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Hosted by The Defender · 🇺🇸 US · EN-GB · 80 episodes
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Welcome to The Defender's Journal (our next step up from The Tech Stack), where we delve into the lives and minds of leading professionals in the cybersecurity space. Discover their unique stories, motivations, perspectives on the industry, and tips for long-term success... *Interested in joining us on the show? Please connect with Cameron Wenham or Jeff Harrod!
The Defender hosts The Defender's Journal, a technology show with 80 episodes published.
Welcome to Episode 38 of The Defender’s Journal! This week, Ashwin Mithra joins us - Global Head of Information Security at CloudBees, where his team sits at the intersection of software delivery, cloud operations and AI
Welcome to Episode 37 of The Defender’s Journal! This week, Bashar Abouseido joins us - President of Cybersecurity at TENEX.AI and former long-serving CISO at Charles Schwab, where cyber decisions carried consequences be
Welcome to another special crossover episode of The Defender’s and Disruptor’s Journal! This week, Lee Rossey joins us - CTO and Co-Founder of SimSpace, a company helping organisations prove whether their teams, tools an
Welcome to another special crossover episode of The Defender’s and Disruptor’s Journal! This week, Matt Moynahan joins us - CEO of GetReal and a leader focused on one of the most urgent questions in security: what happen
Welcome to another special crossover episode of The Defender’s and Disruptors’ Journal. This week, Rick Caccia joins us - CEO of WitnessAI and former CMO at companies including Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud. Having
Welcome to Episode 35 of The Defender’s Journal! This week, Omkhar Arasaratnam joins us - a Distinguished Engineer at LinkedIn whose career has taken him from factory work and DJ’ing to leading cyber and engineering func
Welcome to another special crossover episode of The Defender’s and Disruptors’ Journal. Today’s guest is Damon Kachur, CEO of SecureG - a leader who has spent over two decades building the invisible infrastructure that d
Welcome to Episode 34 of The Defender’s Journal! This week, George Totev joins us - a CISO who has spent over 20 years operating at the intersection of regulation, product and real-world risk, building and scaling securi
Welcome to another crossover episode of The Defender’s Journal. Today’s guest is Abhi Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Relyance AI - a company rethinking how organisations secure data in the age of AI. Rather than treating
Welcome to Episode 33 of The Defender’s Journal. This week, Sandeep Poonen joins us. From establishing VMware’s cloud security and enterprise cyber risk functions from the ground up to leading global compliance, fraud ri
Welcome to Episode 32 of The Defender’s Journal. Jacob DePriest returns to the show - previously Deputy CISO at GitHub, and now holding a rare dual mandate as CISO and CIO at 1Password, operating at the fault line betwee
Welcome to a special crossover episode between ‘The Defender’s Journal’ and our new sister series focussed on ‘The Disruptors’ where we shift the lens from what needs defending to what we’re building next... Our guest is
Welcome to another hard-hitting spin-off of The Defender’s Journal. Today’s guest is Ryan Lindley - CEO of Aegis Cyber and one of the industry’s clearest thinkers when it comes to security leadership. From crashing schoo
Welcome to Episode 31 of The Defender’s Journal. This week, we’re joined by Matt Presson - a product-driven, context-obsessed security leader currently serving as CISO (Americas) at Bullish. From code reviews at FedEx to
Welcome to Episode 30 of The Defender’s Journal. This week, we sit down with Cezary Piekarski - a global cybersecurity leader with decades of experience across the financial sector, national advisory roles, and the highe
Welcome to another thought-provoking episode of The Defender’s Journal. This week, we sit down with Assaf Keren - a global security leader whose career spans Qualtrics, PayPal, and advisory roles with central banks, regu
Welcome to a special spin-off episode of The Defender’s Journal. This week, we sit down with Meg Anderson - a longtime security executive whose career spans nearly 40 years in one of the most tightly regulated environmen
Welcome to a bonus episode of The Defender’s Journal. This week, we welcome back Ted Harrington - ethical hacker, author, and co-founder of IoT Village - to explore the mindset behind his new book "The Inner Hacker". We
Welcome to another standout episode of The Defender’s Journal. This week, we sit down with Doug Innocenti - a security leader whose journey spans call-centre telecoms, banking giants, and now crypto-native fintech. As CI
Welcome to another powerfully honest episode of The Defender’s Journal! This week, Aimee Cardwell joins us. From building mobile tech at Expedia to securing healthcare infrastructure at UnitedHealth, her career spans eng
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