Host: Sam Dickison

Welcome to The Resilience Room, where cyber professionals sit back and chat about their lives, passions and experiences. We discuss cyber culture, thought leadership, technical topics and emerging threats.

All Episodes

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Aug 11, 2026
44 min
Building a Black Belt Purple Team: AI, Shadow IT & Cyber Resilience
In this episode, Sam sits down with Kev Marriott, a seasoned security professional who spent nearly two decades at British Telecom before finding his passion in incident management and cyber security. Kev shares his journey from handling customer escalations to managing major security crises and playbooks for critical national infrastructure.
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Jul 28, 2026
1 hr 1 min
Decoding cyber readiness and building true resilience
In this episode of The Resilience Room, Sam sits down with Abe Burnett and Corey Ray to explore the critical intersections of data science, geopolitical risk, and modern cyber security.
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Jul 14, 2026
45 min
Hacking AI: The Jade Puffer Attack, Prompt Injection, and the Dead Internet Theory
In this episode, Sam sits down with Glenn Wilkinson, a long-time ethical hacker, keynote speaker, and CEO of Agger Labs. Glenn shares his journey from a curious teenager in Zimbabwe bypassing game demo protections to snooping on audience phones for a Daniel Radcliffe stage show.
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Jun 30, 2026
43 min
The Black Belt of Cyber Security
In this episode of The Resilience Room, Sam sits down with Mike Vetri, Senior Director of SecOps at Veeva Systems and a former Air Force Cyberspace Operations Officer.
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Jun 16, 2026
50 min
It's Software, Not Magic: Navigating the Vulnerability Speed Wave and Shadow AI
In this episode of The Resilience Room, Sam Dickison sits down with Lee Stephens, a 31-year veteran at BT.
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Jun 2, 2026
53 min
Gamification, Crisis Simulation, and the Fight Against AI Fatigue
In this episode of The Resilience Room, host Sam Dickison and co-host Jamie Knobles sit down with Mahdi Raza, a lifelong tech enthusiast and cyber ecosystem activator.
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May 19, 2026
56 mins
Leading with Curiosity in the NHS
In this episode of The Resilience Room, Sam and James are joined by Nasser Arif, an award-winning cybersecurity leader in the NHS who journeyed from aeronautical engineering to finding his true "home" in cyber.
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May 5, 2026
43 mins
Find the Thing That Makes You Sparkle
In this episode of The Resilience Room, Sam and James sit down with Hazel, a seasoned cyber security professional who spent 15 years in technical IT before discovering her true calling through an ISC2 pilot programme in the NHS.
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Apr 20, 2026
39 mins
Why AI Won't Save Your SOC — And What Actually Will
In this episode of The Resilience Room, cybersecurity leader Ben Bachmann breaks down why AI-powered SOC tools are still overhyped, how security culture beats any technology investment, and what CISOs are really losing sleep over.