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The Risk Apogee
The Risk Apogee is a 1:1 interview series, sponsored by Apogee Global RMS, featuring candid conversations with risk leaders serving small and mid-sized businesses and public sector organizations. Each episode explores how practitioners translate risk theory into practical action, focusing on real incidents, lessons learned, and frameworks that drive resilience in resource-constrained environments
Episodes
12 episodes
How a Cross-Industry Risk Leader Thinks About Data Protection When the Stakes Are Irreversible
Healthcare organizations carry some of the most sensitive data in existence, yet the industry consistently ranks among the lowest in security investment. Jonathan Chan has spent more than twenty years building and securing technology across ele...
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How Enterprise Leaders Should Prepare for the Convergence of AI and Quantum Risk
Most enterprise leaders are consumed by AI adoption. Almost none are preparing for what comes next. Quantum computing is advancing faster than the industry acknowledges, AI is accelerating its arrival, and the cryptographic infrastructure that ...
How the FBI Counters Ransomware, Nation-State Threats, and the Gaps Industry Still Hasn't Closed
Ransomware actors are targeting unpatched edge devices and end-of-life hardware. Nation-state adversaries are compromising home office routers to pivot into critical infrastructure from trusted U.S. IP space. And most organizations still haven'...
How Enterprise Leaders Build Intelligence-Grade Risk Visibility Across Domains
Enterprise risk doesn't stay inside a single department, but most organizations still manage it as though it does. Dana Barnes is the President of TRSS and a career executive whose path through IBM, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, and Dataminr g...
How a Public Sector CISO Prioritizes Risk When Every Dollar Has a Human Cost
Public sector cybersecurity leaders face a resource equation that doesn't exist in the private sector: every security investment is weighed directly against public safety, housing, and essential city services. Austin Davis is the CISO for the C...
Teddra Burgess on People Development, Federal Go-to-Market, and Building After Enterprise
Promoting someone based on what they can execute tactically tells you very little about whether they'll succeed at the next level. Teddra Burgess spent nearly three decades in enterprise technology sales and public sector strategy before foundi...
How Geopolitical Risk, AI Adoption, and Compliance Gaps Converge in the Enterprise
Organizations across the defense industrial base, healthcare, and critical infrastructure are treating compliance frameworks as the ceiling of their security investment rather than the floor, and doing so while geopolitical adversaries are alre...
How Behavioral Security Is Rewriting the Human Risk Equation
Most organizations still manage human risk by training employees and hoping the behavior changes. That approach has never been grounded in evidence, and AI is making it dangerously obsolete. Oz Alashe is the founder and CEO of CybSafe, a behavi...
How Enterprise Leaders Should Think About AI, Quantum, and Crown Jewel Protection
The market rewards speed over security, and most executive teams are making resource decisions accordingly, but that trade-off becomes existential when adversaries are stockpiling encrypted data and quantum computing is approaching viability.
How State Leaders Balance AI Adoption, Cyber Resilience, and Workforce Equity
State governments are under pressure to adopt AI, strengthen cyber resilience, and build workforce pipelines, all at the same time, and without leaving communities behind. In this conversation recorded live at the RSAC Conference in San Francis...
How a 30-Year Practitioner Sees the Future of Security Leadership
The CISO role is caught between rising personal liability, tactical overload, and a business landscape that still treats security as a technology function rather than an enterprise risk discipline. Aaron Wurthmann is a fractional security leade...
How Bob Lord Reframes Cybersecurity as a Software Safety Problem
Most enterprise security spending goes toward bolting defensive tools onto software that was never built to be safe in the first place, and board conversations rarely question whether that's the right fight. Bob Lord has spent his career at the...