Defense in Depth

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Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and George Finney, CISO, University of Texas System. Joining is Sean Walls, CISO, Bob's Discount Furniture.
In this episode:
Asymmetric accounting
Sometimes it really is that easy
The spirit of the saying
The cheapest way in
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What It Takes To Be Successful in Cyber Media
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Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Dave Bittner, producer and host, The CyberWire. Joining is Graham Cluley, host of Smashing Security podcast and Leo Laporte, founder of TWiT (This Week in Tech) and host of Security Now podcast.
In this episode:
Format follows function
The decision gap
Practitioner fingerprints
Beyond the news cycle
A huge thanks to our sponsor, Palo Alto Networks

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Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Howard Holton, CEO, GigaOm. Joining is Tyler King, senior director - threat operations and response, Sinclair.
In this episode:
Career insurance
In the trenches together
Who are you actually selling to?
Common sense, uncommon in sales
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We think of cybersecurity as a discipline. But when do ideas like best practices and NIST frameworks change into a system of belief?
Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Davi Ottenheimer, principal, Flying Penguin. Joining is Joshua Copeland, director of security, Crescendo.
In this episode:
Tools, not religion
The case for structured discipline
The management problem underneath
Fix the damn holes
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We know human-paced security controls can't be applied to autonomous AI agents. So what needs to change with CNAPP and cloud security?
Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Dan Benjamin, vp product - data, identity, and AI security, Palo Alto Networks.
In this episode:
The detection ceiling
A category gap, not a feature gap
Resilience by design
An insider threat with no face
A huge thanks to our sponsor, Palo Alto Networks

Cortex Cloud unifies code, cloud, and SOC on a single data, risk, and control plane — giving teams the context, workflows, and agentic intelligence to turn risk into resolution. Native AI agents investigate and act within enterprise guardrails, delivering real-time protection from workload to network edge. Cloud security that outpaces machine-speed threats. Visit Palo Alto Networks and search cortex cloud.