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Future of Threat Intelligence
Welcome to the Future of Threat Intelligence podcast, where we explore the transformative shift from reactive detection to proactive threat management. Join us as we engage with top cybersecurity leaders and practitioners, uncovering strategies that empower organizations to anticipate and neutralize threats before they strike. Each episode is packed with actionable insights, helping you stay ahead of the curve and prepare for the trends and technologies shaping the future.
Episodes
Future of Threat IntelligencePaul McCarty & Jenn Gile on how 540 packages under one maintainer expose a supply chain blind spot
Paul McCarty and Jenn Gile, Co-Founders of OpenSourceMalware, join Eli Woodward to discuss how malicious open source packages have become a major software…
Future of Threat IntelligenceFinancial services’ Amanda Lerner, Ph.D. on Why Russian Is Still the Lingua Franca of Cybercrime
Early cybercrime forums operated almost entirely in Russian, creating a barrier to entry that kept most analysts out. Amanda Lerner, Ph.D., Lead Cyber Threat…
Future of Threat IntelligenceNebulock’s Alex Hurtado on why current logs fail to distinguish AI agents from info stealers
Over 60% of false positives trace back to vendor-provided detection rules. That finding, from a first-of-its-kind SANS report Alex Hurtado helped produce…
Future of Threat IntelligenceIronbridge CISO Consulting's Jim Almerico on the end of AI euphoria and the flaws emerging
The euphoria around AI is over, and the flaws are showing up at a speed nobody imagined a year ago. Jim Almerico, CISO at Ironbridge CISO Consulting, tells Eli…
Future of Threat IntelligenceEfani's Mark Kreitzman on the SIM swap that cost Marks and Spencer 350 million euros
In our latest episode of the Future of Threat Intelligence podcast, Mark Kreitzman, Chief Cyber Evangelist at Efani, shares how organized crime is scaling SIM…
Future of Threat IntelligenceWhy the old phishing training is obsolete after deepfake attacks
Resource constraints, not attacker sophistication, are the biggest cyber threat facing state and local governments, and AI is widening the gap by making…
Future of Threat IntelligenceCoalition's Daniel Woods on the attorney-client privilege tactic shaping every IR investigation
Daniel Woods, Principal Security Researcher at Coalition, sits at an intersection most security practitioners never access: underwriting data, claims history…
Future of Threat IntelligenceHow Akira hits thousands of SMBs with $50K-$150K ransoms undetected | Alex Bovicelli
In part two of this conversation, Alex Bovicelli, Senior Director of Threat Intelligence at Tokio Marine HCC - Cyber & Professional Lines Group, gets into what…
Future of Threat IntelligenceThe CVSS problem: why severity scores don't predict what gets exploited
Patrick Garrity, Security Researcher at VulnCheck, has a data problem with how the industry prioritizes vulnerabilities, and the data is his own. After…
Future of Threat IntelligenceUnit 42's Andrew Rathbun on the Sysmon Configuration Mistake Enterprises Are Making
Andrew Rathbun, Senior Consultant at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, has spent years tearing apart Windows endpoints across ransomware, APT, insider threat, and…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTrend AI's Robert McArdle on Criminal Business Models Surviving Tech Revolutions
After 18 years tracking cybercriminal operations at Trend AI, Robert McArdle, Director of Cybercrime Research, has developed a framework for predicting how…
Future of Threat IntelligenceScott Scher on Why CTI Teams Forecast Instead of Predict
Scott Scher, Cyber Threat Intelligence Lead, makes a distinction that reframes how intel teams should think about their own value: they are forecasters, not…
Future of Threat IntelligenceYou Can't Trust Your Zoom Call Anymore. Deepfakes, DPRK & the New Attack Surface
Deepfakes have moved well past the uncanny valley and into active threat operations, and Tom Cross, Head of Threat Research at GetReal, has the client-side…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTwo Minds. One Reframe. A Shift That Won't Wait.
