Episoder
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Robert Daigle is the Director of Global AI Business at Lenovo. He's a public speaker & visionary tech leader with over a decade of AI experience within startups to fortune 200 companies. He helped launch one of the first AI recruiting platforms in 2014 and now leads a global AI team supporting AI deployments around the world. He's a LinkedIn Top AI Voice with an MBA.
In this conversation, we explore the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, focusing on its implications for businesses, technology, and society. We discuss Robert's background in AI, Lenovo's strategic investments in the field, and the technical aspects of AI hardware. The conversation also delves into the rise of generative AI, the future of AI agents, and the importance of responsible AI practices.
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rdaigle/
Website: https://robertdaigle.com/
The podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Odysee, Apple Podcast, Pandora, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcast, Podcast Index, Podcast Addict, iHeartRadio, Listener Notes, Deezer, and RSS dot com.
TIMESTAMPS:
9:23 - Robert's background
15:58 - Where Lenovo fits into the AI ecosystem
21:19 - Emergence of NPUs on each device
32:51 - How Robert is using AI
36:30 - RAG Architecture Explained
40:45 - Agentic AI
45:37 - Human versus AI generated content
52:19 - AI adoption speed
54:09 - Corporate responsible AI committees
57:28 - AI power consumption concerns
58:51 - Trend Towards Selective AI Usage
1:00:23 - High-efficiency liquid cooled datacenters
HOST:
Hosted by Blake Williams, Founder / Headhunter @ Hyperdrive Recruiting
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Imanuel Babadostov is the Lead BISO at Blackbaud. He has over 20 years of cybersecurity experience in various industries including Government, Healthcare, Managed Services, and SaaS. He is a leader, presenter, trainer, writer, scrum master, and highly certified - CISSP, CEH, GDAT, GSLC, GSEC, CHFI, GMON, Security+. He is focused on performing the role of a BISO - Business Information Security Officer. He is on a mission to clarify what the role entails, how to better the company using it, and define the concrete skills and KPIs one can use to improve as a BISO or a BISO team lead.
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imanuelb2/
Website: https://ibabadostov.wixsite.com/the-blog
The podcast is available on YouTube, Spotify, Rumble, Odysee, Apple Podcast, Pandora, Amazon Music, Samsung Podcast, Podcast Index, Podcast Addict, iHeartRadio, Listener Notes, Deezer, and RSS dot com.
TIMESTAMPS:
1:50 - Imanuel's Background
3:58 - What's Happening in Cyber
4:28 - Cyber Skills Gap
5:49 - The BISO role, what is it?
8:17 - BISO versus GRC
10:02 - How BISO's Divide Responsibilities
11:23 - How to Find Your Way Into a BISO role
13:15 - Apprenticeship Program Advocacy
15:12 - Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
16:56 - Healthcare Industry Cybersecurity
19:10 - Is Work More Stressful at Home or In-Office?
22:21 - Amazon's RTO 5 Days Per Week
23:31 - Layoffs from AI
24:07 - How Imanuel is using AI
27:51 - Hackers Using AI to Their Advantage
30:32 - ChatGPT o1
31:15 - AI's Mad Cow Effect
32:32 - Did The Movie Wall-E Predict Our Future?
33:44 - Black Mirror on Netflix
36:24 - Idiocracy Movie & Concern for Our Kids
45:36 - Ask Me Anything - Recruiter Edition
57:46 - Love, Death, Robots on Netflix
59:23 - How to Measure BISO Performance
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Shankar Viswanathan serves as Senior Director, Head of Cloud Security at Credit Karma. He has over 15 years of experience in IAM, Applied Crypto, Security Engineering, Cloud Engineering, especially in the FinTech industry. He's a Startup Advisor and Forbes Technology Council Member.
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shankarnviswanathan/
TIMESTAMPS:
2:39 - How he landed in Cybersecurity
4:07 - Forbes Technology Council
5:06 - What is Applied Crypto?
6:58 - What's happening in cyber?
9:14 - Non-Human Identity Security
22:24 - What Keeps Cyber Talent Engaged & Happy
26:20 - His Approach to Hiring Junior Level
28:54 - What tools would he learn first?
