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Cybersecurity is evolving — and so should you. Razorwire brings the open conversations that give you the edge. Welcome to the Razorwire podcast — your resource for practical advice, expert insights, and real-world conversations on cybersecurity, information security (InfoSec), risk management, governance, security leadership, human factors, and industry trends. Our mission is to help you build a stronger cybersecurity career while supporting a dynamic, agile community of professionals committed to continuous improvement. Each episode brings you actionable advice and real experiences from your host, James Rees — an information security specialist with over 25 years of experience — and from a range of respected guests across t...
Episodes(40 episodes)
Season 1 - Episode 106
When Cybersecurity Becomes Pay to Play
Awards you have to pay to win, events you have to pay to attend and conferences that expect speakers to work for free. When did recognition and expertise in cybersecurity become something you have to buy?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode I'm joined by security consultant and regular community speaker James Bore and Gary Hibberd, co-founder of Consultants Like Us and the Real Cyber Awards and Conference.Pay to...
Published: Sep 23, 2026Duration: 49m 37s
Season 1 - Episode 105
Rethinking the Endpoint – IGEL Spotlight on Technology
If most of your applications no longer run on the endpoint, why are you still managing and securing it as though they do?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this Spotlight on Technology episode I'm joined by James Millington, Healthcare Field CTO for EMEA at IGEL, with more than 25 years' experience across virtual desktops, endpoint security and healthcare technology.The way we use endpoints has changed repeatedly. Computing moved from centralised mainframes...
Published: Sep 9, 2026Duration: 45m 8s
Season 1 - Episode 104
Cybersecurity Events Have a Problem
Are cybersecurity events still giving people a reason to turn up, or have too many become expensive sales floors with the same conversations on repeat?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode I'm joined by James Bore, Chartered Security Professional, Gary Hibberd, co-founder of Consultants Like Us and Lisa Ventura, founder of the AI and Cybersecurity Association and Unity Group Solutions.Cybersecurity events have changed. What were once places to discover...
Published: Aug 26, 2026Duration: 49m 4s
Season 1 - Episode 103
A New Voice in InfoSec. What Nobody Tells You About Breaking Into the Industry
What does it actually look like to break into InfoSec from the outside, with no technical background, no industry contacts and no idea what half the acronyms mean?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this interview episode, I'm joined by Irina Sordiya, a GRC and compliance professional based in Montreal who came into information security from a finance background.Not everyone who works in information security started out in IT. Irina's route...
Published: Aug 12, 2026Duration: 36m 51s
Season 1 - Episode 102
Why Social Engineering Still Works & Why AI Is Making It Worse
Social engineering has been around since humans started talking to each other. The psychology hasn't changed, but AI has made the execution almost unrecognisable.Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined by Richard Cassidy, Field CISO at Rubrik, and Bec McKeown, a chartered psychologist specialising in human performance under pressure.Social engineering isn't a technology problem, it's a human one that cybersecurity has inherited. The psychology behind it hasn't...
Published: Jul 29, 2026Duration: 55m 14s
Season 1 - Episode 101
Who Gets to Control AI? The Governance Crisis Nobody's Solving
The EU just pushed back its AI Act enforcement by 16 months. The US is deregulating. China is governing through infrastructure. And the UK is doing nothing and hoping for the best.Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined by Richard Cassidy, Field CISO at Rubrik, and Jonathan Care, Head of the AI Practice at KuppingerCole.We're not in an AI revolution. We're in an AI accountability crisis with the...
Published: Jul 15, 2026Duration: 50m 20s
Season 1 - Episode 100
From ISDN to AI - Two Veterans on How Defence in Depth Has Changed
Defence in depth has evolved every time the technology landscape has shifted. The internet, virtualisation, cloud, SaaS. AI is the next shift, and the old model isn't keeping up.Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined once again by Martin Voelk, co-founder of SpartanX and an ethical hacker with nearly 26 years in cybersecurity.Every major technology shift has forced security teams to rethink how they protect their organisations. The...
Published: Jul 1, 2026Duration: 51m 58s
Season 1 - Episode 99
Daybreak and the Battle for AI Security: The Arms Race Accelerates
AI used to be something security vendors built into their own products. Now OpenAI is going direct, positioning itself as the layer that security runs on. What does that mean for the rest of the industry?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined again by Jon Care, Head of the AI Practice at KuppingerCole, to unpack OpenAI's launch of Daybreak.OpenAI launched Daybreak on 11 May 2026. It's not a security...
Published: Jun 17, 2026Duration: 50m 46s
Season 1 - Episode 98
Third Party Risk in the Age of AI. A Spotlight on Black Kite
Your vendors are adopting AI faster than you can assess them. What does that mean for your third party risk? Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this Spotlight on Technology episode, I'm joined by Jeffrey Wheatman, Senior Vice President and Cyber Risk Strategist at Black Kite. Jeffrey previously spent over a decade as an analyst VP at Gartner where he launched their third party cyber risk management coverage.Third party risk management...
Published: Jun 3, 2026Duration: 50m 16s
Season 1 - Episode 97
Deeper Deepfakes - Why You Can No Longer Trust What You See
It took 10 minutes and a free online tool to deepfake Jim's voice, with no expertise and no cost involved.Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined again by Alexandra Jorissen from identifAI, alongside Lorenzo Zoffoli, a cybersecurity professional with 12 years of experience. Following the huge response to our first deepfakes episode, which set a bit of a channel record with the number of views, we go further into the technology, the...
Published: May 20, 2026Duration: 50m 20s
Season 1 - Episode 96
Useful or Spam? A CISO's Guide to Vendor Outreach
Why do so many vendors still get it wrong when selling to security leaders? Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined by Marius Poskus, CISO at a fintech organisation and host of the Cyber Diaries podcast, and Simon Woods, co-founder of One Compliance and a salesperson who's been working in cybersecurity sales for over 15 years. If you're a CISO, you already know how this goes. The same regurgitated emails...
