The Monica Talks Cyber Show
Welcome to The Monica Talks Cyber Podcast Experience: The fastest, easiest and an engaging way to build and grow your career and business in artificial intelligence, leadership and cybersecurity. Monica Talks Cyber is a technology, career and business podcast and an engaging platform for real stories, discussions and opinions from renowned global experts in technology, leadership and cybersecurity. The podcast show is hosted by Monica Verma, Hacker, CISO, Keynote Speaker, Founder & CEO, Multiple Award-Winner and Top-50 Women in Tech. On the podcast show, she brings on her experiences along with world-renowned leaders in engaging conversations. If you wish to build and grow your career and business, sit back, learn and the enjoy conversations on all shades of All Things Cyber! © Monica Verma Disclaimer: The opinions are the personal opinions of the guest speaker(s). The facts and opinions appearing in the podcast show do not bear any resemblance to or reflect the views of the host or host’s employer. The host or its employer does not assume any responsibility or liability for the same.
Episodes
44 episodes
How AI is Fighting (and Fueling) Decision Making and Fraud
AI is revolutionizing human decision making and cybersecurity, but it’s also being used by cybercriminals to launch cyberattacks, frauds and scams. Who’s really winning the battle — AI-driven security or AI-powered hackers? In this episode, whi...
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Episode 44
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29:04
The 10 Weekly: How I Went From Hacker to CISO in Just 4 Years
9 years ago, this one quote from Daniel Kahneman changed my life: "We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events". I went from hacker to a leader in just 4 years, not just ...
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Episode 43
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0:58
AI vs. Humanity | My 5 Laws to Succeed in The New Normal
Approximately 1.3 million people fall victim to online scams every day. I personally know 3 friends who fell victim to online fraud in just last 9 months. The good news is all 3 of them got their money back.How did the later happen? AI/...
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Episode 42
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30:23
The Biggest Threat To Your Business | Key Lessons from Russia vs. Ukraine Crisis
What’s the biggest digital threat to your business? “The Russians can now leverage supply chain attacks against Microsoft’s customers.”When Ukraine-Russia geopolitical crisis started many western news sources claimed that Russia...
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Episode 41
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21:29
The 10x Weekly: How AI is Fundamentally Changing The World
This is The 10x Weekly in Under 60 Seconds presented by The Monica Talks Cyber Show. Ever wondered how AI is changing the world? One of the major fundamental shift that's happening is that AI is creating news. It's creating ideas, it's creating...
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Episode 40
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0:57
How to 10x Your Career and Life in 2023
“You are a good CISO that helps us make a difference” wrote one of my colleague to me. I attribute that feedback to a Japanese concept called Kaizen. My milestones, like most successful people I know, are outcome of a sense of self-belief and a...
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Episode 39
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34:26
8 Tips How to 10x Your Career Using Great Storytelling
For the last 20 years, I’ve used 8 key elements of powerful storytelling to 10x my career. Here's how you can 10x your career. Reality is: If information is gold, storytelling is mining. Job seekers, interviewers, interviewees, entrepreneurs, s...
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Episode 38
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9:09
How to Protect Against The Blooming Ransomware Cybercrime Business?
According to Forbes, in 2021 alone, ransomware cost the world $20 billion, and that number is expected to skyrocket to $265 billion by 2031. Over the last years, ransomware attacks have managed to cause disruptions to energy, gas pipelines, gro...
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Episode 37
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29:36
How To Manage Imposter Syndrome Without "Faking It"
“Fake it till you make it” is the worst advice I ever received. 70% of people will experience imposter syndrome in their career. I know, I am one of them. ”How do you HANDLE imposter syndrome?” asked one of my mentees. Fake it till you make it ...
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Episode 36
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23:30
Land Your Dream Job Without Applying
How to land your dream job WITHOUT applying? Dream jobs that I landed, I didn’t apply to them. Instead, I was approached, I was connected to, I was networked with. In the last 7 years, I CHANGED entirely the way I approached job searching. Sure...
