Cyber Security Interviews

Lance Spitzner is the Director of the SANS Security Awareness program. Lance has over 20 years of security experience in cyber threat research, awareness, and training. He invented the concept of honeynets, founded the Honeynet Project , and published three security books . Lance has worked and consulted in over 25 countries and helped over 350 organizations plan, maintain, and measure their secur...

Casey Ellis is founder and CEO of Bugcrowd . He started life in infosec as pentester, moved to the dark side of solutions architecture and sales, and finally landed as a career entrepreneur. He’s been in the industry for 15 years, working with clients ranging from startups to government to multinationals, and awkwardly straddles the fence of the technical and business sides of information security...

Rob Reck and Alex Wood are both seasoned security professionals in the Denver, CO area and hosts of their own podcast, Colorado = Security . Rob is the Chief Information Security Officer at Ping Identity . In addition to his job at Ping Identity, Robb is an active member of the Colorado security community. In early 2017 he co-founded the Colorado = Security podcast with Alex. Robb serves on the bo...

This is another short podcast before we get back into full interviews next week. In this episode, I explore the concept of Independence. In the US, this week we are celebrating Independence Day. This got me thinking about what that means in my business experience. I wanted to share a few observations for those who are thinking about going out on their own either...

So many of you are wondering why the break in Cyber Security Interviews. There is a bit of a story that goes along with it. I wanted to share this story because I think sheds light into life and career changes that others can learn from. Sharing stories on careers and challenges is a big part of this podcast. Many people can feel alone in their cyber security journeys and I some of the struggles t...

Alex Kreilein and David Odom are both Managing Partners at SecureSet Accelerator . SecureSet is a Denver, CO based firm which is a startup accelerator ( SecureSet Accelerator ) taking on the lack of novel and quality products in the information security field. In addition to overseeing the SecureSet Accelerator, Alex is also the Cofounder of SecureSet and the companies former CTO. He served a...

Troy Hunt is an internationally recognized cyber security researcher , speaker , blogger , and instructor . He is the author of many top-rating security courses for web developers on Pluralsight and is a Microsoft Regional Director and a six time Microsoft Most Valued Professional (MVP) specializing in online security and cloud development. Prior to becoming an independent security consultant, Tro...

Jad Saliba is the founder and CTO of Magnet Forensics , a leading digital forensics company. Jad guides the organization to create products that meet the needs of customers from law enforcement, consultancies, or the corporate world. A former digital forensics investigator with a background in computer science, Jad can uniquely identify issues faced by forensics professionals and apply new ways of...

Theresa Payton is one of the nation’s leading experts in cybersecurity and IT strategy. As CEO of Fortalice Solutions , an industry-leading security consulting company, and co-founder of Dark Cubed , a cybersecurity product company, Theresa is a proven leader and influencer who works with clients and colleagues to uncover strategic opportunities and identify new and emerging threats. Theresa began...

Hal Pomeranz is the Founder and Principal Consultant for Deer Run Associates with over 25 years of cyber security experience. As a digital forensic investigator, Hal has consulted on cases ranging from intellectual property theft, to employee sabotage, to organized cybercrime, and malicious software infrastructures. He has worked with law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe, and w...

In this episode I am speaking with Marie Hattar and David Ginsburg . This is also my first podcast episode with two guests. Marie is the CMO at  IXIA and is responsible for their brand and global marketing efforts. Marie has more than 20 years of marketing leadership experience spanning the security, routing, switching, telecom and mobility markets. Before joining Ixia, Marie was CMO at Check...

Kristin Lovejoy is the CEO of BluVector . Prior to her role at BluVector, she served as general manager of IBM’s Security Services Division, charged with development and delivery of managed and professional security services to IBM clients worldwide. In addition, she served as IBM's Global CISO and VP of IT Risk. Kris is a recognized expert in the field on security, risk, compliance and governance...

