Hosted by Dan Desko · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 19 episodes
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The Human Side of Cybersecurity, hosted by Dan Desko, CEO and Founder of Echelon Risk + Cyber, features candid conversations with today’s top CISOs, cybersecurity leaders, and entrepreneurs. Each episode explores real career paths, leadership challenges, and how security and business leaders navigate risk, communication, and growth in complex organizations. The series cuts through industry noise to deliver honest insight into what leadership in cybersecurity really looks like. Listen on Spotify, Amazon, and Apple Podcast. Support us by leaving a review.
Dan Desko hosts The Human Side of Cybersecurity, a business show with 19 episodes published.
In this special edition of the Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with a guest unlike any other: his son, Luca Desko. The conversation covers leadership and entrepreneurship th
In this special edition of the Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with a guest unlike any other: his son, Luca Desko. The conversation covers leadership and entrepreneurship th
In this episode, Dan Desko sits down with Adam Markowitz, Co-Founder of Drata, to discuss the evolution of trust in cybersecurity and how it has become a core driver of business performance. Adam shares his journey from
In this episode, Dan Desko sits down with Adam Gunnett, VP of Business Intelligence & Strategy at Busy Beaver Building Centers, to explore how technology, data, and cybersecurity come together to drive real business outc
In this episode of the series from Cyber Intelligence Weekly, Echelon Risk + Cyber CEO Dan Desko sits down with Dawn Cappelli, former CISO at Rockwell Automation and current Head of OT CERT at Dragos. Dawn shares her rem
In this episode, Dan Desko sits down with Jamie Giroux, Chief Information Security Officer at Platinum Equity. With more than 30 years in cybersecurity, Jamie shares what it was like working in the industry long before i
In this episode of the Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko sits down with Jon Garza, a cybersecurity leader with more than 25 years of experience in IT and over a decade in security leadership across multiple industri
In this episode of the Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko sits down with Arif Hameed, CISO at C&R Software, to talk about the path to cybersecurity leadership, the realities of the CISO role, and what it takes to bui
In this episode of the Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko sits down with Roy Luongo, former CISO of the U.S. Secret Service and a cybersecurity leader with more than 30 years of experience spanning military intellige
In this episode of the Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, speaks with Dr. Trebor Evans, SVP and CISO at Dollar Bank, about leadership, pressure, and maintaining perspective in
In this episode of the Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, speaks with Julie Ray, VP and CISO at Wabtec Corporation, about building an effective security leadership style over t
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with Margarita Rivera, Global CISO at Carnival Corporation, to explore an unconventional path into cybersecu
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with Paul Guerra, CISO at Rackspace Technology, to discuss what security leadership really looks like inside
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with John Scrimsher, CISO at Kontoor Brands, to explore how security leadership evolves over decades of chan
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with Michael South, CISO at Dick’s Sporting Goods, for a candid discussion about leadership, pressure, and h
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, speaks with Dom Glavach of CyberSN about what security leadership looks like once the responsibility extends beyond sy
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, speaks with Aaron Stanley, Head of Security at DBT Labs, about what the security role becomes once the focus shifts aw
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with Bob Kemp, Global CISO at Federated Hermes, to discuss how credibility is built and sustained in the sec
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, Dan Desko, Founder & CEO of Echelon Risk + Cyber, sits down with John O’Rourke, CISO at PPG Industries, to discuss how the security role evolves inside a large, globall
In this episode of The Human Side of Cybersecurity, hosted by Dan Desko with guest Corey Kaemming from Valvoline, the discussion explores how the CISO role evolves once you’re in it, emphasizing leadership, judgment, and
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