Published: May 6, 2026Duration: 54m 33s
Season 1 - Episode 95
Project Glasswing. What Anthropic's Mythos Means for Cybersecurity
What happens when an AI model can find more vulnerabilities in a day than a red team could find in a year?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, I'm joined by Martin Voelk, penetration tester and AI red teamer, and Jonathan Care, lead analyst at KuppingerCole covering AI and cybersecurity.Anthropic recently announced Mythos, a security-focused AI model reportedly capable of discovering vulnerabilities that have gone undetected for decades, including...
Published: Apr 22, 2026Duration: 54m 8s
Season 1 - Episode 94
The Rise of CTEM - Why AI Demands a New Approach to Security
What happens when your organisation adopts AI faster than your security strategy can keep up?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim, and in this episode, I'm joined by Martin Voelk, penetration tester and AI red teamer, and Jonathan Care, lead analyst covering the intersection of AI, cybersecurity and identity.We started out planning to talk about the rise of CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management) and why traditional pentesting and vulnerability scanning can't keep up...
Published: Apr 8, 2026Duration: 57m 14s
Season 1 - Episode 93
All the Gear and No Idea: What's Actually Going Wrong in Security with Gary Hibberd
The industry is full of people making security sound complicated so they can sell you the fix. Gary Hibberd and Jim talk about what actually works in cybersecurity.Welcome to Razorwire, where we bring you directly into honest conversations with the minds shaping our industry. I’m your host, Jim, and in this episode, I sit down with Gary Hibberd, co-founder of Consultants Like Us and a veteran of the security, data protection and privacy world.We talk about why so many organisations pour money into security tools and chase compliance without doing the real wo...
Published: Mar 25, 2026Duration: 38m 39s
Season 1 - Episode 92
Trust Nothing: The Rise of Deepfakes in Cybercrime
Are you confident you could spot a deepfake in your next meeting, or could someone be using your identity without you knowing?Welcome back to Razorwire, the cybersecurity podcast where we explore the challenges professionals face at the cutting edge of threat intelligence. In this episode, I sit down with Alexandra Jorissen, a specialist in deepfake detection and digital identity safeguards. We discuss the explosive rise of deepfake technology, where it's already being used and what it means for personal and professional security.SummaryIt’s no longer science fiction: deepfakes ha...
Published: Mar 11, 2026Duration: 46m 57s
Season 1 - Episode 91
From Security Theatre to Real Resilience: Why Most Incident Response Plans Fall Apart
Are you ready for the cybersecurity incident that could bring your business to a standstill?On this episode of Razorwire, I sit down with Marius Poskus, a CISO and vCISO, to tackle one of the most crucial yet overlooked aspects of information security: incident response. Whether you’re leading a cyber team, supporting your board, or simply keen to sharpen your readiness, we dig into what happens when your best defences fail and chaos strikes.We talk about what actually happens when an incident hits and why polished policies on their own ar...
Published: Feb 25, 2026Duration: 44m 55s
Season 1 - Episode 90
No Honour Amongst Thieves: The Hidden World of Hackers and Cyber Criminals
Is there really honour amongst cybercriminals or is it every hacker for themselves?On this episode of Razorwire, I’m joined by Martin Voelk, a seasoned ethical hacker, to take a look at how the world’s most notorious cybercriminal groups really operate. We trace the journey from early hacking culture to today’s sprawling underworld of digital organised crime. Along the way, we ask: What does "hacker" truly mean and who actually gets caught when the authorities close in?We discuss the blurred lines between white hat and black hat hackers and why some of the...
Published: Feb 11, 2026Duration: 55m 0s
Season 1 - Episode 89
What’s Making 2026 the Toughest Year Yet for CISOs
What threats should CISOs prioritise as we move into 2026?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim and in this episode, we're looking ahead to the challenges facing security leaders in 2026.I'm joined by Richard Cassidy, EMEA CISO at Rubrik, and together, we discuss the three themes dominating CISO conversations: navigating the expanding regulatory landscape, preparing for quantum computing's impact on existing cryptography and understanding how attackers are shifting from loud ransomware to quiet economic warfare...
Published: Jan 28, 2026Duration: 50m 1s
Season 1 - Episode 88
Cryptocurrency: Good, Bad or Evil?
Are cryptocurrencies revolutionising finance, or are they simply empowering cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers?Welcome to Razorwire, the podcast where we share our take on the world of cybersecurity with direct, practical advice for professionals and business owners alike. I'm Jim, and in this episode, we're tackling one of the most polarising topics at the intersection of finance and security: cryptocurrency.I'm joined by Richard Cassidy, Oliver Rochford and Jonathan Care, and together, we debate whether Bitcoin has solved any real problems or simply enabled cybercriminals to operate at an unprecedented scale, with 98% of ransomware payments...
Published: Jan 14, 2026Duration: 48m 54s
Season 1 - Episode 87
The Razorwire Christmas Special 2025: Looking Back, Looking Forward
What happens when you gather some of the sharpest minds in cybersecurity for an end-of-year chat about where we've been and where we're heading?Welcome to Razorwire's Christmas special. Today I’m chatting with some of our favourite guests from 2025: clinical traumatologist Eve Parmiter, cyber futurist Oliver Rochford, CISO and podcast host Marius Poskus and occupational psychologist Bec McKeown for roundup of the cybersecurity industry this year. This isn't a glossy year-in-review full of predictions and corporate optimism. We're talking about what's actually happened: how our teams are STILL burning out, the junior pipeline that's being hollowed ou...
Published: Dec 24, 2025Duration: 1h 15m 41s