As the lead security advocate for KnowBe4, Javvad has had a cyber security career spanning over 20 years. A blogger, event speaker and industry commentator Javvad is best known as one of the industry’s most prolific video bloggers. Javvad describes how he has observed cybersecurity attacks evolve and converge over time from his personal perspective…

We're back for another season and we're delighted to welcome Itumeleng Makgati, Group Information Security Executive at Standard Bank Group, a leading bank in South Africa. With over two decades of experience in security and business consulting, Itumeleng is a leading voice in the security space, and has appeared on a number of top 100 CISO lists. …

This week, Ted Harrington, ethical hacker, entrepreneur, security consultant and author of the bestselling book, “Hackable”, joins us on the show. Ted and his team have helped hundreds of companies – including the likes of Google, Disney, Amazon, Netflix, and Qualcomm – discover and fix thousands of security vulnerabilities. He shares his learnings…

This week Tim Sadler welcomes Craig Goodwin, the co-founder of Cyvatar - the industry’s first member-based cybersecurity as-a-service provider. As the former CISO and Chief Trust & Risk Officer at Fujitsu, and former Global Chief Security Officer at CDK Global, Craig has first-hand experience of the pressures senior security leaders - and their tea…

Helen Patton, Advisory CISO at Cisco joins Tessian's Tim Sadler on the podcast this week to discuss the role of the CISO - now and in the years to come. She urges security leaders to remember that they “don’t operate in a vacuum" and provides tips on how security leaders can shift their mindsets to think ‘big’ and work cross-functionally. Helen als…

This week, Tim meets with Lola Obamehinti, founder of Nigerian Techie. With significant experience in developing and leading security and awareness programs at companies including eBay and TIAA, Lola explains why security awareness training is more important than ever. She provides top tips on how to get employees engaged in training and how to get…

How does Business Email Compromise work? Who is behind the attacks? And how do you get the money back? In this episode, Tim Sadler is joined by Andrew Frey, a Forensic Financial Analyst for the San Francisco Field Office of the U.S. Secret Service, working in the Cyber Fraud Task Force. As one of the most knowledgeable people in the US government o…

This week, Tessian CEO Tim Sadler welcomes Mike Privette who, by day, is the CISO at Passport - a transportation software and payments company that helps cities manage parking and mobility infrastructure. And by night and weekends, Mike is a venture capital advisor, investor and author of the Security, Funded newsletter. Mike's in a unique position…

This week, we are talking about getting hacked, as Tim Sadler is joined by Scott Schober, cybersecurity expert and CEO of wireless security tech firm, BVS. When Scott's small business got hacked for the second time, he knew he had to share his experience with other business owners to help them understand the threat landscape they are operating in. …

Tim's guest this week is Joe Nocera, the Cyber & Privacy Innovation Institute Leader at PwC. With a passion for understanding the technical challenges of cybersecurity and translating these into practical business solutions, Joe joins Tim to discuss the biggest challenges companies are coming to him to solve. They talk about why human error is the …

New year, new guests. And Tim's first guest of 2022 is the inspiring and brilliant Guy Podjarny, the co-founder and president of Snyk - the world’s first developer security platform that start-ups worldwide can build upon. Tim and Guy talk about what is driving the industry’s shift to a new developer-centric approach to security and the business va…

This week, Tessian's Tim Sadler is joined by Dave Cole, CEO and co-founder of Open Raven - a company whose mission is to reinvent data security for a modern era and put an end to data exposure. A well-known figure in the security industry, Dave has previously worked as the Chief Product Officer at Tenable Network Security, CrowdStrike and he also h…

This week, Tessian's Tim Sadler is joined by Leo Cunningham, CISO at Flo Health - one of the world’s most used women’s health apps on the market right now, with 200 million users across the world. They discuss how he and his team secure the sensitive data of millions of people who use the Flo Health app and also how the team educates the growing nu…

