In this captivating episode of Dark Mode, we are joined by Brett Winterford, the regional Chief Security Officer at Okta, a leading cyber security technology company. Brett takes us on an extraordinary journey as he shares his firsthand experience of stepping into the role just two months before his company faced a high-profile cyber attack by a notorious adversarial group.

Gabe & Ben host John Stern who is a prolific entrepreneur who takes gaming on a wild ride into his innovative businesses from an online poker app, a stint as a LinkedIn profile artists with a Microsoft paint line. Any successful QR code business ring pin that is helping change businesses across the globe. John offers up some epic advice on taking the jump and realizing your inner entrepreneur. Warning - This episode contains some pretty bad art, a few Microsoft off paint references, and is a heck of a good time.

Gabe & Ben host Chase Cunningham with his casual demeanour and his incredible expertise in cybersecurity. Chase is currently the chief strategy officer at Ericom Software. He was a former Navy and NSA cryptologic technician. And he's also done some amazing work in zero trust, having been a principal analyst at Forrester and shaped the ASD Essential 8 Framework here in Australia. Chase is now a strategic advisor to board-level stakeholders and offers up impressive insights into cyber security and his ability to turn everything into eyebrow-raising analogies! With that, we zero-trust that you really enjoy this episode!

Gabe & Ben sit down with two former Israeli Defence Force (IDF) members who have been instrumental in commercialising cyber security technologies in Australia over the past 10 years.

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Gabe & Ben rabbit hole various topics from the fall of Kodak and Blockbuster in the digital media revolution, third wave societal change in global consciousness and decentralization, understanding our psyche, biases and neuro-wiring to combat against captology, internet accessibility varying across the world and the widening wealth gap, using technology to solve world poverty and contributing to the UN sustainability goals.

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Technology, Cyber Security and Universal Mega Trends shaping the future of humanity. We discuss a host of topics relevant to the global population and invite guest speakers to share their perspectives!

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