Interview with Josh Mason | Episode 62
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Josh Mason discusses cybersecurity careers, AI's impact on small business security, and practical security decision-making.
In this episode of BHIS Presents: AI Security Ops, Bronwen Aker and Ethan sit down with Josh Mason for a wide-ranging conversation about cybersecurity careers, AI, small business security, and what it actually takes to help organizations make practical security decisions. How do small businesses think about security when they do not have a full-time CISO? And what happens when AI starts lowering the barrier for research, planning, governance, and security operations? Not hypothetically. Not as a buzzword. But in the real world — where companies are trying to understand SOC 2, HIPAA, incident response, cyber insurance, AI governance, hallucinations, and the risks of letting tools make decisions they do not fully understand. Josh brings a practical perspective from his background as a C-130 pilot, cyber leader, instructor, sales engineer, vCISO, consultant, and founder of Noob Village at DEF CON. We dig into: - What Noob Village is and why DEF CON needs an on-ramp for new people - Josh’s path from Air Force pilot to cyber leadership - Why communication and translation matter so much in cybersecurity - What a vCISO actually does for small businesses - How smaller companies think…
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