The Cyber Ranch Podcast

That's All, Folks, and THANK YOU!

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every trail ride ends at the, well, end of the trail. This is the end of the trail for The Cyber Ranch Podcast. Drew and Allan offer final parting tho...

Why We Need To Rethink All of It

01 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast.  Today we tackle WHY?  Why do we have this show?  Why do we ask the questions we ask and h...

Narrative Intelligence with Joe Stradinger

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We have all had a vague sense that our world is being manipulated, informed and fed by various conscious manipulation tactics - influence on political...

CISO vs. CTO with Jon Green

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  That’s Jon Green, an experienced CISO but also an experienced CTO.  Jon is currently the ...

Industry Introspective with Thomas Krane

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Thomas Krane, Managing Director at Insight Partners.  If you go to Thomas’ L...

Hybrid Identity Protection - Amazing Interviews with Many Guests

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Allan attended the HIP Global conference in New Orleans, which happens to be Allan's favorite city in America. The conference was outstandin...

Practical GenAI and LLM with Tim Rohrbaugh

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode Allan and Drew consult Tim Rohrbaugh, who has done quite a lot of research and work on the practical applications, deployment, use cas...

Cyber Civics and Voting with Kirsten Davies - SPECIAL EDITION!

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y'all!  With American presidential elections already under way, Allan and Drew decided that scrambling to get Kirsten Davies on the show for t...

Social Media & Community Engagement with Technically__Rose

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest today is Babbette Jackson, aka Technically__Rose of YouTube and Instagram fame! Babbette is in DLP and Insider threat analysis.  She has wo...

You Don't Own "You", and "You" Are Being Altered with Sam Rad

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Who and what you are, your personality, your style, your thoughts...  That’s all about to change.  For one thing you are already a product on “f...

A Cybersecurity Program to Emulate? A Powerful Formula with Jason Shockey

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Shockey, CISO of Cenlar FSB, and 25 year veteran of cybersecurity, has a formula for running an excellent cybersecurity program. He studied a gr...

Cyber and Social Media as Warfare with Dave Schroeder

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Cyber as precursor to kinetic warfare?  What about cyber AS warfare?  And social media infiltration and propaganda?  Join Allan and Drew as they in...

The Case for Regulation with Tim Brown

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest today is Tim Brown.  If you don’t’ know who Tim Brown is, he is the CISO at S...

You're Hiring Wrong! with 3 Guests New to the Industry

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What can we established cybersecurity practitioners ACTUALLY do to help those new in the field besides blathering back and forth about the problem in ...

Data-Driven Cybersecurity with Wade Baker

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all!  Our guest today is Wade Baker, cybersecurity researcher, entrepreneur, professor…  Wade is a Board of Directors member of the FAI...

Successful Clarity & Successful Communication with Michael Santarcangelo

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Michael Santarcangelo, Founder and President at Security Catalyst.  He’s a f...

What Is In Your Commercial Software? with Sasa Zdjelar

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Your organization runs on commercial software far more than it does open source.  But all you are delivered is binaries.  What is your technical con...

People, Process & Technology: Technology with Ross Young

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is our third and final episode of this miniseries.  In this episode we are joined by Ross Young, a well-established member of the cybersecurity ...

People, Process & Technology: Process with Malcolm Harkins

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y'all!  In part two of our three-part miniseries, we tackle Process with Malcolm Harkins.  Malcolm is former CISO at Intel, a good friend of ...

No Show This Week - Black Hat 2024 Is Afoot!

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Thanks for listening, y'all!  Our next show is all about Process (we already did a show on People) and after that comes Technology. Y'all be good now...

People, Process & Technology: People with Jeremiah Roe

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jeremiah Roe has held many roles in cybersecurity:  Field CISO, Red Teamer, Advisor, Consultant, Etc.  He currently advises for OffSec, who provide ...

Practical Security Architecture with SABSA with Andrew Townley

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Drew and Allan were skeptical about SABSA, as it is a model one CISO friend described as being "only good for a graduate student writing a paper!"  A...

Corporate Social Responsibility - The New Model for Cyber? w/ Drew Simonis

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Hang on to your saddle for this one!  Drew Simonis joins Allan as his new co-host in a show where the two of them explore alternative models for sell...

Managing Threats Throughout the SDLC with Tomer Schwartz

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest toda is Tomer Schwartz, co-founder and CTO over at Dazz  Yup!  He’s a vendor! ...

Measuring Leadership (And Followership!)

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

If leadership exists in good and bad forms, so must followership. Leadership can exist both by designation, and dynamically, as manifested by folks wh...

There Is No Such Thing As Security with Nathan Case

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Nathan Case, who is a previous guest from a multi-guest show.  Nate has been a...

