Risk Never Sleeps Podcast

A three-centimeter puncture wound became a nearly thirty-centimeter incision, and the machete was his own. In this episode, Demetri Giannikopoulos, founder of Xrisi Growth and former Chief Growth Officer at Rad AI, talks about why the risk he worries about is a good solution that changes nothing. He traces a career that started the week the HIPAA security rule took effect, when his manager handed him a screwdriver, a pile of wood, and a printed copy of the law. He explains why he argued publicl

Shadow IT was hard enough; now there are shadow agents. In this episode, Rob Mireles, Chief Information Security Officer at Lexington Health, talks about reducing the blast radius of an attack while agentic AI expands the identity problem inside the health system. He walks through the zero trust, microsegmentation, and IAM work his team has prioritized, and explains why identity, the least glamorous corner of GRC, now determines whether an organization can control what its agents are permitte

An AI agent inherits whatever access the person prompting it already has. In this episode, Stephen Clark, Director of Security at Children's Health in Dallas, talks about building AI governance inside a pediatric health system where access management, data privacy, and security all sit on his desk. He walks through the three initiatives his team has run for five years: defending the network's edge and interior, protecting data across hundreds of applications and workloads, and putting guardra

After nine years leading healthcare’s cyber defense efforts and a dozen-plus appearances before Congress, the next chapter calls for fewer policy briefs and more classical guitar. In this episode, Greg Garcia, Executive Director of the Health Sector Coordinating Council Cybersecurity Working Group, talks with Ed Gaudet about the final months of his tenure and the life he has been planning beyond it. He discusses his September 15 testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommitt

Anyone can get pwned, and understanding the psychology behind cyberattacks may be more important than understanding the technology. In this episode, Frank Riccardi, cybersecurity and privacy expert and author of CTRL+ALT+PWN: The Hacker’s Playbook (And How to Beat It), breaks down the tools and psychological tricks cybercriminals use to target everyday people. He explains why basic cyber hygiene, rather than fear of specific technologies, is one of the best defenses against attacks involving

AI is changing not only cybersecurity but also the way people interact with organizations and information. In this episode, Heather Hinton, Chief Information Security Officer at Sitecore, discusses the evolving relationship among cybersecurity, AI, business priorities, and human behavior. She discusses why security teams need to return to basics and how to help employees understand the “why” behind security practices. Heather also emphasizes the importance of collaboration across the cybersec