Cris Thomas (aka Space Rogue) is a strategist for Tenable . With more than two decades of experience, he commands an uncanny ability to link disparate events, read between the lines and distill complex, technical information into readily understandable, accessible and actionable intelligence. Cris is a founding member of L0pht Heavy Industries , a hacker think tank from the late '90s and has testi...

The RSA Conference (or "RSAC") held annually in San Francisco, CA has become one of the largest information security conferences. I was able to get a press pass to the event this year and was pitched heavily for product focused interviews. Most I kindly declined, but there were a few people I did connect with and recorded some great conversations which I will post in the coming weeks. I recor...

Dr. Gary McGraw is the Vice President of Security Technology at Synopsys (SNPS). Gary quite literally helped create the field of software security. He is a globally recognized authority on software security and the author of several bestselling books on this topic. His titles include Software Security , Exploiting Software , Building Secure Software , Java Security , Exploiting Online Games ,...

Cindy Murphy served in law enforcement  for more than thirty years (twenty-five of those years at the Madison Police Department in Wisconsin) before leaving the force to launch Gillware Digital Forensics , where she is co-owner and serves as president and lead examiner. Her peers have called her "one of the most dedicated people in the field of digital forensics." Cindy has als...

Scott Schober is the President and CEO of Berkeley Varitronics Systems (BVS), a 44 year-old company and leading provider of advanced, world-class wireless test and security solutions. Scott starting with BVS in 1989 and the company’s product line of wireless test and security instruments has increased to over 100 products with a core focus on Wi-Fi, Cellular, WiMAX, LTE, IoT as well...

Early each year, for the past 12 years, the hacker conference ShmooCon takes place in Washington, DC. This year I was honored and fortunate to get a press pass to this sold out event which the organizers call, "an annual east coast hacker convention hell-bent on offering three days of an interesting atmosphere for demonstrating technology exploitation, inventive software and hardware solutions, an...

Defined by his peers as a “passionate, experienced and visionary individual who is always striving to improve himself,” Ismael Valenzuela is one of the few individuals that has done almost all in the InfoSec arena, from founding one of the first IT Security companies in Spain to managing a distributed CERT across the world as well as teaching for highly reputed institutions such as SANS , BSi or t...

Dr. Darren Hayes is the Director of Cybersecurity and an Assistant Professor at Pace University , New York and a leading expert in the field of digital forensics and cyber security. In 2013, he was listed as one of the Top 10 Computer Forensics Professors, by Forensics Colleges . He has developed four distinct courses in digital forensics, at Pace University, at the undergraduate and graduate leve...

This is going to be the second holiday break episode and the first of 2017. In this episode, I am taking a quick look back at the first five episodes with my guests to date: Chris Pogue David Cowen Lenny Zeltser Nicholas Percoco Morgan Wright Each of these cyber security professionals have had their own, unique journeys to get where they are. In each interview, I learned a lot about them as i...

This is going to be one of two special holiday break episodes as we end out the year. We will be returning to our regular interviews with top security experts right after the start of the new year. In this episode, I reflect on 2016 and cyber security. It was an interesting year and information security took a spot light more than I could remember for years past (and probably more than I could hav...

Morgan Wright is an internationally recognized expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, identity theft and privacy. His landmark testimony before Congress on Healthcare.gov changed how the government collected personally identifiable information. He has made hundreds of appearances on national news, radio, print and web, and has spoken to audiences around the world about cyber security. P...

Nicholas Percoco has more than 19 years of information security experience and is currently the Chief Information Security Officer at Uptake . Prior to Uptake, Nicholas was the Vice President of Global Services at Rapid7 . Nick has also been a Director at KPMG and the head of SpiderLabs at Trustwave where he led more than 2000 incident response and forensic investigations globally, ran thousands o...

Lenny Zeltser is a seasoned business and tech leader with extensive information security expertise. As a product portfolio owner at a Fortune 500 company, he delivers the financial success and expansion of his orgnization's security services and SaaS products. He has also been a national lead of the security consulting practice at Savvis (acquired by CenturyLink), where he managed the US team of s...