
Dark Reading Confidential
InformaTechtarget
5.0from 5 ratings
- 22
- Episodes
- 15
- Transcribed
- 5
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About Dark Reading Confidential
At any moment around the world, cybercriminals and nation-state sponsored hackers are targeting businesses, government entities, and nonprofits for financial gain, cyber espionage, or geopolitical advantage. But behind every organization facing this nonstop barrage of cyberattack activity are dedicated cybersecurity professionals working to defend their organizations’ networks, systems, and sensitive information. Dark Reading Confidential brings you rare, firsthand stories from the cybersecurity practitioners in the cyber trenches, as well high-profile industry experts and headline-makers. Subscribe, and treat your ears to compelling stories and insights from the actual people fighting back against these hackers, and the experts helping to shape ever-evolving cybersecurity defenses.
- Publisher
- InformaTechtarget
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 May 2024
- Latest episode
- 16 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
15 of 22 episodes have a transcript.

16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fighting Your Dragons Through Tough Tech Times

28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
When AI Attacks AI: Lessons From the Hugging Face Hack

24 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Do CISOs Need a Code of Ethics?
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Fighting Your Dragons Through Tough Tech Times
Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Yeah. Let me tell you, I wander those fields myself. I've lived through, professionally, several major economic downturns. The dot-com bubble bursting was a massacre. Six, seven years later, we had the real estate bubble bursting, which you wouldn't think it would impact IT, but it impacted spending across all industries. You know, there were times, you know, when when work was very hard to come by and I felt it myself, you know, this this feeling of, you know, it's like feeling kind of at a loose end and, you know, depressed. And it's like because you're not getting to do that thing that you're you're passionate about. […]
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- Hal Pomeranz
- Rich Mogull
- Robert "RSnake" Hansen
- Will Thomas
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- 5.0 / 5
- 3 ratings
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- 5.0 / 5
- 2 ratings
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- 30
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 81
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