CISO Series Podcast David Spark, Mike Johnson, and Andy Ellis

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is my guest, Thom Langford, CISO, Velonetic.
In this episode:
Why do lots of businesses pledge to never pay ransomware demands?
And why do their priorities quickly change when they need to get the business back to normal after an attack occurs?
What good is a pledge like that without the infrastructure and organizational commitment to make it possible?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, CyberMaxx

CyberMaxx offers MaxxMDR, our next-generation managed detection and response (MDR) solution that helps customers assess, monitor, and manage their cyber risks. MaxxMDR fuels defensive capabilities with insights from offensive security, DFIR, and threat hunting, on top of a technology-agnostic deployment model. We think like an adversary but defend like a guardian.

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.
This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining me is our sponsored guest, Matt Radolec, vp, incident response and cloud operations, Varonis.
In this episode:
Why is retaining cyber talent so hard?
How can organizations keep an employee from going elsewhere?
Why do organizations often not prioritize the factors to keep key employees?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Varonis

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This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our guest, Joshua Brown, vp and global CISO, H&R Block.
In this episode:
Why is retaining cyber talent so hard?
How can organizations keep an employee from going elsewhere?
Why do organizations often not prioritize the factors to keep key employees?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, CyberMaxx

CyberMaxx offers MaxxMDR, our next-generation managed detection and response (MDR) solution that helps customers assess, monitor, and manage their cyber risks. MaxxMDR fuels defensive capabilities with insights from offensive security, DFIR, and threat hunting, on top of a technology-agnostic deployment model. We think like an adversary but defend like a guardian.

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.
This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining me is our guest, Alex Green, CISO, Delta Dental.
In this episode:
Is it true that employees cause as many significant cybersecurity incidents as outside threat actors?
Does this come down to a lack of awareness or poorly designed security implementation?
And what can we do to improve this situation?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Silk Security

Silk makes it easy for security teams to resolve more critical cyber risks in a fraction of the time. Instead of toiling over spreadsheets, and watching alert backlog graphs go up, Silk helps security teams contextualize, prioritize and collaborate with stakeholders in IT to regain control over their risk posture.

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.
This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), operating partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our guest, Shawn Bowen, svp and CISO, World Kinect Corporation.
In this episode:
Is it true that CISOs feel their jobs are harder than ever with higher levels of stress?
Yet why does research also show that CISO job satisfaction increasing?
How do we make sense of this contradiction?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Silk Security

Silk makes it easy for security teams to resolve more critical cyber risks in a fraction of the time. Instead of toiling over spreadsheets, and watching alert backlog graphs go up, Silk helps security teams contextualize, prioritize and collaborate with stakeholders in IT to regain control over their risk posture.

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series.
This week’s episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining me is our sponsored guest, Nadav Lotan, product management team leader, Cisco.
In this episode:
How can security teams do their jobs without seeming like an impediment to developers?
Why can this relationship seem oppositional?
How can both sides work together to better secure software without seeming like a road block?
Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security Platform

Panoptica, Cisco’s Cloud Application Security solution, provides end-to-end lifecycle protection for cloud native application environments. It empowers organizations to safeguard their APIs, serverless functions, containers, and Kubernetes environments. Panoptica ensures comprehensive cloud security, compliance, and monitoring at scale, offering deep visibility, contextual risk assessments, and actionable remediation insights for all your cloud assets.