Adopting Zero Trust
Episodes
Whisper Leak: How Encrypted AI Chats Still Leak Conversation Topics
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we break down Whisper Leak, a newly disclosed side-channel issue affecting encrypted LLM communications. JBO explains how attackers c...
How Critical Infrastructure Leaders Are Rethinking Cybersecurity
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Adopting Zero Trust, hosts Elliot Volkman and Neal Dennis discuss critical infrastructure security with expert guest Ian Branson, V...
Shadows Within Shadows: How AI is Challenging IT Teams
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Adoption Zero Trust (AZT), host Neal Dennis and producer Elliot Volkman sit down with Bradon Rogers, Chief Customer Officer at Isla...
Live at ZTW2025: Cyberwire Daily’s Dave Bittner + Dr. Zero Trust
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Catch this episode on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or Amazon. You can read the show notes here. Live from ThreatLocker’s Zero Trust World (ZTW), cyberse...
Rapid fire update: Silk Typhoon and DOJ's indictment of twelve Chinese nationals
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New intelligence: Silk Typhoon, formerly tracked as HAFNIUM, is a China-based threat actor most recently observed targeting IT supply ch...
Predicting the year of cybersecurity ahead (minus regulations)
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s mid-February, but somehow, we’ve already been through what feels like a year's worth of change in the cybersecurity and regulation world. Bey...
Kicking Off Season 4 of Adoption Zero Trust (AZT)
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Catch this episode on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or Amazon. You can read the show notes here. Neal and I are excited to welcome you back to AZT as we ki...
The key to growing a cybersecurity career are soft skills
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of 'Adopting Zero Trust (AZT)', host Neal Dennis and producer Elliot Volkman delve into the often-overlooked realm of soft or 'non-tec...
Behind the scenes of cybersecurity media and reporting
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 15: We gather a panel of journalists, communications, and a researcher to discuss how cybersecurity news and incidents are reported....
GRC tool or spreadsheets, that is the question | GRC Uncensored Preview
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In our final preview episode of GRC Uncensored, we explore a particularly bipolar debate: do you need a GRC tool to manage compliance, or will spreads...
Podcast Preview: GRC Uncensored and the commoditization of compliance
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are interrupting our regularly scheduled podcast series to introduce you to a new series we developed: GRC Uncensored. This pilot season will eleva...
How to prepare your operations team for Zero Trust
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome back to Adopting Zero Trust! In this episode, hosts Elliot Volkman and Neal Dennis are joined by Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer of ThreatLoc...
Log4j Continues to act as Organizational Vulnerability
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 13: Cato Network’s Etay Maor provides fresh research on the abuse of unpatched log4j libraries. Catch this episode on YouTube, A...
Overturning of Chevron Deference’s Impact on Cybersecurity Regulation
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 12: Could the overturning of Chevron Deference impact cybersecurity and privacy regulations? Catch this episode on YouTube, Apple,...
Applying Vulnerability Management to Zero Trust
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 11: Vulnerability management is critical to any Zero Trust strategy, but you probably already know that. Fortra’s Tyler Reguly bre...
The Unstoppable Phish: A Discussion with Vivek Ramachandran
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 10: Elliot chat’s with Vivek Ramachandran of SquareX about his approach to tackling the impossible: Social engineering. Catch this...
Breaking Down the SMB Threat Landscape and The Value of MSPs with SonicWall
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 9: We chat with SonicWall’s Doug McKee about the top 5 threats targeting SMBs based on recent research. Catch this episode on You...
Decoding Emerging Threats: MITRE, OWASP, and Threat Intel
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 8: AZT and Dr. Zero Trust have a crossover episode where we chat with reps from MITRE and OWASP about challenges associated with eme...
Navigating the Ever-Changing Landscape of Cybersecurity Regulations With Lacework and Drata
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 7: Though regulation impacting cybersecurity moves slow, when new laws are introduced it often puts significant strain on companies....
Ransomware: To Pay or Not to Pay?
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 6: Two seasoned cybersecurity professionals, Bryan Willett and Kris Lovejoy, shed light on the dilemma organizations face when hit b...
Cyber Insurance: Sexy? No. Important? Critically yes.
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 5: Cyber Insurance may not be the sexiest topic, but it’s an important piece of any mature cyber program. We chatted with a lawyer...
The Current and Future State of Zero Trust With Forrester’s David Holmes
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 4: Forrester Principal Research Analyst on Zero Trust, David Holmes, shares his perspective on the current and future state of Zero ...
Canva's Kane Narraway on Building a Zero Trust MVP
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 3: Canva’s Head of Enterprise Security, Kane Narraway, discusses how to deploy a Zero Trust strategy in under a year. Catch this e...
AZT: Quit Bugging the CISO + CIO
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Season 3, Episode 2: In our conversation with Energy Solution’s CIO David Weisong we chat about how new processes, technology, and budgets are forme...
Hacker Valley Dishes on Breaking Into Cybersecurity
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To start the new season, we are joined by Hacker Valley Media’s Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran, who discuss breaking into cybersecurity and the role ...
From Hacktivist to White Hat Hacker. A Chat with LulzSec’s Sabu.
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catch this episode on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or Google. You can read the show notes here. PS, we're giving away a Flipper Zero on our ...
The Market For Enterprise (Secure) Browsers
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season two, episode 18: Evgeniy Kharam, a founder, CISO, architect, and podcast producer discusses the rise of Enterprise (Secure) browsers. You can r...
Beyond the Buzzword: Applicable use of AI in Cybersecurity
02 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Catch this episode on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, or Google. You can read the show notes here. The word AI, much like Zero Trust, has co...
AZT: Zack Butcher on Building Zero Trust Standards and Securing Microservices
19 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season two, episode 16: Zack Butcher discusses building upon NIST’s Zero Trust policies and standards, and ZT’s influence on a service mesh as it ...
