Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

The word hacker did not start as an insult, it described people pushing technology beyond what it was designed to do. The clip reframes hacking as curiosity, experimentation and technical creativity, while showing how the meaning only became darker when malicious intent entered the picture.

A single film turned teenage curiosity into a lifelong career in information security, long before most people had access to computers at all. War Games made hacking look technical, dangerous and fascinating, and that early obsession became the start of a serious path into InfoSec.

This episode explores why information security needs more wisdom, less noise and fewer empty promises about being “GDPR compliant.” It covers slowing down, valuing data properly, cutting through bad advice and why InfoSec professionals need to own their place as integral voices in modern organisations.  ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Cybersecurity professionals and CISO roles are under threat. Not from hackers - from AI. Information security leadership, risk management and security strategy are being marketed as something artificial intelligence can now handle. But there's a serious problem with that assumption.

Rising anxiety around decision making worries many leaders, as younger professionals fear choices that might come back to hurt their careers. The conversation argues that some struggle and hard calls build resilience, because security work often means choosing a path with partial data and then learning fast when reality hits. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Military war games use zombie apocalypse scenarios not for fantasy, but to push teams beyond routine thinking and train fast decisions under absurd pressure. The aim is to build habits for complex crises, so when a real incident arrives, people respond with practised judgement instead of paralysis and argument. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

One exercise killed off the leader on paper and left the management team to run the organisation without that decision maker or access to key mandates. The scenario exposed hidden dependencies, legal bottlenecks and fragile processes, and forced everyone to map where single points of failure threaten both business and incident response. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

A banking incident early in one career showed what good leadership looks like, with senior executives handing over a credit card, arranging food, hotel rooms and proper shift rotations. Instead of demanding updates every five minutes, leadership shielded the team from pressure, supported rest cycles and focused on helping the business survive. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Generative AI can produce realistic taxi receipts, complete with stains and wear, which blend into digital expense workflows that expect only a quick photo upload. As more organisations move to app based reimbursement, synthetic documents slip through unless controls, audits and behavioural checks keep pace with these tools. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..

Detection tools now use so called degenerative AI to analyse every frame of a video, looking for traces of the models and methods used to generate or edit it. Generative AI produces the fake, degenerative AI hunts for subtle artefacts in pixels, giving investigators a way to flag manipulated content at scale. ⸻ For more information about us or if you have any questions you would like us to discuss email podcast@razorthorn.com. We give our clients a personalised, integrated approach to information security, driven by our belief in quality and discretion..