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From Fixing Printers to CISO: Grant Hughes' Unlikely Cybersecurity Journey (opens the original)
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Ever feel stuck in a help desk role, wondering if cybersecurity is even reachable without a degree or years of "experience"? Grant Hughes was exactly there — until he sent one cold email that changed his career forever. In this episode of The Cyber Weekly Podcast, Grant Hughes (CISO at The Nascent Group, Founding President of the ISC2 Cape Town Chapter) breaks down: How he went from desktop support to CISO with zero security certsThe exact conversation that got him his first break in securityWhy
Why Most CISOs Don't Know What Their Business Actually Does (opens the original)
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🚨 Most CISOs can explain every control on their stack but ask them what the business actually sells, and they go quiet. In this episode of The Cyber Weekly, Deo sits down with Jake Bernardes CISO at Gambit Security, ex-pen tester, chartered accountant, and a guy who learned Chinese and German before ever touching cybersecurity. We get into:💰 The "Minimum Viable Business" framework for justifying security spend🧩 Why GRC is broken (and how to fix the forgotten "R")🤖 Which security roles AI will ki
Why Most Cybersecurity Salespeople Fail (And How to Fix It) (opens the original)
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In this episode of The Cyber Weekly Podcast, hosts Deogratius Okello and Angella Nabbanja sit down with Mădălin Bratu — General Manager and Founder of Sectio Aurea (operating under the brand Phi). Mădălin brings 20 years of experience across cybersecurity, governance, risk, and enterprise technology, sharing insights from his career at IBM, CA Technologies, and Eviden/Atos. He breaks down the realities of implementing frameworks like NIS2 and ISO 27001 in complex operational environments, why co
Heather Reed - She Turned 5 Volunteers Into 75 Cybersecurity Ambassadors 🔐 (opens the original)
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Only 40% of her company completed the annual security awareness training. Human error was the #1 risk on the register. So she stopped writing policies and started recruiting people. 👥 In this episode of The Cyber Weekly Podcast, Deo Okello sits down with Heather Reed — cybersecurity leader, Cyber Security Woman of the Year finalist, competitive cookie designer 🍪 and former Cookie Wars contestant on the Food Network. Heather came into security from marketing, people leadership and compliance, and
90 days from technical to IT risk professional (opens the original)
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⚠️ One overlooked technical issue could become a major financial, operational or reputational crisis. But what exactly is IT risk, and why do organizations invest so much in managing it? In this episode of The Cyber Weekly Podcast, Deo Okello sits down with IT risk and security professional Peter Muhumuza to break down IT risk in practical, easy-to-understand language. You will learn: 🔍 How technical weaknesses become business risks📊 How organizations classify and track risks⚖️ Which risks can b
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