Ahead of the Breach

About Ahead of the Breach

Welcome to the Ahead of the Breach, the podcast dedicated to equipping security experts and practitioners with the knowledge and insights needed to excel in the future of cybersecurity. Join us as we explore innovative strategies, emerging trends, actionable takeaways to help security leaders stay ahead.

Publisher

Sprocket Security

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

27 Aug 2024

Latest episode

4 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

49 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   4 Mar 2026

   Accenture's Daniel Barnes on SAML exploitation and what really matters in pentesting

   What makes a vulnerability truly shocking is simplicity, once you notice the assumption everyone else missed. In this episode, Daniel shares a memorable SAML/SSO privilege escalation from a real engagement, then zooms out into what it takes to grow as a penetration tester: handling uncertainty, collaborating through roadblocks, and building the fundamentals that make creative problem-solving possible. The conversation blends war stories with practical guidance for both aspiring testers and security leaders. We cover everything from dependency risk and real-world scoping realities to why thinking like an attacker belongs early in the SDLC, not at the end.

2. 

   11 Feb 2026

   Matthew Winters on Threat Hunting, Graph Thinking, and Making Adversaries Cry

   What does effective threat hunting actually look like inside large, complex environments? In this episode of Ahead of the Breach, we sit down with Matthew Winters of T. Rowe Price to unpack what it means to hunt threats at scale and why the hardest part isn’t finding suspicious behavior, but deciding where to look in the first place. Matthew brings a practitioner’s perspective shaped by years in SOC operations, incident response, and enterprise environments. The conversation moves well beyond tools and techniques, focusing instead on mindset, prioritization, and how defenders can think more strategically about disrupting attackers.

3. 

   6 Jan 2026

   Citi's Ryan Hays Navigating Risk and Resilience at Scale

   What does navigating risk really look like at global scale? In this episode of Ahead of the Breach, host Casey Cammilleri sits down with Ryan Hays from Citi to explore how security teams operate inside one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Ryan shares real-world perspective on managing risk, building resilience, and making security decisions in environments defined by complexity, regulation, and constant threat pressure. From aligning security efforts with business priorities to adapting defenses across massive, interconnected systems, this conversation offers practical insight into what it takes to protect critical financial infrastructure at scale.

Who has been a guest on Ahead of the Breach

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Parthasarathi Chakraborty
• Tim Silverline
• Vivek Menon
• Vladimir Tokarev

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

113,700

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

44

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

32

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Books guests

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