Secure Talk Podcast

Justin Beals

Booking Overview

An interview-led cybersecurity and technology show focused on security threats, privacy, compliance, data protection, and emerging AI risks, featuring senior executives, government standards leaders, researchers, and experienced practitioners. Credible pitches include CISOs, security researchers, CMMC and NIST specialists, identity and AI-security leaders, and privacy or technology-policy experts; booking difficulty is medium because the show mixes prominent authorities with accessible industry professionals.

Metrics

Episodes: 262

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 10.4k subscribers

Contact Information

Publicly listed emails

justin.beals@strikegraph.com

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Host

Justin Beals - Technology executive, entrepreneur, and author who previously served as CTO of NextStep and Koru. He created a patented training, tracking, and placement system and authored research on aligning cu...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium

Typical Credentials:

Senior cybersecurity, privacy, compliance, identity, AI-security, or technology-policy expertise; leadership roles at established organizations, government standards bodies, security firms, or major technology companies; or substantial hands-on experience with frameworks such as NIST and CMMC.

Required Achievements:

Leadership of cybersecurity, identity, privacy, or compliance programs, Published security research or recognized technical expertise, Senior roles at major technology companies, government agencies, or cybersecurity firms, Extensive experience implementing or assessing NIST, CMMC, or related security frameworks

Recent Guest Discussions

Victoria Yan Pillitteri - NIST SP 800-53 And SP 800-171, Risk Management Frameworks, Control Tailoring, Fedramp, OSCAL, Continuous Authorization, And AI Security Controls.

Dan Lisichkin - Indirect Prompt Injection, Ai-agent Supply-chain Attacks, Ci/cd Vulnerabilities, Agent Identity, Github Permissions, And Multi-agent System Risks.

Fran Berman - AI Infrastructure, Data-center Opposition, The Impact Of AI On Entry-level Technology Careers, Critical-infrastructure Governance, GDPR, And The EU AI Act.

Dan Cinnamon - Enterprise AI Identity, Agent Permissions, Discoverability, Passkeys, MCP Security, Granular Authorization, Containment, Consent, And Provenance.

Brian Hubbard - CMMC Assessments, NIST SP 800-171 Implementation, The Distinction Between Assessment And Security Requirements, And Defense Supply-chain Compliance.

Recent Topics

Technology, Cybersecurity, Compliance, Data Protection, Artificial Intelligence

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Secure Talk Podcast

CMMC After the 60-Day Review: What DOD Decided, What It Didn’t, and What to Do Now

October 06, 2026

CMMC wasn't suspended. Only one piece of it was, and the defense contractors acting like the whole program went away are the ones taking on the most risk.Eighty days after the DoD CIO paused CMMC Phase 2, the 60-day review has closed, a class deviation has written the pause into contracts, and the Reform Task Force's recommendations are still not public. Contracting officers and primes aren't waiting. Some solicitations now require a posted SPRS score before you can even open the RFP.In this ...

NIST's Victoria Yan Pillitteri: "Compliance Won't Save You" — Inside NIST 800-171

September 22, 2026

She helps write the rules the entire U.S. defense industrial base gets assessed against — and she's telling you compliance is the floor, not the finish line.Victoria Yan Pillitteri leads the Risk Management Framework/FISMA team at NIST and co-chairs the Joint Task Force uniting DoD, the Intelligence Community, and civilian agencies on one cybersecurity framework. In this episode, she and Justin Beals go inside how NIST actually builds SP 800-53 and 800-171 — what gets cut, what stays, and why...

AI Agent Hacks Another AI Agent Inside Google — An Agentic Supply Chain Bomb

August 25, 2026

An agent anyone could talk to just pulled the levers on one almost nobody could reach — and it happened inside the crown jewels: a live code repository.Google gave its AI agent human-level trust — and paid for it.When Dan Lisichkin, a researcher at Pillar Security, started mapping every Google repository running an embedded coding agent, he wasn't hunting for prompt injection — he was hunting classic CI/CD bugs. The AI angle showed up almost by accident, flagged by his own automation. What he...

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