Kill Chain: A Platform Cybersecurity Podcast

Terry sits down with Cesile Johnson, CTO of Core Bank, for a conversation about what it actually takes to modernize a bank from the inside — the legacy systems nobody wants to touch, the guardrails that have to exist before AI gets anywhere near customer data, and the reality of building a career in a room where she was often the only woman in it. Cesile walks through how her team took delivery velocity on one initiative from 5% to 85%, what real AI governance looks like inside a regulated ba...

On this episode of Kill Chain, we go straight to the source with someone who spends his career trying to break into cars, trucks, and the chargers that power them. Kamel Ghali is an automotive cybersecurity researcher, penetration tester, and educator, and VP of International Operations for DEF CON's Car Hacking Village — the group that's been teaching the world to hack vehicles safely since 2017. Kamel walks us through a real exploit chain that hands over root access to an aftermarket infota...

This week, Kill Chain takes a step back from cybersecurity for a different kind of conversation. Aaron Cerrone — a 28-year military veteran and former chief of operations at U.S. Strategic Command, longtime entrepreneur, and former University of Nebraska Omaha business instructor — joins the show to talk about what it actually takes to build a business and a life that last. It's a no-fluff conversation about defining success before you chase it, the myths around "follow your passion," the ung...

In 1994, Daragh Mahon won the green card lottery and moved from Ireland to Atlanta. His first American job was driving an eighteen-wheeler for Schneider. Thirty years later, he runs IT for Werner Enterprises, one of the largest trucking companies in North America, with 12,000 drivers moving freight across the country every day. In this episode of Kill Chain, host Terry Reinert sits down with Daragh to unpack a career arc most CIOs never take and a perspective on cybersecurity, AI, and the fut...

Jorden Gershenson spent 8 years in the Air Force detecting nuclear tests from a basement full of seismometers. Now he's building Aulendur Labs — a startup that wants to forecast everything from freight loads to geopolitical events using the same machine learning powering global weather models. In this episode we dig into Jorden's path from Air Force technical application specialist to software engineer to startup founder, how he won a DoD SBIR for nuclear plume modeling, why he thinks the gov...