Be Fearless Podcast by SquareX

About Be Fearless Podcast by SquareX

SquareX is excited to launch The Be Fearless Podcast Series, where we bring together industry experts and professionals from the cybersecurity community. Hosted by SquareX Founder - and cybersecurity veteran - Vivek Ramachandran, look forward to insights about our guests’ journeys in security, the evolution of the field, the changing threatscape and how enterprises across industries are addressing them today.

Publisher

SquareX

Category

news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jun 2024

Latest episode

23 Jan 2026

Latest episodes

107 of 141 episodes have a transcript.

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   23 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Most Companies Misunderstand Cyber Resilience | Francesco Chiarini, CEO, High Value Target

   Francesco Chiarini, CEO of High Value Target, explores cyber resilience with Aleksandra Melnikova, highlighting recovery-first thinking and cyber risk quantification in an interview.

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   19 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Why Hackers Know Your Systems Better Than You | Dan Lohrmann, Field CISO for Public Sector, Presidio

   In this episode of the Be Fearless Podcast, Dan Lohrmann, Field CISO for Public Sector, Presidio, sits down with SquareX Founder's Office's Aleksandra Melnikova to discuss how AI agents, browser-based threats, deepfakes, and shadow AI tools are reshaping the attack surface—and why CISOs must be embedded in AI governance early. They also touch upon what truly differentiates public-sector cybersecurity, from election cycles and budget whiplash to centralized security governance and trust-based ...

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   14 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Human-Centric Approach to Cybersecurity | Vivien Bilquez, Global Head Cyber, Zurich Insurance

   In this episode of the Be Fearless Podcast, Vivien Bilquez of Zurich Insurance sits down with SquareX Founder Office’s Aleksandra Melnikova to discuss whether AI can replace cybersecurity leaders, how CISOs should communicate risk to boards, and what skills will matter most in the future. Vivien shares why AI delivers universal answers but lacks human judgment, why CISOs must master storytelling and financial language, and how to secure executive buy-in through cyber risk quantification. From...

Inside a recent episode

Why Most Companies Misunderstand Cyber Resilience | Francesco Chiarini, CEO, High Value Target

Published 23 Jan 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Then you got the traditional disaster recovery way of being prepared. You got the response driven way and then you got as well some system driven system testing and anything to do with engineering. Cyber resilience is like the composition of all of these four type of approaches and so response is just one of them. In fact, in resiliency there are four goals that are anticipated to withstand recover and evolve and then there are eight objectives for team techniques and 44 approaches. Again, very few companies out there know what it takes to take this comprehensive approach and therefore they just fall back on some of the approaches individual ones that they know about. […]

Who has been a guest on Be Fearless Podcast by SquareX

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• Francesco Chiarini
• Vijay Jajoo
• Cecil Su
• Andrea Bergamini
• Aamir Niazi

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

71

Social presence

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YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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