Real conversations with the people defending UK organisations. No scripts, no sales pitch, no corporate answers.
Cyber Heard started as written interviews on LinkedIn. It is now becoming a full podcast: relaxed, forty-minute conversations with UK security leaders and frontline practitioners about what is actually happening in their world. The threats they are dealing with, where the industry gets it wrong, the impact of AI, and what they would tell someone starting out today.
The first episodes are here, with more coming soon, posted weekly. Every written interview lives below.
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Conversations with UK security leaders.
6 Aug 2026 · 46 min
Richard Bennett, Field CTO at IBM & HashiCorp
Richard Bennett explains why he thinks true artificial intelligence does not yet exist, and what that means for how organisations should think about agentic AI risk. He sets out why observability, orchestration and governance matter more than chasing the latest AI tool.
Where Cyber Heard began: the documented conversations.
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A former mechanic from Liverpool, 30 years in Cyber Security, keynote speaker and working stand-up. Twelve questions. No corporate answers.
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A 16-page invitise briefing for cyber, risk and people leaders. Why the hiring window has narrowed, what 24-hour mobilisation actually requires, and the four conditions that have to be true for next-morning on-site to mean something.
of senior cyber roles take 6 months or longer to fill in the UK.
longer than other IT roles, senior cyber vacancies stay open.
of large UK businesses now own cyber at board level.
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