21 Questions LIVE! at RSAC 2024 - 3 of 3

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this show, Allan interviews seven guests and asks them questions from a list of 21: Omkhar Arasaratnam “How do we leverage LLMs for our own use i...

21 Questions LIVE! at RSAC 2024 - 2 of 3

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this show, Allan interviews seven guests and asks them questions from a list of 21:   Chris "Cpat" Patteson “Why do so many CISOs think cybersec...

21 Questions LIVE! at RSAC 2024 - 1 of 3

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this show, Allan interviews nine guests and asks them questions from a list of 21:   Dr. Deanna Caputo “How do you measure and articulate risk t...

The Positives of Cybersecurity LIVE! at CISO XC with Dani Woolf and Guests

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast… AND The Audience 1st Podcast!  What you are about to hear was recorded LIVE! at the CISO XC...

The Negatives of Cybersecurity LIVE! at CISO XC with Dani Woolf and Guests

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast… AND The Audience 1st Podcast!  What you are about to hear was recorded LIVE! at the CISO XC...

When It's Good To Deprioritize Security with Drew Simonis

16 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  That’s Drew Simonis, CISO @ Juniper Networks, former CSO @ Hewlett Packard Enterprise, for...

Driving Business Growth with Ankur Ahuja

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest today is Ankur Ahuja, 2x CISO, Ted-X Speaker, Startup Investor, Board Advisor, etc...

Properly Prioritizing Cybersecurity with Melanie Ensign

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Melanie Ensign is a communications strategist and corporate anthropologist for cybersecurity, privacy, and risk organizations.  She is founder and CE...

Selling The Mission

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Allan tackles the idea of selling the CISO mission. He deconstructs the types of CISOs and the "selling" they must do.  Sometimes yo...

SecDataOps with Jonathan Rau

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our guest this week is Jonathan Rau, VP and Distinguished Engineer over at Query, and a proponent of what he calls "SecDataOps".  Jonathan is quite a...

Neurodiversity and Women in Cyber with 3 Guests

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This is part two in our neurodiversity series.  Our guest roster this time also includes Dr. Ursula Alford, a psychologist who routinely works with t...

CISO Communications with Geoff Hancock

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Geoff Hancock is Deputy CEO and CISO for Access Point Consulting, Former Global Director and CISO over at World Wide Technology.  He’s also a Senio...

What Does Zero Trust Mean to You? with 12 Guests

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Join Allan LIVE! at Zero Trust World in Orlando as he asks 12 guests "What does Zero Trust Mean to You?" and a wide variety of other questions. Confer...

The 4 Horsemen & Zero Trust with Dr. Chase Cunningham

13 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does cybersecurity relate to the four horsemen of the apocalypse?  Famine, Pestilence, War, and Death?  In this episode, Dr. Chase Cunningham, r...

Incident Response Done Right with James Keeler

06 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y'all!  Allan went down to Orlando, Florida and recorded three LIVE! shows at Zero Trust World, a conference sponsored by ThreatLocker.  This...

Neurodiversity in Cybersecurity with 3 Guests!

28 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week Allan is joined by Leigh Honeywell (CEO of Tall Poppy) Nathan Case (Federal CISO at Snyk), and Ryan Macababbad (Currently looking.  HIRE HE...

Below-the-OS Security with Yuriy Bulygin

21 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Fun fact:  There are more vulnerabilities and exploits below the OS layer than above it! CPUs, BIOS, Firmware, embedded Linux, FPGAs, UEFI, PXE...  ...

Ownership of Risk and Accountability

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Allan flies solo, as he is finally willing to speak on an issue he has been mulling and fussing over for some time:  the two-fold CI...

Get That Seat at the Table! with Jim McConnell

07 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We declared a while back that 'not having a seat at the table' was a tired CISO topic.  So we decided to solution the complaint. Hopefully we pulled ...

Getting a NACD Directorship Certification with Pat Benoit

31 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pat Benoit, CISO at Brinks, returns to the 'Ranch to visit Allan and to chat about his newest achievement - Pat got a NACD Directorship Certification!...

Integrating with the Business with Ayman Elsawah

24 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Ayman Elsawah, who, like Allan these days, is a fractional CISO and founder of ...

Leadership Conflicts with Tom LeDuc

17 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This one was recorded LIVE! in Podcast Alley at the CyberMarketingCon 2023 put on by the Cybersecurity Marketing Society in Austin, Texas.   Marketin...

Alternative CISO Lifestyles with Andrew Wilder

10 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y'all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Andrew Wilder, Retained CISO at Community Veterinary Partners, Member of the Boar...

A Zero Trust Case Study with John Checco

03 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast! Our guest this week is John Checco, aka "Checco", who is overdue for being on the show we free...

The SaaS Attacks Matrix with Luke Jennings

20 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Luke Jennings, VP of Research & Development at Push Security, former Chief ...

