CyberBytes: The Podcast

Today’s guest we have CISO at BigID Tyler Young. Tyler progressed through the ranks extremely quickly from being an incident responder to CISO and some claim he’s actually the world’s youngest CISO (we will go with it!). Tyler talks about the importance of having a supportive mentor, imposture syndrome, and the foundations for running an effective security program (People, Processes and Technology) and we finish up talking about hiring and what resources Tyler currently enjoys.

Welcome to the first edition of the FirstStep Cybersecurity Initiative podcast!Despite the ever-growing skills gap in our industry, it is surprisingly hard for aspiring cybersecurity professionals to get that first security job. Throughout this series, we will talk to guests from every walk of the industry, understand how they got into the sector, their top tips for aspiring security professionals, and debunk some of the myths around entry-level security roles. Our mission is to help the thousands of people applying to these roles secure one.To kick the series off we're chuffed to welcome Josh Fulmer. Josh is a cybersecurity recruiter at leading OT security firm Dragos, and in the last year has committed to helping cybersecurity job seekers through his LinkedIn posts and his new Cyber Dream Job Blog.

Today’s guest with have CISO Sandy Dunn, Sandy spent 16 yearsat HP before leaving to join Blue Cross of Idaho where she was their CISO foralmost 6 years. Sandy shares a ton of golden nuggets on how to reduce securityincidents, and building security teams with the right subject matter experts andkindly shares her CISO Pyramid of Progress.

Karl is currently CISO at Noname Security who is taking a proactive approach to API Security. Now, they work with 20% of the Fortune 500 and cover the entire API security scope across three pillars (Posture Management, Runtime Security, and API Security Testing) which we get to talk about! He also emphasises the importance of having a supportive leader and mentor and shares some great advice for CISOs interested in working for a Cybersecurity startup.

Today is a very special episode with 3 IoT Security Researchers who are well-known for their contributions to the community. Interesting, scary, funny, educational... this episode has it all. I hope you enjoy it!

Jane has just joined Enterprise IT Security as their new COO. She has a fascinating background spanning networking, product, marketing, and operations and in the past has actually built and sold her own business. She shares the reality of life working for international firms with customers around the world and is absolutely dedicated to educating others.

Today’s guest is Field CISO Robert Wagner, we speak about his “untraditional” career change into security, his track from Third shift analyst to field CISO and what that role actually involves. Robert clearly cares about the industry having spoken at many conferences and managed to worry me about the effects of AI. What’s great about Robert is he loves solving executive security problems even if it means promoting other security solutions.

I sit down with Paul Valente (CEO & Co-Founder of VISO Trust), and we talk about Third-PartyCyber Risk Management and why it’s so important to be controlled, his inspirationand shift from CISO to CEO. We then finish off with why it’s so important to attractthe right investors and his advice to anyone looking to start their owncompany.

This week’s guest we have Ray Espinoza. Ray is currently the CISO for Inspectiv, and has a great story to tell from Incident responder to CISO. He talks about scaling security functions, building teams and most importantly his key to success is “having a collaborative leadership style”.

This week's guest we have CISO Jeff Moss. Jeff is currently looking for his next CISO role after finishing up with Rebellion Defense. He has such a fascinating story to tell having gone from product security engineer to CISO in 4 years. We talk about building security strategies, driving security culture, his hiring criteria and pineapple on pizza! Jeff is another highly technical CISO who is a self-confessed bookworm and gives some awesome advice to those looking to track to CISO.