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DATA SECURITY DECODED

Top CISO Priorities and Global Digital Trust with Morgan Adamski

 

Welcome to Data Security Decoded. Join host Caleb Tolin in conversation with Morgan Adamski who leads Cyber, Data, and Tech Risk at PwC and is a former US national security leader who spent 16 years tracking nation-state threats inside the US government. Coming out of a career spent inside secure facilities without windows or phones and working to address China’s prepositioning in US critical infrastructure, Morgan shares a direct view of how geopolitics is now shaping cyber risk decisions in boardrooms.


What You'll Learn:

 

  • Why only 24% invest in proactive defense, even while 60% call cyber a top priority

  • How AI agents are cutting breach timelines to under 80 days

  • Why cyber insurance is now a hygiene scorecard, not just financial protection

  • The real reason leaders lack confidence in resilience

  • Where legacy systems and supply chain dependencies expose blind spots

  • How public–private collaboration changed the response to China’s infrastructure campaign

  • What CISOs must confront now to avoid being blindsided by the next crisis

  • This conversation gives security leaders and decision-makers a clear view of where current strategies fall short and the choices required to build real resilience before the next crisis forces it.

     

Episode Highlights:

 

  • The 82:1 Ratio: Why Non-Human Identities Now Define Risk
  • Prioritizing Recovery: Building for Minimal Viable Operations
  • Declining Recovery Confidence and the Rise of Ransom Payments
  • Backups Under Attack: How Threat Actors Seize Business Control
  • Agentic AI and the Shifting Nature of Cyber Threats
  • What Defenders Can Do Now to Build Identity Resilience

 

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