podcasts
Real Conversations That Shape Cyber Resilience
The Readiverse brings together industry leaders, innovators, and cyber resilience experts to explore real-world challenges shaping today’s digital landscape. From executive perspectives to practical insights, each episode delivers thoughtful dialogue on resilience, innovation, and navigating evolving cyber threats.
STRIVE Podcasts
MCP 2.0 Explained: Securing AI Agents in the Enterprise
How do enterprises securely operationalize AI agents? We break down MCP 2.0—the evolving protocol shaping how AI models safely interact with enterprise systems.
Unified Resilience Meets Conversational AI with Ravit Jain
Unpack how conversational AI and unified cyber resilience are changing the way organizations interact with data and recover from cyber incidents. The discussion focuses on a core enterprise priority: trust—trust in AI, trust in data, and trust in recovery.
How to Operationalize Data Security at Scale — Ben Herzberg & Asif Dromi
Explore how modern, data-driven organizations can move fast without sacrificing security, privacy, or compliance.
The Modernization Playbook for Cyber Readiness with Gilman Treantos
Learn what resilience leadership looks like in the real world—from career growth and community involvement to modern cyber recovery strategy.
Defining ResOps and the Next Era of Recovery Intelligence with Stephen Foskett
Discover how Resilience Operations (ResOps) are reshaping enterprise cyber recovery and business continuity. Dive into why traditional IT Ops metrics like RTO and RPO are no longer enough — and how new measures such as Mean Time to Clean Recovery are redefining what “good” looks like in modern cyber resilience.
The Human Side of Cyber Resilience with Dr. Jessica Barker
Listen to Dr. Jessica Barker, Co-CEO of Cygenta and a leading expert on the human and psychological aspects of cybersecurity. Explore why cyber resilience depends as much on people, culture, and behavior as it does on technology.
How Data Security Needs to Change in the Age of AI
Vidya Shankaran sits down with Eldad Chai, CEO and co-founder of Satori, to explore how organizations can govern sensitive data faster, smarter, and more securely in the age of AI.
Should Governments Ban Ransomware Payments
Explore the heated debate around banning ransomware payments in the UK and beyond.
What is Agentic AI?
Explore agentic AI, the revolutionary technology that’s transforming how artificial intelligence operates in enterprise environments.
What's Top of Mind for CISO's in 2025
Darren Thomson breaks down the top 6 priorities dominating CISO conversations in 2025, based on exclusive insights from security leaders across the industry.
What is Minimal Viable Company
Learn how to define the absolute minimum requirements to keep your business operational while recovering from catastrophic ransomware and other cyber incidents.
Minding the Gap Between IT and Security
Darren Thomson sits down with renowned cybersecurity expert Jane Frankland to explore the technical, social, and organizational gaps that often exist between traditional IT infrastructure teams and security groups.
Building an Effective Cyber Recovery Plan
Delve into the critical aspects of cyber resilience and the importance of having a robust cyber recovery plan.
Cyber Recovery vs. Disaster Recovery: Essential Strategies for Modern Threats
Discover why traditional DR plans fall short against cyber threats like ransomware and learn how to develop robust, standalone cyber recovery plans to protect your business.
Protecting Active Directory: Best Practices for Cyber Resilience
Discover why AD is often targeted by cybercriminals and learn essential strategies to protect your organization from cyberattacks.
A Real-Life Cyberattack: Investigating a Breach
Unravel a complex spear phishing attack that compromised a major corporation, offering listeners a rare glimpse into the mechanics of modern cyber threats and the resilience strategies employed to combat them.
SHIFT Podcasts
Protecting the AI Stack
Watch industry leaders break down one of the biggest challenges in modern enterprise technology: Protecting the AI stack and building true AI resiliency at scale.
The CISO Paradox
Explore what it truly means to lead security in an age of personal accountability, where CISOs may be held legally responsible for cyber outcomes they don’t fully control.
From Mishaps to Meltdown
Darren Thompson sits down with identity expert, Dan Conrad, to dive deep into one of the most overlooked yet mission-critical areas of cyber resilience: Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID recovery.
The Phoenix Protocol
Break down cyber resiliency strategies, AI workload readiness, disaster recovery fallacies, and cyberattack recovery at enterprise scale and rise from the ashes of a cyberattack.
Establishing Minimum Viability
Deep dive into the true meaning of minimum viability—and why it has become the most important capability for business resilience today.
Cyber-Storytelling Communicating Risk to the Boardroom
Break down how CISOs can effectively communicate cyber risk to the board, build trust, secure enterprise-wide accountability, and strengthen digital resilience
Turning Compliance into Resilience
Learn why resilience—not checkbox compliance—is the true goal of modern regulations. Listen to real-world horror stories, ransomware events, and the hidden gaps between “green metrics” and actual recoverability.
Tooling up for Incident Response
Break down how organizations should tool up for modern incident response. Explore optimism bias in cybersecurity, the true meaning of resilience, why testing incident response plans matters more than writing them.