30:07 - Sources of threat intel
32:10 - Favorite Movies (it's not Star Wars)
33:12 - Hiring
33:46 - Questions for a recruiter
37:02 - Resume Reviews & Coaching
38:44 - Why AI Can't Write Your Resume For You
40:35 - What's led to his success 44:57 - Cruise Ship Mucker Story
48:34 - How he deals with stress of the job
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
Fix Your Resume and Double Your Interview Requests with HR Approved
Website: https://HRapproved.com
Find Your Next Job / Find Your Next Hire with Hyperdrive Recruiting
Website: https://hyperdriverecruiting.comj
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Brandon Mathis is a talented Full Stack Developer in Raleigh, NC currently serving as CTO of vTestify. He runs Triangle Devs, a prominent local meetup/slack/discord group. He is a lifelong tinkerer, coder & product builder. He's also a husband, dad, gamer, and writer. His has a focus on web development using: Javascript (Node, React, ect), Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, Chef), DevOps (AWS, Ansible, Docker), Test Driven Development, Object Oriented Design, REST API Development, and SQL/NoSQL. If you're trying to build high quality software products at scale and planning to leverage local Raleigh talent you should start by scheduling a conversation with Brandon.
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mathisbrandon/
Website: www.brandonmathis.me
GitHub: https://github.com/BrandonMathis
Triangle Devs: https://triangledevelopers.com/
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/triangle-devs/
TIMESTAMPS:
1:36 - Favorite movie
5:28 - Star Wars chat
9:07 - Acolyte cancellation
13:57 - How he landed in software engineering
21:26 - Golang vs Rust
24:59 - His favorite language
26:58 - JavaScript vs TypeScript
29:57 - Where he recommends newbies start coding
33:09 - Would he recommend getting in a dev career
35:05 - GitHub Go-Pilot
37:21 - Dev skills becoming part of life
43:03 - Mac or PC
46:15 - Alfred on Mac
46:43 - Spotlight on iPhone
51:28 - His recent focus on Cybersecurity
54:34 - Polyfill.js hack
58:48 - Reallocation from QA to Cybersecurity
1:00:17 - Why can't devs test their own code
1:04:44 - No size company is immune to cyber attacks
1:05:34 - Ethics of storing passwords properly
1:08:26 - What happened to Agile / Scrum
1:13:32 - Best way to measure dev performance
1:19:53 - Cheaply made Agencyware vs American Made Software
1:28:14 - Roller skates vs Rollerblades
1:29:50 - Snowblades
1:31:18 - Future of AI writing code
1:34:19 - What Shopify did to eCommerce development
1:37:49 - Gen Z never leaves social media
1:39:00 - Where can you find Brandon
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
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Sarah Choudhary is CEO of Aridian Technologies and ICE Innovations. She started her career in ETL development and has become a visionary AI innovator, tech leader, writer, and Forbes Council Member. She has a Ph.D. in Data Science and current spearheading the development of several AI applications. She has a newsletter called TechSpectrum where she writes about navigating VR, AI, ML, Data & Cybersecurity and offers a curated exploration into the world of AI.
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahchoudhary/
Website: www.sarahchoudhary.com
TIMESTAMPS:
6:30 - Sarah's background
10:07 - Pursuing her PhD in data science
13:10 - What she learned analyzing life expectancy data
19:03 - Bias in AI algorithms
28:26 - Deepfakes
30:43 - Using AI in school
33:15 - Her time at Ernst & Young
35:41 - What will we do when AI takes jobs
40:09 - Quantum Computing
49:26 - Sarah's Start-Ups - ICE Rides & iChef
51:24 - ICE Innovations
1:03:49 - Microsoft Fabric
1:06:55 - Sprawberry
1:10:48 - Advice for transitioning into AI jobs
1:19:27 - How she found a new level of confidence
1:23:38 - How to handle a low ball offer
1:36:59 - Where to find Sarah
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Joe Aurilia is the SVP of Operations for Cyware, a threat intelligence sharing platform, SOAR platform, and cybersecurity managed servicing provider. He serves as the COO and CIO reporting directly to the CEO. He has over 20 years in technology, operations, and strategic planning, guiding teams and organizations to peak performance across diverse industries. He is an expert in building and scaling all aspects of company operations to meet mission and goals. He serves as an Executive Member and Membership Board Member for SIM (Society for Information Management) and a Executive Member and Raleigh (RDU) Steering Committee Leader for Pavilion - a global membership organization for high-growth operators. He is a GTM Advisor and public speaker available to help your organization optimize and grow.
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephauriliajr/
Website: https://cyware.com/
TIMESTAMPS:
4:49 - If Aliens Asked Your Purpose Here
6:17 - Joe's Story
10:13 - New Market Trends
12:47 - New Trends in Contract Terms
14:57 - What's Happening In Cyber?
19:57 - What Makes Cyware Different?
