The thing I check every time, and this time it flippedSpecialist cybersecurity funds still barely podcast. Ballistic Ventures, DataTribe, Ten Eleven and SYN Ventures publish nothing under their own name, and neither does ClearSky. What changed since I last checked: Forgepoint Capital, which used to be the lone exception, has not shipped an episode of The Forgecast since November 2024. NightDragon went the other way and launched NightVision on 23 July 2026, dropping seven episodes in a single day. So the count of active fund-run shows in this space is one, and it is eight days old.
How this list was built
Every list like this one rots, and most of them rot quietly. So I did the boring part. On 31 July 2026 I pulled each show through the Apple Podcasts lookup API to get its live RSS feed, then fetched the feed itself and read the newest item's publish date. The date in the last column of every table below is that date, not a guess and not a copy from the show's about page. Thirty-nine feeds went through the check.
The cutoffs I used:
- Active: an episode within the last three months, so on or after 30 April 2026. Thirty-five shows cleared this.
- Slowing: last episode between three and nine months ago. Three shows. They stay in their section, flagged in the table and gathered again lower down, because a quiet feed is not a dead one.
- Gone quiet: nothing in over nine months. One show, and it is the one I would least have predicted.
Two disclosures. I host a podcast myself, Play It Smart, where I interview founders and operators in managed IT, security and AI. It is not ranked anywhere on this list. It has its own block near the bottom and you can skip it. Second, plenty of good shows here are made by companies that sell you something, so I label every one of them as vendor-run, investor-run, MSP-run or recruiter-run in the table. That is not a warning, just context for how to weigh what you hear.
One correction worth naming, because it was live on this page until today: the Forgecast link previously pointed at an unrelated show with the same name. It now points at Forgepoint Capital's actual feed, and that feed is dead.
The short answer
If you subscribe to five, make them Inside the Network for how cyber startups get funded, Cyber Go-To-Market Talk for how security actually gets sold, Risky Business for the weekly threat intelligence read, CyberWire Daily for the news habit, and CISO Tradecraft for how security leaders think about their own job. If you want to be a guest rather than a listener, start with The Virtual CISO Podcast, Cyber Risk Management Podcast and Security Confidential.
This list covers cybersecurity. If you run a managed service provider and want shows about that business specifically, I keep a separate guide to the best MSP podcasts, checked the same way on the same day.
The business of security
Funding, go to market, pricing, category creation, and the unglamorous work of running a security company. This is the shortest section here, and that is the point: there are hundreds of shows about threats and about a dozen about the business. Nearly all of them run guest interviews.
| Podcast | Host | Best for | Last episode |
|---|---|---|---|
 Inside the Network | Sid Trivedi, Ross Haleliuk, Mahendra Ramsinghani | Investor-run. Three people who write cheques into cyber, talking to the founders they back. The closest thing the industry has to a room where funding gets discussed honestly. | 31 Jul 2026 |
 NightVision | Dave DeWalt and the NightDragon team | Investor-run, and brand new. Government officials, allied cyber chiefs and defence CEOs rather than startup founders. Seven episodes all dropped on the same day in July 2026, so there is no cadence to judge yet. | 23 Jul 2026 |
 Secure Ventures | Kyle McNulty, In-Q-Tel | Investor-run. Long, unhurried founder interviews. The questions get past the pitch, which is rarer than it sounds. 140 episodes deep. | 7 Jul 2026 |
 Cyber Go-To-Market Talk | Andrew Monaghan, Unstoppable.do | Consultancy-run. The densest go-to-market show in security. Sales hiring, pipeline, and what actually moves a deal through a CISO's budget. 300+ episodes. | 14 Jul 2026 |
 Breaking Through in Cybersecurity Marketing | Gianna Whitver and Maria Velasquez | The two people who built the security marketing community, interviewing the CMOs inside it. If you are hiring your first marketer, start here. | 29 Jul 2026 |
 Business Security Weekly | Matt Alderman, Jason Albuquerque, Ben Carr | Nearly a decade of treating security as a business rather than a discipline, without ever getting precious about it. 850+ episodes. | 29 Jul 2026 |
 Redefining CyberSecurity | Sean Martin, ITSPmagazine | Six hundred episodes of putting security decisions into language a board would accept. | 11 Jul 2026 |
 CyberBytes | Joseph Cooper, Aspiron Search | Recruiter-run. Founder interviews from someone who knows who is hiring, who is repositioning, and who just raised. | 22 Jul 2026 |
 The Security Podcast of Silicon Valley | YSecurity | Vendor-run. Startup-stage security decisions, compliance and growth, from people making those calls this quarter. | 29 Jul 2026 |
 Security Sutra | Joe Menninger, Startuprad.io | The best European lens here, strong on the German-speaking funding scene that US shows never cover. | 28 Jul 2026 |
 Cybersecurity Builders | Frontlines.io | Each episode turns on one go-to-market decision a founder made and why. The tightest editorial format on this list, but the feed has been quiet since March. | 30 Mar 2026 (slowing) |
The shows your customers are listening to
You are not here for the technical depth. You are here so that when a CISO mentions last week's episode, you know what they are talking about. Grouped by whose attention each one holds. Five of them take outside guests: CISO Tradecraft, Defense in Depth, Paul's Security Weekly, Hacker Valley Studio and Down the Security Rabbithole. The rest are news desks, solo shows or tightly formatted productions, so do not waste a pitch on them.
