CyberBytes: The Podcast

This week’s guest we have Nipun Gupta. We talk about his rise from being a kid in Delhi to the COO at Bearer in London. Nipun discusses how his CMU university degree really elevated his development in technology. A man with a career spanning consulting, financial services, venture and now startup, Nipun has seen it all. We laser in on his time at Deutsche Bank working within the Cyber Innovation t...

Today’s guest we have CISO James Azar, James is no stranger to a pod as he hosts the CyberHub Podcast which goes live every 9am EST Monday through Thurs. We talk about the importance of self-learning and development, his recent experience interviewing and how ghosting can really affect the bottom line. We cover the 3 types of CISO and something James feels strongly about the importance of having s...

Today’s guest we have CISO at BigID Tyler Young. Tyler progressed through the ranks extremely quickly from being an incident responder to CISO and some claim he’s actually the world’s youngest CISO (we will go with it!). Tyler talks about the importance of having a supportive mentor, imposture syndrome, and the foundations for running an effective security program (People, Processes and Technology...

Welcome to the first edition of the FirstStep Cybersecurity Initiative podcast! Despite the ever-growing skills gap in our industry, it is surprisingly hard for aspiring cybersecurity professionals to get that first security job. Throughout this series, we will talk to guests from every walk of the industry, understand how they got into the sector, their top tips for aspiring security professional...

Today’s guest with have CISO Sandy Dunn, Sandy spent 16 years at HP before leaving to join Blue Cross of Idaho where she was their CISO for almost 6 years. Sandy shares a ton of golden nuggets on how to reduce security incidents, and building security teams with the right subject matter experts and kindly shares her CISO Pyramid of Progress.

Karl is currently CISO at  Noname Security  who is taking a proactive approach to API Security. Now, they work with 20% of the Fortune 500 and cover the entire API security scope across three pillars (Posture Management, Runtime Security, and API Security Testing) which we get to talk about! He also emphasises the importance of having a supportive leader and mentor and shares some great...

Today is a very special episode with 3 IoT Security Researchers who are well-known for their contributions to the community. Interesting, scary, funny, educational... this episode has it all. I hope you enjoy it!

Jane has just joined Enterprise IT Security as their new COO. She has a fascinating background spanning networking, product, marketing, and operations and in the past has actually built and sold her own business. She shares the reality of life working for international firms with customers around the world and is absolutely dedicated to educating others.

Today’s guest is Field CISO Robert Wagner, we speak about his “untraditional” career change into security, his track from Third shift analyst to field CISO and what that role actually involves. Robert clearly cares about the industry having spoken at many conferences and managed to worry me about the effects of AI. What’s great about Robert is he loves solving executive security problems even if i...

I sit down with Paul Valente (CEO & Co-Founder of VISO Trust), and we talk about Third-Party Cyber Risk Management and why it’s so important to be controlled, his inspiration and shift from CISO to CEO. We then finish off with why it’s so important to attract the right investors and his advice to anyone looking to start their own company.

This week’s guest we have Ray Espinoza. Ray is currently the CISO for Inspectiv, and has a great story to tell from Incident responder to CISO. He talks about scaling security functions, building teams and most importantly his key to success is “having a collaborative leadership style”.

This week's guest we have CISO Jeff Moss. Jeff is currently looking for his next CISO role after finishing up with Rebellion Defense. He has such a fascinating story to tell having gone from product security engineer to CISO in 4 years. We talk about building security strategies, driving security culture, his hiring criteria and pineapple on pizza! Jeff is another highly technical CISO who is a se...

This week's guest we have Security Evangelist, Jaye Tillson. I met Jaye at BlackHat in Las Vegas in 2022 and being a fellow brit we hit it off immediately! In this episode we'll cover Jaye’s background, why he went back to school, ZeroTrust and why he is so passionate about it, and his role at SSE forum. Jaye has no other agenda other than helping and educating people!

This week’s guest we have Mike Privette, CISO at Passport and VC Advisor. I have known Mike for some time now and I am super excited to have him on the pod as our first episode guest. We are going to deep dive into Mike’s background and his track to CISO as well as discuss all his active contributions to the infosec community and all the hats he wears outside the office.

Welcome to CyberBytes: The Podcast! With your host, Joseph Cooper, the Co-Founder of Aspiron Search.