Cyber threats and cyber criminals indiscriminately target the old as well as young regardless of race, creed or origin. Teens and young adults must realize that on the Internet nobody knows you're a rat. How do we keep kids and young adults safe in an era of AI-driven attacks?

Tom Arnold, Adjunct Professor, Digital Evidence & Forensics, Cybersecurity Graduate Program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss his new book: The Digital Detective: First Intervention. We examine how technologies like deepfakes, voice cloning, and hyper-personalized scams are being used to target younger audiences, and what parents, educators, communities, and CISOs can do to build awareness, resilience, and smart digital habits.

Learn how today's highly organized operations, powered by automation and advanced AI, power the bad actors' tools, techniques, and procedures—making them more effective than ever. Understanding the past helps us prepare for the future—and protect the next generation online, including our employees.

Segment Resources:

• https://www.idigitaldetective.com/blog
• https://www.idigitaldetective.com/
• https://www.unlv.edu/degree/ms-cybersecurity

In the leadership and communications segment, Executives say cybersecurity has outgrown the IT department, The Most Dangerous Leadership Mistake Isn't a Wrong Answer. It's a Wrong Question, Building cyber talent through competition, residency, and real-world immersion, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-429

CISO pressures are on the rise - board expectations, executive alignment, AI, and personal liability - and that's all on top of your normal security pressures. With all these pressures, CISO burnout is on the rise. How do we detect it and help prevent it? Easier said than done. In this Say Easy, Do Hard segment, we tackle the health and wellness of the CISO.

In part 1, we discuss the increased pressures CISOs face. We all know them, but how are they impacting our daily lives, both at work and at home. In part 2, we discuss detection and prevention techniques to help avoid burnout, including:

• Detecting the signs of stress
• Acknowledging there is a problem
• Asking for help
• Techniques to deal with stress
• Industry and community support

This is a serious problem in our industry and one we want to continue to focus on as we head into another stressful 2026.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-428

Join Business Security Weekly for a roundtable-style year-in-review. The BSW hosts share the most surprising, inspiring, and humbling moments of 2025 in business security, culture, and personal growth. And a few of us might be dressed for the upcoming holiday season...

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-427

Business Security Weekly is well aware of the cybersecurity hiring challenges. From hiring CISOs to finding the right skills to developing your employees, we cover it weekly in the leadership and communications segment. But this week, our guest interview digs into the global cybersecurity hiring trends.

Jim McCoy, CEO at Atlas, joins Business Security Weekly to share his expertise on the global workforce needs in the 160 countries where Atlas provides direct Employer of Record services. From CISO hiring to where to build security teams, Jim will help us navigate the cybersecurity hiring challenges most organizations face.

In the leadership and communications segment, CISOs, CIOs and Boards: Bridging the Cybersecurity Confidence Gap, Rethinking the CIO-CISO Dynamic in the Age of AI, Transparent Leadership Beats Servant Leadership, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-426

Organizations rely heavily on Salesforce to manage vasts amounts of sensitive data, but hidden security risks lurk beneath the surface. Misconfigurations, excessive user permissions, and unmonitored third party integrations can expose this data to attackers. How do I secure this data?

Justin Hazard, Principal Security Architect at AutoRABIT, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the security challenges of Salesforce. Justin will discuss how proactive oversight and a strong security posture in Salesforce requires additional capabilities, including:

• Continuous monitoring of your Salesforce environment,
• Strict access controls of Salesforce users, and
• Automated backup of sensitive data.

Think your data in Salesforce is safe and secure, think again.

This segment is sponsored by AutoRABIT. Visit https://securityweekly.com/autorabit to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications segment, Boards Have a Digital Duty of Care, The CISO's greatest risk? Department leaders quitting, The 15 Habits of Highly Empathetic People, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-425

While many businesses rely on Microsoft 365, Salesforce and Google Workspace security features, critical blind spots remain—the recent series of high profile SaaS breaches demonstrate this. So what should you do?

Mike Puglia, General Manager of Kaseya Labs, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the risks in SaaS applications. In this segment, Mike will explore how bad actors are focusing their attacks on SaaS applications, hijacking tokens and how misconfigured integrations are used to bypass traditional defenses. Mike will also discuss how IT leaders can rethink protecting their essential SaaS business applications with tools that go beyond endpoint and MFA strategies to secure the modern user.

This segment is sponsored by Kaseya 365 User. Visit https://securityweekly.com/k365 to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications segment, The rise of the chief trust officer: Where does the CISO fit?, When Another Company's Crisis Hurts Your Reputation, Effective Workplace Communication Tips, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-424

The Security Weekly 25 index is back near all time highs as the NASDAQ hits another record high. Funding and acquisitions have shifted to AI as the security industry continues to evolve. We also had a new IPO, Netskope. They will replace CyberArk once the Palo Alto Networks acquisition closes, allowing the index to survive another public company acquisition.

In the leadership and communications segment, Boards Seeking AI Specialists, A CISO's Guide to Navigating the Urgent AI Security Storm, How to Write AI Prompts That Get Results (& Don't Suck), and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-423

It's a topic we discuss often on Business Security Weekly: CISO Burnout. It's real, but how should you manage it?

Dr. Yonesy Núñez, Global Cybersecurity Executive at Chain Bridge Bank and former Managing Director, Chief Cybersecurity Risk Officer, and Chief Information Security Officer at The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), joins Business Security Weekly to share his personal insights. An advocate of CISO Health and Wellness, Yonesy will discuss how we can "Optimize the Operator" by creating harmony with mind and spirit.

Segment Resources: https://councils.forbes.com/profile/Yonesy-Nunez-Global-Cybersecurity-Executive-Chain-Bridge-Bank/e79e72a5-4b18-48b1-b5ab-8a0afd47d782

In the leadership and communications segment, CISOs are cracking under pressure, How BISOs enable CISOs to scale security across the business, Great Leaders Empower Strategic Decision-Making Across the Organization, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-422

As AI revolutionizes how we work, it has created a new attack surface with new technologies. One of those new technologies is Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP has emerged as the standard for connecting AI to external tools, but its flexibility has created security challenges. How do we secure MCP?

Rahul Parwani, Head of Product, Security Solutions at Airia, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the challenges of MCP and how to secure this new protocol. Rahul will cover how Aria's solutions help you secure your AI development by:

• Centralizing Access Control
• Enforcing Security Policies
• Maintaining Compliance
• Enabling Rapid Response

This segment is sponsored by Airia. Visit https://securityweekly.com/airia to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications segment, CISO Burnout – Epidemic, Endemic, or Simply Inevitable?, If Trust Is So Important, Why Aren't We Measuring It?, Over one-third of companies plan to replace entry roles with AI, survey says, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-421

What's the biggest attack vector for breaches besides all of the human related ones (i.e., social engineering, phishing, compromised credentials, etc.)? You might think vulnerabilities, but it's actually misconfiguration. The top breach attack vectors are stolen or compromised credentials, phishing, and misconfigurations, which often work together. So why is it so hard to properly configure your systems?

Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss Defense Against Configurations and how ThreatLocker can automatically identify misconfigurations and map them to your environment's compliance and security requirements. Rob will discuss how ThreatLocker Defense Against Configurations dashboard can:

• Identify misconfigurations before they become exploited vulnerabilities
• Monitor configuration compliance with major frameworks

• Receive clear, actionable remediation guidance

  and more!

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications segment, Cybersecurity management for boards: Metrics that matter, The Emotional Architecture of Leadership: Why Energy, Not Strategy, Builds Great Teams, Your Transformation Can't Succeed Without a Talent Strategy, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-420