AZT: API Security with John Kindervag, Chase Cunningham, and Richard Bird
31 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season two, episode 15: We talk ZT History and API security with the godfather of Zero Trust, Dr Zero Trust, and Richard Bird. Catch this episode on ...
Adopting Zero Trust: The Illusion of Passwordless
10 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The illusion of going passwordless with Derek Hanson, Vice President Solutions Architecture and Alliances at Yubico. You can read the show notes here....
Adopting Zero Trust: Philosophy of Prevention with iHeartMedia’s Janet Heins
27 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season two, episode 13: Cybersecurity prevention on a global scale with Janey Heins, Global CISO for iHeartMedia. At the heart of Zero Trust is the...
Adopting Zero Trust: Continuous Trust
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past two years, we’ve explored the ins and outs of Zero Trust, ranging from the concept as a strategy down to the more technical components...
Adopting Zero Trust: Nonfederated Apps
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Last episode, we brought to you a wild story of a victim who was SIM-swapped four times, and this week we’re back to basics with some fresh research...
Adopting Zero Trust: SIM Swapped
15 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Taking a break from our usual format, this week we chat with a victim-turned-CEO who was hit by SIM-swapping attacks. However, not all harsh starts ha...
Adopting Zero Trust with Bloomberg: Implemented
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Season two, episode nine: Featuring Bloomberg’s Head of Information Security Architecture and the Information Security Program, Phil Vachon. Catc...
Adopting Zero Trust with Bitwarden: The Mighty Password
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There’s no avoiding it, the headlines have not been kind to the ways we access systems today. Users are still using 1234, password, and even their d...
Adopting Zero Trust: Empathetic Leadership with Kyndryl’s Kris Lovejoy
27 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For many, cybersecurity is seen as a cost center that reduces risk to the business. This can be oversimplified to something akin to how HR reduces peo...
Adopting Zero Trust: Cybersecurity Innovation with Stanford Fellow AJ Grotto
13 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For more than a decade, Zero Trust as a concept has moved from a philosophy and now into a practical architecture and strategy that organizations can ...
AZT: The National Cybersecurity Strategy
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week on AZT, we chat about something timely and impactful to everyone in the cybersecurity and users impacted by related decisions: the new Natio...
Adopting Zero Trust: Open Source
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week Neal and I continue with our exploration of new formats, and this time we go one-on-one with the Founder and CEO of Netfoundry, Galeal Zino....
Adopting Zero Trust with Author George Finney: Approachable
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Zero Trust as a concept or strategy on the surface appears simple in nature. Heck, it’s only two words. However, when push comes to shove, and it’...
Adopting Zero Trust: Zero Knowledge Authority
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we have a two-for-one special and feature our newest panel-style format. On the practitioner side, we have crowd favorite Andrew Abel, who c...
Adopting Zero Trust With Ismael Valenzuela: Less Trust
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Ismael Valenzuela, VP of Threat Intel at Blackberry, a 13-year SANS instructor, and has balanced his time between educator and ...
Adopting Zero Trust: Season One is Wrapped
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the last episode of season one, where Neal and I go on a rambling adventure and look back on some of the interesting and eye-opening conver...
Adopting Zero Trust with Chase Cunningham: The Doctor is in
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Chase Cunningham, Doctor Zero Trust himself, about the decade-overnight success of Zero Trust, how he got involved with the con...
Adopting Zero Trust with Chris Reinhold: Pen Testing Zero Trust
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chatted with Chris Reinhold, Director of Innovation at Core BTS, a managed security service provider (MSSP) and IT consulting firm. We di...
Adopting Zero Trust with J. R. Cunningham: The Moat Has Dried Up
20 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with J. R. Cunningham, Chief Security Officer at Nuspire, and we dig into Zero Trust as a journey. Nuspire is a managed security ser...
Adopting Zero Trust With Maureen Rosado: Selling Zero Trust
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Maureen Rosado, a Zero Trust Strategist for BT, who has an outstanding history of business development for enterprise companies...
Adopting Zero Trust with Christine Owen: Searching For the Finish Line
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Christine Owen, Director at Guidehouse, and we dig into Zero Trust as an approach to harden your identity and access management...
Adopting Zero Trust with Lexmark’s Bryan Willett: Culture of Security
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Bryan Willett, Lexmark’s CISO, who has built a legacy over the past 25 years working for the global company. Starting from hi...
Adopting Zero Trust with Dom Glavach: Staffing Up
25 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Dom Glavach, Chief Security Officer (CSO) of CyberSN (Cyber Security Network) and a security consultant, and we dig into Zero T...
Adopting Zero Trust With Nicolas Chaillan: From Policy to DHS
11 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nicolas Chaillan is an Entrepreneur who became a US citizen about six years ago, and immediately joined the DHS where he became the chief architect an...
Adopting Zero Trust with Ryan Alford: IoT Secured
27 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Ryan Alford, Founder and CEO of Engineering Design Group (EDG), and we dig into how Zero Trust impacts the future of hardware, ...
Adopting Zero Trust With Andrew Abel: Translating Zero Trust Into Business Concepts
14 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week we chat with Andrew Abel, our defacto Zero Trust expert who is currently the EUC Cyber Security Strategy and Architecture Lead for an energy...
Adopting Zero Trust, Episode Zero: Let’s Make a Podcast
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Zero Trust is a fuzzy term with more than a dozen different definitions. Threat Analyst Neal Dennis and Cybersecurity Journalist Elliot Volkman...
Introducing Adopting Zero Trust
07 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today, Zero Trust is a fuzzy term with more than a dozen different definitions. We are on a mission to give a voice to cybersecurity practitioners and...