SecurityMetrics Podcast

About SecurityMetrics Podcast

Practical Cybersecurity, hosted by Jen Stone (MCIS, CISSP, CISA, QSA), is the bridge between complex security frameworks and real-world business implementation. Whether you are a "Jack of all trades" IT manager or a business leader with limited resources, this show provides the roadmap to a defensible security posture.

Publisher

SecurityMetrics

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Apr 2020

Latest episode

1 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

122 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Sept 2026

   How to Pass your PCI Assessment in 2027: Targeted Risk Analysis, MFA, and the E-Commerce Gap: (ep. 14)

   PCI DSS 4.0.1 has been the standard for a while now, but a lot of organizations are still stuck on the same handful of requirements. In this episode, Jen Stone sits down with Matt Halbleib, Director of Assessments at SecurityMetrics, to break down where SMBs keep getting tripped up — and how to fix it. Key topics covered: Why you need to read the actual standard (not just the summary of changes) — and why the PDF version matters Getting senior management buy-in and putting a real p...

2. 

   4 Aug 2026

   AI Didn't Change the Rules, It Raised the Stakes (ep.13)

   You can pass your PCI assessment and still be leaking cardholder data. In e-commerce, compliant and secure are not the same thing — and AI just made the gap between them a lot harder to ignore. In this episode, SecurityMetrics Principal Security Analyst Jen Stone is joined by forensic investigator Aaron Willis and [HOST NAME] for a practitioner panel on how AI is reshaping attacks on cardholder data — and why passing PCI DSS 4.0.1 isn't the same as being safe. It's a repurposed webinar buil...

3. 

   21 Jul 2026

   Your PCI Scope is Too Big (and how to fix it) Ep.12

   How much of your business actually needs to be PCI compliant? Almost always less than you think. Every system inside your PCI scope is something you have to secure, document, and prove — year after year. So the fastest way to cut the cost and effort of compliance isn't working harder on controls. It's making your scope smaller. In this episode, Principal Security Analysts Jen Stone and Michael Simpson break down how PCI scope actually works — the three buckets every system falls into, the con...

Who has been a guest on SecurityMetrics Podcast

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

• Brett Cox
• Nishant Kaushik
• Roger Grimes
• Peter Briel
• Lee Pierce

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

532,279

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

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

Quality

56

Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

85

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