CyberBytes: The Podcast

This week’s guest we have Nipun Gupta. We talk about his rise from being a kid in Delhi to the COO at Bearer in London. Nipun discusses how his CMU university degree really elevated his development in technology. A man with a career spanning consulting, financial services, venture and now startup, Nipun has seen it all. We laser in on his time at Deutsche Bank working within the Cyber Innovation team and how he would identify the futures Cyber threats and much more.

Today’s guest we have CISO James Azar, James is no stranger to a pod as he hosts the CyberHub Podcast which goes live every 9am EST Monday through Thurs. We talk about the importance of self-learning and development, his recent experience interviewing and how ghosting can really affect the bottom line. We cover the 3 types of CISO and something James feels strongly about the importance of having strong leadership skills. James is an entrepreneur turned CISO and having recently started a new role with AP4 Group I wish him the best of luck in tackling the increasing security issues across the utility sector.

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 years

at HP before leaving to join Blue Cross of Idaho where she was their CISO for

almost 6 years. Sandy shares a ton of golden nuggets on how to reduce security

incidents, and building security teams with the right subject matter experts and

kindly 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-Party

Cyber Risk Management and why it’s so important to be controlled, his inspiration

and shift from CISO to CEO. We then finish off with why it’s so important to attract

the right investors and his advice to anyone looking to start their own

company.