ISF Podcast

Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin about emerging security threats to expect in 2021. Steve breaks down the top five threats for security professionals to be mindful of going into 2021, and offers some tips for securing your organization against them.

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Today, Steve welcomes motivational speaker, corporate consultant, and educator Reggie Butler back to the podcast. Reggie last connected with Steve in 2018 for an episode of our videocast (link below). Today’s conversation focuses on what we’ve learned through the experience of working from home during the pandemic, strategies for uniting teams even while socially distanced, and why leaders should model vulnerability and transparency now more than ever.

Learn more about Reggie Butler.

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In this episode, Steve speaks with a guest whose focus includes human culture, behavior, and storytelling: singer/songwriter and activist Sir Bob Geldof, lead singer of the Boomtown Rats and founding member of Band Aid, famous for raising money for Ethiopian famine relief. Steve and Sir Bob discuss the effect of the Covid19 pandemic on creativity, the political turmoil facilitated by rapidly advancing digital technology, Sir Bob’s hope for fresh ideas, the courage to embrace change, and more.

Learn more about Sir Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats.

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Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock

Today Steve speaks with writer and researcher Brigid Schulte, author of the New York Times bestselling book on time pressure, Overwhelmed: Work, Love & Play When No One Has the Time. Formerly an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine, and part of the team that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize, Schulte is a global speaker on time, productivity, leisure, and the value of play, and she serves as the founding director of The Good Life Initiative at the nonpartisan think tank, New America. She’s also the director of The Better Life Lab, a work-family justice and gender equity program.

In today’s conversation, Steve and Brigid discuss the need for leadership — a need that, during Covid, is more urgent than ever before; how to make work work better for everyone; and the opportunity for enterprises to remeasure what they value, and reestablish the value system that threads through the heart of everything they do.

Learn more about Brigid Schulte.

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The Better Life Lab

Today, Steve is in conversation with Dr. Hannah Fry, associate professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London, and a researcher in the patterns of human behaviour, particularly in an urban setting. In this conversation, Steve and Hannah discuss the challenge and imperative of communicating across demographics with simplicity and clarity; the power of storytelling; the moral tensions inherent in data mining; and more.

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Today, Steve is in conversation with philosopher, author, and speaker Anders Indset. Steve and Anders discuss the importance of leaders engaging in what he calls a “self audit,” having the strength and courage to get vulnerable, the importance of listening, and more.

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The Social Dilemma

Producer Tavia Gilbert talks to ISF Managing Director Steve Durbin about what we’ve gained and lost from altering our workplaces and our workflows during the pandemic; how heads of enterprises can support their teams throughout this unprecedented period of change; the difference between good leadership and great leadership; and more.

Today’s episode marks the beginning of our podcast’s fifth year of production, and we’re returning from our summer hiatus with a refreshed mission. As ever, the ISF Podcast will continue to offer cutting-edge conversations tailored to CISO’s, CTO’s, and other global security pros, as well as periodic reports on timely cybersecurity topics such as the threat horizon or human-centered security. But we want to offer you more education, information, and inspiration than ever before, so we’re going to be expanding those conversations to include leaders, writers, speakers, and more people traditionally outside of the security space. Whether we’re hearing from a musician or a CRO, the head of a global non-profit or the head of a Fortune 500 company, Steve will bring you, your teams, and your partners insights from rule-breakers, collaborators, culture-builders, and business creatives who manage their enterprise with vision, transparency, authenticity, and integrity.

As the ISF Podcast enters its fifth year of production, we’re celebrating with a listen back to some of the timeless insights our guests have shared over the past few years.

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Sherina Edwards

Do you want to know how innovative leaders are guiding their enterprises through unprecedented global upheaval? How visionary executives hold themselves accountable to the values that guide their business? And how personal responsibility for safeguarding security can infuse corporate culture at ever level?

Welcome to the ISF Podcast, bringing you cutting-edge conversation, tailored to CISOs, CTOs, CROs, and other global security pros. In every episode of the ISF Podcast, Managing Director Steve Durbin speaks with rule breakers, collaborators, culture builders, and business creatives who manage their enterprise with vision, transparency, authenticity, and integrity. Subscribe today. 

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Episode 1: Cyber Resilience - Reaping the Benefits

Steve Durbin, Managing Director, ISF

William Beer, Member of the ISF USA planning team

Recorded 14th July 2020 

30 mins

In this first episode of our CISO series, William and Steve explore how despite the unexpected, complex and far-reaching implications of COVID-19, the verdict is clear – planning pays off.  They discuss and provide examples of how those who had invested in resilience planning and testing have reaped the benefits.