The Defender's Journal

Welcome to another special spin-off episode of The Defender’s Journal!
This week, Divyangi Anchan joins us - a technology and risk leader whose career has spanned operational risk and privacy leadership at American Express to enterprise AI risk and controls at Google thus far.
In this episode, we explore who should actually be accountable when autonomous AI makes a decision, why AI governance needs orchestration rather than another layer of isolated controls, and why the next generation of risk leaders must “operate at the intersection of three distinct mindsets”. Divyangi also shares a more human perspective on intuition, judgement and knowing when the data doesn’t tell you everything...
+ Interested in joining us on the show? Connect with either Jeff Harrod or Cameron Wenham on LinkedIn or via our website.

Welcome to Episode 38 of The Defender’s Journal!
This week, Ashwin Mithra joins us - Global Head of Information Security at CloudBees, where his team sits at the intersection of software delivery, cloud operations and AI-driven development at scale. 
In this episode, we explore why security can no longer survive as a checkpoint in the pipeline. Ashwin breaks down why developers route around friction, why “death by screenshot” governance doesn’t work when AI is shipping thousands of changes a day, and why the future of secure delivery depends on making security automatic, inherited and ambient - not something teams learn reluctantly at the end.
+ Interested in joining us on the show? Connect with Cameron Wenham on LinkedIn or via our website.

Welcome to Episode 37 of The Defender’s Journal!
This week, Bashar Abouseido joins us - President of Cybersecurity at TENEX.AI and former long-serving CISO at Charles Schwab, where cyber decisions carried consequences beyond systems and into markets, trust and business continuity…
In this episode, we explore why the traditional security model of adding more analysts, more tools and more process has reached its limit. Bashar breaks down why “you can’t out-hire a machine”, why culture can eat your threat model, and why the next generation of security operations will be defined by AI-native scale, context engineering and human-led decision-making at machine speed.
+ Interested in joining us on the show? Connect with Cameron Wenham on LinkedIn or via our website.

Welcome to Episode 36 of The Defender’s Journal!
This week, Kevin Fielder joins us - CISO at NatWest Boxed, operating at the intersection of embedded finance, cloud-native banking and real-world security trade-offs...
In this episode, we explore what it takes to secure a banking platform that sits behind major consumer brands, why “yes, but safely” beats defaulting to no, and how AI is changing the way teams need to think about trust, verification and risk. Kevin also shares why great security leadership is rarely about fixing everything at once - it’s about understanding what matters most, and moving the business forward without losing control.
+ Interested in joining us on the show? Connect with Cameron Wenham on LinkedIn or via our website.

Welcome to another special crossover episode of The Defender’s and Disruptor’s Journal!
This week, Lee Rossey joins us - CTO and Co-Founder of SimSpace, a company helping organisations prove whether their teams, tools and AI agents can perform under real-world pressure.
In this episode, we explore why cyber readiness can no longer rely on assumptions, vendor claims or controlled lab results. Lee breaks down the value of high-fidelity cyber ranges, AI proving grounds and digital twin-style environments - and why the future of security may depend on testing machine-speed responses before they ever reach production…
+ Want to be part of the journey? Connect with host Cameron Wenham or explore both shows via our website!