
ISF Podcast
The ISF Podcast brings you cutting-edge conversation, tailored to CISOs, CTOs, CROs, and other global security pros. In every episode of the ISF Podcast, Chief Executive, Steve Durbin speaks with rule-breakers, collaborators, culture builders, and business creatives who manage their enterprise with vision, transparency, authenticity, and integrity. From the Information Security Forum, the leading authority on cyber, information security, and risk management.
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May 4, 2021 • 33min
S4 Ep3: Thomas Erl — Training for Digital Transformation
Today, ISF CEO Steve Durbin is in conversation with Thomas Erl, best-selling IT author and founder of Arcitura Education, which offers vendor-neutral training and certification programs.
Steve and Thomas discuss how to resolve the skills shortage, the purpose of vendor-neutral training, the coming disruption of digital transformation, and more.
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Apr 27, 2021 • 22min
S4 Ep2: Dan Norman — Influencing Security Behaviour
Today, we’re bringing you a conversation between ISF CEO Steve Durbin and ISF analyst Dan Norman from the 2020 ISF Congress. Steve and Dan discuss the overall direction of the security profession in the current climate and how to build a team and a culture to promote secure practices throughout your organization.
Mentioned in this episode:
Addressing Psychological Vulnerabilities
Positively Influencing Security Behavior
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Apr 20, 2021 • 23min
S4 Ep1: Steve Durbin — Security Workforce of the Future
In today’s episode, ISF CEO Steve Durbin and producer Tavia Gilbert give an overview of the podcast’s season 4 theme: The Security Workforce of the Future.
Over the next several weeks and with a variety of guests, we’ll focus on what enterprises can do to attract, retain, and train the talent they’ll need to manage the demands of security in coming years.
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Apr 6, 2021 • 15min
S3 Ep4: Steve Durbin — Security Fails in a Brave New World
Today’s episode is the last in a special four-part series in which ISF CEO Steve Durbin and producer Tavia Gilbert discuss the ISF’s latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. Today, we discuss the report’s third major threat: Security fails in a brave new world.
Learn more about the ISF Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point.
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Mar 30, 2021 • 13min
S3 Ep3: Steve Durbin — Identity Is Weaponised
Today’s episode is the third in a special four-episode series in which ISF CEO Steve Durbin and producer Tavia Gilbert discuss the ISF’s latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. Today, we dig deeper into the report’s second threat: Identity is weaponised.
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Mar 23, 2021 • 19min
S3 Ep2: Steve Durbin — Machines Seize Control
Today’s episode is the second in a special four-episode series in which ISF CEO Steve Durbin and producer Tavia Gilbert discuss the ISF’s latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. Today, we focus on the report’s first major threat: Machines seize control.
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Mar 16, 2021 • 19min
S3 Ep1: Steve Durbin — Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point
Today, we begin a special four-episode series focusing on the ISF's latest report, Threat Horizon 2023: Security at a Tipping Point. This episode sets the stage for this threat report, and over the next few weeks, we'll dig deeper into each of the three major threats featured in the report.
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Feb 16, 2021 • 29min
S2 Ep6: Kate Stone — The Role of Analogue in the Digital Age
In today’s episode, Steve speaks with Dr. Kate Stone, a "creative scientist" whose company, Novalia, blends art and science to create fusions of new and old technology. Dr. Stone talks to Steve about the creative process, the role of analogue in the digital age, the importance of privacy and the consequences when basic rights to privacy are violated, the importance of digital friction in preserving mental health, and more.
Learn more about Dr. Kate Stone and Novalia.
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ISF Podcast - Shoshana Zuboff—The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Editors' Code of Practice committee
Paul Dacre
Dr. Kate Stone’s Ted Talk: The Press Trampled on My Privacy. Here’s How I Took Back My Story
"The Stag Trampled On My Throat, and the Press Trampled On My Privacy," BBC News, 14 May 2014
ISF Podcast — Dr. Ann Cavoukian: Privacy By Design, Security By Design
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Feb 9, 2021 • 26min
S2 Ep5: Shoshana Zuboff — The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Today, Steve speaks with Harvard professor, social psychologist, philosopher, and scholar Shoshana Zuboff, author of three influential books on tech and society. In this episode, she discusses the themes in her latest book, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, the new economic order that claims human experience is free raw material for commercial practices, the expanding attack surface for digital information warfare, and more.
Learn more about Shoshana Zuboff.
Mentioned in this episode:
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
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Feb 2, 2021 • 27min
S2 Ep4: Kate Montague — How to Rethink, Reset, and Refocus
In today’s episode, Steve speaks with actress, voice coach, leadership consultant, and expert in core energetics, or body-led psychotherapy, Kate Montague. Kate discusses the effectiveness in taking time to reset, what happens when you stay connected to your body and your breath, how to take the temperature of the room when the rooms are remote, and more.
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Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
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