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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Jeff Steadman, deputy CISO, Corning Incorporated. Joining them is Quincey Collins, CSO, Sheppard Mullin. This episode was recorded live at the ISSA LA Summit in Santa Monica, California.

In this episode:

• The foundational debate
• Strength over breadth
• Beyond traditional backgrounds
• Keeping perspective on risk

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This week's episode is hosted by me, David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Andy Ellis (@csoandy), principal of Duha. Joining us is Sara Madden, CISO, Convera.

In this episode:

• Optimizing for reality, not idealism
• Engineering governance instead of monitoring compliance
• When AI finds what humans miss
• The measurement problem

Huge thanks to our sponsor, ThreatLocker

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This week's episode is hosted by David Spark, producer of CISO Series and Jerich Beason, CISO, WM. Joining them on stage is Jack Leidecker, CISO, Gong. This episode was recorded live at HOU SEC CON 2025.

In this episode:

• The open source sustainability problem
• AI levels the geopolitical playing field
• Cutting through AI vendor hype
• Why the fundamentals still hurt

Thanks to Erik Bloch from Illumio for providing our "What's Worse" scenario.

Huge thanks to our sponsor, Vorlon Security

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