Hosted by Aaron Pritz, Cody Rivers · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 52 episodes
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This show features an interactive discussion, expert hosts, and guests focused on solving cyber security and privacy challenges in innovative and creative ways. Our goal is for our audience to learn and discover real, tangible, usable ideas that don't require a huge budget to accomplish. Shows like “How It’s Made” have become popular because they explain complicated or largely unknown things in easy terms. This show brings the human element to cyber security and privacy.
Aaron Pritz, Cody Rivers hosts Simplifying Cyber, a business show with 52 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail A champagne bottle, a blade, and a clean strike turns into one of the clearest cybersecurity conversations we’ve had. We’re joined by attorney and cyber contracting veteran Drew Tharp, with Todd Wilkinso
Send us Fan Mail A champagne bottle can teach you more about cybersecurity than you’d expect. We start with sabrage, the old French tradition of opening champagne with a saber, and we get hands-on with the real mechanics
Send us Fan Mail A vulnerability backlog can look like a crisis, but sometimes the real crisis is that you’re staring at the wrong picture. We’re joined by Dave Sims, most recently Staff VP at Elevance Health and a longt
Send us Fan Mail A phone call from “IT security” used to be easier to dismiss when it sounded robotic or scripted. That’s not the world we’re in anymore. We built a voice agent fast, with no coding, and it can place outb
Send us Fan Mail You can’t just “train harder” to mitigate human risk. We sit down with Ashley Rose, CEO and co-founder of Living Security, to unpack why classic security awareness training (SAT) often produces neat dash
Send us Fan Mail What happens when college athletes suddenly become brands… and targets? In this episode of Simplifying Cyber , we sit down with sports law expert Matt Banker to unpack the fast-moving world of NIL (Name,
Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to turn a cyber incident into a business disaster isn’t ransomware, it’s confusion. We sit down with Violet Sullivan, AVP and Cyber Solutions Team Lead at Crum & Forster, who has worked a
Send us Fan Mail When a romance fraud expert, bestselling author, and professional scam-troll meets two cybersecurity pros obsessed with deepfakes and social engineering, you get one of the most eye‑opening – and strange
Send us Fan Mail A contract clause can change your entire security roadmap overnight, and in healthcare the stakes are higher than most industries want to admit. We sit down with Brian Waltz, longtime healthcare technolo
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a cybersecurity CEO spends 10 hours vibe coding a fully functional SaaS app…using company IP? He crashes a meeting to find out. In this special edition of Simplifying Cyber , Reveal Ris
Send us Fan Mail This week on Simplifying Cyber , Aaron Pritz and Cody Rivers sit down with Nick Sturgeon — CISO at Community Health Network , Speedway Town Councilor, and current Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University — f
Send us Fan Mail This week on Simplifying Cyber , Aaron Pritz and Cody Rivers sit down with Jax Scott — combat veteran, podcast host (Two Cyber Chicks), and VP of Cybersecurity at Pearson — for a conversation that’s equa
Send us Fan Mail Cyber attacks don’t just knock systems offline—they can empty shelves, disrupt feeding schedules, endanger animals, and muddy price signals across the food supply. We sat down with Kristin (Demoranville)
Send us Fan Mail How does a CISO react to a live deepfake? In this eye-opening conversation with Alan Alford, CISO at NTT Global Data Centers, we kick off with a live deepfake demonstration that showcases the capabilitie
Send us Fan Mail What makes a truly effective security leader in today's complex threat landscape? In this enlightening conversation with Andy Ellis, former CISO of Akamai Technologies and author of "1% Leadership," we e
Send us Fan Mail WATCH this episode on our YouTube channel! Ever wondered why employees keep finding ways around your security controls? The answer might lie in how those controls are designed and implemented. In this th
Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder why healthcare organizations are such prime targets for cyberattacks? In this eye-opening conversation with Kelly White, founder of Risk Recon, we uncover the startling reality that healthcar
Send us Fan Mail What happens after an employee clicks on a phishing link? Jason Hoenich (hey-nick), the self-proclaimed "Security Awareness Apologist," believes that's where the real education begins. Drawing from his e
Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder what lurks beneath the surface of that shiny acquisition target? Our expert panel, featuring M&A Expert Brandon Kern, pulls back the curtain on the hidden cyber risks that can make or break y
Send us Fan Mail Ever wonder how to protect sensitive data when you don't have an IT department? In this revealing conversation, two pharmaceutical industry veterans who recently launched their own consulting businesses
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