Ep. 101 – Cyber Security and the Art of Story Telling // Jeffrey Wheatman

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In this episode, James Maude sits down with Jeffrey Wheatman, SVP and Cyber Risk Strategist at Black Kite and former 16-year Gartner VP, whose career started not in a SOC, but behind the counter of a hardware store in New York City. A stack of 2,600 magazines and a Novell NetWare training course later, he found himself in IT but quickly realized there was more than technology involved in security, there was a story to be told.

In his career Jeffrey has coached nearly 500 CISOs on how to walk into a boardroom and actually be heard. Jeffrey explains why Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales make better security training tools than most vendor decks, why your choice of words might be quietly killing your credibility. He also discusses why AI isn't just a threat, it's an imperfect storm that is already tearing through your supply chain whether you're watching it or not.