Vincent Passaro, Engineering Manager at Stripe Security, didn't get there through a slide deck or a company mandate. He got there through a shower thought that…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTIG Risk Services' Duaine Labno on How Remote Hiring Became an Opening for Infiltration
What happens when a DPRK IT worker operation lands inside one of your clients, and the three-letter agency you call says they can't show up? Duaine Labno…
Future of Threat IntelligenceThermo Fisher's Matt McKnew on the Evolution of Ransomware as a Service
When Matt McKnew, Senior Manager of Incident Response at Thermo Fisher, tracked down the Nimda worm in 2001 by analyzing packet captures to identify NetBIOS…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTokio Marine HCC's Alex Bovicelli on the SMB Ransomware Wave the Industry Isn't Talking About
Running CTI at a cyber insurance carrier and across more than tens of thousands of companies forces a triage discipline most programs never need to build. Alex…
Future of Threat IntelligenceCoalition's Daniel Woods on What Cyber Insurance Claims Reveal About Security Controls
Daniel Woods, Principal Security Researcher, and his team at Coalition analyzed forensic reports across their 100,000-policyholder base and found 50% of…
Future of Threat IntelligenceStripe's Vincent Passaro on Fraud Taxonomies & Generating Red Team Testing Roadmaps
Stripe's 3-person intel team created FT3 (fraud tools, tactics & techniques), a framework modeled after MITRE ATT&CK but purpose-built for financial fraud, to…
Future of Threat IntelligenceFortinet's Aamir Lakhani on Mapping Business Pain Points Attackers Exploit
Fortinet processes telemetry from 50% of the next-generation firewall market, giving Aamir Lakhani, Global Director of Threat Intelligence & Adversarial AI…
Future of Threat IntelligencePayPal's Blake Butler on Finding Fraud Signals in Uncleaned Data
PayPal's fraud team catches credential stuffing before money moves by watching business intelligence signals that most organizations overlook: explosive…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTidal Cyber's Scott Small on Operationalizing MITRE from Intel to Validation
Tidal Cyber's Director of Cyber Threat Intelligence Scott Small reveals how his knowledge base now tracks almost 25,000 procedure-level instances across nearly…
Future of Threat IntelligenceMarsh McLennan's Casey Beaumont on Vendor Breach Assessments That Cut through Legal Games
When Casey Beaumont's entire CTI team departed just before new analysts started, she found herself running threat intelligence solo for months while directing…
Future of Threat IntelligenceState CISOs on Why Cyberattacks Against 1 State Attack All of America
Michael Moore, CISO for the Secretary of State of Arizona's office, explains how he acts as a virtual CISO for all 15 counties by conducting physical security…
Future of Threat IntelligenceSafebooks AI’s Ahikam Kaufman on Why CFOs Need Company-Specific AI Models for Fraud Detection
Unlike CISOs who work with consistent vulnerabilities across cloud environments, CFOs face company-specific financial processes that change constantly, making…
Future of Threat IntelligenceMarsh's Sjaak Schouteren on the Golden Rule of Risk Assessment
Cyber insurance has transformed from a liability-focused niche product into a comprehensive business continuity tool, but widespread misconceptions continue to…
Future of Threat IntelligenceSIG's Rob van der Veer on Why "Starting Small" with AI Security Might Fail
What happens when someone who's been building AI systems for 33 years confronts the security chaos of today's AI boom? Rob van der Veer, Chief AI Officer at…
Future of Threat IntelligenceVigilocity's Karim Hijazi on Supply Chain Threat Intelligence
Karim Hijazi’s approach to threat hunting challenges conventional wisdom about endpoint security by proving that some of the most critical intelligence exists…
Future of Threat IntelligenceCyberHoot's Craig Taylor on Why Fear-Based Phishing Training Fails
