Cyber Leadership Today

Rodney Fielding

Cyber Leadership Today is a podcast for executives, security professionals, and technology leaders navigating the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Hosted by Rodney Fielding, each episode features conversations with CISOs, security architects, AI innovators, regulators, and business leaders who are shaping the future of digital security. From AI governance and cyber resilience to cloud security, emerging threats, compliance, and executive leadership, you’ll gain practical insights and real-world strategies to help your organization stay secure while embracing innovation. Whether you’re leading a security program, advising the board, or building the next generation of AI-powered solutions, Cyber Leadership Today delivers the knowledge and perspectives that matter most.

Episodes

  1. Fail-Safe by Design: Human-in-the-Loop for Secure AI Decisions

    Jul 8

    Fail-Safe by Design: Human-in-the-Loop for Secure AI Decisions

    Organizations increasingly rely on AI to make real-time decisions — but when models act unexpectedly, the fastest way to prevent damage is a well-designed human-in-the-loop (HITL) fail-safe. This episode unpacks a pragmatic, security-first approach to embedding human escalation into AI workflows. Rodney Fielding walks listeners through why HITL reduces risk, three actionable patterns you can implement in hours (guarded overrides, confidence-based escalation, and automated human review triggers), and how to balance speed, usability, and auditability. Listeners will leave with concrete, low-friction tactics to make AI decisions reversible, traceable, and safe for their environment plus quick checks to validate an implementation. The advice is non-technical, realistic for busy leaders, and aimed at improving organizational posture without heavy process overhead.

    4 min
  2. Model Supply Chain: Vetting Third-Party AI Safely

    7h ago

    Model Supply Chain: Vetting Third-Party AI Safely

    Many organizations rely on third-party models but few have a simple, reliable routine to vet them for security, privacy, and governance before deployment. In this episode Rodney Fielding walks listeners through a conversational, non-technical playbook to assess and reduce risk from third-party models in ten practical checks you can perform in under an hour. You'll learn how to verify provenance, evaluate data handling and privacy guarantees, validate behavioral and adversarial robustness, check licensing and contractual protections, and set lightweight monitoring and rollback gates. Each check is framed for busy leaders and small security teams who need confidence without heavy procurement or legal processes. By the end you'll have a prioritized checklist and a clear first-step plan to integrate into procurement, DevOps, or model ops. No deep technical setup required — just sensible security thinking mapped to real decisions organizations make.

    5 min
  3. Threat Modeling AI Features in 10 Minutes: A Practical Playbook

    1d ago

    Threat Modeling AI Features in 10 Minutes: A Practical Playbook

    Many leaders know AI introduces new risks, but threat modeling feels technical and time-consuming. In this episode Rodney Fielding offers a short, practical monologue that teaches a three-step threat-modeling routine you can run in 10 minutes for any AI feature or integration. You’ll learn how to map simple attack surfaces (data, model, and interfaces), prioritize risks by impact and likelihood with a business-minded lens, and choose three pragmatic controls you can implement quickly—monitoring signals, access boundaries, and quick validation checks. The episode uses plain language, concrete micro-exercises, and examples drawn from common real-world deployments so non-technical managers and busy security leads can adopt a repeatable habit. By the end you'll have a lightweight checklist and a short tabletop script you can use on your next team sync to surface high-risk assumptions and assign clear next steps.

    5 min
  4. Lightweight Model Telemetry: Detecting Security Drift Before It Becomes a Breach

    2d ago

    Lightweight Model Telemetry: Detecting Security Drift Before It Becomes a Breach

    Many teams focus on deployment and governance but miss an essential, practical capability: lightweight model telemetry that surfaces security-relevant drift and anomalous behavior in real time. In this episode Rodney Fielding walks listeners through a simple, engineer-friendly approach to instrumenting models with minimal overhead, what to log (prediction distributions, confidence, input signatures), three fast heuristics to flag suspicious shifts, and a lightweight incident workflow for investigation and rollback. You will get concrete examples you can implement with existing logging or observability tools, privacy-preserving data collection tips, and rules of thumb for reducing false positives. The goal: give busy security and engineering leaders a clear, low-cost way to detect problems earlier so they can act before small issues become breaches. No heavy governance frameworks—just practical steps that improve organizational readiness and make AI systems more resilient.

    6 min
  5. Secure Model Rollouts: A Practical Playbook for Safe AI Updates

    3d ago

    Secure Model Rollouts: A Practical Playbook for Safe AI Updates

    Every organization that runs AI faces a recurring operational risk: model updates. In this episode Rodney Fielding walks listeners through a practical, security-minded playbook for rolling out model changes safely. Designed for busy leaders and technical generalists, the episode breaks the problem into three concrete areas—provenance and signing, staged canary deployments with monitoring, and automated validation plus rollback controls—then gives lightweight steps you can apply in hours, not weeks. No heavy jargon, no vendor sales pitch—just clear procedures, short checklists, and real-world examples that improve your AI governance and reduce exposure from bad updates, drift, or accidental data leaks. By the end you’ll have a prioritized checklist to take back to your team and immediate first steps to secure your next model rollout.

    6 min
  6. Data Provenance for AI: Tracing and Securing the Inputs That Power Your Models

    4d ago

    Data Provenance for AI: Tracing and Securing the Inputs That Power Your Models

    In this 10-minute monologue I will walk you through why data provenance is a foundational, achievable part of securing AI systems. Many organizations focus on model controls and access, but skip one critical layer: knowing where training and runtime data actually originates, how it was transformed, and whether it can be trusted. This episode explains provenance in plain language, outlines three practical approaches you can start applying immediately (discover sources, map lineage, add verifiable checkpoints), and gives a short, incremental checklist for teams pressed for time. You’ll come away with clear actions to reduce model risk, improve auditability, and make governance conversations more concrete—without heavy tooling or months of integration work. The tone stays conversational and actionable so listeners can implement steps during their next workday.

    4 min
  7. Practical Guardrails: Implementing AI Access Controls in 10 Minutes

    5d ago

    Practical Guardrails: Implementing AI Access Controls in 10 Minutes

    On this episode Rodney Fielding breaks down how organizations can design and enforce practical AI access controls that protect sensitive data, models, and user trust. In ten minutes Rodney defines clear, implementable guardrails: identity and role-based access for models and datasets, principle-of-least-privilege and environment segmentation, telemetry and logging for model interactions, and lightweight approval workflows that fit busy teams. This conversational, non-technical briefing gives a concise checklist of actions security leaders and time-pressed listeners can start using immediately, plus real-world failure modes to watch for and questions to ask vendors and engineers. Rather than abstract policy statements, you’ll get specific examples and trade-offs so you can prioritize what matters for your organization. By the end you’ll have a short roadmap to tighten AI access, reduce data leakage risk, and make AI use more accountable without overwhelming your team.

    5 min
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Cyber Leadership Today is a podcast for executives, security professionals, and technology leaders navigating the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Hosted by Rodney Fielding, each episode features conversations with CISOs, security architects, AI innovators, regulators, and business leaders who are shaping the future of digital security. From AI governance and cyber resilience to cloud security, emerging threats, compliance, and executive leadership, you’ll gain practical insights and real-world strategies to help your organization stay secure while embracing innovation. Whether you’re leading a security program, advising the board, or building the next generation of AI-powered solutions, Cyber Leadership Today delivers the knowledge and perspectives that matter most.

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