The Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series

In Episode 108 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Scott Harrell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Infoblox and former leader of Cisco's $20 billion enterprise networking business — to examine one of the most consequential security blind spots in modern enterprise governance: the foundational network infrastructure layer that every other security...

In Episode 107 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Richa Kaul, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Complyance and a former public sector technology policy leader, to address one of the most consequential misunderstandings in enterprise security governance: the assumption that compliance equals security. Opening with two recent and high-profile inciden...

In Episode 106 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Holger Hügel, Chief Technology Officer of SecurityBridge and a global authority on SAP cybersecurity with over 26 years of experience — to address a governance blind spot that exists inside the security perimeters of even the most mature enterprise organizations: the SAP environment. Opening with the Aug...

In Episode 105 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Andrei Robachevsky — Technical Director of the Internet Integrity Program at the Global Cyber Alliance , founding contributor to MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security), former CTO of RIPE NCC, and former Senior Director of Technology Programs at the Internet Society — to examine a cybersecuri...

In Episode 104 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series , Dr. Dave Chatterjee, Ph. D. , is joined by Khalid Kark, Field CIO at Cloudflare , a network handling over 20% of global Internet traffic, and a 20-year veteran of advising Fortune 500 boards and C-suites at Deloitte and Forrester, to examine six hidden fault lines threatening organizational resilience in an AI-driven, hyperconnected wo...

In Episode 103 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Peterson Gutierrez—Vice President of Information Security at Barracuda Networks and a 28-year cybersecurity veteran with experience spanning private industry, the Big Four, and New York City Cyber Command—to examine one of the most consequential and underestimated challenges facing security leaders today...

In Episode 102 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Chris Cochran—Field CISO and VP of AI Security at the SANS Institute, and a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, NSA, and U.S. Cyber Command —to examine how artificial intelligence is fundamentally rewriting the cybersecurity threat model, and whether security leaders are evolving fast enough to keep pace....

In this forward-looking Episode 101 of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Snehal Antani—CEO and Co-Founder of Horizon3.ai and former Chief Technology Officer at Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)—to examine the rapidly emerging reality of AI-versus-AI cyber warfare. As AI dramatically compresses attacker dwell time and lowers the skill barrier for sop...

In this milestone 100th episode of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series , Dr. Dave Chatterjee reflects on nearly one hundred conversations that collectively reveal a hard-earned truth: cybersecurity has crossed a point of no return. It is no longer a technical function or an episodic response to crises—it has become a trust discipline . Rather than celebrating longevity, Episode 100 serves a...

In this landmark 99th episode of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast Series , Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Denny LeCompte —CEO of Portnox ( https://www.portnox.com/ ) and a former SolarWinds executive—to examine one of cybersecurity’s oldest yet most persistently exploited challenges: access control . Despite decades of investment in passwords, MFA, and perimeter defenses, breaches rooted in a...

In this timely and hard-hitting episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Sandeep Pauddar —an accomplished global auditor with over 30 years of experience—to challenge a deeply entrenched misconception: that cybersecurity certifications and compliance are merely regulatory checkboxes. Instead, the conversation reframes compliance as a strategic asset—one that can strengthen trust, resilience, and...

In this insightful episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Greg Clark—longtime enterprise content management and cybersecurity leader —about a foundational but overlooked ingredient of AI success: information readiness . While organizations rush to implement artificial intelligence, many neglect the quality, governance, security, and contextual integrity of the data fueling these systems. As Clar...

In this riveting episode, Dave Chatterjee, Ph. D. , sits down with Eric O’Neill, a legendary FBI undercover operative whose real-life spy hunt inspired the Hollywood thriller Breach. O’Neill recounts how he helped capture Robert Hanssen, one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, and how the counterintelligence mindset he cultivated at the FBI now forms the foundation of his cybersecurity str...

In this episode, Dave Chatterjee, Ph. D. sits down with Sandy Kronenberg, Founder and CEO of Netarx , an AI-driven platform designed to detect and prevent synthetic impersonation across video, voice, and email. With deepfake fraud incidents skyrocketing by 3,000 percent and costing organizations an average of $500,000 per attack, Kronenberg and Chatterjee unpack how AI can now help defeat AI—turni...

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee sits down with Pam Lindemoen , Chief Security Officer and Vice President of Strategy at the Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC), to explore the CISO’s evolving role in global nonprofit organizations. Moving beyond traditional corporate metrics of cost and compliance, Lindemoen reveals how cybersecurity leadership in the no...

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Anupam Upadhyay , Senior Vice President, Product Management, Palo Alto Networks, a seasoned product and cybersecurity leader, to unpack the “new browser wars” and why enterprise browsers are fast becoming a core battleground in the fight for digital trust. Drawing on over two decades of experience spanning Cisco, startups, and Palo Alto, Upadhyay tr...

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Will Ledesma, Director of MDR Cybersecurity Operations at Adlumin , a veteran SOC leader and cyber defender with over two decades of experience in enterprise security and the U.S. Air Force Reserves. Ledesma shares his journey from IT systems administration to frontline cyber defense, and offers hard-earned insights into the realities of Securi...

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Josh Cook , a seasoned cybersecurity and privacy attorney who has guided multinational corporations and mid-sized businesses through high-stakes cyber crises. Drawing on his experience as the first Global Cyber Counsel for a Fortune Global 500 company, Cook shares how he built a global cyber legal function from scratch and why legal teams must be en...

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Roi Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of Vicarius , about the urgent need to counter AI-driven attacks with equally automated defenses. Cohen, who began his career managing mission-critical systems in the military, shares his journey through leadership roles at CyberArk and the launch of Vicarius. Drawing from real-world penetration tests at hospitals and I...

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee sits down with Jasson Casey, CEO & Co-Founder @ Beyond Identity , to dissect the growing threat of identity-based attacks, which now account for nearly 80% of breaches. Casey explains how adversaries increasingly “log in” instead of breaking in, leveraging techniques such as MFA fatigue, session hijacking, and phishing kits. He shares lessons from his profe...

In this compelling episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee engages with John Amaral , a serial entrepreneur and cybersecurity innovator, to explore how his company Root is using agentic AI to tackle one of cybersecurity’s biggest challenges—remediation delay. The conversation unpacks the dangers of security debt, the power of human-AI collaboration in patching vulnerabilities, and how organizations can evolv...

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Burnie Legette, Director of IoT and AI at Intel Corporation and former professional football player . Their conversation explores the evolving landscape of AI deployment within the public sector, with a particular focus on the security challenges and governance strategies required to harness AI responsibly. Drawing on his cross-sectoral experience,...

In this compelling episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Damon Fleury, Chief Product Officer, SpyCloud to dissect one of cybersecurity’s most exploited and least understood attack surfaces—identity. With nearly three decades of experience in security, Damon shares real-world insights into how identity compromises serve as the entry point for major breaches, why a holistic approach to identity...

In this episode of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast, Dr. Dave Chatterjee sits down with Richard Hummel, Director of Threat Intelligence at NETSCOUT , to unpack the fast-evolving Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) threat landscape. Richard shares unique insights from NETSCOUT’s latest global threat intelligence report, discussing the strategic weaponization of DDoS attacks in geopolitical conf...

S ocial engineering continues to be the primary gateway for cyberattacks, responsible for nearly 80% of fraud and ransomware incidents. And notably, 1 in 4 of these social engineering attacks originate via phone calls. Yet many enterprises continue to leave their phone systems exposed. In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee engages Richard Quattrocchi , Vice President of Digital Transformation, Muta...