These are the podcasts I enjoy listening to and some of my favourite presentations in case I want to go back to them, share them, or reference them :)
Podcasts.
InfoSec
Detection at Scale by Jack Naglieri, Favourite episodes that I want to listen to again with a notebook:
Closing The Alert vs. Closing The Loop: How AI Is Reinventing the SOC
Vjaceslavs Klimovs on Why 40% of Security Work Lacks Threat Models
GreenSky’s Ken Bowles on Auditing Controls before They Silently Fail
FanDuel’s Tyler Martin on the Bronze-Silver-Gold Path to Autonomous Security Triage
Cisco Meraki’s Stephen Gubenia on How to Crawl-Walk-Run to AI-Powered SecOps
Illumio’s Erik Bloch on Getting Security Fundamentals Right Before Adding AI
SANS’s John Hubbard on Future-Proofing SOC Analysts in the Age of AI
Airwallex’s Elliot Colquhoun on Big Bet Security Investments That Pay Off
Two Candlesticks’ Matthew Martin on Leveraging AI for Resource-Constrained Security Operations
Netflix’s Dan Cao and Brex’s Josh Liburdi on Balancing Big Platforms and Bespoke Tools
ThoughtSpot’s Alessio Faiella on Building Forward-Looking Security Programs
Elastic’s Darren LaCasse on Cutting Alert Volumes in Half By Automating Responses
Check Point’s Daniel Wiley on Balancing Technology and Human Analytics in Cybersecurity
LinkedIn’s Jeff Bollinger on the Role of Human Intuition in Addressing Security Challenges
SAP’s Matthew Valites on Why He Is a Proponent of Detection as Code
Meta’s Justin Anderson on How to Understand, Identify, and Execute Your Detection Strategy
Sony’s Charles Anderson on How to Manage Detections and Risk Across a Global Company
Remitly’s Jason Craig on Building Better Strategies for Identity, Logging, and Threat Modeling
AppOmni’s Drew Gatchell on Creating Better Detection for SaaS Platforms
David Seidman of Robinhood Talks Tools, Strategies, & Advice for Improving Detections at Scale
Chris Witter on Leading D&R Teams for Both Cloud and Enterprise at Spotify
Adeel Saeed on How to Move from A Reactive to a Proactive Threat Detection & Response Model
Mike Saxton of Booz Allen on Where Teams Start in Their Detection Journey and How Detection as Code is Bridging the Cybersecurity Skills Gap
Compass CISO JJ Agha on Relentless Iterations and What He Expects from a Modern SIEM
Cedar’s CISO Aaron Zollman: Lessons From Building a Modern Security Team
Panther Labs’s Joren McReynolds: Developing Security Products that Can Scale
Snowflake’s Haider Dost and Daniel Wyleczuk-Stern: Why Querying Your Data Properly is Critical to Scaling Your Detection Program
Cisco Secure’s J. Wolfgang Goerlich: Rebuilding Trust in Security Tools
Netflix’s Srinath Kuruvadi: Securing The Cloud Footprint With an Adaptive, Agile, and People Leadership Approach
Dropbox’s Matt Jezorek: The Value of Agility and Education For Scaling Security
Gusto’s Fredrick Lee: Why Trust Is Critical To Building a Scalable Security Team
Snowflake’s Omer Singer: What Security Data Can Tell You About Detection and Response
ServiceTitan’s Cassio Goldschmidt: Navigating Security Team Roles
Sisense’s Ty Sbano: What Application and Product Security (Really) Is
DarkNet Diaries by Jack Rhysider (listened to all 170 episodes as of 2026-02-19)
Malicious Life by Cybereason
Breadcrumbs by Trace Labs
Cloud Security Podcast by Google
Blueprint by SANS
Data
The Data Wranglers by Trifacta (listened to all 15 episodes of the completed podcast)
Other
Ologies by Alie Ward
WorkLife by Adam Grant
Calm It Down by Chad Lawson
Business Wars by Wondery
Presentations / YouTube.
The Future is Now: Embracing Detection Engineering for Incident Response by Jake Williams and Avigayil Mechtinger
Building Better Hunt Data by Josh Liburdi
Keynote: Threat Hunting: Old Data, New Tricks! by David Hoelzer
Identifying Opportunities to Collaborate and Contribute back by Roberto Rodriguez
Graph Databases Will Change Your Freakin’ Life by Ed Finkler
Open Source Intelligence 101 by April C. Wright
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