22:10 - Challenges Running a 100% Remote Global Organization
24:27 - Optimist or Pessimist on AI?
29:38 - Who's Making Up All These Acronyms in Cyber?
31:33 - ISOA, ISAC, & CERTS - What are they?
33:44 - We Go Off Topic into Left Field
36:41 - 2024 Job Market
39:13 - Candidate Matching Challenges
43:39 - Benefits of Hiring Offshore
45:56 - SIM (Society for Information Management)
48:05 - Decision to Pursue the Renewable Energy Industry (2011-2019)
51:36 - Importance of Knowledge Base Curation
53:54 - Joe Favorite Interview Questions
56.06 - Personal Productivity & Efficiency Hacks
57:08 - Reclaim.ai
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Website: https://hyperdriverecruiting.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/blakewilliams4u/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hyperdriverecruiting
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/blakewilliams4u/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blakewilliams4u
Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/BlakeWilliams4u
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Daniel Miessler is the Founder of Unsupervised Learning. Creator of https://fabricai.app, and open-source framework for Augmenting humans with AI, and https://threshold.app, a new AI-based way of finding the best content onlilne. 25 years experience in Cybersecurity. Active coder, builder in the AI and Security space (langchain, langraph, AWS step functions, local models, business context use-cases). Built and ran the business intelligence team / product for Information Security at Apple. Built and ran the Vulnerability Management and AppSec at Robinhood. Active programmer (github.com/danielmiessler).
GUEST:
Daniel's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielmiessler/
Newsletter Website: https://danielmiessler.com/subscribe
Fabric: https://fabricai.app
Threshold: https://threshold.app
Substrate: https://danielmiessler.com/p/introducing-substrate
Timestamps:
4:10 - How He Landed in Cybersecurity
5:25 - Advice to Job Seekers
6:32 - Unsupervised Learning
7:07 - How He Manages His Time
9:18 - Why He Shifted from FTE to Solopreneur
11:38 - How He Prioritizes
13:39 - Human 3.0
16:15 - Augmented
17:42 - The Moment He Wanted Me Dead
18:26 - Fabric
20:06 - Threshold
21:48 - Substrate
26:05 - AI's Predictable Path & DA's
30:36 - How He Would Configure His DA's
33:15 - Jobs & Recruiting
36:11 - Should Recruiters Find New Professions
45:45 - AI Interviews & Veton.ai
52:09 - Bumble
53:26 - Lattice Introduces Digital Employee
54:58 - Ask Me Anything
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Justin Copeland is the Director of Product Marketing with Praetorian, an offensive security and managed security services company. With over 15 years of marketing experience and 12 years in cybersecurity industry, Jason is a data-driven, growth-focused marketing leader with extensive experience developing and executing strategic marketing initiatives for elite cybersecurity SaaS organizations. His areas of expertise include: Marketing Operations, Go-to-Market Planning & Execution, Brand Development & Positioning, Demand Generation Strategy, Competitive Research & Analysis, Sales and Product Enablement, Persona Development, Product Launch Management, Content Development
GUEST:
Justin Copeland - Director, Product Marketing at Praetorian
Justin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/whoisjustincopeland/
Company Website: https://www.praetorian.com/
Timestamps:
5:31 - How Justin Landed in Marketing & Cybersecurity
7:39 - Challenges Facing Marketing Departments
9:59 - Email Deliverability Issues
11:13 - HTML vs Plain Text Emails
11:59 - A/B Testing
13:32 - Top Secret Marketing Content Trick
14:23 - Shout Out to Ben Mena at Elite Recruiter Podcast & Castmagic
17:36 - Marketing vs. Product Marketing
20:00 - Campaign Personalization & Persona Development
21:45 - What Makes Praetorian Different
23:32 - CTEM - Continuous Threat Exposure Management
26:21 - AI's Impact on Marketing Departments
27:51 - What Is He Spending Time On
30:15 - Importance of Net Promoter Score
32:10 - How He Decides Where to Focus
34:03 - Marketing Experimentation & Wordsmithing
38:45 - Recruiting Questions
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Ayman Elsawah is a Fractional CISO (vCISO) for Cloud Security Labs. They specialize in providing CISO services to Start-Ups and Scale-Ups. After graduating with a Computer Science degree, his career progressed from Network Engineer to Cybersecurity Engineer to Cybersecurity Architect to Cloud Cybersecurity Consultant to Fractional CISO. He now provides coaching services, advisory services, and authors books and instructional courses online.
