The Cyber Ranch Podcast

Ride the cyber trails with one CISO (Allan Alford) and a diverse group of friends and experts who bring a human perspective to cybersecurity.

The Cyber Ranch Podcast is a technology podcast hosted by Allan Alford, with 204 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Allan Alford hosts The Cyber Ranch Podcast, a technology show with 204 episodes published.

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  Episode #204

  That's All, Folks, and THANK YOU!

  Jan 8, 202515 minS0

  <p>Every trail ride ends at the, well, end of the trail.</p> <p>This is the end of the trail for The Cyber Ranch Podcast.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>It's been an amazing journey and we thank ALL of you who ever listened to even just one snippet of one episode.</p> <p>Y'all stay good now!</p>

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  Episode #203

  Why We Need To Rethink All of It

  Jan 1, 202539 minS0

  <p>Howdy, y’all, and welcome to The Cyber Ranch Podcast.  Today we tackle WHY?  <br> 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?</p> <p>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?</p> <p>WHAT  can we change?</p> <p>Join Allan Alford, many times CISO, and cybersecurity podcaster of many years now.  Joining Allan is Drew Simonis, who has been co-hosting the show now...

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  Episode #202

  Narrative Intelligence with Joe Stradinger

  Dec 18, 202437 minS0

  <p>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.</p> <p>Our guest this week is Joe Stradinger, Founder and CEO of EdgeTheory, who are out to understand and leverage the conversations that shape our world.  Specifically, social media campaigns and presences.  Think threat intelligence but at a global/sociopolitical lev...

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  Episode #201

  CISO vs. CTO with Jon Green

  Dec 11, 202433 minS0

  <p>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 CSO/CISO and CTO.  Jon, thank you so much for joining us at the ‘Ranch!</p> Tell us about your early career, did you start in security or as a technologist? What...

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  Episode #200

  Industry Introspective with Thomas Krane

  Dec 4, 202434 minS0

  <p>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 ‘Ranch to discuss quite a few facets of the industry.  Thomas, thank you for coming on down to the ‘Ranch!</p> We see consolidation and platform creation, but also continued development and evolution of...

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