Secure Talk Podcast

Justin Beals

justin.beals@strikegraph.com

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Booking Overview

Secure Talk is a security, privacy, and compliance show that spotlights how leading executives tackle real-world IT security and governance challenges. It’s a strong booking fit for privacy/security leaders who can translate policy and standards into practical risk, operational best practices, and compliance-ready frameworks.

Metrics

Episodes: 254

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

YouTube: 7.4k subscribers

Contact Information

justin.beals@strikegraph.com

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Host

Justin Beals - Host of Secure Talk. Based in Seattle, he previously served as the CTO of NextStep and Koru, which won the 2018 Most Impactful Startup award from Wharton People Analytics. He is the creator of the ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Executives or senior experts in privacy/security and technology governance (e.g., CISOs, security/compliance leaders), compliance program builders, assessors/standards practitioners, and academics/researchers who can connect security/privacy governance to operational best practices and compliance outcomes.
Required Achievements:  
leadership roles in privacy/security or compliance organizations, direct involvement with recognized security/compliance frameworks (e.g., CMMC assessors/C3PAO leadership), academic publishing and peer-reviewed research (or university professorship), authorship of notable books related to digital rights/ethics/governance

Recent Guest Discussions

Logan Therrien - CMMC Level 2 Assessment Methodology; Evidence Sampling Methodology; C3pao Rigor; Implications Of ISO 17020 Accreditation And CFR Expansion; Preparing For Assessments

Dr. Candi Cann - AI Accountability And Digital Identity; Data Governance And Digital Rights; Governance Questions For AI Agents Acting On Behalf Of Humans; Enterprise Security And Compliance Implications

Dorian Cougias - CMMC As A Human/hr Problem In Compliance Operations; Compliance Language And Cognitive Load; Mapping Regulatory Tasks To Roles; Open-source STIG API Infrastructure And Compliance Program Design

Recent Topics

Cybersecurity, Privacy, Compliance, Data Governance, Security Engineering

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Secure Talk Podcast
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Why you could fail your CMMC Level 2 C3PAO audit | Secure Talk with Logan Therrien

June 02, 2026

You did your self assessment and received a perfect 110 score, congratulations! You met with your C3PAO and scored less than 0. What happened!How can two CMMC assessors examine the same defense contractor and arrive at completely different scores? A lack of rigor in assessment methodology could mean the entire certification system is measuring the assessor — not your security. Logan Therrien, Chief Strategy Officer at Kieri Solutions and one of the original C3PAO lead assessors in the U.S., j...

Mark Zuckerberg has an AI twin. Who Is Mark Zuckerberg?

May 19, 2026

Mark Zuckerberg built an AI version of himself that attends meetings and approves budgets while he's elsewhere. That's not science fiction — it's happening now. But when an AI replica makes a consequential decision, who's legally responsible? Who owns it when you die?Dr. Candi Cann, Thanatologist and professor at Baylor University, joins SecureTalk host Justin Beals to explore the uncomfortable intersection of technology, mortality, and identity — and what it means for data governance, digita...

CMMC Is an HR Problem, Not an Enclave Problem — Here's the Proof

May 05, 2026

The biggest cybersecurity failures in recent memory — Raytheon, Penn State, Georgia Tech — weren't caused by missing software. They were caused by the wrong people being assigned the wrong tasks, with no shared language to connect the rules to the work.This SecureTalk episode with Dorian Cougias (MoxyWolf, former Unified Compliance Framework CEO) is one of the most systems-level conversations we've had on the show. Dorian spent decades building the infrastructure that compliance programs run ...

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