What CISOs listen to
| Podcast | Host | Best for | Last episode |
|---|---|---|---|
 CISO Tradecraft | G Mark Hardy and Ross Young | Two practising security leaders on the parts of the job nobody trains you for. Quote this correctly and a CISO knows you have done the reading. Takes guests. | 27 Jul 2026 |
 Defense in Depth | David Spark, CISO Series | One argument per episode, fought out with working CISOs rather than resolved politely. Takes guests. | 30 Jul 2026 |
Threat intelligence and the daily habit
| Podcast | Host | Best for | Last episode |
|---|---|---|---|
 Risky Business | Patrick Gray | The weekly the threat intelligence world genuinely reads. Opinionated, and it does not flatter vendors. | 29 Jul 2026 |
 CyberWire Daily | Dave Bittner, N2K | The daily briefing playing in a lot of cars on the way into work. Institutional reach that no newsletter matches. | 30 Jul 2026 |
 Darknet Diaries | Jack Rhysider | The one your non-security friends have heard of. Narrative, carefully reported, and enormous. Roughly fortnightly now. | 21 Jul 2026 |
 Click Here | Dina Temple-Raston, Recorded Future News | Vendor-owned newsroom. Proper investigative reporting on breaches, from journalists sitting inside a threat intelligence company. | 31 Jul 2026 |
 Risky Bulletin | Risky Business Media | The short daily companion for people who want the news without the interview. | 31 Jul 2026 |
 SANS Internet Storm Center StormCast | Johannes Ullrich, SANS | Training-vendor run. Five minutes every weekday. Effectively the blue team's alarm clock. | 31 Jul 2026 |
Scams, social engineering and the human layer
| Podcast | Host | Best for | Last episode |
|---|---|---|---|
 Smashing Security | Graham Cluley | Breaches and scams told well enough that people outside security keep listening. Harder to pull off than it looks. | 29 Jul 2026 |
 Hacking Humans | Dave Bittner, Maria Varmazis, Joe Carrigan | Phishing, pretexting and the human layer, week after week. The reference show for anyone selling awareness. | 30 Jul 2026 |
The deeper practitioner end
| Podcast | Host | Best for | Last episode |
|---|---|---|---|
 Unsupervised Learning | Daniel Miessler | Security and AI trends from someone your technical founders already read every week. | 9 Jul 2026 |
 Paul's Security Weekly | Paul Asadoorian | A hacker community institution, 640+ episodes deep, still doing tool demos and researcher interviews. Takes guests. | 30 Jul 2026 |
 Hacker Valley Studio | Ron Eddings and Chris Cochran | Career and culture rather than kit. The human side of the industry, and a younger audience than most. Takes guests. | 28 Jul 2026 |
 Down the Security Rabbithole | Rafal Los, James Jardine, Jim Tiller | Running since 2011, 750+ episodes, and still no vendor read. Consultants and CISOs trust it for exactly that reason. Takes guests. | 28 Jul 2026 |
Shows worth appearing on
These are hosted by people running security and IT businesses rather than by media companies, which is why the conversations tend to be more concrete. Most are talking to buyers rather than to peers, so an appearance puts you in front of the people who actually sign contracts. Almost every show here runs a guest format. Pick the two or three whose audience genuinely matches your buyer and turn up with a story worth their listeners' time, rather than pitching all of them.