Did you know that nearly two-thirds of security leaders believe that employees will cause their next data breach? Two-thirds. That's pretty high. This is something that Jessica Burn, a senior analyst at Forrester, wants to discuss on this episode of the RE: Human Layer Security podcast. With Tim away this week, she meets with Tessian's Henry Trevel…

This week, Tim is joined by Jon Oberheide, the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duo Security - one of the most successful security start-ups the world has seen. Its mission was clear; democratize security by making it easy and effective. Since founding the company in 2009, the concept of zero trust becoming a market-recognized category wa…

This week, Tim welcomes Josh Yavor, Tessian’s Chief Information Security Officer and former security leader for Duo Security, Facebook and Cisco Secure. He shares why he believes the human factor is so important in cybersecurity, particularly when you consider the variety of attacks that people are faced with today - like social engineering and bus…

Did you know that organizations with a poor security culture demonstrate a 52-time higher risk of employees sharing account credentials? This week, Tim Sadler welcomes Kai Roer to the show - a renowned Security Culture Researcher with over 25 years of experience in cybersecurity and the recently appointed Chief Research Officer at KnowBe4. He defin…

In this episode, Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler speaks to Ben Aung, Chief Risk Officer at SAGE. He shares his perspective on human layer risks like insider threats and human error, drawing on his experiences in his role at SAGE and also from his time as a deputy government Chief Security officer in the UK government. Looking for even more Human Layer Sec…

If there's one piece of advice Confidence Staveley would give you when it comes to cybersecurity? "Stop and think," she says. Doing something out of fear can never be a good thing - and that's what the cybercriminals are counting on. The cybersecurity awareness evangelist, entrepreneur, and recently crowned Cybersecurity Woman of the Year 2021, joi…

Lena Smart is the kind of CISO every organization needs. In 2019, she became MongoDB's first CISO - her third chief security position - and, since joining, she has implemented programs that have transformed the company's security posture and culture. In a conversation with Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler, she reveals how and why launching a security champ…

A warm welcome to Debbie Reynolds - aka The Data Diva - who discusses one of the biggest challenges IT and security teams face today... data loss prevention. She and Tim dive into the issues surrounding hybrid work, the rise of ransomware, and employee error, and explore how they impact and influence organizations' data protection and privacy strat…

Bobby Ford, CSO at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and former CISO at Unilever joins Tessian's CEO this week to share his stories from the world of corporate security, his learnings from his time in the U.S. Army as an Information Security Analyst and his philosophy on cybersecurity today. Security leaders, he says, cannot be the captains of the "no" po…

Want to hear from a former CIA hacker, cybersecurity commissioner to the Obama administration, and advisor to clients including the Obama family, Bill Gates, and a number of Fortune 500 companies? Then this is the episode for you. This week, Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler welcomes Dr Eric Cole to the show to discuss some of the biggest security challenge…

At the time of recording, Tracy Z. Maleeff was an Information Security Analyst at the New York Times. She is now employed by the Krebs Stamos Group. On the RE:Human Layer Security podcast this week, Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler is joined by the brilliant Tracy Z. Maleeff - or Infosec Sherpa, as you may know her on Twitter. Tracy explains how she got in…

Nuno Teodoro, the Cyber Security Officer of Huawei joins Tim Sadler this week to talk about trust, zero-trust and FUD in cybersecurity, at a time when questions around trust and Huawei dominate the news. Nuno also shares his opinions on the role that humans play in cybersecurity and the steps he and his team take to make security every employees' r…

Kicking off the new season of the RE:Human Layer Security podcast, we are delighted to welcome James McQuiggan, Security Awareness Advocate at KnowBe4. James speaks to Tim Sadler, CEO at Tessian about a new school approach to security education and awareness, the rise of ransomware and why phishing training should lead with the carrot, not the stic…

