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A podcast that takes a deeper look at today’s most important issues in cyber security, and beyond.

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Resilience in cyber: an agony aunt's view

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2025/12/18

Cybersecurity is about building resilient organisations. But this is impossible without resilient people.Cyber defence is often a highly pressured working environment. And it can be lonely too. But if teams are unable to function at their best, attackers will exploit this. In the second of our two episodes on cyber resilience, we look at its human side. Our guests are Rebecca Taylor, threat intelligence knowledge manager and human intelligence researcher at Sophos, and Amelia Hewitt director of

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Calm under fire: the importance of cyber resilience

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2025/11/26

Cybersecurity is changing its focus.Increasingly, it is less about defence and more about resilience. Organisations have to be able to withstand and recover from an attack. It's no longer about preventing breaches: the sheer volume of cyberattacks means that is no longer possible. Instead, security teams and boards should assume an attack will happen, prepare keep the organisation operating during an incident, and aim to recover as quickly as possible. Our guest is James Blake, VP of global cyber

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Insights Interview: Chris Dimitriadis, ISACA

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2025/11/13

This year has not been easy for cybersecurity teams.Businesses continue to face cybercrime and state-sponsored attacks, especially ransomware. AI is proving to be a double-edged sword, helping both defenders and malicious actors. And there are the ongoing issues of skills, recruitment and retention. How, then, do cybersecurity professionals navigate their way through all these challanges? And what should they prioritise for 2026? For this episode, we're pleased to welcome back Chris Dimitriadis,

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Ukraine, cyberwar and CNI

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2025/10/30

Critical infrastructure is on the front line of the war in Ukraine.And as the conflict approaches its fourth year, there is little sign of that changing. Strikes against infrastructure, though, are only part of the picture. Since Russia’s full-scale invasion, and even before, Ukraine’s defenders have waged an equally intense, but less visible, cyber war. What lessons can we draw from Ukraine’s experience? And how can states and businesses protect their critical national infrastructure during war

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Bug bounties: risks and rewards

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2025/10/16

A growing number of organisations now offer "bug bounties", paying hackers or security researchers rewards for finding vulnerabilities.But how do these programmes operate, and how do CISOs ensure that they are run ethically? What are the risks of inviting researchers to hack your organisation? How do bug bounties stack up against other methods of security testing? And what are the benefits to security researchers themselves, as the programmes cannot work without hackers? We cover the pros and cons

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DDoS, geopolitics and AI

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2025/10/02

DDoS – or distributed denial of service attacks – remain a serious source of disruption across the internet.DDoS attacks continue to grow in their frequency and volume. And increasingly, they’re aligned to geopolitical events. A driver is sites offering “DDoS for hire”. The groups behind these sites even offer DDoS as a service attacks for free. But cybercrime groups are making use of AI too. This is leading to what researchers at NETSCOUT describe as a “digital battlefield", with DDoS attacks

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Cyber skills: a crisis of our own making?

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2025/09/18

Is cybersecurity's skills crisis one of its own making?And why have initiatives to close the skills gap made relatively little impact? In this episode, our guests Thom Langford, of Rapid7, and Lee Munson, of the ISF, discuss career changes, hiring practices, certifications and what needs to change with editor Stephen Pritchard

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Defending education: countering the cyber threat

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2025/09/04

Education is increasingly in the crosshairs for malicous actors. Along with other public sector bodies, schools, colleges and universities are being targeted for the information they hold, as well as for extortion and ransom.What, then, can leaders in the sector do to bolster their defences, especially when budgets are under pressure? Our guest is Joe Rooke, director of risk insights at Recorded Future’s Insikt Group.

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Vulnerabilities, CVEs and the attack surface

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2025/08/21

In this episode, we discuss whether vulnerability scores are still a viable tool when it comes to measuring cyber threats.Both CVEs and CVSS are core security tools. But, our guest this week argues, they are often misused. In a worst case scenario, they add little to effective defence, and can divert security teams from the real threats. Tod Beardsley is VP of security research at runZero, is on the board of the CVE Project, and is a former official at CISA.