| Podcast | Host | Best for | Last episode |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Virtual CISO Podcast | John Verry, Pivot Point Security | Vendor-run. ISO 27001, CMMC and vendor risk, explained to the people who have to pass the audit. Audience: Security and compliance buyers | 8 Jul 2026 |
 Cyber Risk Management Podcast | Kip Boyle, Cyber Risk Opportunities | Vendor-run. Cyber risk framed as a board and finance conversation, co-hosted with an attorney. Audience: Executives and risk owners | 28 Jul 2026 |
 Security Confidential | Manoj Tandon, Dark Rhino Security | MSSP-run. A founder interviewing across the whole practitioner spectrum, 250 episodes in. Audience: Practitioners, broad | 23 Jul 2026 |
 Secure and Simple | Dejan Kosutic, Advisera | Vendor-run. Built specifically for the consultants and fractional CISOs doing the compliance work. Audience: GRC consultants and vCISOs | 28 Jul 2026 |
 Cyber Security America | Josh Nicholson, Darkstack7 | Vendor-run. Enterprise security operations from someone who runs an incident response boutique. Audience: CISOs at larger organisations | 14 Jul 2026 |
 Climbing Mount CMMC | Bobby Guerra, Axiom | MSP-run. An owner documenting his own CMMC certification while selling it to others. Unusually candid. Audience: Defense contractors and MSPs | 23 Jul 2026 |
 CMMC Compliance Guide | Austin and Brooke Justice, Justice IT Consulting | MSP-run. Compliance translated for manufacturers in the defense supply chain, who rarely get spoken to plainly. Audience: Smaller defense contractors | 31 Jul 2026 |
 UnHacked | Justin Shelley, Bryan Lachapelle, Mario Zaki | MSP-run. Three owners arguing about what security is actually worth to a small business. The disagreement is the value. Audience: Small business owners | 28 Jul 2026 |
 Cyber Security Cafe | Raffi Jamgotchian, Triada Networks | MSP-run. Practical security for small businesses from an owner who serves investment firms. Barely ten episodes old and publishing weekly, so worth getting in early. Audience: Small business owners | 29 Jul 2026 |
 Secured by Galah Cyber | Cole Cornford, Galah Cyber | Vendor-run. Application security careers and practice, company by company, from Australia. Nothing new since May, so check before you pitch. Audience: AppSec practitioners | 14 May 2026 |
 MSP Mindset | Damien Stevens, Servosity | Vendor-run. Resilience, backup and the economics of the managed services model. Audience: MSP owners | 23 Jul 2026 |
 Cyber Insurance Leaders | Anthony Hess, Asceris | Vendor-run. Claims, extortion response and where cyber insurance is heading. Almost nobody else covers this lane, but the feed has slowed. Audience: Insurance and incident response | 18 Mar 2026 (slowing) |
 CvCISO Podcast | Evan Francen, SecurityStudio and FRSecure | Vendor-run. Building a vCISO practice, from the man who trains a lot of the people doing it. Quiet since February. Audience: Working and aspiring vCISOs | 23 Feb 2026 (slowing) |
Publishing less often than they used to
Three shows above have gone three to nine months without an episode. They are still listed in their sections because the archives are good and none of them has formally ended, but do not build a pitch plan around them.
| Podcast | Host | Last episode | Still worth it? |
|---|---|---|---|
| CvCISO Podcast | Evan Francen, SecurityStudio and FRSecure | 23 Feb 2026 | Eighty-three episodes and a real training business behind it, so a restart would not surprise me. |
| Cyber Insurance Leaders | Anthony Hess, Asceris | 18 Mar 2026 | The only show covering cyber insurance claims properly. Worth keeping subscribed on the chance it comes back. |
| Cybersecurity Builders | Frontlines.io | 30 Mar 2026 | Sixty-eight episodes in under a year, then a stop. Read it as a media experiment that may or may not continue. |
Gone quiet
One show on the original version of this page has been silent for more than nine months. It happens to be the one I used as evidence that at least some cyber funds podcast, which is a good reminder to check your own examples.
| Podcast | Host | Last episode | Worth the back catalogue? |
|---|---|---|---|
 The Forgecast | Forgepoint Capital | 13 Nov 2024 | Fifteen episodes and then silence for twenty months. The back catalogue is still the best look inside how one specialist cyber fund thinks about its portfolio. |
I host one of these too
Play It Smart is my show, where I interview founders and operators in managed IT, security and AI about how they actually build the business. It is deliberately not ranked on this page. If you host one of the podcasts above and an operator view would be useful to your listeners, whether that is MSP growth, AI search, paid acquisition or what I am seeing inside Cortavo, I would be glad to come on. I book guests for mine too, so there is often an easy swap when the audiences line up.
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FAQ
There is no single answer, because the audiences barely overlap. For the weekly threat intelligence read it is Risky Business. For the daily news habit it is CyberWire Daily. For how security companies get funded and sold it is Inside the Network and Cyber Go-To-Market Talk. For how a security leader thinks about the job it is CISO Tradecraft.
Every show was run through the Apple Podcasts lookup API on 31 July 2026 to find its live RSS feed, then the feed itself was fetched and the newest episode's publish date recorded. That date is printed next to every show. Thirty-five of the thirty-nine feeds checked had an episode in the previous three months.
Most of the vendor-run and operator-run shows do, including The Virtual CISO Podcast, Cyber Risk Management Podcast, Security Confidential, Secure and Simple, Cyber Security America, Climbing Mount CMMC, CMMC Compliance Guide, UnHacked, MSP Mindset and Cyber Security Cafe. From the wider list, CISO Tradecraft, Defense in Depth, Paul's Security Weekly, Hacker Valley Studio and Down the Security Rabbithole take outside guests too. The daily news shows do not.
Almost none of them. Ballistic Ventures, DataTribe, Ten Eleven Ventures, SYN Ventures and ClearSky publish nothing under their own name. Forgepoint Capital's Forgecast stopped in November 2024. NightDragon launched NightVision on 23 July 2026, which makes it the only fund-run show currently publishing in the category.
Often yes, because the hosts are closer to the work than a media company would be. Every vendor-run, investor-run, MSP-run and recruiter-run show is labelled as such in the tables above. Read the label as context rather than a warning, and remember the show exists to keep you in that company's orbit.
Last checked 31 July 2026, feed by feed. Cover art and links come from each show's own listing. Feeds change, so if something here has resumed or gone dark since, tell me and I will fix the date.