GUEST:
Ayman Elsawah - Fractional CISO at Cloud Security Labs
Ayman's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/infosecleader/
Ayman's Website: https://coffeewithayman.com/
Ayman's Fractional CISO Course: https://securitycafe.thinkific.com/courses/vciso-fractional-ciso-course
Timestamps:
2:25 - Favorite Movie & Music
4:45 - Coffee
8:17 - Ayman's Book & Podcast
9:22 - What He's Learned from Podcasting
11:52 - Top 5 Ways to Break into Cybersecurity
13:42 - How Ayman Landed in Cybersecurity
15:30 - Becoming Fractional
17:44 - Should You Go Fractional?
23:34 - Best Parts of Being Fractional
30:59 - Why Fractional is Becoming so Popular
40:26 - Social Selling
43:10 - BD Strategies for Landing Fractional Clients
45:34 - What's Happening in Cyber?
47:19 - Can Cyber Issues Be Solved with Hiring?
49:24 - Opportunities for American Workers
50:16 - What's Up with Ghost Job Postings?
54:41 - What He Does For Fun
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Tom Mirc is the Managing Director - Principal of Shadow Hornet, a strategy consulting firm and your secret weapon in Due Diligence, Scaling, and Nearshore Site Expansion/Selection. Tom has led the firm to 226% top-line average growth (24 month), non-voting interest in 3 portcos. He serves as primary bridge between capital owners and portfolio company leadership. Infusing portcos with AI, nearshoring capability, and EBTIDA recovery as valuation multipliers. He focuses on lower mid-market PE focal verticals: Telecommunications, Energy, Electric Utilities, Financial Services, FinTech, and Technology Services. He's lead 11 business acquisitions and integrations from both the buy and sell side. A large portion of his career has involved turning around non-performing teams, transforming business cultures from pessimistic to energized, and achieving improbable goals in the process. He's led product development/R&D launches and go-to-market campaigns for $330m businesses
GUEST:
Tom Mirc - Managing Director - Principal of Shadow Hornet
Tom's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasmirc/
Company Website: https://www.shadowhornet.com/
Timestamps:
3:09 - Favorite Movie & Music
5:04 - Tom's Story
10:32 - Current Market Conditions & Statistics
18:08 - 3 Fronts (Offshore, Nearshore, and AI)
25:09 - Growing Energy Production Industry
27:38 - ThorCon
29:51 - Where Will the Opportunities Be for American Workers
34:06 - Erosion of Trust in Employers
35:57 - Job Security in Cybersecurity?
38:08 - Reductions in IT Spending (Primarily Software)
41:11 - Tom's Experience as a White House Advisor
42:45 - Leave the World Behind Movie
43:49 - Moore County Power Grid Incident
45:25 - Opportunities in Solving the Feeble Power Grid
47:14 - One Second After Book
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Ivan Fonseca is an Incident Response Consultant at Google working within the Mandiant Security team for Google Cloud. He is a talented Cybersecurity Engineer with extensive experience in threat detection, AI security automation, and cloud infrastructure. Adept at leading teams and working cross-functionally to ensure optimal security and efficiency. Prior to joining Google, he served as a Cybersecurity Researcher for Threatlocker and Cloud Engineer for Burgess.
GUEST:
Ivan Fonseca - Incident Response Consultant at Google (3 years in Cybersecurity)
Ivan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivan-fonseca-64139222b/
Timestamps:
3:26 - How Ivan Landed in Cybersecurity
6:51 - How Ivan Landed at Google
9:07 - Importance of Showcasing Work on Social Media
12:23 - His New Role at Google
13:24 - Shoutouts to his Mentors
14:37 - Automap Tool (for Nmap Scanning)
18:47 - Ivan's Favorite Cybersecurity Tools
24:41 - Ivan's Primary Sources of Threat Intel
28:23 - Living off the Land Binaries
34:44 - AI Concerns
41:26 - Ivan's Advice for Entry Level Cybersecurity Job Seekers
48:04 - Gaming
51:06 - The Acolyte & Star Wars chat
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Lance James - CEO of Unit 221B, is an internationally renowned cybersecurity specialist with 25 years of experience in programming, network security, digital forensics, malware research, cryptography design, cryptanalysis, counterintelligence, protocol exploitation, and executive leadership. Credited with the identification of Zeus and other malware, James is an active contributor to the evolution of security practices and counterintelligence tactics and strategies. Over the years, he has championed several FBI-led takedown operations of criminal organizations through his strategic alliances with industry, academia, and law enforcement. Lance is regularly sought out as a keynote speaker worldwide, has been a frequent commentator on MSNBC, was featured on an episode of USA Network's hit television series "Mr. Robot," and recently delivered a powerful Ted Talk on "How Attackers Can Use Your Brain Against You in Psy-Ops."
