The Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series

Dr. Dave Chatterjee
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The Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series provides a reflective, thought-provoking, and jargon-free discussion on how to enhance the state of cybersecurity at an individual, organizational, and national level. As of September 2, 2024, the podcast series has produced over 70 episodes, been downloaded over 10K times, and has listeners in 105 countries. The podcast episodes are used in classrooms and for corporate training and serve as insight sources in research and publications. Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee converses with subject matter experts, business and technology leaders, trainers and educators, and members of user communities. He has been studying cybersecurity for over a decade. He has delivered talks, conducted webinars, consulted with companies, and served on a cybersecurity SWAT team with Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). Dr. Chatterjee is a Visiting Professor at Duke University and has served as a tenured professor at The Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Connect with Dr. Chatterjee on these platforms: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/

  1. 1d ago

    Episode 108 -- The Invisible Foundation: Why DNS Security Is the Governance Gap No One Is Watching

    In Episode 108 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Scott Harrell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infoblox and former leader of Cisco's $20 billion enterprise networking business — to examine one of the most consequential security blind spots in modern enterprise governance: the foundational network infrastructure layer that every other security investment depends on, and that almost no organization actively governs. The episode opens with the October 2025 Amazon Web Services outage, in which a single automated misconfiguration in a core routing service triggered a global cascade that took down AI services, financial platforms, and consumer applications worldwide, producing an estimated $581 million in losses. The cause was not a sophisticated cyber attack. It was a governance decision that had never been made — nobody was actively watching the foundational layer. That event becomes the opening frame for a conversation about DNS, DHCP, and IP address management: the three-part infrastructure, collectively known as DDI, that assigns every device an address, maps every application name to a network location, and routes every piece of digital traffic to its destination. When it works, it is invisible. When it fails — or when an attacker exploits it — everything built on top of it stops. Harrell's central argument is structural: 92% of all malware relies on DNS for its initial call-out to attacker-controlled infrastructure. The first thing any malware does when it lands on a network is resolve a malicious domain — and if that DNS request is blocked, the entire incident cascade never occurs. The payload is never downloaded. Lateral movement never begins. Privilege escalation never follows. The problem is that most enterprise security stacks are built to detect and respond to malware after it has activated — not to intercept the first domain resolution that enables everything that follows. This is the difference between reactive and preemptive security, and it is a governance choice that shows up in budget allocations: currently, only 5% of enterprise security spending goes to preemptive activities, with 95% consumed by detection and response. Gartner projects that organizations will need to reach a 50/50 split by 2030. The conversation addresses how to make the governance case for foundational infrastructure investment, what differentiated DNS security looks like, how agentic AI is about to make network complexity exponentially harder to manage, and what three metrics every senior leader should be demanding from their security teams. Analyzed through Dr. Chatterjee's Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) Framework, the episode reframes network infrastructure security from an IT operational matter into a board-level governance imperative. The episode's core message is neither technical nor vendor-specific: the organizations that will withstand the next breach are not those with the most sophisticated detection tools — they are those that have decided to govern the layer on which everything else depends. To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-108-the-invisible-foundation-why-dns-security-is-the-governance-gap-no-one-is-watching/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). The Cryptographic Reckoning: Why Quantum Readiness Begins with Agility, Not Algorithms, The INFORMS Analytics Magazine, June 26, 2026 Chatterjee, D. (2026). The New Digital Fragility: How AI-Enhanced Cyber Threats Are Reshaping Operational Resilience, The INFORMS Analytics Magazine, March 4, 2026 Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol

    47 min

  2. Jun 24

    Episode 107 -- Compliant but Exposed: Rethinking GRC for Real Security

    In Episode 107 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Richa Kaul, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Complyance and a former public sector technology policy leader, to address one of the most consequential misunderstandings in enterprise security governance: the assumption that compliance equals security. Opening with two recent and high-profile incidents — the May 2025 ransomware attack on Marks & Spencer, which halted online operations for weeks and generated estimated losses exceeding £300 million, and a concurrent third-party support provider compromise that exposed customer data across multiple platforms including Discord — Dr. Chatterjee establishes the episode’s central premise: organizations that invest heavily in GRC platforms, generate dashboards full of green indicators, and maintain formal compliance certifications can still be catastrophically breached. The gap between compliance and security is not theoretical. It is structural and where attackers operate. Kaul explains the root cause with precision. Traditional GRC tools were built to centralize data and automate workflow notifications — functions that reduce administrative burden but do not reduce risk. The result is a compliance theater dynamic in which organizations check boxes, pass periodic audits, and receive certifications that say little about their actual security posture. The Complyance platform is built on a different philosophy: compliance with standards should be a byproduct of genuinely good security practices, not the objective in its own right. The episode explores the architecture of intelligent GRC: continuous monitoring across all integrated sources of truth, agentic AI that automates evidence collection and remediation guidance, tiered third-party risk programs that apply scrutiny proportional to vendor criticality, and risk quantification frameworks that translate security signals into board-level governance decisions. Kaul is equally precise about what GRC platforms cannot do: they cannot substitute for operational security teams, and no platform — however sophisticated — can protect an organization whose leadership has not committed to genuine risk reduction as the governing objective. Analyzed through Dr. Chatterjee’s Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) framework, the conversation reframes GRC from a compliance function into a governance discipline. The episode’s central message is neither technical nor vendor-specific: the organizations that will withstand the next breach are not those with the most compliance certifications — they are those that have claimed ownership of the problem, built the continuous processes to address it, and institutionalized the discipline to keep those processes operating after the audit is over. To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-107-compliant-but-exposed-rethinking-grc-for-real-security/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-3. Abraham, C., Chatterjee, D., and Sims, R. (2019). “Muddling through cybersecurity: Insights from the U.S. healthcare industry,” Business Horizons, July 2019.

    41 min

  3. Jun 10

    Episode 106 -- The Invisible Attack Surface: Zero Trust for SAP and ERP Environments

    In Episode 106 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Holger Hügel, Chief Technology Officer of SecurityBridge and a global authority on SAP cybersecurity with over 26 years of experience — to address a governance blind spot that exists inside the security perimeters of even the most mature enterprise organizations: the SAP environment. Opening with the August 2024 ransomware attack on Stoli Group USA — where attackers went straight for the company's SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, disrupting financial operations and contributing directly to a bankruptcy filing within three months — Dr. Chatterjee frames the episode's central challenge: organizations can have zero trust architecture, network segmentation, and identity governance fully deployed across their IT landscape, and still be critically exposed, because most CISOs have never formally claimed accountability for SAP security, and most SAP teams do not think of themselves as part of the security function. Hügel explains the structural gap at the heart of this problem. SAP systems are simultaneously the most business-critical and the least security-governed assets in most large organizations. The C-suite depends on them for financial operations, payroll, procurement, and supply chain continuity, yet SAP teams and security teams speak different languages, operate under different budgets, and rarely collaborate. SAP departments typically define "security" as managing user authorizations and privileges — a narrow interpretation that leaves configuration drift, patch backlogs, and monitoring gaps entirely unaddressed. Analyzed through Dr. Chatterjee's Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) framework, the conversation translates SAP cybersecurity from a technical niche into a governance imperative. The Medtronic case study demonstrates what good looks like: a CISO who crossed the organizational divide, sponsored SAP hardening from the cybersecurity budget, built a continuous patch management process, and created the governance structure that allowed the team to respond to an out-of-band vulnerability within hours rather than weeks. The episode's central message is neither technical nor abstract: the organizations that will survive the next ERP-targeted ransomware attack are not those with the most sophisticated tools — they are the ones that have claimed ownership of the problem, built the processes to address it continuously, and created the cross-functional governance structures that SAP and cybersecurity teams cannot build on their own. To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-106-the-invisible-attack-surface-zero-trust-for-sap-and-erp-environments/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-3. Abraham, C., Chatterjee, D., and Sims, R. (2019). “Muddling through cybersecurity: Insights from the U.S. healthcare industry,” Business Horizons, July 2019.

    50 min

  4. May 21

    Episode 105 -- The Invisible Layer: Governing Routing Security as a Supply Chain Risk

    In Episode 105 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Andrei Robachevsky — Technical Director of the Internet Integrity Program at the Global Cyber Alliance, founding contributor to MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security), former CTO of RIPE NCC, and former Senior Director of Technology Programs at the Internet Society — to examine a cybersecurity risk that almost no enterprise security team is governing: the internet routing layer. Opening with the June 2024 Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 BGP hijack incident — where two Brazilian network operators’ routing mistakes propagated to over 300 networks across 70 countries, silently rerouting traffic for several hours without triggering a single enterprise security alert — Dr. Chatterjee frames the episode’s central challenge: organizations with excellent perimeter controls, clean firewalls, and healthy identity systems can still have their user traffic redirected to unintended destinations by failures occurring on networks they have never heard of, in countries they have no operations in, governed by routing norms they have never been asked to consider. Drawing on the February 2026 MANRS Report, Robachevsky explains that the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) — the foundational routing system across nearly 80,000 autonomous networks — has no built-in authentication. Routing incidents occur 200 to 300 times per month, most of which are invisible to enterprise security teams, manifesting as unexplained outages or performance degradation rather than as identifiable threats. The implications range from SLA breaches and erosion of customer trust to man-in-the-middle exposure of silently rerouted traffic. Analyzed through Dr. Chatterjee’s Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) framework, the conversation delivers a clear and actionable message: routing security is not a network engineering problem — it is a supply chain governance problem. The tools already exist. RPKI exists. MANRS exists. MANRS+ is nearly here. The gap is entirely on the governance side, and it is closeable. The organizations that will not find themselves in the next routing incident are the ones that start with a map of their connectivity supply chain and a single question to every provider: Are you MANRS+ certified? To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-105-the-invisible-layer-governing-routing-security-as-a-supply-chain-risk/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-3. Abraham, C., Chatterjee, D., and Sims, R. (2019). “Muddling through cybersecurity: Insights from the U.S. healthcare industry,” Business Horizons, July 2019.