With Tim away this week, Tessian's co-founder Ed Bishop steps in to explain why people continue to fall for phishing scams, particularly during a global pandemic. He speaks to Dave Kennedy, founder of TrustedSec and Jeff Hancock, Stanford University professor and expert in trust and deception online, to understand the psychology behind phishing and…

How do you change the cybersecurity behaviours of thousands of employees at enterprise-scale? Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler speaks to Simon Hodgkinson, the former CISO at BP to find out. With over 35 years experience in the IT and security field, Simon shares his opinions on why security must be a seamless experience for employees if it's going to work,…

A recent Tessian report revealed that male graduates were almost twice as likely to consider a career in cybersecurity than female grads, despite it being an industry for considerable growth opportunities for women. Why? And how can we change their perception of cyber? As an incredibly successful female CISO, Anne Benigsen, CISO at Bankers' Bank of…

It's interesting how many three-year plans include a lot of “blinky boxes” and “very few tactical objectives other than keep doing phishing tests" to protect humans in the organization, says Anne Benigsen, CISO at Bankers’ Bank of the West in her conversation with Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler this week. Anne and Tim discuss how companies can use techno…

Building a security culture, and getting employees to care about security, is not easy. So, this week, Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler meets the very inspiring Ray Espinoza, CISO at Cobalt - the Pentest-as-a-Service platform that is modernizing the traditional, static penetration testing model - to explain how you can build your security "tribe". Ray disc…

This week, Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler is joined by Dan Raywood, journalist and former deputy editor of Infosecurity Magazine. Looking back over the past 12 months, Dan and Tim talk about resilience and how recent events have changed cybersecurity, from SolarWinds to Covid-19 - to which Dan poses the question, "Has anything actually really changed?!" …

How do you enhance productivity without compromising security? This week, Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler speaks to Jerry Perullo, the CISO at the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) about why businesses need to work with users, use the data, and give employees the tools to protect themselves and make cybersecurity decisions. He and Tim talk about ICE's own s…

Hacking humans is easy. Hacking software is not. And that's why hacking humans is still the easiest way to hack into organizations today and why social engineering type attacks are continually rising. But how do hackers hack humans? Tim Sadler speaks to Craig Hays, an ethical hacker, to find out . They discuss how attackers select their targets, le…

What makes your organization tick? What does it love and what does it hate? Where do your employees 'hang out' and share information? Are your employees happy? These are the things that social engineers are looking to find out. These are things that help hackers hack humans to hack organizations - and they're getting pretty good at it. World-renown…

The dictionary defines ‘cybersecurity' as “measures taken to protect a computer or computer system against unauthorized access or attack." There is no mention of people or humans. Tessian's CEO Tim Sadler speaks to Bruce Hallas - an advocate, trainer and consultant in information security awareness, behavior and culture - about why this needs to ch…

The cybersecurity industry has relied on the concept of fear, uncertainty and doubt for years. It even has its own acronym - FUD. But is fear really the way to encourage people to make smarter cybersecurity decisions? Or does scaremongering actually has an adverse effect? Tim Sadler speaks to Dr Karen Renaud, Professor at Abertay University and Dr …

There's a common misconception that people are the weakest link when it comes to cybersecurity. Tim Fitzgerald, CISO at ARM and former CSO at Symantec, believes this way of thinking underserves people’s intent. In his conversation with Tim, he explains that people are just trying get their jobs but sometimes mistakes happen - and this is a problem …

Think we'll be going back to old ways of working post-pandemic? Think again, says Stephane Kasriel, former CEO of freelancing website Upwork. He speaks to Tim about why he believes remote work is a win-all situation for employers, employees and society. He explains how to overcome challenges and reveals the top things your business should consider …

If you separate the culture from the strategy, nine times out of 10, you aren't going to achieve your business' goal. Why? Because the execution is going to be flawed. It's been a year like no other and one question that comes up time and time again is how do you keep your teams and employees motivated when times are tough? Tim speaks to Howard Sch…