In this episode of Tech 2 Exec, Mike Linton and Josh Linton talk with Harold Rivas (CIO & CISO, Absolute Security) about communicating cyber risk to executives, evaluating security tech without tool sprawl, and adopting AI with the right guardrails—plus why resilience and recovery belong in every leadership conversation.

Learn more about Absolute at www.absolute.com

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Mick Leach, Field CISO at Abnormal Security, joins the Tech 2 Exec Podcast to examine how AI-driven social engineering is reshaping business email compromise and why human behavior has become the primary attack surface. Mick shares his perspective on executive risk, email security decision-making, and how prevention changes security measurement and accountability.

Learn more about Abnormal at www.abnormal.ai.

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In this Tech 2 Exec episode, Gil Geron, CEO and Co-Founder of Orca Security, explains why the idea that security slows the business down is outdated. He shares how using context—rather than alert volume—changes how cloud risk is prioritized, reduces friction with engineering teams, and supports growth without disrupting production. The conversation connects security decisions directly to business outcomes IT and executive leaders care about.

To learn more about Orca Security, visit https://orca.security/.

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