

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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Oct 31, 2023 • 27min
S23 Ep1: Predicting the Unpredictable
Dr. Christopher Ankersen, a Clinical Professor of Global Affairs at New York University, discusses the current global threat landscape, effective tabletop exercises for cybersecurity professionals, and the importance of understanding each location's role in a business. The podcast explores the multifaceted nature of global security dynamics, challenges in establishing risk practices in a global context, the need for assessment and understanding in crisis management and cybersecurity, and the importance of post-incident review and complexity of risk management.

Oct 17, 2023 • 14min
S22 Ep6: Security Is Everyone’s Problem
This is the final episode in our series marking Cyber Awareness Month. ISF Regional Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa Dan Norman speaks with Steve about how organisations can ensure that security is a concern for everyone, from the top down. They discuss questions of education, technology, and best practices for a post-Covid workforce.
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Oct 10, 2023 • 13min
S22 Ep5: People in Cyber: Rise of the BISO
Today’s episode is the second in our series for Cyber Awareness Month. Steve is joined in the studio by ISF’s Regional Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Dan Norman. Their focus today is on how organisations can overcome challenges to the security workforce.
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Oct 3, 2023 • 17min
S22 Ep4: Cyber Exercises: Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
October is Cyber Awareness Month, and we’re marking the occasion with a series of three episodes featuring Steve in conversation with ISF’s Regional Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Dan Norman. Today, Steve and Dan discuss the importance of cyber resilience and how organisations can prepare for cyber attacks.
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Sep 26, 2023 • 21min
S22 Ep3: Entering the New Cyber Era: The evolution of legislation in addressing emerging technologies
This is the second in a two-part conversation with Dr. Andrea Matwyshyn, professor of law at Penn State University. If you missed the first part, you can scroll back and find it in our podcast feed. Andrea’s work centers around the intersection of technology design, innovation policy, and law. Today, she and Steve talk about regulating emerging technologies and the questions tech innovators need to start asking as we move into a new era of cyber. Andrea gives us a helpful look back into history for precedents in how to approach what can feel like unprecedented times.
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Sep 19, 2023 • 24min
S22 Ep2: Security Professionals aren’t on Public Boards: What’s holding them back?
Today in the first in a two-part series with Dr. Andrea Matwyshyn, professor of law at Penn State University. Andrea’s work centers around the intersection of technology design, innovation policy, and law. She and Steve discuss tech policy, regulation and international cooperation, and what corporate boards can do differently to succeed in a world where tech is now integral to every business.
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Sep 12, 2023 • 19min
S22 Ep1: The Best of the ISF Podcast 2023
During the past month, you’ve heard encore presentations of some of our favorite episodes so far this year, and today, as we prepare to move forward into Season 22, we’re looking back on some of the highlights of our guest interviews from 2023.
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Jamie Bartlett - The Democratisation of Cybercrime
Aaron Painter - Remodelling the Architecture Behind Trust
Omera Khan - Future-Proofing Our Supply Chains
Raffael Marty - Getting Inside the Mind of the Hacker
Margaret Heffernan - Cyber, CISO and the Board: Turning awareness into action
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Aug 29, 2023 • 30min
S21 Ep3: SUMMER LISTENING: Deborah Wheeler - Security Beyond the Checkbox
For our special Summer Listening series, we revisit some favorite listens: episodes that cover some of the most important, and current, issues in cyber. We conclude our Summer Listening series with a conversation from November 2022 between Steve and Deborah Wheeler, CISO at Delta Airlines, based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Deborah talks about her journey through the cybersecurity industry, offers her perspective on how the industry can be more open to women, considers the difference between compliance and security, and touches on how Covid has changed Delta’s approach to hiring and personnel management.
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Aug 22, 2023 • 18min
S21 Ep2: SUMMER LISTENING: Steve Durbin and Nicholas Witchell - CISOs, Warfare and Technology in the Spotlight
For our special Summer Listening series, we revisit some favorite listens: episodes that cover some of the most important, and current, issues in cyber. We continue with a conversation between journalist and long-time friend of ISF, Nick Witchell, and ISF Chief Executive Steve Durbin from October 2022.
Nick puts Steve in the 'cyber hot-seat' to face fifteen minutes of timely rapid-fire questions. Steve offers his opinion on the lessons we can learn from the ongoing Ukraine conflict, the likely ripple effects from the recent conviction of Uber's security chief, and how this will impact the future role of CISOs and their businesses.
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Aug 15, 2023 • 30min
S21 Ep1: SUMMER LISTENING: Seán Doyle - Cyber and the World Economy
Seán Doyle, Lead for the Centre for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, discusses public-private partnerships, tabletop exercises for resilience, and improving global cybersecurity legislation and regulation to promote economic interests. They explore the wide-reaching impact of cybersecurity, the stance on ransomware payments, emerging changes and systemic risks in the industry, and reflect on the state of cybersecurity space.


