
Pressure Zone a podcast by Hack The Box
Pressure Zone is a game-driven cybersecurity podcast where CISOs and executives are placed inside escalating, realistic risk scenarios that mirror the complexity of today's cyber leadership. Each rung requires the guest to make a decision under pressure, explain the rationale, and translate the impact into business terms. The episode unfolds as a structured game, creating an engaging format that reveals authentic leadership judgment, tradeoffs, and security insight without feeling like a traditional interview or sales pitch.
Episodes
The Glass Room
A breakthrough patent forty-eight hours from launch. An industry gala celebration. A hidden corporate espionage operation extracting core proprietary secrets over a glass of bubbly champagne.In this second episode of Pressure Zone, host Christine Bartlett puts veteran security leader Brian Markham straight into a fast-moving cybersecurity scenario where every decision raises the stakes. What begin
The Poison Pill
The Poison PillA $50 million acquisition. A final code review. A hidden logic bomb buried deep inside the target company’s core database architecture.In this episode of Pressure Zone, host Christine Bartlett puts Hack The Box founder and CEO Haris Pylarinos into a fast-moving cybersecurity scenario where every decision raises the stakes. What begins as a suspicious discovery inside an acquisition











