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Oct. 18, 2025

Episode 93 -- The New Browser Wars: Why the Enterprise Browser Has Be…

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Anupam Upadhyay, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Palo Alto Networks, a seasoned product and cybersecurity leader, to unpack the “new browser wars” and why enterprise browsers are fast becoming a core battleground in the fight for digital t…

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Oct. 7, 2025

The AI Augmented SOC: Balancing Technology, Talent, and Trust

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Will Ledesma, Director of MDR Cybersecurity Operations at Adlumin , a veteran SOC leader and cyber defender with over two decades of experience in enterprise security and the U...

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Sept. 22, 2025

Leading Under Fire: Legal and Leadership Lessons from Cyber Crises

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Josh Cook, a seasoned cybersecurity and privacy attorney who has guided multinational corporations and mid-sized businesses through high-stakes cyber crises. Drawing on his experience as the first Global Cyber Counsel for a Fortune Global 500 company…

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Sept. 7, 2025

AI vs. AI: Automating Defense to Outpace Automated Attacks

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee speaks with Roi Cohen, CEO and Co-Founder of Vicarius, about the urgent need to counter AI-driven attacks with equally automated defenses. Cohen, who began his career managing mission-critical systems in the military, shares his journey through leadership roles …

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Aug. 25, 2025

Beyond Passwords: Making Identity-Based Attacks Impossible in the Age…

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee sits down with Jasson Casey, CEO & Co-Founder @ Beyond Identity , to dissect the growing threat of identity-based attacks, which now account for nearly 80% of breaches. Casey explains how ...

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July 20, 2025

Closing the Remediation Gap with Agentic AI

In this compelling episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee engages with John Amaral , a serial entrepreneur and cybersecurity innovator, to explore how his company Root is using agentic AI to tackle one of cybersecurity’s biggest challe...

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June 16, 2025

AI Security in the Public Sector: Balancing Innovation and Risk

In this episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Burnie Legette, Director of IoT and AI at Intel Corporation and former professional football player . Their conversation explores the evolving landscape of AI deployment withi...

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May 16, 2025

Holistic Identity Security: Shifting the Paradigm from Reactive to Pr…

In this compelling episode, Dr. Dave Chatterjee is joined by Damon Fleury, Chief Product Officer, SpyCloud to dissect one of cybersecurity’s most exploited and least understood attack surfaces—identity. With nearly three deca...

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May 2, 2025

From Botnets to AI: Defending Against the Future of DDoS Warfare

In this episode of the Cybersecurity Readiness Podcast, Dr. Dave Chatterjee sits down with Richard Hummel, Director of Threat Intelligence at NETSCOUT , to unpack the fast-evolving Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) threat ...

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April 21, 2025

Stopping Social Engineered Vishing Attacks Before They Start

S ocial engineering continues to be the primary gateway for cyberattacks, responsible for nearly 80% of fraud and ransomware incidents. And notably, 1 in 4 of these social engineering attacks originate via phone calls. Yet ma...

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March 30, 2025

Future-Proofing Your Data: Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era

Dr. Dave Chatterjee and David Close discuss the implications of post-quantum cryptography (PQC) on cybersecurity readiness. David, a Chief Solutions Architect at Futurex , explains the evolution of cryptographic methods to co...

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March 4, 2025

Securing AI's Blind Spots: The Hidden Risks in Enterprise AI Adoption

The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen-AI) applications and tools are exploding. The global AI infrastructure market is projected to reach over $96 billion by 2027. AI applica...

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Feb. 17, 2025

Elevating Your Offensive Security Program

Dr. Dave Chatterjee hosts a discussion on elevating your offensive program with Mark Carney, CEO @ Evolve Security , and Yaron Levi, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Dolby Labs . They emphasize the importance of a...

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Feb. 2, 2025

Using Blockchain Technology to Make Messaging Apps More Secure and Pr…

Dr. Dave Chatterjee and Kee Jefferys, Technical Co-Founder of Session , discuss the use of blockchain technology in enhancing the security and privacy of messaging apps, specifically Session. Session, which has over a million...

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Jan. 12, 2025

Authenticate without Storing Credentials: MIT Scientist Cracks the Co…

Despite companies’ best efforts, stored access credentials inevitably get stolen or misused. Whether it is a disgruntled employee posting the data, an employee that makes an innocent mistake exposing that data, a company nee...

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Dec. 30, 2024

Lessons from 2024's Biggest Cyber Incidents and Building Stronger Def…

In this episode, Shrav Mehta, Founder, and CEO at Secureframe , joins me to discuss major cybersecurity incidents in 2024, highlighting five significant breaches: National Public Data (2.7 billion records), AT&T (50 billion),...

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Dec. 13, 2024

Stopping Deepfake Threats Through Identity Verification

In this episode, Aaron Painter, CEO at Nametag , joins me in discussing the Deepfake fraud phenomenon and how organizations and individuals should protect themselves from such scams. A recent study conducted by finance softwa...

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Nov. 19, 2024

From reactive to proactive: How behavioral psychology is transforming…

IBM recently reported a 71% year-over-year increase in attacks using valid credentials. This continued use of stolen credentials is also evident through ongoing public incidents like the string of attacks targeting Snowflake'...

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Oct. 31, 2024

Compliance in the Cloud: Challenges and Best Practices

Accelerating into the cloud without caution often brings complexities that can cause more harm than good. Gartner has noted that cloud configuration errors cause 95% of cybersecurity breaches. With the rapid pace of cloud ado...

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Oct. 19, 2024

Reducing the Risk of Social Engineering to Exploit IT Help Desk

In this episode, Mike Manrod, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Grand Canyon Education , and Ori Eisen, the Founder and CEO of Trusona , joined me to discuss how best to reduce the risks of social engineering a...

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Oct. 5, 2024

Unlocking Cyber Potential: The Power of Collaboration in K-12 Cyber E…

In this episode, Laurie Salvail, Ph.D., Executive Director of CYBER.ORG , joins me to discuss the importance of cybersecurity education for K-12 students. Primarily funded by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agen...

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Sept. 22, 2024

Large Language Model (LLM) Risks and Mitigation Strategies

As machine learning algorithms continue to evolve, Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 are gaining popularity. While these models hold great promise in revolutionizing various functions and industries—ranging from content...

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Sept. 1, 2024

Identity Continuity in Multi-Cloud Environments

The importance of maintaining uninterrupted services cannot be overemphasized, especially in light of the recent global IT outage fiasco. With the increasing dependence on cloud-based services, uninterrupted connectivity is e...

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Aug. 19, 2024

Securing SMBs Serving Defense Industrial Base and U.S. Critical Infra…

In this episode, Chris Petersen, Co-Founder and CEO of RADICL , and I discuss the challenges of securing the small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) that serve the United States defense industrial base (DIB) and critical inf...

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