Psychology beats punishment when building human firewalls. Craig Taylor, CEO & Co-founder of CyberHoot, brings 30 years of cybersecurity experience and a…
Future of Threat IntelligenceThe Futurum Group's Fernando Montenegro on the OODA Loop Approach to Security Strategy
What happens when you apply economic principles like opportunity cost and comparative advantage to cybersecurity decision-making? Fernando Montenegro, VP &…
Future of Threat IntelligenceT. Rowe Price’s PJ Asghari’s "What, So What, Now What" Framework for Threat Intel
What does it take to transform a traditional event-driven SOC into an intelligence-driven operation that actually moves the needle? At T. Rowe Price, it meant…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTranscend's Aimee Cardwell on Turning Security into a Growth Driver
Most security leaders position themselves as guardians against risk, but Aimee Cardwell, CISO in Residence at Transcend and Board Member at WEX, built her…
Future of Threat IntelligenceDigital Asset Redemption's Steve Baer on Criminal Business Models
The economics of ransomware reveal a sophisticated criminal enterprise that most security leaders dramatically underestimate. Steve Baer, Field CISO at Digital…
Future of Threat IntelligenceMcAfee's Manisha Agarwal-Shah on Testing Ransomware Plans Before You Need Them
Most security leaders are fighting yesterday's ransomware war while today's attackers have moved to data exfiltration and reputation destruction. Manisha…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTeam Cymru's Threat Researchers on Operation Endgame Intelligence
Team Cymru's threat researchers have spent years developing an almost psychological understanding of cybercriminals, tracking their behavioral patterns…
Future of Threat IntelligenceLemonade's Jonathan Jaffe on Trading Feedback for Security Technology
Jonathan Jaffe, CISO at Lemonade, has built what he predicts will be "the perfect AI system" using agent orchestration to automate vulnerability management at…
Future of Threat IntelligenceDigital Turbine's Vivek Menon on AI Acceleration vs Attack Expansion
The security industry's obsession with cutting-edge threats often overshadows a more pressing reality: the vast majority of organizations are still mastering…
Future of Threat IntelligenceDigital Asset Redemption's Steve Baer on Why Half of Ransomware Victims Shouldn't Pay
Most organizations approach ransomware as a technical problem, but Steve Baer, Field CISO at Digital Asset Redemption, has built his career understanding it as…
Future of Threat IntelligenceCybermindz’s Mark Alba on Military PTSD Protocols to Treat Security Burnout
The cybersecurity industry has talked extensively about burnout, but Mark Alba, Managing Director of Cybermindz, is taking an unprecedented scientific approach…
Future of Threat IntelligenceGigaOm’s Howard Holton on Why AI Will Be the OS of Security Work
The cybersecurity industry has witnessed numerous technology waves, but AI's integration at RSA 2025 signals something different from past hype cycles. Howard…
Future of Threat IntelligenceOnline Business Systems' Jeff Man on PCI 4.0's Impact
The cybersecurity industry has long operated on fear-based selling and vendor promises that rarely align with practical implementation needs. Jeff Man, Sr…
Future of Threat IntelligenceTrellix's John Fokker on Why Ransomware Groups Are Fragmenting
The criminal underground is experiencing its own version of startup disruption, with massive ransomware-as-a-service operations fragmenting into smaller, more…
Future of Threat IntelligenceFrost & Sullivan's Martin Naydenov on AI's Cybersecurity Trust Gap
In this special RSA episode of Future of Threat Intelligence, Martin Naydenov, Industry Principal of Cybersecurity at Frost & Sullivan, offers a sobering…
Future of Threat IntelligenceUnspoken Security’s AJ Nash on Protecting Against AI Model Poisoning
In our latest episode of The Future of Threat Intelligence, recorded at RSA Conference 2025, AJ Nash, Founder & CEO, Unspoken Security, provides a sobering…
Future of Threat IntelligenceCyware’s Jawahar Sivasankaran on Automating Threat-Centric Operations
