Risky Business Features

James Wilson

Booking Overview

An enterprise-focused cybersecurity interview show that combines solo analysis with conversations featuring CISOs, security researchers, technology founders, and specialist journalists. PR agencies can credibly pitch cybersecurity executives, researchers with original findings, privacy-preserving AI experts, and founders addressing significant security problems; booking difficulty is medium because guests generally need substantial technical authority or firsthand investigative expertise.

Metrics

Episodes: 40

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 7.7k subscribers

Contact Information

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Host

James Wilson - Former CTO and cybersecurity commentator focused on enterprise security, cybercrime, artificial intelligence, and technology risk.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

CISOs, senior cybersecurity researchers, threat intelligence leaders, technology founders, and investigative journalists with direct expertise or original findings in enterprise security, cybercrime, artificial intelligence, or privacy.

Required Achievements:

Leading original cybersecurity research or investigations, Holding senior security leadership roles at established technology companies, Founding or building specialized cybersecurity or artificial intelligence companies, Producing notable threat intelligence, vulnerability research, or security disclosures

Recent Guest Discussions

Brian Krebs - The Investigation Into Teampcp, Cybercrime Identities, Software Supply-chain Attacks, And Passive DNS Research.

James Kettle - Using Large Language Models To Develop Novel HTTP Attack Techniques, Autonomous Security Research, And Evaluating Machine-generated Findings.

Tanya Verma - Private Large-language-model Inference, Trusted Execution Environments, Hardware Attestation, GPU Isolation, And Open-weight Models.

Ensar Seker - The Fortibleed Campaign, Ai-enabled Cybercrime, Ransomware Operations, And The Industrialization Of Attack Infrastructure.

Recent Topics

Cybersecurity, Cybercrime, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Mental Health

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Risky Business Features

Bug count sounds impressive... but means little

October 02, 2026

In this solo Risky Business Features episode, James Wilson explains why “number of bugs” fixed in any given update is a misleading metric. We’ve seen up to 1,000 individual bug fixes in a single update recently, but that doesn’t give defenders the full picture they need to manage risks. Not all bugs are equally exploitable, so the industry needs to catch up to the bugpocalypse with more transparency. And maybe an entirely different approach to patching. ...

How to launder illicit Bitcoin

September 15, 2026

In this podcast episode, investigative journalist Geoff White joins James Wilson to talk about what happens to the money after ransomware gangs get a payday. The payment itself might be in the millions, but it’s difficult for gangs to convert their ill-gotten crypto gains into cash they can actually spend. Geoff explains the role of professional launderers and why cash-rich drug gangs are useful connections for crypto-rich cybercriminals. They also dive into who operates these international...

Hunting software supply chain malware

September 11, 2026

In this podcast episode, OpenSourceMalware founder Paul McCarty joins James Wilson to explain how researchers find and analyse malicious packages, GitHub repositories and developer tools. Paul walks James through static analysis, deobfuscation and reconstructing multi-stage kill chains to identify what attackers are trying to steal. They also discuss how LLMs make malware development easier while introducing operational security mistakes. The pair examine DPRK tradecraft, blockchain-based p...

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