Compromising Positions
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The award-winning tech podcast that asks : "Are we the ones breaking the world?" Most tech podcasts are an echo chamber for builders. We step outside. We talk to the observers, the social scientists, and the deep thinkers who study the friction we create and the human systems we disrupt. Lianne Potter and Jeff Watkins strip away the industry fluff and pit academic research against the harsh reality of real organisations and real human incentives. We don’t just talk about AI, security, and automation; we explore the unintended consequences of our own "elegant" solutions. We’re here to look at tech...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Compromising Positions makes cybersecurity legible through trust, behavior, inclusion and the human consequences of technical decisions.
Compromising Positions follows technology into the human situations where controls, automation and trust meet. Leanne Potter and Geoff Watkins use conversational interviews to examine what a cyberattack inside a self-driving car might do to its passenger, how surveillance…
Herbie stops being cute when your threat model has a passenger seat.
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A sharp look at how cyber risk turns trust into the real battleground.
The piece starts with autonomous vehicles, but the real subject is trust. It stays close to the human cost of a cyber attack, especially the fear of being trapped in something that should feel safe. That focus keeps the stakes plain.
A practical case for designing security around real users, not ideal ones.
Compromising Positions frames diversity, equity, and inclusion in cybersecurity as a design problem rather than a hiring slogan. Marcy Shawar steers the hosts toward practical ground: accessible security controls, more inclusive password design patterns, and usability testing…
A practical fraud-and-surveillance conversation that keeps the human details in focus.
Compromising Positions keeps its focus on crime and surveillance without drifting into abstraction. Leanne Potter and Geoff Watkins give Kelly Paxton room to draw on more than 20 years of investigative work, and the conversation stays close to fraud, embezzlement, and the…
A practical look at shared data security, with collaboration, guardrails, and a steady focus on cross-team ownership.
Compromising Positions keeps the core question clear: when data is at stake, who actually owns the problem, the data team or the cyber team? Leanne Potter and Geoff Watkins stay grounded as they talk with Tim Hatton about using AI to secure data, the value of real user testing,…
A cyber episode that keeps asking what people, not just systems, are doing.
Cybersecurity is treated here as a human problem as much as a technical one. The point lands through the idea that people can be risk inducers or risk mitigators, which makes malicious behavior feel less abstract and more tied to everyday judgment, insider threats, and the…
Cyber career advice that centers resilience, realism, and a practical path into the field.
This episode treats cybersecurity as a test of resilience as much as technical skill, and Dr. Talita Fajilio lays out a clear path from cybersecurity student to first job in cyber.
A clear look at how fraud tooling can turn suspicion into policy.
Suspicion by Design treats the DWP's fraud detection tools as a warning about systems that begin by treating people as risks to be scored. It is most effective when it stays on opaque selection, invasive compliance demands, and the gap between a flag and a human decision, which…
A season finale that uses hacker-movie logic to test motive, mess, and the film's moral cleanup.
Simon's return gives the season finale an easy, familiar start before the talk settles into film logic, motive, and how much a story asks viewers to forgive its antiheroes.
Technology's mechanisms, power's consequences.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
The show comes back by recasting cyber security as a question of human behavior and human restraint.
Leanne Potter and Geoff Watkins open with a light, playful back-and-forth before introducing Dr.
Compromising Positions opens with a familiar truth: people hand over data knowing there is a cost they are willing to live with.
Jeff and the hosts talk through a paper about the DWP's use of algorithms to flag welfare claimants for fraud.
The finale opens on movie-login gibberish, then wanders through Simon's return, the Muller Dairies yogurt that never arrived, and his new Talos 360 job before the hacker-movie pile-on really gets going.
Compromising Positions hosts Leanne Potter and Geoff Watkins interview John Moore of TechBank about using LinkedIn to build a personal brand through relatable stories, humor, and consistent engagement.
Compromising Positions hosts Leanne Potter and Geoff Watkins interview retired CreateFuture CFO Scott Robertson about securing cybersecurity budgets.
Compromising Positions hosts Leanne Potter and Geoff Watkins interview Paula Cizek, chief research officer at Nobel Collective, about helping organizations adapt behavior during strategic and technological change.
Byron Painter, Simon, Geoff Watkins and Leanne Potter open the new Tech Film Noir series by checking the tech in James Cameron's 1984 film The Terminator.
Autonomous vehicles make trust bodily.
"Easier for who?" is the line this episode keeps pressing.
Your phone notices the missing half hour.
A tech podcast exploring cybersecurity and AI through philosophical and human-centric perspectives, featuring an interview with a philosopher about trust, democracy, and safety.
A cybersecurity podcast interviewing a JavaScript developer about ethical dilemmas in tech, including phishing, privacy, and regulation.
This episode explores whether cybersecurity teams can effectively use Scrum, discussing its benefits for fostering conversations and transparency.
This episode explores embracing failure in cybersecurity through trial and error, featuring an interview with the founder of the Journal of Trial and Error.
A cybersecurity podcast explores human-centric threats through interviews with anthropologists and social scientists.
Cybersecurity professionals learn how to use ChatGPT and AI tools to improve their security function, with practical advice from a UX strategist and AI expert.
A discussion on the nuances of modern communication and work dynamics, focusing on hybrid and remote working from a cybersecurity perspective.
The hosts interview Josh Nesbitt, CTO of Glean, about securing vulnerable people's data and bridging the gap between security teams and engineers.
Christian Hunt discusses why blanket bans fail and how small acts of rebellion can undermine security, introducing his human brainwaves concept to prevent phishing clicks.