GUEST:
Lance James - CEO of Unit 221B (25+ years in cybersecurity)
Lance's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/unit221b/
Company Website: www.unit221b.com
Timestamps:
2:12 - Lance's Favorite Movies & Music
6:00 - Red Team vs Blue Team AF
11:19 - How Lance got into Cybersecurity
21:29 - Spinscore.io - Free Tool to Detect Spin & Bias in News & Content
24:44 - The Story Behind Unit 221B
31:50 - Confidence & Strong Mental Game
44:05 - The Dear Son Hack for Writing Content
44:45 - The Art of Communicating Book & Writing a Yearly Letter to Yourself
48:36 - How Lance is Using AI for Recruiting
58:18 - Approach to Writing Rejection Letters with Compassion
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Kevin Johnson, CEO of Secure Ideas and Elected Board Member of the OWASP Foundation. My favorite part (aside from the chat about Star Wars and the 501st Legion) is the informational bit about Identity Protection Services and what to do if your email or personal info has been found in a data breach or on the dark web. That was eye opening for me. He also breaks down the differences between all the cybersecurity conferences and picks his favorites. I plan to see him later this year at the Bsides RDU conference where he’ll be speaking. He raises awareness about the need for more corporate funding and memberships for OWASP. They create free cybersecurity tools and resources. If your company values cybersecurity and wants to support OWASP consider becoming a member. For individuals, membership is only $50/year. He had the absolute best reaction I’ve ever heard when asked if he was optimistic or pessimistic about AI. I’ll be stealing that moving forward.
GUEST:
Kevin Johnson - CEO of Secure Ideas (25+ years in cybersecurity)
Kevin's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinjohnson/
Company Website: https://www.secureideas.com/
Join OWASP: https://owasp.org/membership/
Timestamps:
2:56 – 501st Legion
12:10 – How Kevin landed in Cybersecurity
18:24 – Dealing with Recruiters (or not actually)
21:13 – They Ask, You Tell - Marketing Method
25:10 – Demand for Pen Testing & Vulnerability Assessments
27:11 – Difference between Pen Testing & Vulnerability Assessments
32:57 – Identity Protection Services & Data Breaches
38:15 – OWASP Foundation (he is an Elected Board Member)
46:01 – SamuraiWTF (Web Testing Framework, not that WTF)
47:07 – Cybersecurity Conferences he Attends & Speaks at
51:25 – Differences between Cybersecurity Conferences
55:21 – Top Sources of Info / 3 Recommended Newsletters
56:20 – AI Concerns (Pessimistic or Optimistic?)
59:56 – Recruiting Bots (should I be worried?)
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Richard Ford, ex-Chief Technology Officer of Praetorian, Cyren, Forcepoint and Chief Scientist / Researcher in the Cybersecurity industry shares insights on cybersecurity leadership and tells me how to stay optimistic about the future of AI.
Richard's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ford/
Timestamps:
3:04 - How Richard got into Cybersecurity
7:51 - Malware and Ransomware
9:47 - Recent Focus - Freebie Tech Hacking
11:33 - 60 Minutes Special on Ransomware Attacks
14:15 - Bot Traffic vs Human Traffic
15:11 - How Richard is using Generative AI
18:57 - Pomodoro Technique for Time Management
22:50 - Daily Routines & Discipline
28:12 - AI Concerns (Pessimism vs Optimism)
34:55 - Automating Cybersecurity with AI
38:03 - Staff Reductions & Reorgs
39:17 - Leadership vs Management
41:18 - Manager vs Hands-On Player Coach
49:42 - Employee Retention
55:37 - Approach to Job Offers
56:49 - Dealing with Stress of CTO job
59:35 - Sources of Info
1:01:08 - Open AI Board Speculation
1:01:56 - SEC Case Against Solarwinds
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Andrew Wilder, CISO of Community Veterinary Partner, ex-CISO of Hillenbrand, and ex-CISO of Nestle for 18 years, and Cybersecurity start-up advisor shares his insight on a wide variety of topics in the cybersecurity space. I had an eye opening moment when he reveals the shocking truth behind text messaging scams.
