This is the 5th part of the podcast's return after a brief hiatus. Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this fifth part, we will discuss the start-up resources we provided in our Hang Out A Shingle presentation, what I am doing with A

#126 – Douglas Brush (Part 4): Dollars and Cents, Not Bytes

Apr 17th, 2023 25m 7s

This is the 4th part of the podcast's return after a brief hiatus. Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this fourth part, we will discuss my first forensic litigation case, the importance of data governance, the myth of cyber, why I a

#125 – Douglas Brush (Part 3): What is a Special Master?

Apr 3rd, 2023 25m 36s

This is the 3rd part of the podcast's return after a brief hiatus. Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this third part, we will discuss what I am doing as a Special Master and Court Appointed Neutral, the reasons I think there will b

#124 – Douglas Brush (Part 2): Words of Advice

Mar 20th, 2023 27m 29s

This is the 2nd part of the return of the podcast after a brief hiatus.Daniel Ayala continues his interview of me. In this second part, we will discuss how I got started in the industry, defining moments of my career, my first computer, early e

#123 – Douglas Brush (Part 1): Guess Who’s Back, Dougie’s Back

Mar 6th, 2023 27m 37s

After a hiatus, the Cyber Security Interviews podcast is back!A lot has happened in my life over the past 18 months. I have endured death, despair, divorce, and car theft, to name a few traumatic events that made me take a break from several en

#122 – Leeann Nicolo: Go For It

Jul 19th, 2021 23m 55s

Leeann Nicolo is the Incident Response lead at The Coalition and specializes in digital forensics and cyber investigations. She has conducted investigations into ransomware, phishing, hacking, data breaches, trade secret theft, and employee mal

#121 – Shannon Brazil: Teach Business to Tech People

Jun 28th, 2021 37m 6s

Shannon Brazil is a Senior Cyber Security Specialist working within a CIRT of a Canadian Fortune 500. She has been in IT for over 12 years, with the last three years in Cybercrime investigations with law enforcement and recently moving into the

#120 – Cimone Wright-Hamor: Cybersecurity Is An Applied Field

Jun 21st, 2021 35m 22s

Cimone Wright-Hamor works at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) as a cybersecurity researcher while pursuing a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. She has spent the last decade of her life interning at a variety of

#119 – Jenna Waters: This Is My Team

Jun 14th, 2021 47m 36s

Jenna Waters is a Cybersecurity Consultant at True Digital Security where she specializes in information security program development, industry compliance assessments, threat intelligence, and cloud security controls. She is an experienced prof

#118 – Nato Riley: Reinvent Reality and Reinvent the World

Jun 7th, 2021 55m 2s

Nato Riley is an Integrations Engineer at Blumira and the Co-founder of Cloud Underground. Nato provides infrastructure, code, and security across all his efforts and is focused on helping Blumira build the most effective and efficient SIEM on

#117 – Sara Avery: Go After What You Want

Mar 15th, 2021 53m 47s

Sara Avery is a Regional Sales Manager at Zscaler. She has held various positions over the past 20 years in the Information Technology field and discovered her passion for information security 15 years ago. Her career has largely been spent in

#116 - Jennifer Brown: This Is A Wakeup Call

Mar 1st, 2021 57m 46s

Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, speaker, diversity and inclusion consultant, and author. As the successful founder, president, and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting, headquartered in New York City, Jennifer is responsible for de

#115 - Alyssa Miller: We Are Lacking Empathy

Feb 22nd, 2021 50m 56s

Alyssa Miller leads the security strategy for S&P Global Ratings as Business Information Security Officer (BISO), connecting corporate security objectives to business initiatives. She blends a unique mix of technical expertise and executive pre

#114 – Chloé Messdaghi: How Can We Do Better

Feb 15th, 2021 51m 47s

Chloé Messdaghi is the Chief Strategist at Point3 Security. In addition to her passion for keeping people safe and empowered both on and offline, she is also interested in increasing the numbers of marginalized genders in information security.

#113 – Julian Waits: Diversity of Thought

Feb 8th, 2021 55m 50s

Julian Waits is the general manager of cybersecurity at Devo Technology. He has over 30 years of experience in senior leadership roles at technology companies, specializing in security, risk, and threat detection.He serves on several industry b

#112: Douglas Brush - Pain Is Inevitable, Suffering Is Optional

Feb 1st, 2021 39m 58s

This is the last episode in the five-part series on mental health, self-care, and neurodiversity. This will not be the last time I speak about these issues on the podcast. I encourage everyone to take these issues seriously and help remove stig

#111 – Danny Akacki: Work Worth Doing

Jan 25th, 2021 1h 3m

Danny Akacki is just a storyteller perpetually looking for a stage. He loves nothing more than attending conferences, giving talks, writing blogs, and finding new ways to reach as many people as he can to educate about cybersecurity. For him, t

#110 - Ryan Louie: Security Starts In the Mind

Jan 18th, 2021 47m 30s

Ryan K. Louie, MD, Ph.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist focusing on the mental health impact of cybersecurity, and the psychiatry of entrepreneurship. Ryan received his MD and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford University School of Medicine and

#109 – Amanda Berlin: Happier People Stay Longer

Jan 11th, 2021 49m 13s

Amanda Berlin is the Lead Incident Detection Engineer for Blumira and the CEO and owner of the nonprofit corporation Mental Health Hackers. She is the author of a Blue Team best practices book called "Defensive Security Handbook: Best Practices

#108 – Bill Hudenko: The Mind Body Connection

Jan 4th, 2021 50m 46s

Bill Hudenko, Ph.D. has significant experience in the fields of both mental health and technology. Dr. Hudenko is a licensed psychologist, a researcher, and a professor who holds a joint appointment as a faculty member at Dartmouth's Department

#107 – Daniel Wood: We Don’t Have Enough Skilled People

Dec 28th, 2020 38m

Daniel Wood is the Associate Vice President of Consulting at Bishop Fox, where he leads all service lines, develops strategic initiatives, and has established the Applied Research and Development program. Daniel has over 15 years of experience

#106 - Jasson Casey: Hire Missionaries, Not Mercanaries

Dec 21st, 2020 48m 6s

Jasson Casey is the CTO of Beyond Identity, a passwordless identity management provider. He also serves as a Fellow in CyberSecurity with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the National Security Institute (NSI). Previ

#105 – John Hammond: Raise The Cyber Security Poverty Line

Dec 14th, 2020 38m 24s

John Hammond is a Security Researcher at Huntress as well as a cybersecurity instructor, developer, red teamer, and CTF enthusiast. John is a former Department of Defense Cyber Training Academy curriculum developer and teacher for the Cyber Thr

#104 - David Wong:

Dec 7th, 2020 43m 24s

David Wong is a security engineer working on the libra Blockchain at Facebook. He is an active contributor to internet standards like Transport Layer Security and to the applied cryptography research community.David is a recognized authority in

#103 - Jeff Hussey: Try Not To Make More Than One Mistake In a Row

Nov 30th, 2020 47m 18s

Jeff Hussey is the President and CEO of Tempered. Jeff, the founder of F5 Networks, is an accomplished entrepreneur with a proven track record in the networking and security markets. He maintains several board positions across a variety of tech