

ISF Podcast
Information Security Forum 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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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.
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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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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.
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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.
Learn more about Tammie Jo Schults.
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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.
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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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