If you lead security
For CISOs, security managers and anyone being promoted into the job. A daily headline brief, one weekly news analysis, then the shows where practising CISOs argue about budgets, boards, hiring and vendor selection.
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Daily headlines
Three headlines in seven or eight minutes, from the same team as the CISO Series. The Friday episode is a live discussion with security leaders.
Cybersecurity Headlines
Rich Stroffolino · Sarah Lane · Steve Prentice
Three security stories in about seven minutes, every weekday, plus a Friday live discussion with CISOs.
Listen if you want the day's security news in under ten minutes.
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One weekly analysis
The week's news with opinions attached. Patrick Gray says which stories matter and why.
Risky Business
PickPatrick Gray
Weekly news + analysis show for working security professionals.
Listen if you you work in security and need a weekly news synthesis.
panelweekly60m+ - 03
CISOs disagreeing on the record
A host, a co-host CISO and a guest CISO react to community posts on hiring, board reporting and vendor pitches. About a third of 2026 episodes have a sponsored guest.
CISO Series Podcast
David Spark · Andy Ellis · Mike Johnson
Weekly CISO roundtable built on community posts, quick verdicts and a running joke in every title.
Listen if you are a security leader or aspire to be one and want to hear peers disagree.
panelweekly30–60m - 04
One question per episode
Each 30-minute episode takes one debate from a practitioner post and works it through. Quick to pick from by title.
Defense in Depth
David Spark · Steve Zalewski · Geoff Belknap · Edward Contreras
One contested security question per week, argued by a CISO co-host and a guest in about 30 minutes.
Listen if you want one security leadership question argued properly in 30 minutes.
panelweekly30–60m - 05
The craft of the job
Episodes structured like lessons on budgets, templates and leadership, plus interviews with practitioners and authors. Good preparation for a first management role.
CISO Tradecraft
G Mark Hardy · Ross Young
A weekly career course for security people who want to lead, structured like lessons rather than banter.
Listen if you are a senior engineer or manager working toward a security leadership role.
mixedweekly30–60m - 06
Breach lessons from leaders
Leaders who were in the room during big incidents tell the story. It publishes irregularly, so subscribe and let it surprise you.
Dark Reading Confidential
Becky Bracken
Monthly-ish first-person stories from people who were in the room: pen testers, CISOs, threat hunters.
Listen if you learn best from first-person accounts of incidents and investigations.
interviewmonthly30–60m - 07
Strategy, AppSec and policy
Interviews on software supply chain, vulnerability management and AI agent security, with a host who pushes guests for data.
Resilient Cyber
Chris Hughes
Supply chain, vulnerability management and AI agent security, from a practitioner who writes the books on them.
Listen if you work in AppSec, product security or vulnerability management and want the current debates.
interviewweekly30–60m