    34 min

  5. May 11

    Episode 104 -- Hidden Fault Lines: Why Modern Security Breaks Under Pressure

    In Episode 104 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee, Ph.D., is joined by Khalid Kark, Field CIO at Cloudflare, a network handling over 20% of global Internet traffic, and a 20-year veteran of advising Fortune 500 boards and C-suites at Deloitte and Forrester, to examine six hidden fault lines threatening organizational resilience in an AI-driven, hyperconnected world. Opening with the 2024 CrowdStrike incident, where a single misconfigured content file simultaneously disabled 8.5 million Windows devices, grounding Delta flights, disrupting emergency services, and canceling hospital appointments. Dr. Chatterjee frames the episode’s central challenge: organizations with excellent compliance postures and green dashboards can still fail catastrophically because their security tool became the attack vector. The failure was not a missed threat. It was an unexamined structural dependency. Drawing on Cloudflare’s 2026 Security Signals Report, Kark introduces the concept of fault lines — hidden structural cracks that remain invisible under normal conditions but fracture catastrophically under stress. The six fault lines identified are: (1) Governing AI at Scale, (2) Trust at Machine Speed, (3) Shadow Supply Chains, (4) Signals of Intent, (5) The Debt Trap of Legacy Architecture, and (6) The Cloud Mirage. Analyzed through Dr. Chatterjee’s Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) framework, the conversation delivers a clear message: organizational resilience in the AI era is not a technical upgrade — it is a leadership, architecture, and governance transformation that requires executive accountability for AI-driven decisions, modular and decoupled infrastructure design, and continuous discipline that evolves at the pace of the threat landscape itself. To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-104-hidden-fault-lines-why-modern-security-breaks-under-pressure/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-3. Abraham, C., Chatterjee, D., and Sims, R. (2019). “Muddling through cybersecurity: Insights from the U.S. healthcare industry,” Business Horizons, July 2019.

    47 min

  6. Apr 29

    The Clock Is Ticking: Navigating Quantum Risk and the Path to Crypto Agility

    In Episode 103 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Peterson Gutierrez—Vice President of Information Security at Barracuda Networks and a 28-year cybersecurity veteran with experience spanning private industry, the Big Four, and New York City Cyber Command—to examine one of the most consequential and underestimated challenges facing security leaders today: the quantum computing threat and what it truly means to become cryptographically agile. Opening with a vivid scenario—a healthcare organization whose encrypted data is exfiltrated today and decrypted after a quantum breakthrough years from now—Dr. Chatterjee introduces the concept of Q Day risk: the danger is not a dramatic breach tomorrow, but decisions made today that leave organizations exposed later. The episode moves beyond the industry’s fixation on which post-quantum algorithm to adopt, making the case that algorithm selection is the wrong problem to solve. The right goal is crypto agility: the organizational discipline to abstract encryption from code and adapt continuously as the cryptographic landscape evolves. Framed through Dr. Chatterjee’s Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) lens, the conversation delivers a clear and actionable message: crypto agility is not a technical upgrade—it is a leadership, architecture, and governance challenge that requires executive ownership, modular system design, proactive vendor engagement, and continuous organizational discipline before Q Day makes inaction catastrophic. To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-103-the-clock-is-ticking-navigating-quantum-risk-and-the-path-to-crypto-agility/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-3. Abraham, C., Chatterjee, D., and Sims, R. (2019). “Muddling through cybersecurity: Insights from the U.S. healthcare industry,” Business Horizons, July 2019.

    41 min

  7. Apr 15

    AI Is Rewriting the Threat Model: Are Security Leaders Keeping Up?

