What if you could stop cyberattacks before they happen? In this episode of Cyber Sessions, host Joan Goodchild sits down with Erin Whitmore, former CIA case officer and current Head of The Cipher division at Cynturion Group, to discuss how her team uses intelligence and AI to anticipate and prevent attacks before adversaries strike.

Whitmore reveals how proactive cybersecurity is blending human intuition, artificial intelligence, and offensive tactics to predict threats — while balancing the line between privacy and protection.

In this episode of Cyber Sessions, Senthil Ramakrishnan, Head of Cyber Product Strategy at AT&T, talks about why small and midsize businesses have become prime - and often unprepared - targets for cyberattacks and what they can do to improve their security posture.

In this episode of Cyber Sessions, Visa CISO Subra Kumaraswamy takes us inside the company’s 24/7 Cyber Fusion Centers, where AI-driven defenses block 90 million attacks and 11 million phishing emails each month. He shares how his team achieves “zero breach, zero disruption” across 200+ countries—and what lessons other security leaders can learn from Visa’s global

In this edition of Cyber Sessions, host Joan Goodchild talks with IANS researcher Nick Kakolowski about why midmarket CISOs now earn record-high pay but are still are stretched thin by expanding responsibilities and limited resources.

How is cybersecurity education changing — and what skills do tomorrow’s security leaders really need? In this episode of Security Sessions, host Joan Goodchild talks with Kevin Powers, Faculty Director and Lecturer at Boston College Law School, about how cybersecurity has evolved from a technical problem to a core business and legal function.

In this debut episode of Cyber Sessions, host Joan Goodchild sits down with Andy Ellis, veteran CSO and member of the CSO Hall of Fame, to learn about his State of the Security Vendor report from the Black Hat show floor. From AI flooding vendor taglines to the real challenges of code security and identity, Ellis shares sharp insights on what’s hype, what matters, and where the CISO role is headed next.