GUEST:
Andrew Wilder - CISO of Community Veterinary Partners (25+ years in cybersecurity)
Andrew Wilder LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apwilder/
Company Website: https://cybersecurityintheboardroom.com/
Timestamps:
2:37 - Favorite Star Wars Movie
4:26 - Content Strategy
8:03 - LinkedIn Top Voice
10:03 - Andrew's Story
11:33 - Dealing with the stress of the CISO job
13:20 - Measuring a company's Cyber Maturity
14:24 - Andrew's Focus
16:07 - Emerging Cyber Threats
17:48 - Pig Butchering & Text Message Scams (shocking)
21:49 - Predictions for the rest of 2024
23:13 - Password Protection
26:22 - Favorite Sources of Info and Tools
28:05 - Advice for new Cybersecurity career seekers
29:31 - Ideal Security Team
31:24 - Differentiating Cyber, App Sec, and DevSecOps
32:39 - 2024 Job Market
35:09 - Leave the World Behind movie
35:53 - Speculation on OpenAI's Board and Sam Altman
37:51 - Best Interview Process for success
41:14 - Retaining Cybersecurity Talent
45:02 - Apprenticeship Programs
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
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Dr Jason Edwards, DM, CRISC, CISSP, is an author, professor, and a Principal in Cybersecurity Regulatory Assurance for Amazon Web Services. He is a wealth of knowledge and fun to talk with. Fair Warning, we spent a fifth of the podcast talking about Star Wars :)
GUEST:
Jason Edwards - Cybersecurity Compliance Officer at AWS (25+ years in cybersecurity)
Jason Edwards LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonedwardsdmist/
Company Website: https://jason-edwards.me/
Jason's Books on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Jason-Edwards/author/B0CV241HQX?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Timestamps:
3:10 - Favorite Star Wars movie
7:22 - LinkedIn content strategy
11:17 - How Jason landed in Cybersecurity
14:48 - Advice on landing a career in Cybersecurity
15:49 - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
19:00 - Star Wars Part 2 - It brings everyone together
28:51 - Guidance on Cybersecurity certifications
34:13 - Jason's book on Cybersecurity Hiring
35:06 - Resume advice and the keyword game
39:26 - Job market in 2024 and challenges with RTO
47:38 - Cybersecurity laws (or lack there of)
57:51 - Leave the World Behind movie 1:01:27 - Concerns over AI
1:07:01 - Speculation on what happened with OpenAI & Sam Altman
1:13:50 - Jason's go-to sources of info & importance of being well-rounded
1:20:34 - Return to office mandates part 2
1:21:30 - NIST 2.0
1:24:36 - Cybersecurity regulatory concerns
1:27:54 - Star Wars Part 3 & thoughts on Rebel Moon
1:31:20 - Dealing with haters (haters gonna hate no matter what)
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
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Keyaan Williams is Managing Director of CLASS, LLC a Cybersecurity advisory and consulting firm. He shares insights on cybersecurity strategy and GRC. We chat about his background, cybersecurity strategy, governance, risk management, compliance, concerns with AI, and advice on breaking into cybersecurity careers.
GUEST:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keyaan/
Website: https://www.class-llc.com/
Timestamps:
6:11 - How he landed in Cybersecurity
10:40 - 502 Project
13:30 - Biggest challenges in cybersecurity
18:59 - Buying cyber insurance vs investing in cybersecurity
24:00 - Sources of information
26:23 - AI disruptions
37:04 - Ideal cybersecurity team
40:00 - Breaking into cybersecurity
47:05 - Stress
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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Mike Curnow is the CEO of Defiant Networks, past CISO, and a Cybersecurity consultant. He is a hands-on engineering and cybersecurity expert with entrepreneurial mindset and a preference for opensource technologies. He has interesting and unique opinions that are unfiltered yet very well thought out.
GUEST:
Mike Curnow - CEO/CISO of Defiant Networks (15+ years in cybersecurity)
Mike's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/takko-the-boss/
Website: https://defiant-networks.com/
Hachi Programming Language: https://takkotheboss.github.io/
Timestamps:
4:46 Defiant Networks?
11:17 Cybersecurity Risk
14:55 Leave the World Behind Movie
17:31 Cyber Attacks
21:33 Cybersecurity Tools
26:45 Hachi Programming Language (NEW)
32:05 Sources of Info
38:44 Dealing with stress of CISO job
43:46 What irritates you about the job
46:48 AI Concerns
49:39 Small Kids & Devices
53:05 Data Privacy
54:49 Advice to Job Seekers
HOST:
Blake Williams - Chief Technical Recruiter at Hyperdrive Recruiting
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/blakewilliams4u
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