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Episode 35
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7:59
How One Decision Can Change Your Life
In 2009, I took one decision to cold email a hacker, and that changed my life forever. That one decision, that one cold message, changed my life forever. TODAY, for the very first time, I share my entire story on how I took that bold but scary ...
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Episode 34
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18:01
Break into Cybersecurity with No Tech Experience and No Certs - 2023 Edition
No matter what people tell you, every single day we are seeing people break into this field with no experience and succeeding. They are coming from all kinds of backgrounds such as retail, medical, transportation, and many other industrie...
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Episode 33
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55:45
Talent Gap, Diversity, Inclusion - How to Accelerate Your Career in Cybersecurity?
In this episode, Monica Verma, CISO, Hacker, CEO and Founder, talks with Naomi Buckwalter, Directory of Product Security, about the so-called talent gap. Is it the talent gap real? How can ...
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Episode 32
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27:50
Fake News, Disinformation and Journalism
Liz Truss' mobile was hacked allegedly by Kremlin agents. It was so heavily compromised that it had to be locked away in a safe inside a secure Government location. How do you protect people with high-risk profiles? What is the no. one factor t...
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Episode 31
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23:56
Is Your Privacy at Risk?
As technology, social media and smart devices have seeped into our private and business lives, do we have privacy as a human right any more?In this episode Monica Verma, CEO & C...
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Episode 30
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28:55
Code Red: The Cyber Health of Healthcare
How has the cyber health of healthcare evolved and what challenges lie ahead of us? In this episode Monica Verma, CEO | CISO, and ...
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Episode 29
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26:24
A Peek Inside the World of Ransomware!
In today's episode, CISOs and hackers, Chris Roberts and Monica Verma dive deep into the world of ransomware and talk about exploitations through ransomware and it's impact on businesses, the advancement in technology & how it is shaping th...
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Episode 28
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25:35
How To Protect Your Business and Combat Cybercrime
In today's episode Monica Verma, Keynote Speaker and CISO, talks to Sarah Armstrong-Smith, Chief Security Advisor, Microsoft on how is the threat landscape and the cyber criminals evolving? What are some of the key factors of better defense goi...
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Episode 27
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27:00
How Can Security Provide Real Business Value
In today's episode, CISOs Monica Verma and Gary Hayslip talk about how to communicate and report to the board, real value of cybersecurit...
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Episode 26
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37:12
Why Cyber Insurance And Key Elements
In today’s episode Monica Verma talks to one of industry leaders within Cyber Insurance, Michael Spreitzenbarth on why you should care about cyber insurance, why you need it, what are the key elements to consider when underwriting a policy and ...
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Episode 25
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30:11
Don't Rain on My Cyber Threat Intelligence
In today’s episode Monica Verma talks to Katie Nickels on importance of cyber threat intelligence, evolution of threat lands...
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Episode 24
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28:30
My Risk Was Calculated but man, I'm Bad at Math
In this episode, Monica Verma talks to Marc Vael, CISO and risk management expert on cyber and systemic risks, cyber risk exposure, how to make your risks more tangible, visible and understandable, and key elements for effective risk management...
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Episode 23
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29:45
Demystifying and Defending Cyberwarfare
In today’s episode Monica Verma talks with an industry leader and a cybersecurity researcher Keren Elazari on cyberwarfare, cybercrime, national security, critical infrastructure and more.
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Episode 22
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28:01
Culture and Awareness - Can we measure 'good'?
In today’s episode Monica Verma talks with an industry leader Kai Roer, who has worked with security awareness & security cultures for decades. He is a security culture coach, an author and creator of security culture framework. In this epi...
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Episode 21
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30:00
The Privacy Battle: What's going on with Schrems?
In today’s episode Monica Verma talks with an industry leader and a technology lawyer. Yup, hard to find those combinations. Monica sits down and talks to Jan Sandtrø, who is a renowned legal expert and has been working with technology, privacy...
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Episode 20
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29:02