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FinCyber Today

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FinCyber Today is a podcast from FS-ISAC that covers the latest developments in cybersecurity, contemporary risks, financial sector resilience and threat intelligence. Our host Elizabeth Heathfield leads interesting and challenging discussions with our special guests, who bring practical ideas on how to deal with the cyber challenges in the financial sector, improve your cybersecurity response and build resilience in business.

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Selective

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What is FinCyber Today about?

FinCyber Today is a podcast from FS-ISAC that covers the latest developments in cybersecurity, contemporary risks, financial sector resilience and threat intelligence. Our host Elizabeth Heathfield leads interesting and challenging discussions with our special guests, who bring practical ideas on how to deal with the cyber challenges in the financial sector, improve your cybersecurity response and build resilience in business.

Who hosts FinCyber Today?

FinCyber Today is hosted by FS-ISAC. The show has published 41 episodes to date.

What has FinCyber Today covered recently?

Recent episodes include "Robert Veres: Engineering Resilience into the Supply Chain: The Australian Perspective" (15 September 2026, 19 minutes), "Dana Turner: Small Firms, Same Targets: Proactive Security for Community Institutions" (2 June 2026, 28 minutes), and "Valerie Abend: Where Trust Meets Action: FS-ISAC's Strategic Evolution" (20 March 2026, 17 minutes).

How often does FinCyber Today publish?

FinCyber Today publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 20 minutes across 41 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on FinCyber Today?

Booking probability for FinCyber Today is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. FinCyber Today requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. FinCyber Today's contact route on record: public web form.

Who should pitch FinCyber Today?

The strongest fits for FinCyber Today are IT Services & Software Development and Banking & Credit Unions. FinCyber Today has a business audience.

About the host

FS-ISAC hosts FinCyber Today, a business podcast with 41 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #41

    Robert Veres: Engineering Resilience into the Supply Chain: The Australian Perspective

    Sep 15, 202619 min

    Australia is unique in a lot of ways, including its approach to cyber resilience. In this episode, Robert Veres, CISO at Colonial First State and Co-Chair of the Australian Superannuation Cybersecurity Forum, outlines...

  • Episode #39

    Dana Turner: Small Firms, Same Targets: Proactive Security for Community Institutions

    Jun 2, 202628 min

    Smaller financial institutions face the same threats as their larger peers but have far fewer resources. Yet Dana Turner, the CISO at Nebraska’s Union Bank and Trust, has designed enterprise-grade resilience without...

  • Episode #38

    Valerie Abend: Where Trust Meets Action: FS-ISAC's Strategic Evolution

    Mar 20, 202617 min

    FS-ISAC has been at the forefront of the sector’s collective security and resilience for over 25 years. But the threat environment across the financial services ecosystem is changing at an unprecedented rate – and our...

  • Episode #37

    Patrick Sullivan: Powerful but Unpredictable – What Leaders Should Know About GenAI

    Feb 17, 202623 min

    GenAI offers outsized opportunity from faster development and broader security coverage, says Patrick Sullivan, VP and CTO at Akamai. It also introduces novel risks by breaking traditional assurance models and opening...

  • Episode #36

    Romano Stasi: Collaboration is the Key to Fighting Cyber Fraud in Italy

    Jan 30, 202612 min

    Fraud is changing, says Romano Stasi, Managing Director, ABI Labs. More and more, fraudsters don’t break into systems – they trick customers into giving the threat actor access to their data and accounts. Italian banks...

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  • Episode #35

    Fadwa Rachi: Mastercard’s Well-Oiled Resilience Machine

    Jan 20, 202623 min

    MasterCard’s definition of resilience is to prepare for – and deliver despite – any local, regional, or global crisis that might arise, says Fadwa Rachi, Director, Head of MasterCard's European Cyber Resilience Centre...

  • Episode #34

    Grant Bourzikas: How to Think About the Future of the Internet

    Jan 7, 202631 min

    As LLMs become the gateway to the internet, agentic AI grows ubiquitous, and the threat landscape evolves faster, CISOs may need to think about security modernization in a new way. Everything from endpoint access to...

