Episode 6: The Crown Jewels with Jon Staniforth

12/16/24 • 42 min

In episode 6 of What The Hack, we speak with the hugely talented cyber security leader Jon Staniforth, whose extensive experience and phenomenal expertise tracks across global organisations. With over 20 years of experience working across multiple sectors, including Logistics, Telecom, Technology, Retail and Financial Services, we hear how businesses need to align appropriate security solutions to meet their risk appetite and how security threats are like taxes - they’re going to be around forever.

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What The Hack is hosted by Rayna Stamboliyska and this episode's special guest is Jon Staniforth. Jon is a Senior Cyber / Information security and risk executive with a successful track record in global organisations. With over 20 years experience working across multiple sectors, including Logistics, Telecom, Technology, Retail and Financial services, Jon has demonstrable experience addressing the security challenges faced by organisations. Jon's experience in risk management, compliance and behavioural change combined with technical background enables him to align business requirements with appropriate security solutions to meet the business’ risk appetite.

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What The Hack is hosted by Rayna Stamboliyska and this episode's special guest is Kayle Giroud. Kayle is Director of the international Common Good Initiative at Global Cyber Alliance, a collaborative effort aimed at galvanizing action to strengthen the Internet's resilience. Kayle has more than 5 years of experience in international cooperation and is passionate about the impact of emerging tech on our societies and fundamental rights, and is a strong advocate for organisations that make a genuine contribution towards the well-being of the world.

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What The Hack is hosted by Rayna Stamboliyska and this episode's special guests are Kate O’Flaherty, Geoff White and Dan Raywood.
Kate is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist with well over a decade’s experience covering the issues that matter to users, businesses and governments.

From billion-dollar cyber heists to global money laundering rings and crypto-gangsters – Geoff has covered it all. As an author, speaker, investigative journalist and podcast creator, his work’s been featured by Penguin, the BBC, Audible, Sky News, The Sunday Times and many more.

With more than 20 years experience of B2B journalism, including 12 years covering cybersecurity, Dan brings a wealth of experience and information security knowledge to the table. He has covered everything from the rise of APTs, nation-state hackers, and hacktivists, to data breaches and the increase in government regulation to better protect citizens and hold businesses to account

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The podcast is proudly supported by Sysdig and AWS - together, Sysdig and AWS help enterprises strengthen cyber resilience and accelerate secure cloud innovation.

Visit the Learn Cloud Native Hub for articles that provide a foundational understanding for the core pillars of cloud and container security.

What The Hack - Episode 6: The Crown Jewels with Jon Staniforth

Transcript

Rayna Stamboliyska00:00:13.599

Hello, and welcome to What the Hack is a CISO. This podcast will help you in your journey to be a better cybersecurity leader. It's supported by Sysdig, the company on a mission to make every cloud deployment reliable and secure. I'm Rayna Stamboliyska , an EU Digital Ambassador covering the intersection of tech security and policy, and the CEO at R Strategy. In this week's episode, I'm talking to Jon Staniforth. Hi, Jon.

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