    In Episode 102 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Chris Cochran—Field CISO and VP of AI Security at the SANS Institute, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, NSA, and U.S. Cyber Command—to examine how artificial intelligence is fundamentally rewriting the cybersecurity threat model, and whether security leaders are evolving fast enough to keep pace. From the rapid and largely ungoverned adoption of AI across enterprises, to the collapse of traditional threat modeling assumptions, to the rise of autonomous agentic systems operating without human intervention, the episode surfaces a stark reality: AI is no longer a future risk—it is an active, present-tense governance challenge that most organizations are still approaching reactively. Framed through Dr. Chatterjee’s Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) lens, the conversation delivers a clear and urgent message: security leaders must establish AI asset visibility, embed security into AI deployment from the start, and build disciplined governance structures before the next wave of AI-enabled attacks makes the cost of inaction catastrophic. To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-102-ai-is-rewriting-the-threat-model-are-security-leaders-keeping-up/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-3. Abraham, C., Chatterjee, D., and Sims, R. (2019). “Muddling through cybersecurity: Insights from the U.S. healthcare industry,” Business Horizons, July 2019.

    44 min

  8. Feb 27

    Episode 101: AI vs. AI in Cybersecurity: Why Continuous Validation Is Now Essential

    In this forward-looking Episode 101 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Snehal Antani—CEO and Co-Founder of Horizon3.ai and former Chief Technology Officer at Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)—to examine the rapidly emerging reality of AI-versus-AI cyber warfare. As AI dramatically compresses attacker dwell time and lowers the skill barrier for sophisticated intrusions, traditional defensive postures are proving insufficient. Drawing on real-world demonstrations and national-security-grade operational experience, Antani explains how offensive AI is transforming cyber risk by enabling attackers to move at machine speed, scale attacks indiscriminately, and expose systemic weaknesses in organizational defenses. Framed through Dr. Chatterjee’s Commitment–Preparedness–Discipline (CPD) lens, the episode reframes cybersecurity readiness as a continuous validation discipline—one that demands organizations train like they fight, reduce blast radius, and build muscle memory for inevitable breaches. The conversation delivers a clear message: in the age of autonomous threats, resilience belongs to organizations that continuously test themselves faster than adversaries can exploit them. To access and download the entire podcast summary with discussion highlights - https://www.dchatte.com/episode-101-ai-vs-ai-in-cybersecurity-why-continuous-validation-is-now-essential/ Connect with Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/ Books Published The DeepFake Conspiracy Cybersecurity Readiness: A Holistic and High-Performance Approach Articles & Cases Published Chatterjee, D. (2026). Root: Automating the Remediation Gap, Ivey Publishing, Jan 7, 2026. Ramasastry, C. and Chatterjee, D. (2025). Trusona: Recruiting For The Hacker Mindset, Ivey Publishing, Oct 3, 2025. Chatterjee, D. and Leslie, A. (2024). “Ignorance is not bliss: A human-centered whole-of-enterprise approach to cybersecurity preparedness,” Business Horizons, Accepted on Oct 29, 2024. Isik, O., Chatterjee, D., and Lourenco, D.A. (2024). “Getting Cybersecurity Right,” California Management Review — Insights, Accepted for Publication, July 8, 2024. Chatterjee, D. (2023). “Mission critical – How American Cancer Society successfully and securely migrated to the cloud amid the pandemic,” I by IMD, March 13, 2023. Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Preventing security breaches must start at the top,” I by IMD, September 28, 2022, Institute for Management Development, Lausanne, Switzerland Chatterjee, D. (2022). “Making Cybersecurity Readiness Mainstream,” Executive Blog Post, NETSPI, March 1, 2022 Benz, M. and Chatterjee, D. (2020). “Calculated Risk? A Cybersecurity Evaluation Tool for SMEs,” Business Horizons, available online from May 4, 2020 Chatterjee, D. (2019). “Should Executives Go To Jail Over Cyber Attacks,” Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce, Vol 29, Issue 1, pp. 1-3. Abraham, C., Chatterjee, D., and Sims, R. (2019). “Muddling through cybersecurity: Insights from the U.S. healthcare industry,” Business Horizons, July 2019.

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The Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series provides a reflective, thought-provoking, and jargon-free discussion on how to enhance the state of cybersecurity at an individual, organizational, and national level. As of September 2, 2024, the podcast series has produced over 70 episodes, been downloaded over 10K times, and has listeners in 105 countries. The podcast episodes are used in classrooms and for corporate training and serve as insight sources in research and publications. Host Dr. Dave Chatterjee converses with subject matter experts, business and technology leaders, trainers and educators, and members of user communities. He has been studying cybersecurity for over a decade. He has delivered talks, conducted webinars, consulted with companies, and served on a cybersecurity SWAT team with Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs). Dr. Chatterjee is a Visiting Professor at Duke University and has served as a tenured professor at The Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. Connect with Dr. Chatterjee on these platforms: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dchatte/ Website: https://dchatte.com/

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