
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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Jan 26, 2021 • 27min
S2 Ep3: Dame Inga Beale - Communication: Listen and Be Heard
In this episode, ISF CEO Steve Durbin talks with Dame Inga Beale, the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London, about the role that listening played when she became the first (and only) female CEO in Lloyd’s more than 300-year history. They also discuss the courage and effectiveness of simplicity in communication, a new style of leadership built on trust, and career advice for both board members and security professionals who are relatively new to the industry.
More about Dame Inga Beale and Lloyd’s of London.
Mentioned in this episode:
Dive In Festival
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Jan 19, 2021 • 33min
S2 Ep2: Captain Tammie Jo Shults - Habits, Hope and Heroes in a Time of Crisis
Today, Steve is in conversation with Tammie Jo Shults, retired Southwest Airlines captain and former naval aviator. Captain Shults received wide acclaim when, on April 17, 2018, she and her crew successfully landed a Boeing 737 after catastrophic engine failure and rapid decompression, saving the lives of 148 people. In today’s conversation, Steve and Captain Shults discuss leadership during a time of crisis, the importance of building trust with your team, how her parents’ example led her as navigated becoming one of the first female F/A-18 Hornet pilots in the United States Navy, and more.
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Mentioned in the episode:
Nerves of Steel: How I Followed My Dreams, Earned My Wings, and Faced My Greatest Challenge
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Jan 12, 2021 • 34min
S2 Ep1: Steve Durbin - Leadership in a Time of Transition
Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF CEO Steve Durbin about the episodes in our second season focusing on Leadership in a Time of Transition. We preview conversations with retired Southwest Airlines captain and former US naval aviator Tammie Jo Shults; global business insurance leader Dame Inga Beale, the former CEO of Lloyd’s of London and the only female CEO in its more than 300-year history; Kate Montague, an actor and expert voice coach with a background in body-led psychotherapy; Shoshana Zuboff, retired Harvard Business School professor and the author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power; and innovative physicist Kate Stone, a non-traditional problem solver who has creatively complex challenges, both personal and professional.
Steve will explain what links these diverse five experts, and what they have to offer you and your teams of security professionals.
Mentioned in this episode:
Tammie Jo Shults
Dame Inga Beale
Kate Montague
Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
Kate Stone
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Dec 15, 2020 • 26min
S1 Ep7: ISF Annual Threat Update — Emerging Threats for 2021 with Steve Durbin
Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin about emerging security threats to expect in 2021. Steve breaks down the top five threats for security professionals to be mindful of going into 2021, and offers some tips for securing your organization against them.
Mentioned in today’s episode:
Cyber Security Strategies: Achieving cyber resilience
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Dec 1, 2020 • 37min
S1 Ep6: Reggie Butler — Bringing Your Home to Work
Today, Steve welcomes motivational speaker, corporate consultant, and educator Reggie Butler back to the podcast. Reggie last connected with Steve in 2018 for an episode of our videocast (link below). Today’s conversation focuses on what we’ve learned through the experience of working from home during the pandemic, strategies for uniting teams even while socially distanced, and why leaders should model vulnerability and transparency now more than ever.
Learn more about Reggie Butler.
Mentioned in this episode:
2018 ISF Videocast with Reggie Butler: Finding your ‘rhythm’ in business
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Nov 24, 2020 • 35min
S1 Ep5: Sir Bob Geldof — Challenging Orthodox Thinking
In this episode, Steve speaks with a guest whose focus includes human culture, behavior, and storytelling: singer/songwriter and activist Sir Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and founding member of Band Aid, famous for raising money for Ethiopian famine relief. Steve and Sir Bob discuss the effect of the Covid19 pandemic on creativity, the political turmoil facilitated by rapidly advancing digital technology, Sir Bob’s hope for fresh ideas, the courage to embrace change, and more.
Learn more about Sir Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats.
Mentioned in this episode:
Pete Briquette
Simon Crowe
Garry Roberts
Vladimir Putin
Xi Jinping
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Boris Johnson
Donald Trump
Charles Darwin
Sigmund Freud
Karl Marx
Live Aid
Live 8
QAnon
Thomas Piketty
Shoshana Zuboff
Marshall McLuhan
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock
Richard Branson
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Mark Zuckerberg
Jack Ma
Larry Page
Sergey Brin
Winston Churchill
Alan Brooke
George Bernard Shaw
Tim Berners-Lee
Johannes Gutenberg
Colin Wilson
The Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger
Keith Richards
Billie Holiday
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Paul Allen
Steve Wozniak
Gaia Theory
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Nov 17, 2020 • 32min
S1 Ep4: Brigid Schulte - Remeasuring Values
Today Steve speaks with writer and researcher Brigid Schulte, author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time. Formerly an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine, and part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, Schulte is a global speaker on time, productivity, leisure, and the value of play, and she serves as the founding director of The Good Life Initiative at the nonpartisan think tank, New America. She’s also the director of The Better Life Lab, a work-family justice and gender equity program.
In today’s conversation, Steve and Brigid discuss the need for leadership — a need that, during Covid, is more urgent than ever before; how to make work work better for everyone; and the opportunity for enterprises to remeasure what they value, and reestablish the value system that threads through the heart of everything they do.
Learn more about Brigid Schulte.
Mentioned in this episode:
Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time
The Better Life Lab
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Nov 10, 2020 • 19min
S1 Ep3: Hannah Fry - What Data Can & Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves
Today, Steve is in conversation with Dr. Hannah Fry, associate professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, and a researcher in the patterns of human behaviour, particularly in an urban setting. In this conversation, Steve and Hannah discuss the challenge and imperative of communicating across demographics with simplicity and clarity; the power of storytelling; the moral tensions inherent in data mining; and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
Hello World
Jon Ronson
Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Drone legislation in the UK
ISF Threat Horizon 2021
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Nov 3, 2020 • 24min
S1 Ep2: Anders Indset - Responding to Disruption
Today, Steve is in conversation with philosopher, author, and speaker Anders Indset. Steve and Anders discuss the importance of leaders engaging in what he calls a “self audit,” having the strength and courage to get vulnerable, the importance of listening, and more.
Mentioned in this episode:
Arne Næss
Lofoten
The Social Dilemma
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Oct 27, 2020 • 41min
S1 Ep1: Steve Durbin on Leadership
Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin about what we’ve gained and lost from altering our workplaces and our workflows during the pandemic; how heads of enterprises can support their teams throughout this unprecedented period of change; the difference between good leadership and great leadership; and more.
Today’s episode marks the beginning of our podcast’s fifth year of production, and we’re returning from our summer hiatus with a refreshed mission. As ever, the ISF Podcast will continue to offer cutting-edge conversations tailored to CISO’s, CTO’s, and other global security pros, as well as periodic reports on timely cybersecurity topics such as the threat horizon or human-centered security. But we want to offer you more education, information, and inspiration than ever before, so we’re going to be expanding those conversations to include leaders, writers, speakers, and more people traditionally outside of the security space. Whether we’re hearing from a musician or a CRO, the head of a global non-profit or the head of a Fortune 500 company, Steve will bring you, your teams, and your partners insights from rule-breakers, collaborators, culture-builders, and business creatives who manage their enterprise with vision, transparency, authenticity, and integrity.
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