Is the 'Shields Up' era of CISA over?
One year into the second Trump administration, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is facing what former officials and industry partners describe in stark terms: “decimated,” “...
26 Feb 33min
Should you still trust your password manager?
In this episode, Greg explores the gap between password manager marketing claims of "Zero Knowledge Encryption" and the reality uncovered by Swiss researchers who found 25 attacks against Bitwarden, L...
19 Feb 36min
No exceptions: How Amazon killed the password and unified security
In this episode, we sit down with Stephen Schmidt, SVP & Chief Security Officer at Amazon, to explore the engineering and leadership required to run a "no exceptions" identity program at a global scal...
12 Feb 36min
What leaders can learn from the WEF's Cybersecurity Outlook
AI is reshaping cybersecurity faster than most organizations can govern it—and the risk no longer stops at the edge of the enterprise. In this episode, Greg speaks with Brian Dye, CEO of Corelight, ab...
5 Feb 36min
Opportunistic by Default: How OT gets pulled into the blast radius
In this episode of Safe Mode, we look at how opportunistic campaigns—often starting as loud disruption like DDoS—can probe for weak points and, in some cases, move closer to operational technology and...
29 Jan 34min
How do you win a conflict most Americans can’t see?
Retired Lt. Gen. Charlie “Tuna” Moore, former deputy commander of U.S. Cyber Command, joins Safe Mode to break down his new paper on “dominating the digital space” and a whole-of-society strategy for ...
22 Jan 35min
What's powering the 'Steroid Era' of cybercrime?
Greg sits down with Adam Myers, Head of Counter Adversary Operations at CrowdStrike, and Elia Zaitsev, CTO of CrowdStrike, to discuss why 2025 has been dubbed the "steroid era" for cybercrime due to A...
15 Jan 52min
The Access‑Trust Gap: Why security can’t see what work depends on
In our final episode of 2025, Dave Lewis, global advisory CISO for 1Password, joins Greg Otto to unpack the “access‑trust gap”: the growing mismatch between what employees (and tools like AI assistant...
18 Dec 202532min
