Lost In Cyberia
Cybersecurity doesn't have to be boring or a tick-box exercise. Annie-Mei Forster and Anika Guenov sit down with the people shaping the world of cyber: founders, researchers, and the occasional DEFCON after-party regular for honest, jargon-free conversations about what's actually going on in the industry. Because behind every threat, tool, and policy, there's a human story worth telling.
Follow us on Instagram, YouTube or LinkedIn @thecybersecuritygals
Lost In Cyberia
Ep. 32 Your Brain Is The Attack Surface with Jadon Cruz Montero
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
The best thing about attending events around the world is the people you meet. Annie-Mei met Jadon at a DEFCON after-party in 2025, where Jadon was struggling to get the bartender's attention for a beer. Nothing bonds people like needing a cold beverage. Jadon is the founder of New York-based Maro, a tool he describes as a security buddy that helps employees actually follow policy. Maro is a cute flame character that intervenes in real time when someone's about to paste sensitive data into an unapproved AI tool or fall for a social engineering attack.
Jadon took an unusual path to cybersecurity. At Yale, he studied books so that he'd be able to understand what people were talking about at cocktail parties (which, to be fair, is a useful skill to have) but then he ended up going down the computer science path. He got the attention of a salesperson who he cold contacted and managed to get an internship at Threat Stack.
The three of us discussed a lot of topics including AI regulation, sovereign AI, cognitive security and so much more. Make sure you endorse Jadon for 'tequila' on LinkedIn!
Jadon’s LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jadoncm?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios
Find us on Instagram, YouTube or LinkedIn @thecybersecuritygals