# The Secure Talk Podcast

### with Justin Beals

Explore the critical world of information security, innovation, and compliance with expert guests. Learn about the latest threats, tips, and trends in the rapidly evolving cybersecurity environment.

Listen today on your favorite streaming platform.

## What you’ll learn

### AI and innovation

Modern-day technology can add unnecessary risk or when thoughtfully designed, empower your security and compliance teams.

### Trending topics

Gain understanding and insight into industry news, real-world examples, and recent trends.

### Detection and response management

Cyber attacks, threats, and breaches are, unfortunately, more and more common. Ensuring your infrastructure and systems are safe is essential.

### Regulatory updates

Stay up to date on the evolving regulatory landscape and the impact to your business.

### Data protection

Best practices for safeguarding sensitive information from loss, damage, or corruption ensuring backup, recovery, and proper governance.

### Managed security and compliance solutions

Understanding the risks to your unique business and the products and services available to help.

## About your host

**Justin Beals** Founder & CEO  [Strike Graph](https://www.strikegraph.com/)

Justin Beals is a serial entrepreneur with expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and governance who is passionate about making arcane cybersecurity standards plain and simple to achieve. He founded Strike Graph in 2020 to eliminate confusion surrounding cybersecurity audit and certification processes by offering an innovative, right-sized solution at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods.

Now, as Strike Graph CEO, Justin drives strategic innovation within the company. Based in Seattle, he previously served as the CTO of NextStep and Koru, which won the 2018 Most Impactful Startup award from Wharton People Analytics.

Justin is a board member for the Ada Developers Academy, VALID8 Financial, and Edify Software Consulting. He is the creator of the patented Training, Tracking & Placement System and the author of "Aligning curriculum and evidencing learning effectiveness using semantic mapping of learning assets," which was published in the International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJet). Justin earned a BA from Fort Lewis College.

## Recent Episodes

### [The ROI of Security Tested: What a new paper reveals about security value | Secure Talk with Minh Nguyen and Thi Tran](https://www.strikegraph.com/secure-talk-podcast/the-roi-of-security-tested-what-a-new-paper-reveals-about-security-value-secure-talk-with-thi-tran-and-minh-nguyen)

April 21, 2026

### [They Sold AI to Play God. China Never Got That Memo.](https://www.strikegraph.com/secure-talk-podcast/they-sold-ai-to-play-god.-china-never-got-that-memo)

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### [The DOGE data breach at the Social Security Administration with Whistleblower Chuck Borges](https://www.strikegraph.com/secure-talk-podcast/the-doge-data-breach-at-the-social-security-administration-with-whistleblower-chuck-borges)

March 24, 2026