should We Measure the Performance of a CISO?

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How to Be Less Busy and More Effective in Cyber

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How to Engage With a CISO When They Express Interest

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Who is Responsible for the Conflict Between Security and Developers?

36

Are Your Security Tools Creating More Work for Your Team?

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Why Overpromising is a Dangerous Sales Tactic

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Should You Phish Your Employees or Not?

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How Much Autonomy Should You Give AI Agents in Your SOC?

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Cybersecurity's Broken Hiring Process

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Simple Security Solutions That Deliver a Big Impact

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When Cybersecurity Marketing Fails to Reach the Buyer

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How Best to Prepare Your Data for Your Tools

44

Don't Try to Win with Technical Expertise. Win by Partnering.

45

What Makes a Successful CISO?

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How Should CISOs Talk to the Business

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How Much Cyber Risk Should a CISO Own?

48

How To Tell When a Vendor is Selling AI Snake Oil

49

In the Age of Identity, is Network Security Dead?

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How to Manage Configuration Drift

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Is Least Privilege Dead?

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How Do We Measure Our Defenses Against Social Engineering Attacks?

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Sales Follow Up Sequences: What Works Best in Cyber?

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What Soft Skills Do You Need in Cyber?

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What is the Visibility That Security Teams Need?

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Data Governance in the Age of AI

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How Can Security Vendors Better Stand Out?

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What New Risks Does AI Introduce?

59

The Pattern of Early Adoption of Security Tools

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How Are You Managing the Flow of AI Data

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How to Deal with Last Minute Compliance Requirements

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Do You Have a Functional Policy or Did You Just Write One?

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Where are We Struggling with Zero Trust

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Cybersecurity Has a Prioritization Problem

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How Can AI Provide Useful Guidance from Fragmented Security Data?

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Why Salespeople's Knowledge of Cybersecurity Is Critical for the Ecosystem

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What Are the Cybersecurity Trends We Need To Follow?

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Is It Even Possible to Fast-Track Your Way Into Cybersecurity?

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What's the Most Efficient Way to Rate Third Party Vendors?

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Don't Ask "Can" We Secure It, But "How" Can We Secure It

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Has the Shared Security Model for SaaS Shifted?

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Improving the Efficiency of Your Threat Intelligence

73

Why Cybersecurity Professionals Lie on Their Resumes

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What Should Be in a CISO Job Description?

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The CISO's Job Is Impossible

76

Can You Have a Secure Software Environment Without Traditional Vulnerability Management?

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How Much Should Salespeople Know About Their Product?

78

Why Are We Still Struggling to Fix Application Security?

79

What Can Someone with No Experience Do in Cybersecurity?

80

Are New Gartner-Created Categories/Acronyms Helping or Hurting the Cybersecurity Industry?

81

Can AI improve Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM)

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Cybersecurity Is NOT an Entry-Level Position

83

Hey Vendors, What Problem Is Your Product Solving?

84

We've Been Fooled. There Is No Talent Shortage.

85

Is There an Increasing Consolidation of Vendors in the SOC?

86

Are CISOs Struggling to Get Respect?

87

Is Platformization Vs Best-of-Breed a False Dichotomy?

88

Protecting Your Backups from Ransomware

89

Can a Security Program Ever Reach Maintenance Mode?

90

The Hardest Problems in Security Aren't "Security Problems"

91

If and When Should a CISO Have a Long Term Security Plan?

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Do We Want CISOs Dictating How Salespeople Should Engage?

93

Is AI Benefiting Attackers or Defenders?

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CISOs DO Own the Risk

95

How Can We Fix Alert Fatigue?

96

Vulnerability Management ≠ Vulnerability Discovery

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Are Security Awareness Training Platforms Effective?

98

The Argument For More Cybersecurity Startups

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How Are New SEC Rules Impacting CISOs?

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Managing the Risk of GenAI Tools