The CYBERCAST by NEVERHACK is a cybersecurity podcast where we break myths and tackle taboos. Our discussions cover topics for everyone—young and old, experienced professionals, and those just beginning their careers in the cyber world. Hosted by Louis Zezeran & Ronnie Jaanhold.
Hope Eats Strategy for Lunch: Why Cybersecurity Fails Without Process Discipline — with Aleksandr Miina, Lean Digital
Your company has a security plan. When did anyone last test it?
Recorded live at the Nordic Baltic Security Summit in Tallinn, this episode of the NEVERHACK Cybercast brings in a guest from outside the usual threat-research circuit. Host Ronnie Jaanhold talks with Aleksandr Miina, co-founder and partner at Lean Digital, who has spent 20 years studying why good process ideas die inside real organisations.
Aleksandr's diagnosis is blunt: the tech layer is usually in place. The firewalls and tools are there. What's missing is the management layer: software inventories, named owners, access rules, offboarding checklists, backups that have actually been restored. Without it, security runs on hope.
Ronnie and Aleksandr cover how corners get cut quietly (the MFA exception, the "temporary" admin password), whether NIS2 is producing discipline or just better-documented hope, what Lean's continuous improvement teaches about resilience, a single metric for process health, and a no-budget check you can start on Monday morning.
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8 Oct 2026
A Day in the Life of a SOC Analyst: Human Judgment, Transparency and Trust
What really happens inside a Security Operations Center at 3am on Christmas Day? In part two of our SOC deep-dive, Louis Zezeran sits down again with Fotul "Forhan" Karim Forhan, Head of SOC at NEVERHACK Estonia, to walk through a SOC analyst's day from shift handover to escalation.
Forhan explains how an MSSP funnels alerts from many EDR and SIEM tools into a single queue. He shows why analysts set their own priorities instead of trusting the vendor's "critical" label, and how analysis of competing hypotheses shapes a verdict. They also cover:
24/7/365 human coverage and why automation alone isn't enough
A client portal that shows every ticket, note and SLA, with nothing hidden
Rules of engagement, and why letting your SOC act needs trust
How a good SOC raises security maturity until alerts start to drop
Why tierless SOC teams keep analysts engaged for longer
Whether you run a SOC, buy SOC services or want to become an analyst, this episode gives you an honest view from the inside.
Listen now, subscribe to the Cybercast by NEVERHACK, and connect with Louis and Forhan on LinkedIn.
22 Sept 2026
Digital Sovereignty: Why Cutting Europe Off Could Make Us Less Secure with Jesper Olsen from Palo Alto Networks
Everyone is suddenly talking about digital sovereignty — but almost nobody agrees on what it actually means. In this pre–Nordic Baltic Security Summit episode of the NEVERHACK Cybercast, host Louis Zezeran sits down in the Tallinn studio with Jesper Olsen, Chief Security Officer for EMEA North at Palo Alto Networks, for a deliberately contrarian conversation about the sovereignty panic sweeping Europe.
Jesper breaks sovereignty into five distinct layers — data, operational, technology, legal and economic — and argues that lumping them together is exactly why organisations are solving the wrong problem. Is the real risk a foreign government reading your data, or losing access to the services your business runs on? Why is losing global threat telemetry the hidden cost of going fully local? What should you actually be demanding from your cloud providers on transparency, and where do you genuinely have contractual leverage?
Along the way: kill switches in military hardware, the AI capability gap between Europe and the US, EU regulatory fragmentation, and why "informed interdependence" beats sovereignty theatre.
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