In this episode, James sits down with Tim Chase, Principal Technical Evangelist at Orca Security and 20-year cybersecurity veteran. He shares stories from his early days: learning from "Hacking Exposed" books at Barnes & Noble, getting caught with hacking tools an hour after installing them, and how dropping out of college after designing one trebuchet led him from functional testing to CISO roles.
But Tim isn't dwelling on the past. He reveals the nation state that manipulated open source binaries because diplomatic channels failed, explains why security awareness training is fundamentally broken, and demonstrates why AI will actually favor defenders over attackers—a refreshingly optimistic take. From acronym overload to the "Negative Nelly" problem, Tim shows why cybersecurity desperately needs a positive mindset shift.