Season 2 of Inside Cyber Minds continues with JP Calabio — cybersecurity executive, CISO, and security leader at Grainger.In this episode, JP shares a practical look at modern cybersecurity leadership from the perspective of someone responsible for protecting a large, complex enterprise environment.We discuss what it really means to lead security inside a business, how CISOs balance risk, operations, communication, and executive expectations, and why cybersecurity leadership is no longer just about technology.This conversation goes beyond tools and frameworks.It is about decision-making, business alignment, security culture, leadership pressure, vendor noise, resilience, and the reality of defending organizations where security must enable the business without slowing it down.If you care about CISO leadership, enterprise security, cyber risk, executive communication, and the human side of cybersecurity, this episode is essential listening.Topics CoveredThe role of the modern CISOCybersecurity leadership inside a large enterpriseRisk management and business alignmentCommunicating security to executives and the boardBuilding security programs that support the businessThe difference between technical security and leadershipSecurity culture and organizational influenceVendor noise and how security leaders evaluate solutionsResilience, incident readiness, and operational pressureLessons for the next generation of cybersecurity professionalsHow CISOs think about trust, accountability, and executionAbout Inside Cyber MindsInside Cyber Minds is a cybersecurity podcast by Lufsec, featuring deep, unscripted conversations with hackers, CISOs, researchers, founders, and industry leaders. The show focuses on mindset, decision-making, leadership pressure, and the human side of cybersecurity.Watch & Listen▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Lufsec🔗 Listen on your favorite platform🎙️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hWg94SxRjHUMCMXoKutlc🎤 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/87069409-9772-4c83-821a-d5607e52be51/inside-cyber-minds🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/podcast/Inside-Cyber-Minds/B0G15CT6R1?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-cyber-minds/id1851011640LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/lufsec/JP Calabio / LinksCISOXC Chicago 2026: https://www.cisoxc.com/chicago-2026Grainger: https://www.grainger.com/

Season 2 of Inside Cyber Minds continues with Toni de la Fuente — founder and CEO of Prowler, creator of the open-source Prowler project, and a cloud security leader focused on helping organizations secure cloud environments with transparency, automation, and practical security engineering.

In this episode, Toni shares the story behind Prowler, how an open-source cloud security tool became a widely used platform for security and compliance, and why cloud security needs to be practical, continuous, and accessible.

We discuss the evolution of cloud security, the challenges of securing AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Microsoft 365, Infrastructure as Code, and other modern environments, and why visibility remains one of the hardest problems for security teams.

This conversation is about more than one tool.

It is about open source, cloud security posture management, compliance automation, engineering culture, startup building, community, and the future of securing complex cloud environments.

If you care about cloud security, open source, compliance, automation, and how security tools are built from real-world engineering problems, this episode is essential listening.

Topics Covered

• The story behind Prowler
• Open-source cloud security
• Cloud security posture management
• Security and compliance automation
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, GitHub, Microsoft 365, and multi-cloud visibility
• Why cloud security needs to be continuous
• The role of open source in cybersecurity
• Building a security product from a community project
• The challenge of making cloud security simple, scalable, and useful
• What security teams often get wrong about cloud security
• Toni’s journey as a founder and security engineer
• The future of cloud security and AI-driven security workflows

About Inside Cyber Minds

Inside Cyber Minds is a cybersecurity podcast by Lufsec, featuring deep, unscripted conversations with hackers, CISOs, researchers, founders, and industry leaders. The show focuses on mindset, decision-making, leadership pressure, and the human side of cybersecurity.

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▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Lufsec

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LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/lufsec/

Toni de la Fuente / Prowler

Prowler: https://prowler.com/
Prowler GitHub: https://github.com/prowler-cloud/prowler
Prowler Docs: https://docs.prowler.com/
Toni’s website: https://blyx.com/

The Season 2 premiere of Inside Cyber Minds features a conversation with Dmitri Alperovitch — co-founder and former CTO of CrowdStrike, co-founder and chairman of Silverado Policy Accelerator, founder of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS, and author of World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the 21st Century.In this episode, Dmitri goes beyond traditional cybersecurity conversations to explore how cyber conflict now fits into a much larger global picture: nation-state competition, geopolitical power, deterrence, intelligence, China, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, and the future of American leadership.We discuss how cyber operations have changed over the years, why the line between cybersecurity and national security has almost disappeared, and what security leaders need to understand about the new era of global conflict.This is not a tactical “how-to” episode. It’s a strategic conversation about power, cyber statecraft, geopolitical risk, and where cybersecurity is heading next.If you care about cyber war, national security, threat intelligence, and the people shaping the future of global cybersecurity, this episode is essential listening.Topics Covered- Cybersecurity as a national security issue- Cyber war, cyber espionage, and state-sponsored operations- China, Taiwan, and the race for the 21st century- Russia, Ukraine, and lessons from modern conflict- The evolution of threat intelligence- What cyber leaders often misunderstand about geopolitics- Deterrence, power, and strategic competition- Dmitri’s journey from CrowdStrike to Silverado Policy Accelerator- The role of cybersecurity professionals in a world of great-power competition- How the next generation should think about cyber, policy, and global riskAbout Inside Cyber MindsInside Cyber Minds is a cybersecurity podcast by Lufsec, featuring deep, unscripted conversations with hackers, CISOs, researchers, founders, and industry leaders. The show focuses on mindset, decision-making, leadership pressure, and the human side of cybersecurity.Watch & Listen▶️ YouTube: https://youtube.com/@Lufsec🔗 Listen on your favorite platform🎙️ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6hWg94SxRjHUMCMXoKutlc🎤 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/87069409-9772-4c83-821a-d5607e52be51/inside-cyber-minds🎧 Audible: https://www.audible.com/podcast/Inside-Cyber-Minds/B0G15CT6R1?source_code=ASSGB149080119000H&share_location=pdp🍎 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inside-cyber-minds/id1851011640LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/lufsec/Dmitri:Book: https://www.amazon.com/World-Brink-America-Twenty-First-Century/dp/1541704096/Podcast: https://podcast.silverado.org/Social: @DAlperovitch