Podcasts for CISOs and security leaders
Podcasts for CISOs, security managers and aspiring leaders: budgets, boards, hiring, vendor selection and the trade-offs that never make it into a framework.
Leadership shows are mostly conversation, so the host's judgment is the product. These are the ones where practising CISOs disagree with each other on the record.
17 shows, grouped by level. Each review lists three episodes to start with.
Beginner
Breaking Into Cybersecurity
Christophe Foulon · Renee Small
Short career-transition interviews: how real people got their first security job, step by step.
Listen if you are changing careers into security and want stories from people with your background.
interviewirregular30–60mCybersecurity 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.
mixeddaily<30mSecurity Unfiltered
Joe South
Career-first conversations with hackers, CISOs, and ex-intelligence officers, aimed at people getting into security.
Listen if you are trying to break into security and want honest career talk.
interviewbiweekly30–60m
Practitioner
Identity at the Center
PickJeff Steadman · Jim McDonald
The trade podcast for identity and access management practitioners.
Listen if you you work in workforce IAM, IGA, or PAM.
panelweekly30–60mAI Security Podcast
Ashish Rajan · Caleb Sima
Two former CISOs separate real AI security risk from vendor noise, for the people who have to sign off on it.
Listen if you are a CISO or security architect being asked to approve AI agents and copilots.
mixedbiweekly30–60mBusiness Security Weekly
Matt Alderman · Jason Albuquerque · Ben Carr
Security leadership as a business discipline: boards, budgets, people and the security market.
Listen if you are a CISO, security manager or aspiring one who has to speak budget and board.
mixedweekly30–60mCISO 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.
panelweekly30–60mCISO 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.
mixedweekly30–60mCISSP Cyber Training Podcast
Shon Gerber
Weekly CISSP domain lessons and practice questions, each tied to a real incident from the news.
Listen if you are studying for the CISSP and want domain-by-domain audio review.
soloweekly30–60mCloud Security Podcast by Google
Anton Chuvakin · Timothy Peacock
293 episodes of Google's cloud, SOC, and SIEM thinking, with Mandiant breach lessons. Ended August 2026; the archive holds up.
Listen if you run or are building a SOC and want sharp takes on SIEM, detection engineering, and AI in the SOC.
interviewcompleted30–60mCloud Security Today
Matthew Chiodi
Monthly-ish conversations on the how of cloud security and cyber leadership, hosted by the former Unit 42 cloud threat lead.
Listen if you lead or aspire to lead a cloud security program and want strategy more than tooling.
interviewirregular30–60mDark 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.
interviewmonthly30–60mDefense 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.
panelweekly30–60mHacker Valley Studio
Ron Eddings
Upbeat 30-minute conversations about security careers, people and, lately, AI agents.
Listen if you are new to security and want relatable career stories with energy.
interviewweekly30–60mResilient 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.
interviewweekly30–60mRisk Grustlers
Nicholas Muy
Scrut's interview show where security and GRC leaders argue about what compliance is actually for.
Listen if you work in GRC or compliance and want sharper thinking than audit checklists.
interviewirregular30–60mThreat Vector by Palo Alto Networks
David Moulton
Unit 42 incident responders and threat researchers explain what they saw on real engagements, in 35 minutes a week.
Listen if you want breach lessons from people who answer the incident response call.
interviewweekly30–60m