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Cyber leadership, translated into working decisions.
CISO Tradecraft® is a brisk, interview-led cybersecurity show aimed at leaders trying to make operational sense of fast-moving security change. Recent episodes work through AI readiness, agent identity, SOC performance, social engineering, vendor marketing, vibe coding, and stress in the field.
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CISO Tradecraft® is an interview-driven cybersecurity show for people working near the executive edge of security. It is brisk, practical, and comfortable moving between strategy and implementation. The show often begins with a clear workplace problem, then uses guests and co-hosts to turn that problem into operational detail. Recent episodes are strongly shaped by AI. AI readiness, agent security, AI SOCs, vibe coding, and AI-powered social engineering all appear as live concerns rather than distant trends. The discussion around agent identity is especially concrete, treating autonomous systems as entities that may need temporary access, governance, and control at machine speed. The show also asks what happens when software itself changes. Episodes on vibe coding and the possible decline of traditional SaaS frame security as something that has to keep up with faster creation cycles and new developer behavior. That makes the developer workstation, generated code, and product-building workflows part of the threat surface. The fraud conversations are similarly grounded. AI is presented as a force multiplier for social engineering, not just a novelty or productivity tool. CISO Tradecraft® also keeps one foot in the business of security. RSAC reflections cover the gap between vendor claims and buyer trust, with attention to how people shape executive purchasing decisions. Data-centric security episodes push against tool sprawl and argue for protecting the information attackers actually want. The show is not only about attacks and controls. It also makes room for stress, burnout, and the human cost of cybersecurity work. Those conversations give the leadership material more weight, because the show treats resilience as part of the job rather than an inspirational aside. Its best moments come when a familiar security phrase gets pulled apart through examples: SOC alerts, false positives, ransomware leverage, platform engineering, service accounts, or marketing calls that never reach the real validators. The format is not polished keynote material. It feels more like a working room where experienced people compare notes, make analogies, and keep refining the point until it is usable. That makes it well suited to CISOs, security managers, senior practitioners, founders, and technical sellers who need to understand both the technology and the organizational consequences.
Made for: Built for CISOs, security leaders, senior practitioners, and cyber founders who need practical context on AI-era security shifts. It also suits technical sellers and product leaders trying to understand how security buyers think.
What sets it apart: The show combines executive-level framing with detailed operational examples, so topics like agent identity, SOC automation, and data protection stay connected to real decisions. Its conversational format lets guests carry technical depth without turning the episode into a lecture.
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Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
G. Mark Hardy connects cybersecurity mechanics with the communication, purchasing, governance, and leadership decisions surrounding them.
CISO Tradecraft follows G. Mark Hardy into the decisions that turn cybersecurity knowledge into executive judgment. Guest conversations connect technical questions to organizational consequences, moving from vulnerabilities and exploitation to AI readiness, agent identities, and…
CISO Tradecraft gives you the meeting you need before someone sells your team another security miracle.
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AI readiness turns into an identity and governance problem once agents can act.
This episode treats AI readiness less like a slogan and more like an access-control problem. J.P. Bourget and G. Mark Hardy keep circling a simple point: once agents, subagents, and company data start interacting, identity moves to the center of the conversation.
An RSAC discussion about who shapes cybersecurity buying and why relationship-building matters.
This episode treats RSAC less as a recap and more as a plain look at how cybersecurity buying works. It keeps the focus on the gap between vendor outreach and real influence: reaching a CISO is one thing, helping the people around that CISO build confidence is another.
Zero Trust is framed as a strategy and leadership challenge, not a product.
Zero Trust is treated as a strategy and a leadership problem, not a packaged product, which keeps the discussion grounded. George Finney draws on higher education, a setting he describes as especially difficult, to make the case that if Zero Trust can take root there, it can…
A practical look at how vulnerability risk becomes exploitation, with a wider frame on the hostile internet.
CISO Tradecraft treats vulnerability management as more than a patching exercise. It ties exploitation to criminal incentives and the realities of defending an enterprise online, which keeps the discussion practical.
A practical look at why exploitation feels harsher and how defenders are responding.
CISO Tradecraft frames vulnerabilities and exploits as a practical conversation for cybersecurity leaders. With Patrick Garrity and Todd Beansley on the show, the episode stays on the shift in exploitation traffic and on why the internet now feels more hostile than it did five…
Technology's mechanisms, power's consequences.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
What does AI readiness actually mean?
This is a RSAC debrief.
This episode explores how AI agents are replacing traditional SaaS models in cybersecurity, featuring expert insights and live demos on building cybersecurity products quickly.
This episode explores how AI is reshaping social engineering and fraud in cybersecurity, featuring an interview with Brian Long from Adaptive Security who discusses AI-powered threats and business protection.
This episode discusses the security risks of vibe coding and developer workstations with guest Shahar Mann from Backslash Security.
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This episode discusses adopting a data-centric security strategy to protect sensitive data from AI-powered threats, featuring expert guests E.J.
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The host discusses defending truth in the age of cyber deception, focusing on information manipulation and Russian cyber warfare.
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A cybersecurity expert discusses cloud workspace security risks and solutions for protecting Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 environments.
This episode features Ross Young discussing how he reduced patching cycles from 300 days to 30 days, based on a presentation at InfoSec World, offering practical insights for cybersecurity leaders.
This episode features Ross Young discussing how to maximize cybersecurity budget efficiency and minimize waste, based on his extensive experience in the field.
This episode features Ross Young discussing how to maximize cybersecurity budget efficiency and minimize waste, based on his extensive experience in the field.
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A cybersecurity career podcast that uses a storytelling example to teach marketing and communication skills for aspiring executives.
A cybersecurity career podcast that uses a storytelling example to teach marketing and communication skills for executives.
CISO Tradecraft discusses data protection strategies for security executives, featuring an interview with Ronan Murphy on improving data security and governance.
CISO Tradecraft discusses strategies for cybersecurity leaders to protect enterprise data, featuring expert Ronan Murphy on data governance and AI security.
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This episode features an interview with Dave Lewis, Global Advisory CISO at 1Password, discussing AI governance challenges and strategies for cybersecurity leaders.
A cybersecurity leadership podcast episode discussing HR and recruiting strategies for building effective security teams and advancing one's own career.
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