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Human risk factors: cybersecurity's weak spot

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2025/08/07

More than three quarters of security breaches result from human behaviour.But as an industry, we focus far more on technical security measures, than on the human element. Human risk management sets out to change this. Its proponents aruge that by measuring what people do on networks and systems, we create a much clearer picture of risk. In fact, they say, the risks posed by people should be on the business' risk register. And it's only with that picture that we can implement the controls, and

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AI, Testing and Red Teaming, with Peter Garraghan

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2025/07/24

Artificial intelligence is often described as a "black box". We can see what we put in, and what comes out. But not how the model comes to its results.And, unlike conventional software, large language models are non-deterministic. The same inputs can produce different results. This makes it hard to secure AI systems, and to assure their users that they are secure. There is already growing evidence that malicious actors are using AI to find vulnerabilities, carry out reconnaissance, and fine-tune

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Non-human identities: the rise of the machines

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2025/07/03

Non-human identities now vastly outnumber human actors on the internet, perhaps by as many as 50 to one.APIs, online devices and service calls now dominate internet traffic, and access requests. And this is only set to increase, with the rise of AI and AI agents. Could we even see "robot wars" as AI agents take on AI defenders? A lack of visibility, and a lack of control over machine identities is not just putting systems and networks at risk. It is changing the whole concept of identity. Now, it's

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Balancing risk and security: Rich Seiersen

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2025/06/19

Managing cybersecurity is increasingly about managing risk.It's not possible to stop every attack or prevent every breach. So CISOs need to link the likelihood and impact of an incident to the damage it does to the organisation. But do security teams understand business risk? And do business leaders fully appreciate the threat from cyber attacks? Our guest is Richard Seiersen, chief risk technology officer at Qualys, as well as a researcher, author, entrepreneur and former CISO.

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Cyber Security Foundations: security by the book

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2025/06/05

Can a book hold the answers to our cybersecurity challenges?Perhaps not. But a new book from the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, sets out to act as a primer on cybersecurity. The target audience is both those setting out on a career in the sector, or general readers who want to understand the core principles of cybersecurity. The book is called Cyber Security Foundations: Fundamentals, Technology and Society, published by Kogan Page. In this episode, we ask three

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Verizon's DBIR: tracking security threats

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2025/05/22

Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report is one of the longest-running research studies in the industry.This year's report is the 18th and tracks over 20,000 incidents and 12,000 breaches. What changes are we seeing, and what can CISOs learn from the data? Our guest is Ashish Khanna, who runs the security solutions and consulting practice at Verizon Business. Interview by Stephen Pritchard

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Beyond the Titanic: Cybersecurity in Northern Ireland

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2025/05/08

In this episode, we look at the growth of the cybersecurity industry in Northern Ireland.What are the reasons for its success, and why does cyber play an important part in Northern Ireland's post-industrial future? And why should CISOs look there for a source of talent? Our guest is Simon Whittaker, chair of the steering committee for NI Cyber, and CEO of Vertical Structure, now part of Instil.

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CISO Interview: Mandy Andress, Elastic

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2025/04/24

Our guest this week is Mandy Andress is CISO at Elastic.Elastic describes itself as a “search AI company”, and is very much at the forefront of modernising enterprise technology. A host of businesses use Elastic's tools behind the scenes to manage their data, for security and, of course, for AI. As CISO, Mandy Andress has the dual responsibilities of keeping Elastic secure, and advising customers on security. In this CISO interview, we hear about her route into cybersecurity and the pressures of

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Insights Interview: Claudia Natanson, UK Cyber...

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2025/04/10

Dr Claudia Natanson is CEO at the UK Cyber Security Council.The Council, which is funded by the Government's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, acts as an umbrella body for a range of professional bodies in cybersecurity. It is the organisation behind chartered status for cybersecurity professionals, sets standards and publishes an ethics code, and acts as a voice of the industry: quite a broad mission for an organisation that is only a few years old. The Council is, though, very

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Episode 125: Insights Interview, with James Bore

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2025/03/26

Our guest for the 125th episode of Security Insights is James Bore.A well-known industry figure and speaker on cybersecurity, James runs the family consultancy firm Bores. He's also an author, book publisher, cyber skills trainer and volunteer. In this Insights Interview, he shares his forthright -- and sometimes controversial -- views on the way forward for cybersecurity, with editor Stephen Pritchard. Does cybersecurity blame the victim? What is the relationship between trust and security? And

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Why CISOs quit: cyber's leadership crisis

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2025/03/13

Are CISOs leaving the industry in droves?One survey suggests that as many as one in four senior cybersecurity leaders plans to leave the profession. The causes include growing responsibilities, increasingly severe threats and ever-greater regulatory burdens. The result is stress and burn out, with CISOs constantly fighting fires. As one of our guests says, CISOs suffer from an "invisibility of success". So what can we do? The first step is to recognise the problem; the second is to help CISOs build

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