Securely Speaking

In this episode of Securely Speaking I interview Ilsa Shaw from Dataminr who are one of the world's leading AI companies. Their platform provides targeted and timely alerts from an incredible depth and breadth of over 100,000 sources to enhance an organisation's ability to respond and act on developing high-impact events. We discuss some of the unique communication challenges organisations have faced over the last 12 months and importantly, how real-time alerts can filter through to enhancing awareness of emerging risk. We also cover off more broad uses of real-time alerts and some of the unique nuances of the real-time public information landscape.

"You have to be vigilant in being observational". In this interview with Chris Hadnagy, founder and CEO of Social-Engineer, LLC , we discussed the need for frontline personnel to find the right balanced approach between friendly customer service and a vigilant challenging culture. We also discussed the importance of ego suspension in interactions and Chris shared some great takeaways on pretext development and observations that occur during interactions.

In this interview with Nick Kaldas, we discuss the importance of secure communications in all its forms. We also delve into the unique challenges and communication issues that have occurred with the current operating landscape as well as discussing some comparison elements with various communications platforms. We also discuss "Mercury" by Secured Communications and the "Built around security" approach that the organisation took in developing its platform.

I found it very rewarding interviewing Joe and finding out more about his background and the unique path he has travelled through to being the passionate Security and Risk Industry Thought Leader that he is today.

In the interview we discuss our thoughts on some current industry "job ready" training deficiencies, the benefits of mentoring and we also cover various elements around conflict de-escalation and the power of empathy. As expected, we throw in a few war stories along the way as well!!

In this interview with Brine Hamilton we discuss the unique security and risk elements of healthcare security. We delve into specific training requirements to be truly "job ready" for the unique challenges involved and also discuss what technological innovations have had real impact in the workplace.

For our first episode of Securely Speaking I was incredibly fortunate to interview Lt.Col Dave Grossman. We discuss a broad range of topics including personal resilience, the dramatic effects of sleep deprivation.

Lt.Col Grossman is the author of iconic books such as on combat, on killing and assassination generation. His roles have included being a us army ranger, paratrooper and a former Westpoint psychology professor. He is the foremost law enforcement trainer in America if not globally, certified in all 50 states where he has trained all the federal agencies, tier 1 spec ops and also the military. He has been on the road sharing his knowledge and experience nearly 300 nights per year for the last 23 years.

By the numbers he has six non-fiction books, five patents to his name, has published four novels, has three entries in the academic press encyclopedia of violence peace and conflict, has published two children's books and is the first guest we have had on securely speaking.