CISO Series Podcast
Formerly named CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast. Discussions, tips, and debates from security practitioners and vendors on how to work better together to improve security for themselves and everyone else.

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 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.

Direct download: CISO_Series_Podcast_03-26-24.mp3
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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 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 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.

Direct download: CISO_Series_Podcast_03-19-24.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 3:00am PDT

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 guest, Jamil Farshchi, evp and CISO, Equifax.

In this episode:

  • Data leaks are hard enough to deal with when caused by threat actors, but how bad is a self-inflicted data leak?

  • Why do these types of incidents happen?

  • How should an organization assess the risk it introduced?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Varonis

Varonis

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Direct download: CISO_Series_Podcast_03-12-24.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 3:00am PDT

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 sponsored guest, Yoav Nathaniel, co-founder and CEO, Silk Security.

In this episode:

  • Why does it seem like securing APIs is so hard? Is it just a matter of complexity? 

  • Why does it seem like we can’t go a week without hearing reports of a data leak caused by a failure in API security?

  • Why do organizations struggle with API security?

Thanks to our podcast sponsor, Silk

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.

Direct download: CISO_Series_Podcast_03-05-24.mp3
Category:podcast -- posted at: 3:00am PDT