  • Episode #33

    Devinder Singh: Building a Culture of Cyber Intel Sharing in APAC

    Nov 25, 202524 min

    In APAC, cyber defenders are likelier to share tactical threat intel rather than strategic information, often out of fear of suggesting they were breached, says Devinder Singh, Maybank’s CISO. But getting intel out fast...

  • Episode #32

    Jaime Gomez: Prep for Quantum Like It’s Basic Cyber Hygiene – Because It Is

    Nov 6, 202527 min

    Quantum computing’s threat to cryptography makes many cyber experts in the financial services sector nervous. But Jaime Gomez Garcia, Global Head of Santander's Quantum Threat Program and Chair of Europol's Quantum Safe...

  • Episode #31

    Ariel Weintraub: Ensure Your Supply Chain Continuity – Even Under Pressure

    Jun 10, 202517 min

    Cybersecurity threats to an institution are no longer limited to the organization themselves, as threat actors launch attacks across the entire supply chain in hopes of disrupting the financial services sector. Managing...

  • Episode #29

    Meg Anderson: Lessons in Cyber Leadership From a Trailblazing CISO

    Jun 10, 202521 min

    The goal of information security is to not react to the change. It's to learn about change in advance. That’s one of the many lessons Meg Anderson, former CISO, Principal Financial Group, has learned after 40 years in...

  • Episode #28

    Susan Koski: How to Manage the Move to the Post-Password Cyber Landscape

    Jun 10, 202516 min

    Fraud is one of the sector's biggest concerns, but passwords aren’t much of an obstacle to today’s innovative cybercriminals. Biometrics are the next frontier, but how do you get customers to accept the pivot? Susan...

  • Episode #30

    Debbie Janeczek: How to Prepare for the Quantum Revolution

    Jun 10, 202513 min

    The quantum revolution is coming to the financial sector. Debbie Janeczek, Global Chief Information Security Officer, ING, is preparing for it and says the rest of the sector should, too. She suggests starting with...

  • Episode #27

    Jochen Friedemann: The Fun Side of Financial Services Cybersecurity

    Jun 9, 202516 min

    Financial services cybersecurity has its challenges – but it’s also interesting, varied, and just plain fun, says Jochen Friedemann, Chief Information Security Officer at Talanx, the Hanover-based insurance/re-insurance...

  • Episode #24

    Claus Norup: Governance - What a CISO Needs to Succeed

    Mar 20, 202525 min

    Identifying and managing risk is fundamental to good governance, says Claus Norup, Managing Director and Group CISO, Euroclear , but that’s only part of the job. Success in a CISO role depends on leadership’s buy-in...

  • Episode #26

    Olivier Nautet: Infobesity - How Much Data is Too Much?

    Mar 20, 202521 min

    Many financial services firms have such vast hoards of data – much of it unclassified legacy data – that owning it causes more data governance challenges than the information is worth. Olivier Nautet, Group CISO at BNP...

  • Episode #25

    Karl Schimmeck: Data Security in a Demanding Regulatory Environment

    Mar 20, 202524 min

    Data security regulation is accelerating many firms’ data protection processes, says Karl Schimmeck, Executive Vice President and CISO of Northern Trust . However, complying with multiple jurisdictions’ reporting...

  • Episode #23

    Matt Harper: The Convergence of Business and Cyber: Risk Management Through a Bigger Lens

    Mar 20, 202519 min

    Where cybersecurity and operations converge – as they increasingly do -- financial services firms must view cyber risks as operational risks. That integration is a sign of cyber maturity, says Matt Harper, Aflac’s Vice...

  • Episode #22

    Carsten Fischer: The Need for Speed in Threat Mitigation

    Oct 31, 202416 min

    There used to be weeks between the announcement of a zero-day vulnerability and the next exploit. Now we have days or hours to patch the vulnerability, says Carsten Fischer, Deputy Chief Security Officer at Deutsche...

  • Episode #21

    Stephen Sparkes: The Evolution of the CISO Role

    Sep 20, 202419 min

    Stephen Sparkes has over 30 years of experience in leadership roles across the financial services tech spectrum and is currently Scotiabank’s EVP, Chief Information Security Officer and Enterprise Platforms, and member...

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