Identity as the Perimeter with Adam Bateman

13 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Adam Bateman, CEO and Co-Founder at Push Security, based in the UK.  Another o...

CSF 1.1 and 2.0 with Geoff Hancock

06 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest is Geoff Hancock, Deputy CEO and CISO for Access Point Consulting, Former Global D...

SPECIAL EDITION! Charity, Community, Collaboration @ CISO XC w/ 3 CISOs

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this SPECIAL EDITION! Allan interviews the 3 CISOs who created the CISO XC series of conferences: Cecil Pineda Jaimin Shah Randy Potts CISO XC is ...

12 Questions for 12 Guests LIVE! at CISO XC

29 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Allan takes the show on the road again, this time at his all-time favorite conference: CISO XC! He asks a unique question of each guest, who represent...

American Thanksgiving Holiday

22 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y'all!  Allan is taking this week off to spend time with family and to give thanks for all the wonderful things in his life - including y'all!...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month CALL TO ACTION - The Conclusion!

15 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Warning, there might be some naughty language in this one! The challenge was issued!!!! Allan teamed up with TWO other podcasts to take on the insuffe...

SEC/SolarWinds Legal Analysis w/ Evan Wolff

08 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Our guest today is Evan Wolff, partner at Crowell & Moring, and Allan's favorite cyber a...

Defining Budgets with Tim Rohrbaugh

01 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  That’s Tim Rohrbaugh, Founder/Principal at DefaultDenySec, former CISO for JetBlue Airways...

The New SEC Regulations with Jack Powell

25 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  We're joined today by Jacqueline (AKA “Jack”) Powell, CISO at Allianz Life and former De...

Building Excellent Teams w/ Kymberlee Price

18 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  That’s Kymberlee Price, strategic security consultant, Black Hat content review board memb...

Bad Behaviors: A Better Way LIVE! with Chris Tillett

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Tillett is a well-known figure in our industry.  He is in product management and R&D at Palo Alto Networks.  He is also a great guy, funny...

Permissions Management w/ Ron Nissim

27 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast!  Joining Allan this week is Ron Nissim, CEO @ Entitle.  Yes, this is one of our rare shows w...

The Cybersecurity Efficacy Gap w/ AJ Grotto

20 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Allan is joined by AJ Grotto: William J. Perry International Security Fellow and Founding Director of the Program on Geopolitics, Technology and Gover...

Cybersecurity Awareness Month CALL TO ACTION - The Podcast Trifecta!

13 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Warning: Some naughty language in this show, but well placed naughty language! Challenge issued!!!! Allan has teamed up with TWO other podcasts to tak...

Protecting Small Organizations w/ Georges Merchak

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nearly 43% of cyber-attacks are on small businesses. 82% of ransomware attacks were targeted at companies with less than 1000 employees. 61% of SMBs w...

Nowhere to Hide w/ Chris Roberts

30 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

You know you're being watched, right? Imagine for some reason you needed to bury a treasure where nobody would ever find it.  In today's society, how...

Cybersecurity in Popular Culture w/ George Finney LIVE!

23 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this LIVE! show at Black Hat, Allan and his friend George Finney (recurring guest, CISO @ SMU, multi-times author and CEO of Well Aware Security) d...

Allan Interviews EVERYONE at Black Hat

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Did you miss Black Hat this year?  Well you won't miss the great conversations that were had, as Allan captured so many good ones for this special Bl...

Allan is at Black Hat

09 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A brief thank you to our listeners and a request for feedback on the show. We'll catch y'all next week!

The Open Source Security Foundation with Omkhar Arasaratnam

02 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The OpenSSF is doing invaulable work for the cybersecurity community.  And their new managing director happens to be Omkhar Arasaratnam, whose appear...

Cloud Security Remediation w/ Tunde Oni-Daniel

26 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Cloud security remediation can be a daunting task that impacts Dev, Sec and Ops teams all.  And it can be a huge, manual, pain in the...  You get th...

Things We Believe But Cannot Prove w/ Drew Simonis

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Allan and Drew tackle and interesting subject that was suggested by Drew and that Allan posted for the LinkedIn community to gather a...

Board Reporting with Kate Kuehn

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kate is a legend in our industry, is a multiple times board member herself as well as having reported to boards in a wide variety of roles.  She is c...

Allan Answers LinkedIn Questions

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Allan flies solo and tackles a variety of questions that came in from LinkedIn - including his origin story. Allan tackles the following que...

The Real Implications of Contemporary Exploits with Anne Marie Zettlemoyer

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The MOVEit breach has been top of mind, especially with Solar Winds and Colonial Pipeline and log4j and all the others having been so recent.  It is ...

