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Behind the Shield is hosted monthly by Virtual Guardian, an ESI family company. Defenders of the Cyberverse, our team of experts are veteran threat smashers, ethical hackers, and experienced security professionals who speak in terms of lessons learned – and how identification, protection, response and resilience help organizations stay ahead of digital criminals. Podcasts are the audio recording from the live webinars held each month.
Virtual Guardian hosts Behind the Shield - A Virtual Guardian Podcast, a technology show with 37 episodes published.
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela brings you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. This month, we welcomed a very special guest: Paul Schmick, Executive Vice-President
RSA Conference 2026 Recap This month on Behind the Shield, the team dives into their experience at RSA Conference 2026—one of the cybersecurity industry’s biggest annual gatherings. Host Marco Estrela is joined by Bill S
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela brings you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. This month, we welcomed a very special guest: Jay Suggs, Founder of Suggcess Consult
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela brings you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. This month we had a special guest! Elisa Mula, Founder of EM Designs, joined our pan
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela brings you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. Hot Topics: Cybercriminals Leveraging ChatGPT, AI’s “Lethal Trifecta”, F5 Networks S
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela bring you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. This episode's Hot Topics include: The city of St. Paul's ransomware shutdown, Canada
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela bring you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. In this special episode, we hear from panelists Patrick Naoum, Bill Strub, and new to
This month we welcome guest and sponsor Julia Furst Morgado of Veeam for her spotlight topic "The Critical Nature of Incident Readiness and Response" and to chat about this month’s biggest cyber headlines with our paneli
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela bring you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. In this special episode, the team interviews one of Virtual Guardian's top SOC manage
Happy New Year Behind the Shield listeners! This month we welcome back guest Tom Tovar, CEO and Co-Creator of our sponsor Appdome to reflect on the biggest cybersecurity headlines of 2024 and share predictions for 2025!
This month we welcome guest Tom Tovar, CEO and Co-Creator of our sponsor Appdome to chat about this month’s biggest cyber headlines with our panelists Marco Estrela, Patrick Naoum, Bill Strub and Jason Williams. To learn
This month we're joined by Mike Melo, CISO of Ontario’s Life Labs, for a Q&A about his CISO role, what keeps him up at night and the pitfalls of trying to achieve cyber-resilience. If you’re interested in having a sneak
This month we welcome guest and sponsor Lisa Jones-Huff of Elastic to chat about this month’s biggest cyber headlines with our panelists Marco Estrela, Patrick Naoum, Bill Strub and Jason Williams. Hot Topics: Topic 1: J
Back from our summer hiatus, we have a brand new episode of Behind the Shield! This month we’ve brought back one of our favorite special guests, Chris Vincent, to chat about this month’s biggest cyber headlines with our
The Behind the Shield team is back with the latest in cybersecurity! This month is a Hot Topics only show with panelists Patrick Naoum, Bill Strub, Jason Williams and your host Marco Estrela. Hot Topics: Fortigates get b
Expert panelists and host Marco Estrela bring you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. This episode's Hot Topics include: Do bounties for ransomware work? Black Basta, wrea
Behind the Shield host Marco Estrela and panelists Patrick Naoum and Jason Williams are joined by Bruno Germain of this episode's sponsor: Zscaler. This episode's hot topics include: Sources: Topic 1: Jason Article title
Expert panelists (including our new panelist Jason Williams) and host Marco Estrela bring you behind our shield to discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. This episode's all Hot Topics format incl
Expert panelists, including our guest Matt Konwiser from this month's sponsor IBM Security, and host Marco Estrela discuss current cybersecurity topics ripped from the headlines. This episode's Hot Topics include: Open A
Virtual Guardian 's BTS panelists and guest Jane Arnett of Check Point cover hot topics, revisit the highs and lows of cybersecurity in 2023, and make their predictions and wishes for 2024. Hot Topic Sources: Article tit
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