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All Cybersecurity Problems Are Easy to Fix… With Unlimited Time and Budget Mar 04, 2025

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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), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Adam Holland, former CISO, the Wendy's Company, now CISO of Ascension Healthcare. In this episode:

The long road to influence
The effort to build a bridge
Living within limits
Motivation for security awareness

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Vanta! Say goodbye to spreadsheets and screenshots. Vanta automates evidence collection needed for audits with over 350 integrations—giving you continuous visibility into your compliance status. And with cross-mapped controls across over 35 frameworks, you'll streamline compliance— and never duplicate your efforts.

Every Failed Startup Starts as a Dream for a Single Pane of Glass Feb 25, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Shaun Marion, vp, CSO, Xcel Energy.

In this episode:

Setting policy
The hard thing about soft skills
Never let a good crisis go to waste
Avoiding the tarpit

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Noma Security!

Secure your entire Data & AI Lifecycle—from development to production and classic data engineering to GenAI. Noma's full-lifecycle platform delivers seamless protection against risks like misconfigured data pipelines, malicious models, and adversarial AI attacks, empowering AppSec teams with complete visibility, security, and compliance—without disrupting data and AI teams' workflows.

Fix it? Let's Just Get Rid of It. Feb 18, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Danny Jenkins, CEO, ThreatLocker.

In this episode:

A zero-day upgrade
Don't let a pentest go bad
Improving user training
Cybersecurity is made for people

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, ThreatLocker!

ThreatLocker® is a global leader in Zero Trust endpoint security, offering cybersecurity controls to protect businesses from zero-day attacks and ransomware. ThreatLocker operates with a default deny approach to reduce the attack surface and mitigate potential cyber vulnerabilities. To learn more and start your free trial, visit ThreatLocker.com.

Zero Trust Purple Team DevSecOps Mesh: A CASB Journey Through the Identity Fabric Feb 11, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Matt Muller, field CISO, Tines.

In this episode:

Seeking the early AI adopters
Taking the SOC back to basics
Changing our automation expectations
Communicate risk

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Tines!

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Our Developers' New Motto is "LLM Take the Wheel" Feb 04, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Deneen DeFiore, Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer, United Airlines.

In this episode:

Minding the gap
Copilot overreliance
Opening up the field
Navigating the SMB cyber insurance conundrum

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Vanta!

Say goodbye to spreadsheets and screenshots

Vanta automates evidence collection needed for audits with over 350 integrations—giving you continuous visibility into your compliance status. And with cross-mapped controls across over 35 frameworks, you'll streamline compliance— and never duplicate your efforts.

As Long as We Keep Moving the Goalposts, We Have a Great Security Culture (LIVE in Dallas, TX) Jan 28, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Rinki Sethi, vp and CISO, BILL. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Lamont Orange, CISO, Cyera.

This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at Cyera's first DataSec conference (November 2024) in Dallas. Thanks to Adam Holland, CISO, Wendy's, Farray Rahman of Vibrant Emotional Health and 988 Lifeline, and Biji John of USAA for our questions in the episode.

In this episode:

Shifting from traditional recovery
Do you know where your data is?
The science of tradeoffs
How do you measure security culture?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Cyera!

Cyera's data security platform discovers your data attack surface, protects sensitive data, governs data access, monitors critical data events, and quickly responds to data risks. Cyera's agentless design allows us to deploy within minutes across any environment and provide a 95% precision rate through our AI-powered classification engine. Learn more at Cyera.io

4th Party Data Breach? We Can Barely Catch the 1st Party Ones! Jan 21, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is George Finney, CISO, The University of Texas System and author of Project Zero Trust.

In this episode:

Aligning on privacy
Bringing Zero Trust to OT
Restores and resilience
Focus on what you can control

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Vanta!

Say goodbye to spreadsheets and screenshots. Vanta automates evidence collection needed for audits with over 350 integrations—giving you continuous visibility into your compliance status. And with cross-mapped controls across over 35 frameworks, you'll streamline compliance— and never duplicate your efforts.

I Support Open Source as Long as I Don't Have to Invest in It Jan 14, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our guest, Brett Perry, CISO, Dot Foods.

In this episode:

A new MDR policy
Staying on top of the technical debt cycle
Beating retention struggles
In the gully of SOAR

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Tines!

Ewww! How Long Has This Router Been in the Fridge? Jan 07, 2025

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), partner, YL Ventures. Joining us is Yabing Wang, VP and CISO, Justworks.

In this episode:

Building a path to action
Cracking the EOL conundrum
The burning platform question
Uncertainty is our only constant

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Entro!

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Why Bother Helping Users When We Can Complain About Them? Dec 17, 2024

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series and Mike Johnson, CISO, Rivian. Joining us is our sponsored guest Daniel Daraban, senior director of product management, Bitdefender.

In this episode:

Practice makes perfect
Shaming doesn't help anyone
Cybersecurity is a flat circle
Building the bridge

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Bitdefender!

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