Zero Trust & DSPM with Claude Mandy - SPECIAL LIVE EDITION

22 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode was recorded LIVE at the 2023 Symmetry Systems Unconference on Zero Trust, adjunct to RSAC 2023. Allan is joined by his friend Claude Man...

Money with Nick Vigier

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Money is the hardest thing for a CISO to acquire.  As with last week's show on Time, Money has to be spent wisely as well.  Perhaps the tricks to sp...

Time w/ Paul Robinson

14 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Time is one of our most precious commodities as security practitioners.  And yet we have traditional time sinkholes where we waste time, lose time, a...

FedRAMP, StateRAMP, TX-RAMP with Jay Adams

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Allan and his guest Jay Adams, CISO @ Enchoice and former security architect for several large private and public sector efforts - from M&A activ...

RSAC 2023 Special Edition Campfire Chats - Part 2

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is Part 1 of an incredible series of interviews Allan conducted live at RSA 2023.  Guests include: Gary Hayslip, CISO @ Softbank Investment Advi...

1% Leadership with Andy Ellis

31 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week's show is exciting because Allan has been waiting for Andy's book on leadership to come out for quite some time.  The book is called “1% ...

Will LLM AI Close The Bad Guys’ Skills Gap? with Adrian Sanabria

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a bit scary.  Adrian Sanabria, who on an earlier show busted many cybersecurity myths, is back again, this time analyzing the impact ...

RSAC 2023 SPECIAL EDITION Campfire Chats - Part 1

22 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This is Part 1 of an incredible series of interviews Allan conducted live at RSA 2023.  Guests include: Chris Kennedy, CISO @ Citadel Gary Hayslip, C...

Two Founder CEOs with Merav Bahat and Mickey Bresman

17 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Leadership skills, technical skills, cybersecurity skills, pluck, drive and determination are all on display as Allan interviews Merav Bahat, CEO @ Da...

Security Chaos Engineering with Kelly Shortridge

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is security chaos engineering?  You may remember Kelly Shortridge, our very first guest, who came on the show to talk about behavioral economics...

The 9-Layer Cybersecurity Program Cake with Bryan Liebert

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bryan Liebert is one smart cookie.  Who bakes cybersecurity cakes.  But seriously, Bryan has been a CISO, consultant, architect, and has served many...

Four Problems with Cybersecurity with Adrian Wright

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adrian Wright, "The Cynical CISO" of LinkedIn fame, joins Allan to discuss four areas where cybersecurity is perhaps getting it wrong: Cybersecurity v...

The Cloud and the Big Bang of Data with Cecil Pineda and Gene Moore

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join us for a SPECIAL EDITON! episode of The Cyber Ranch Podcast LIVE! from CISO XC in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas! The topic is data security: its chall...

The Blurring of Personal & Corporate Security with Leigh Honeywell

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We always think of cybersecurity startups as companies who contribute to the tech stack in an organizational environment - usually the enterprise.  W...

Design Partnerships with Emily Heath

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Emily Heath is a well-known and well-respected figure in cybersecurity.  She has been a CISO three times in a variety of industries, including softwa...

All About Advisory Boards with Karla Reffold

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This week Allan is joined by Karla Reffold, COO at Orpheus Cyber.  Yes, that makes her a vendor, but, yes, she follow's the show's rules:  She is a ...

CISO vs. Individual Contributor Perspectives w/ William Klusovsky

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Becoming a CISO means changing a lot of perspectives.  Individual contributors need to learn this, and the CISO is the best one to teach them.  "The...

How to Trust Your Vendors - A Scary Case Study with Paul Moreno

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is a story about an entire vendor encounter gone horribly wrong.  Allan is joined by Paul Moreno, VP of InfoSec at Catawii, formerly SVP...

Tech Teams, GRC Teams, and the CISO with Dr. Mike Brass

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Allan and Dr. Mike Brass (whose degree is in archaeology!) as they jointly explore the technical side of the house vs. the GRC side of the house,...

How Do We Embrace Imperfection with Robin Sundaram

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We have this idea that we can be perfect.  And we know that idea is unsound.  So we settle for imperfection.  But are we doing that purposefully? ...

Technical Case vs. Business Case with Omkhar Arasaratnam

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Allan is joined by Omkhar Arasaratnam, a force in the industry and an expert in the intersection of software and security (you may re...

The Implications of ChatGPT and AI with Shaun Marion and ChatGPT

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Allan, Shaun Marion (CISO of McDonald's) and ChatGPT itself for a lively conversation about the implications of this new tool, AI in general, and...

Breach Communications with Heather Noggle

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How important are communications after your company has been breached?  They can make or break customer perception, and the perception of the world. ...

BISO Bonanza with Ann Hines, James Binford and Matt Winkeler

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you want to be a CISO one day?  Are you a CISO today who wants to strengthen your ties into the rest of the business?  The Business Information S...