ISF Podcast

Today’s episode is the last in a special four-part series in which ISF CEO Steve Durbin and producer Tavia Gilbert discuss the ISF’s latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. Today, we discuss the report’s third major threat: Security fails in a brave new world. Learn more about the ISF Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point . Read the transcript of this episode Su...

Today’s episode is the third in a special four-episode series in which ISF CEO Steve Durbin and producer Tavia Gilbert discuss the ISF’s latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. Today, we dig deeper into the report’s second threat: Identity is weaponised. Learn more about the ISF Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point . Read the transcript of this episode Subscrib...

Today’s episode is the second in a special four-episode series in which ISF CEO Steve Durbin and producer Tavia Gilbert discuss the ISF’s latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. Today, we focus on the report’s first major threat: Machines seize control. Learn more about the ISF Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point . Read the transcript of this episode Subscribe...

Today, we begin a special four-episode series focusing on the ISF's latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. This episode sets the stage for this threat report, and over the next few weeks, we'll dig deeper into each of the three major threats featured in the report. Learn more about the ISF Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point . Read the transcript of this epis...

In today’s episode, Steve speaks with Dr. Kate Stone, a "creative scientist" whose company, Novalia, blends art and science to create fusions of new and old technology. Dr. Stone talks to Steve about the creative process, the role of analogue in the digital age, the importance of privacy and the consequences when basic rights to privacy are violated, the importance of digital friction in preservin...

Today, Steve speaks with Harvard professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar Shoshana Zuboff, author of three influential books on tech and society. In this episode, she discusses the themes in her latest book, ​The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: ​The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power​, the new economic order that claims human experience is free raw material for c...

In today’s episode, Steve speaks with actress, voice coach, leadership consultant, and expert in core energetics, or body-led psychotherapy, Kate Montague. Kate discusses the effectiveness in taking time to reset, what happens when you stay connected to your body and your breath, how to take the temperature of the room when the rooms are remote, and more. Learn more about Kate Montague . Mentioned...

In this episode, ISF CEO Steve Durbin talks with Dame Inga Beale, the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London, about the role that listening played when she became the first (and only) female CEO in Lloyd’s more than 300-year history. They also discuss the courage and effectiveness of simplicity in communication, a new style of leadership built on trust, and career advice for both board members and securi...

Today, Steve is in conversation with Tammie Jo Shults, retired Southwest Airlines captain and former naval aviator. Captain Shults received wide acclaim when, on April 17, 2018, she and her crew successfully landed a Boeing 737 after catastrophic engine failure and rapid decompression, saving the lives of 148 people. In today’s conversation, Steve and Captain Shults discuss leadership during a tim...

Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF CEO Steve Durbin about the episodes in our second season focusing on Leadership in a Time of Transition. We preview conversations with retired Southwest Airlines captain and former US naval aviator Tammie Jo Shults; global business insurance leader Dame Inga Beale, the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London and the only female CEO in its more than 300-year history; Kat...

Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin about emerging security threats to expect in 2021. Steve breaks down the top five threats for security professionals to be mindful of going into 2021, and offers some tips for securing your organization against them. Mentioned in today’s episode: Cyber Security Strategies: Achieving cyber resilience Read the transcript of this epis...

Today, Steve welcomes motivational speaker, corporate consultant, and educator Reggie Butler back to the podcast. Reggie last connected with Steve in 2018 for an episode of our videocast (link below). Today’s conversation focuses on what we’ve learned through the experience of working from home during the pandemic, strategies for uniting teams even while socially distanced, and why leaders should...

In this episode, Steve speaks with a guest whose focus includes human culture, behavior, and storytelling: singer/songwriter and activist Sir Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and founding member of Band Aid, famous for raising money for Ethiopian famine relief. Steve and Sir Bob discuss the effect of the Covid19 pandemic on creativity, the political turmoil facilitated by rapidly advan...

Today Steve speaks with writer and researcher Brigid Schulte, author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time . Formerly an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine, and part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, Schulte is a global speaker on time, productivity, leisure, an...

Today, Steve is in conversation with Dr. Hannah Fry, associate professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, and a researcher in the patterns of human behaviour, particularly in an urban setting. In this conversation, Steve and Hannah discuss the challenge and imperative of communicating across demographics with simplicity and clar...

Today, Steve is in conversation with philosopher, author, and speaker Anders Indset . Steve and Anders discuss the importance of leaders engaging in what he calls a “self audit,” having the strength and courage to get vulnerable, the importance of listening, and more. Mentioned in this episode: Arne Næss Lofoten The Social Dilemma Read the transcript for this episode Subscribe to the ISF Podcast w...

As the ISF Podcast enters its fifth year of production, we’re celebrating with a listen back to some of the timeless insights our guests have shared over the past few years. Featured in this episode: Col. Chris Hadfield Dr. Mary Aiken Dr. Ann Cavoukian James Arroyo OBE Christopher Frenz Reggie Butler Nicholas Witchell Dr. VS Subrahmanian Will Houston Jon Fisher Sherina Edwards Read the transcript...

Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin about what we’ve gained and lost from altering our workplaces and our workflows during the pandemic; how heads of enterprises can support their teams throughout this unprecedented period of change; the difference between good leadership and great leadership; and more. Today’s episode marks the beginning of our podcast’s fifth year...

Do you want to know how innovative leaders are guiding their enterprises through unprecedented global upheaval? How visionary executives hold themselves accountable to the values that guide their business? And how personal responsibility for safeguarding security can infuse corporate culture at ever level? Welcome to the ISF Podcast, bringing you cutting-edge conversation, tailored to CISOs, CTOs,...

Cyber Resiliency in a defining moment in history Episode 1: Cyber Resilience - Reaping the Benefits Steve Durbin, Managing Director, ISF William Beer, Member of the ISF USA planning team Recorded 14th July 2020  30 mins In this first episode of our CISO series, William and Steve explore how despite the unexpected, complex and far-reaching implications of COVID-19, the verdict is clear – planning p...

We’ve been encouraged to embrace IoT for its convenience and its integration into our daily lives. But what happens when the Internet of Things bites back?  In today’s ISF podcast, ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin and podcast host Tavia Gilbert brings you the third episode in a series focusing on Threat Horizon 2022: When digital and physical worlds collide. In the series so far, Steve has explo...

“Highly connected ecosystems of digital devices will enable organisations to harvest, repurpose, and indeed sell sensitive behavioural data about consumers without their consent, with attackers having the potential to then target and compromise poorly secured systems and databases at will.” In today’s ISF Podcast, we bring you the second episode in a series focusing on Threat Horizon 2022: Digital...

“So the real challenge I think that we have to face up to here is that organizations are simply not going to be able to disentangle the digital from the physical. And they will be forced to respond to this growing blend of threats from new technologies, people, and indeed nature.” We are heading into an era, unlike anything we've ever seen before. Digital and physical worlds are on an irreversible...

“I think there are two different concerns here, right? There's an infrastructure issue, period, regardless of the pandemic. And then, of course, there's the additional pressure and increased precautions needed to address this current crisis that we're in.” In today’s ISF Podcast, Steve Durbin, Managing Director of the ISF is joined by Sherina Edwards, Partner at Quarles and Brady LLP. Sherina is a...

"I do think actually that one of the positive outcomes from COVID-19 will be that people will perhaps realise that the human element, the natural element, has a probably more significant role to play in society than technology. Technology should only ever be a tool. And I do wonder what the world will be like post-COVID-19." In this week's podcast, ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin and ISF Podcas...