The ITSPmagazine Podcast

What does it really take to be a CISO the business can rely on? In this episode, Sean Martin shares insights from a recent conversation with Tim Brown, CISO at SolarWinds, following his keynote at AISA CyberCon and his role in leading a CISO Bootcamp for current and future security leaders. The article at the heart of this episode focuses not on technical skills or frameworks, but on the leadershi...

First CISO Charged by SEC: Tim Brown on Trust, Context, and Leading Through Crisis - Interview with Tim Brown | AISA CyberCon Melbourne 2025 Coverage | On Location with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli AISA CyberCon Melbourne | October 15-17, 2025 Tim Brown's job changed overnight. December 11th, he was the CISO at SolarWinds managing security operations. December 12th, he was leading the response...

Everyone Is Protecting My Password, But Who Is Protecting My Toilet Paper? - Interview with Amberley Brady | AISA CyberCon Melbourne 2025 Coverage | On Location with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli AISA CyberCon Melbourne | October 15-17, 2025 Empty shelves trigger something primal in us now. We've lived through the panic, the uncertainty, the realization that our food supply isn't as secure as we...

Beyond Blame: Navigating the Digital World with Our Kids AISA CyberCon Melbourne | October 15-17, 2025 There's something fundamentally broken in how we approach online safety for young people. We're quick to point fingers—at tech companies, at schools, at kids themselves—but Jacqueline Jayne (JJ) wants to change that conversation entirely. Speaking with her from Florence while she prepared for her...

During his keynote at SecTor 2025, HD Moore, founder and CEO of runZero and widely recognized for creating Metasploit, invites the cybersecurity community to rethink the foundational “rules” we continue to follow—often without question. In conversation with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli for ITSPmagazine’s on-location event coverage, Moore breaks down where our security doctrines came from, why s...

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In this issue of the Future of Cyber newsletter, Sean Martin digs into a topic that’s quietly reshaping how software gets built—and how it breaks: the rise of AI-powered coding tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and GitHub Copilot. These tools promise speed, efficiency, and reduced boilerplate—but what are the hidden trade-offs? What happens when the tools go offline, or when the systems built through th...

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⬥ GUEST ⬥ Pieter VanIperen , CISO and CIO of AlphaSense | On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pietervaniperen/ ⬥ HOST ⬥ Host: Sean Martin , Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine and Host of Redefining CyberSecurity Podcast | On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imsmartin/ | Website: https://www.seanmartin.com ⬥ EPISODE NOTES ⬥ Real-World Principles for Real-World Security: A Conversation with Pieter...

SBOMs were supposed to be the ingredient label for software—bringing transparency, faster response, and stronger trust. But reality shows otherwise. Fewer than 1% of GitHub projects have policy-driven SBOMs. Only 15% of developer SBOM questions get answered. And while 86% of EU firms claim supply chain policies, just 47% actually fund them. So why do SBOMs stall as compliance artifacts instead of...

⸻ Podcast: Redefining Society and Technology https://redefiningsocietyandtechnologypodcast.com  ______Title: Tech Entrepreneur and Author's AI Prediction - The Last Book Written by a Human Interview  | A Conversation with Jeff Burningham | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli ______Guest: Eli Lopian Founder of Typemock Ltd | Author of AIcracy: Beyond Democracy | AI & Gove...

When we talk about AI at cybersecurity conferences these days, one term is impossible to ignore: agentic AI . But behind the excitement around AI-driven productivity and autonomous workflows lies an unresolved—and increasingly urgent—security issue: identity. In this episode, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli speak with Cristin Flynn Goodwin, keynote speaker at SecTor 2025, about the intersection of...

The cybersecurity industry operates on a fundamental misconception: that consumers want to understand and manage their digital security. After 17 years at F-Secure and extensive consumer research, Dmitri Vellikok has reached a different conclusion—people simply want security problems to disappear without their involvement. This insight has driven F-Secure's transformation from traditional endpoint...

⬥ GUEST ⬥ Aunshul Rege , Director at The CARE Lab at Temple University | On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aunshul-rege-26526b59/ ⬥ CO-HOST ⬥ Julie Haney , Computer scientist and Human-Centered Cybersecurity Program Lead, National Institute of Standards and Technology | On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/julie-haney-037449119/ ⬥ HOST ⬥ Host: Sean Martin , Co-Founder at ITSPmagazine an...

A Mystery in Florence In Tuscany there is so much magic: hills decorated with olive trees, vineyards and cypresses, bell towers ringing everywhere, hidden gardens, and of course enchanted cities, full of history and beauty, where famous artists have created marvellous works of art. In this tale we find ourselves in the city of Florence, where magic abounds and legends hide in every corner. A river...

The decision to leave a successful corporate position and start a company requires more than just identifying a market opportunity. For Shankar Somasundaram, it required witnessing firsthand how traditional cybersecurity approaches consistently failed in the environments that matter most to society: hospitals, manufacturing plants, power facilities, and critical infrastructure. Somasundaram's path...

Threat modeling is often called the foundation of secure software design—anticipating attackers, uncovering flaws, and embedding resilience before a single line of code is written. But does it really work in practice? In this episode of AppSec Contradictions , Sean Martin explores why threat modeling so often fails to deliver: It’s treated as a one-time exercise, not a continuous process Research...

AI is everywhere in application security today — but instead of fixing the problem of false positives, it often makes the noise worse. In this first episode of AppSec Contradictions, Sean Martin explores why AI in application security is failing to deliver on its promises. False positives dominate AppSec programs, with analysts wasting time on irrelevant alerts, developers struggling with insecure...

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Broadcasting from Florence and Los Angeles, I Had One of Those Conversations... You know the kind—where you start discussing one thing and suddenly realize you're mapping the entire landscape of how different societies approach technology. That's exactly what happened when Rob Black and I connected across the Atlantic for the pilot episode of ITSPmagazine Europe: The Transatlantic Broadcast. Rob w...

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AI Dependency Crisis + EV Infrastructure Failures: Tech Reality Check 2025 When Two Infrastructure Promises Collide with Reality The promise was simple: AI would augment human intelligence, and electric vehicles would transform transportation. The reality in 2025? Both are hitting infrastructure walls that expose uncomfortable truths about how technology actually scales. Sean Martin and Marco Ciap...

I had one of those conversations that reminded me why I'm so passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and society. Speaking with Mark Smith, a board member at IBC and co-lead of their accelerator program, I found myself transported back to my roots in communication and media studies, but with eyes wide open to what's coming next. Mark has spent over 30 years in media technology, i...

What happens when a cybersecurity incident requires legal precision, operational coordination, and business empathy—all at once? That’s the core question addressed in this origin story with Bryan Marlatt, Chief Regional Officer for North America at CyXcel. Bryan brings over 30 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity, with a history as a CISO, consultant, and advisor. He now helps lead an organ...