The Strategy Layer Live
The Strategy Layer Live helps CISOs and cybersecurity leaders rise above the noise and drive measurable business value. Hosted by Identient, this podcast explores how to lead with intelligence, influence, and clarity—aligning security with the priorities that matter. It’s not just about protection—it’s about performance.
Episodes
In this episode of The Strategy Layer Live, Steve sits down with Richard Bird—multi-time CISO, former Chief Customer Information Officer at Ping Identity, author, and current Chief Security Officer at Singulr—for a conversation that pushes beyond conventional cybersecurity narratives.
For the first time on the podcast, an AI digital twin takes an active speaking role, opening the episode with a blunt assessment of w...
In this episode of The Strategy Layer Live, Steve sits down with Bill Kehoe, Chief Information Officer for Washington State, for a rare, wide-ranging conversation recorded in person. Bill reflects on a career spanning state, county, and local government — and the leadership lessons he learned along the way.
From transforming the DMV experience in the early 2000s, to championing digital equity and modernizing resident...
In this episode of The Strategy Layer Live, we sit down with one of the most respected and candid voices in cybersecurity today — Jimmy Sanders.
Jimmy is the CISO of Save Mart overseeing more than 200 stores across the West Coast, the former CISO of Netflix DVD, and the current President of ISSA International — giving him a rare, global vantage point on how the role of CISO is being redefined in real time.
But this co...
What does it really take to lead as a modern CISO?
In this episode of The Strategy Layer, Steve sits down with Andy Ellis — former CSO of Akamai, CISO Hall of Fame inductee, and author of How to CISO 1.1 — for a wide-ranging, no-fluff conversation on the future of cybersecurity leadership.
Andy brings clarity, candor, and decades of experience to the table as we explore:
- The core leadership principles behind How to...
In Episode 2 of The Strategy Layer Live, we dig into one of the most urgent — and least acknowledged — leadership challenges in cybersecurity today.
The CISO role isn’t dying. But it is being slowly redefined, compressed, and undermined by structural misalignment, rising board expectations, and misused metrics. What one security executive called the “co-morbid poisoning” of the role has become a shared, often unspoke...
In the premiere episode of The Identient Podcast, Steve Tout sits down with Mark Settle, a seven-time CIO and author of Truth from the Trenches, to explore the dual-edged power of metrics in IT leadership. Mark shares how metrics, when mismanaged, become "loaded weapons" that create unintended consequences—but when designed thoughtfully, they drive alignment, continuous improvement, and strategic impact. T...
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