In this special RSA 2025 episode of The Future of Threat Intelligence, David speaks with Jawahar Sivasankaran, President of Cyware, about their partnership…
Future of Threat IntelligenceRapid7’s Lonnie Best on Measuring SOC Success Beyond Alert Closures
In a world obsessed with cutting-edge security technology, Lonnie Best, Senior Manager of Detection & Response Services at Rapid7, makes a compelling case for…
Future of Threat IntelligenceRapyd’s Nir Rothenberg on Breaking the CISO Burnout Cycle Through Focused Priorities
From cleaning up after an insider theft of the notorious Pegasus spyware to safeguarding billions in payment transactions, Nir Rothenberg brings…
Future of Threat IntelligenceOption Care’s Jill Rhodes on Uniting Legal Expertise and Cybersecurity in Healthcare
Jill Rhodes, SVP & CISO at Option Care Health, shares her unconventional journey from international development lawyer stationed in Bolivia and Moscow to…
Future of Threat IntelligenceSilverado Policy Accelerator’s Dmitri Alperovitch on Hunting Intruders After They're Already In
In this episode of The Future of Threat Intelligence, Dmitri Alperovitch, Co-founder & Executive Chairman at Silverado Policy Accelerator and Author of World…
Future of Threat IntelligenceDirections on Microsoft’s Wes Miller on Harmonizing Microsoft's Security & Identity Tools
What happens when Microsoft's on-premises security falls behind while cloud innovation accelerates? In this episode of The Future of Threat Intelligence, Wes…
Future of Threat IntelligenceWikistrat’s Jeffrey Caruso on New Methods in Cyber-Physical Attacks
In this episode of The Future of Threat Intelligence, Jeffrey Caruso, Senior Analyst at Wikistrat & Author of Inside Cyber Warfare, shares examples of how…
Future of Threat IntelligenceRapid7’s Deral Heiland on Why Your Network Segmentation Strategy Overlooks IoT Risk
Deral Heiland’s research has uncovered critical vulnerabilities across the IoT spectrum, from office printers to medical devices, revealing how seemingly…
Future of Threat IntelligenceIDC's Frank Dickson on Moving from Reactive to Proactive Security Strategy
What happens when you combine market research expertise with cybersecurity strategy? On this episode of The Future of Threat Intelligence, Frank Dickson, Group…
Future of Threat IntelligenceISG's Jeff Orr on Moving Beyond Perimeter Defense to Dynamic Security
Jeff Orr, Director of Research & IT Technologies at ISG, brings over three decades of technology experience to his discussion with David about transforming…
Future of Threat IntelligenceMeta's Oded Anderman on Preventing Unauthorized Data Collection
Where is the balance between data accessibility and protection in today's interconnected digital landscape? Oded Anderman, Privacy Lead at Meta, has plenty of…
Future of Threat IntelligenceMaltego's Ben April on Using Commander's Intent for Remote Team Success
When Ben April started managing remote teams in 2005, the concept was nearly unheard of. Now, as CTO of Maltego, he brings nearly two decades of distributed…
Future of Threat IntelligenceThe Cyber Hut's Simon Moffatt on Transforming Identity Security from Static to Dynamic Defense
David steps into the new world of identity security with Simon Moffatt, Founder & Research Analyst at The Cyber Hut, on the latest episode of The Future of…
Future of Threat IntelligenceZoom's Lee Ramsey on Transforming Customer Service Skills into Cybersecurity Success
David’s latest guest on The Future of Threat Intelligence points out the unexpected ways his customer service background enhances his cybersecurity work. From…
Future of Threat IntelligenceGoogle’s James Brodsky on Securing AI and Building Security Ecosystems
In our latest episode of the Future of Threat Intelligence podcast, David is joined by James Brodsky, Head of Global Security Architects at Google, who shares…
Future of Threat IntelligenceVeeva Systems’ Justin Jettòn on Balancing Human Analysis and Automation in Threat Intel
In our latest episode of the Future of Threat Intelligence podcast, David welcomes Justin Jettòn, Senior Threat Intelligence Engineer at Veeva Systems who…