Digital Guardian Podcast

Welcome to Episode 23 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! On this episode our hosts Will Gragido and Chris Brook chat with Gunter Ollmann, CTO, Security (Cloud and AI) at Microsoft. Gunter discusses how he got his start in the infosec world, including stints at IOActive, NCC Group, Damballa, and IBM Internet Security Systems, the recent drive around cloud security adoption, threats CISOs need to be aware of while transitioning from network to the cloud, and more.

Welcome to Episode 22 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! On this episode our hosts Will Gragido and Chris Brook chat with Rob DuBois, ‎a former Navy SEAL and the Founder and CEO of personal development firm ‎Impact Actual. Rob discusses Impact Actual, how his time in the Navy helped him learn about his adversaries and find balance, and how his discipline can help infosec practitioners defend assets.

In the latest episode of the Digital Guardian podcast, Andy Pendergast, co-founder and and VP of Product at ThreatConnect, describes the benefits, challenges, and strategies around investing in a threat intelligence program.

Welcome to Episode 20 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! On this episode our hosts Will Gragido and Chris Brook chat with Kai Roer, co-founder and CEO of CLTRe, a Norwegian security culture research company, about building a security culture, whether or not there’s a way to measure success when it comes to security cultures, and how human factors, like gender and attitudes, can shape risk.

Welcome to Episode 19 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! On this episode our hosts Will Gragido and Chris Brook chat with with Brian Honan, CEO and Principal Consultant at BH Consulting about the intricacies of GDPR and how companies can best prepare for it, the divide between compliance and security, machine learning hype, and how the security industry needs to embrace failure as a learning opportunity.

Welcome to Episode 18 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! On this episode our hosts Will Gragido and Chris Brook chat with Christopher "Tophs" Elisan, Principal Malware Scientist at RSA about his introduction to information security, including stints at Trend Micro, Damballa, and F-Secure before landing at RSA. Tophs describes a few trends he's seen adopted by malware authors as of late, including using commercial solutions as threat infrastructure.

Welcome to Episode 17 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! Our hosts Will Gragido and Chris Brook chat with Ron Gula, President of Gula Tech Adventures - a cybersecurity investment fund he founded with his wife - about how he got his start in information security, lessons companies can learn from breaches, his tenure at Tenable Network Security, whether or not firms are practicing holistic security, and the concept of "the fail mentality" in the security industry.

Welcome to Episode 16 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! Our hosts Will Gragido, Thomas Fischer, and Chris Brook discuss the top cybersecurity headlines of this past year in our final episode of 2017.

Welcome to Episode 15 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! Special Guest Troy Hunt and our hosts Will Gragido and Thomas Fischer talk about Have I Been Pwned? and data breaches.

Welcome to Episode 14 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! Special Guest Andrew Hay and our host Thomas Fischer talk about the current market for virtual CISOs and how to overcome the business challenges of being an external security team member.

Welcome to Episode 13 of the Digital Guardian Podcast! Special guest Adrian Sanabria joins our hosts Will Gragido and Thomas Fischer to discuss the current state of the security market and how buyers and professionals alike can help increase transparency in the industry.

Welcome to Episode 12 of the Digital Guardian Podcast!

Anyone who made it to Black Hat or DEF CON this summer will likely tell you: machine learning and artificial intelligence are two of the hottest buzzwords in cybersecurity right now.

Welcome to our tenth episode! Renowned consultant, speaker, and head of cyber.uk publication Dr. Jessica Barker joins hosts Will Gragido, Thomas Fischer, and Tim Bandos for a discussion on how to foster a security-focused business.

Our latest podcast offers a law enforcement officer's point of view on cybercrime investigations and incident response, featuring Texas-based cybercrime detective and managing director of Secure Ideas Response Team Nick Selby with hosts Will Gragido and Thomas Fischer.

Episode 08 of our podcast is here! Veteran security researcher Rich Barger joins hosts Will Gragido and Thomas Fischer for a conversation on the less discussed, non-shiny side of threat intelligence operations.

Welcome to Episode 07 of the DG Podcast! We were fortunate to have Duo Principal Security Strategist Wendy Nather take a break from the hustle and bustle of InfoSec 2017 and BSides London to join Thomas Fischer and Tim Bandos for an episode focused on the evolving disciplines of authentication and identity management.

Episode 06 is here, with Akamai's Dave Lewis and host Thomas Fischer talking global security advocate to global security advocate on the underlying issues that enabled WannaCry's success and the steps organizations should take to prevent similar attacks in the future. Tune in via SoundCloud below or listen and subscribe via iTunes.

If you follow infosec podcasts, you probably know Rafal as a host of the Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast — now on its 243rd episode and one of our 35 Best Information Security Podcasts to Follow.

If you ask guest Dan Cohen, director of product management for RSA Fraud and Risk Intelligence, 2016 was the "Year of the Phish." This episode focuses on the growth and development of cybercrime in recent years, with Dan bringing insights from over a decade of experience tracking these activities on the underground. We hope you enjoy! Highlights from this episode include: