Business Security Weekly
Hosted by Matt Alderman & Jason Albuquerque & Ben Carr
Security leadership as a business discipline: boards, budgets, people and the security market.
- Level
- Practitioner, assumes you work in or study security
- Status
- Active, last episode
- Who's behind it
- Media outlet, CyberRisk Alliance sourcePart of the Security Weekly network; conference episodes feature sponsor interviews.
- Last verified
Listed underCISO and leadership
Editorial take
The Security Weekly network's show for security leaders who report to a board. Each hour-long weekly episode pairs a leadership interview with recurring segments: "Security Money" tracks the network's index of public security stocks, and "Say Easy, Do Hard" takes one hard management problem (burnout, crypto-agility, team performance) and works it through. The best episodes on board communication and risk metrics are worth more than most leadership books. The limitation is the sponsorship model: conference season brings stacked vendor interviews from RSAC and Black Hat, and some guest segments are clearly tied to sponsors. A student will get the business vocabulary of security leadership here, not technical skills.
Last hand-checked 2026-09-30.
Listen if you …
- are a CISO, security manager or aspiring one who has to speak budget and board
- want a running read on the security market, funding and M&A
- are a student who wants to understand how security leaders are judged by the business
Skip if you …
- you want technical depth, this is management and market talk
- vendor interviews bother you, RSAC and Black Hat weeks are full of them
Start with these 3 episodes
- 01
· 57 min · Practitioner
Turning security metrics into board language; the core skill the show keeps returning to.
- 02
· 54 min · Practitioner
Representative of the recurring Security Money segment, paired with a guest on AI investment cycles.
- 03
Say Easy, Do Hard - Crypto-Agility - BSW #440
· 52 min · Practitioner
The Say Easy, Do Hard format applied to post-quantum migration planning; a full episode on one hard problem.
About the show
Business Security Weekly is part of the Security Weekly podcast network, owned by CyberRisk Alliance, which also publishes SC Media. It is hosted by Matt Alderman, with co-hosts Jason Albuquerque and Ben Carr listed in the feed.
The show launched in July 2016 as Startup Security Weekly and later took its current name; the feed carries more than 480 episodes. Episodes run 50 to 70 minutes and combine a featured guest, leadership and management segments, and a security market segment.
Notable guests
- John Willis
- Sandy Carielli
- Joseph Blankenship
- Andrew Rubin
- Christy Wyatt
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