The Cyber Ranch Podcast

Jan 08 2025 204 ep. 33 mins 61

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Ride the cyber trails with two CISOs (Allan Alford and Drew Simonis) and a diverse group of friends and experts who bring a human perspective to cybersecurity.

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That's All, Folks, and THANK YOU!

Jan 08 2025 15 mins

Every trail ride ends at the, well, end of the trail. This is the end of the trail for The Cyber Ranch Podcast. Drew and Allan offer final parting thoughts and conduct brief interviews with 3 folks whose presence was vital to the show: Chris Cochran, Ron Eddings, and Rich Salim. It's been an amazing journey and we thank ALL of you who ever listened to even just one snippet of one e

Why We Need To Rethink All of It

Jan 01 2025 38 mins

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast. Today we tackle WHY? Why do we have this show? Why do we ask the questions we ask and host the guests we host? Why does any of this matter? More importantly, WHY do we all keep doing the same things over and over, saying the same things over and over, and expecting better results? WHAT can we change? Join Allan Alford, many ti

Narrative Intelligence with Joe Stradinger

Dec 18 2024 36 mins

We have all had a vague sense that our world is being manipulated, informed and fed by various conscious manipulation tactics - influence on political campaigns on social media, culture wars, class wars, etc. But we can glean out the facts and figure out who is telling what story if we embrace a new discipline - Narrative Intelligence. Our guest this week is Joe Stradinger, Founder

CISO vs. CTO with Jon Green

Dec 11 2024 32 mins

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast! That’s Jon Green, an experienced CISO but also an experienced CTO. Jon is currently the CSO and CTO at HPE’s Aruba. He’s also a DefCon goon and a Team8 Villager. He’s done the marketing engineer side, the network engineer side… Quite a storied past. We are thrilled to be talking with him about the differences between

Industry Introspective with Thomas Krane

Dec 04 2024 34 mins

Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast! Our guest is Thomas Krane, Managing Director at Insight Partners. If you go to Thomas’ LinkedIn page, you will also see that he works with a number of cybersecurity scaleups (we'll define that term). As such, Thomas is uniquely qualified to speak to some trends in the industry. Drew asked Thomas to join us here at the ‘Ran

Hybrid Identity Protection - Amazing Interviews with Many Guests

Nov 20 2024 31 mins

This week Allan attended the HIP Global conference in New Orleans, which happens to be Allan's favorite city in America. The conference was outstanding - no sales pitches, no nonsense, just many experts speaking on the topic of securing identity. Entra ID, Okta, AD folks all were present, and it was amazing. Allan got to interview some AMAZING guests from all walks of identity life

Practical GenAI and LLM with Tim Rohrbaugh

Nov 07 2024 45 mins

In this episode Allan and Drew consult Tim Rohrbaugh, who has done quite a lot of research and work on the practical applications, deployment, use cases and limits of GenAI and LLM. Flavors and incarnations of AI - GenAI, Expert Systems, ML... Biomimicry and Allan's weird sea cucumber references Practical LLM deployment - Tim's maxims Offline or online? Open or proprietary models?

Cyber Civics and Voting with Kirsten Davies - SPECIAL EDITION!

Oct 30 2024 33 mins

Howdy, y'all! With American presidential elections already under way, Allan and Drew decided that scrambling to get Kirsten Davies on the show for this week's show (the last one before formal Election Day) was paramount. Kirsten has been on our potential guest list for years now, as she is a multiple-times Fortune 500 CISO. But now Kirsten is CEO and Founder of The Institute for Cy

Social Media & Community Engagement with Technically__Rose

Oct 23 2024 27 mins

Our guest today is Babbette Jackson, aka Technically__Rose of YouTube and Instagram fame! Babbette is in DLP and Insider threat analysis. She has worked in places as far flung as Edward Jones, Juniper Networks, and Bank of America. More importantly, Babbette is quite involved in the intersection of social media and community engagement. How do we use social media to engage others a

You Don't Own "You", and "You" Are Being Altered with Sam Rad

Oct 16 2024 43 mins

Who and what you are, your personality, your style, your thoughts... That’s all about to change. For one thing you are already a product on “free to use” social media. You don’t really own things you think you own (We're looking at you, Steam!) Even your intellectual property is up for grabs now in ways you can’t see coming. Hollywood actors are selling the rights to thei