CISOs spend careers preparing for incidents they hope never happen. Here's what it looks like when one does.Each episode of The Tabletop puts a security leader into a high-stakes, tabletop exercise—complete with evolving injects, tough tradeoffs, and no idea whether the incident they're navigating is ripped from the headlines or completely fictional. At the end, they have to guess.Fast-paced and hosted by Vanta's Khush Kashyap, The Tabletop is a rare, front-row seat to how the best security minds in the world actually think, prioritize, and make critical decisions under pressure.It’s part game, part masterclass—designed to entertain, educate, and showcase the real-world complexity of modern security leadership.
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Signup to Generate a PitchCISOs spend careers preparing for incidents they hope never happen. Here's what it looks like when one does. Each episode of The Tabletop puts a security leader into a high-stakes, tabletop exercise, complete with evolving injects, tough tradeoffs, and no idea whether the incident they're navigating is ripped from the headlines or completely fictional.
The Tabletop is hosted by Vanta. The show has published 5 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Zlatko Unger has 35 minutes to stop AI from obeying poisoned emails (Live Tabletop Exercise)" (2 September 2026, 33 minutes), "Will Bengtson has 25 minutes to decide if his best engineer is a thief (Live Tabletop Exercise)" (19 August 2026, 26 minutes), and "Sean Cassidy has 25 minutes to figure out who's really inside the power grid (Live Tabletop Exercise)" (5 August 2026, 26 minutes).
The Tabletop publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 27 minutes across 5 episodes.
Booking probability for The Tabletop is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Tabletop requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Tabletop's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for The Tabletop are IT Services & Software Development. The Tabletop has a business audience.
Vanta hosts The Tabletop, a business podcast with 5 episodes published.
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Episode #5
<p>You're the CISO at Larkfield Health, a 9,500-person health tech company. A little after 9:00 AM on a Tuesday, your Head of Detection forwards you a message from a security researcher you've never heard of. They say...
Episode #4
<p>You're the CISO at Cendril, a 500-person AI-native company moving fast. Your principal engineer—a beloved early employee—is walking out the door for the last time on Friday. But at 5:12 PM Friday afternoon, your DLP...
<p>You’re a CISO at “It’s Electric,” and you get an interesting call. A local power plant operator just watched his computer mouse move on its own…should he be worried? In this episode of The Tabletop, Sean Cassidy...
Episode #2
<p>What do you do when an attacker doesn’t break into your network, but simply walks in by turning your own multi-factor authentication against you? In this episode of The Tabletop, Jason Chan takes the hot seat and...
<p>What does a security leader actually do when an AI chatbot starts confidently revealing customer data that was never supposed to see the light of day? In the debut episode of The Tabletop, Alex Stamos takes the hot...
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Head of Safety, Flight Operations, and Regulatory Affairs, Barrington Christian Academy
former head of information security at Netflix, Rakuten Super Logistics
Director, Stanford Internet Observatory & Former Chief Security Officer, Facebook, Stanford Internet Observatory
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