Cyber Security Cafe
This weekly podcast offers practical cybersecurity advice for small businesses. Each episode discusses real threats and straightforward strategies that don't require large budgets or complex systems. Host Raffi Jamgotchian talks with industry experts about effective ways to protect business data and reputation in the current digital landscape.
Episodes
Your Dashboard Isn't Protecting You
Most business owners think they're protected because they've got dashboards, alerts, and reports telling them what's going on with their network. But seeing that something happened isn't the same as stopping it before it costs you.This week on the Cybersecurity Cafe Podcast, we sit down with Stephen Franklin, Founder and CEO of NetWatch.AI, whose own team ran into this problem head-on while buildi
Run the Business, Don't Become It: A CFO's View on Cyber Risk
Most business owners treat cybersecurity as a technical problem — something for IT to handle. Stan Alhadeff sees it differently. As a fractional CFO with 30+ years in financial leadership and four company exits under his belt — including one at $180 million at 11x EBITDA — Stan has watched cyber risk show up in the numbers that actually matter: valuations, due diligence, and deal terms.In this epi
The Cyber Dividend: Why Security Pays Off Like an Investment
Most small business owners think of cybersecurity as an expense — something you pay for and hope you never need. Robert Maxwell, CEO of TGT Solutions and author of Cyber Model Dividends, sees it differently: as an investment that compounds over time, much like a portfolio.After nearly three decades running a systems integration firm serving small and mid-sized businesses, Maxwell has watched the s
When Change becomes Risk
Aimee Ritell is Founder & Principal of Intwinely, a Fractional COO who steps into SMBs to diagnose operational bottlenecks driving employee/client churn, typically starting with a flat-fee discovery assessment. In this episode we dive into what leads to employee and client churn and if its avoidable or invevitable.
AI security hype, remediation capacity, and what mid-market leaders actually need
Mike Reed has seen cybersecurity from every angle — launching Exchange and Active Directory at Microsoft, early enterprise at Apple, leading the managed-security ISV business at AWS, and serving as a Field CISO at Fortra before co-founding Realis Solutions Group, a boutique AI and emerging-risk advisory. That builder-and-practitioner background makes him one of the few voices who can separate genu
From Enterprise to Independent
After nearly two decades in financial services — including nine years at Charles Schwab and a background in algorithmic and statistical-arbitrage trading — Emil Aldaddah left the enterprise world in 2024 to co-found Momentum Wealth Management, a boutique SEC-registered RIA serving family offices, trustees, and private foundations. On this episode, Emil and Raffi cover what disappears when you walk
Secure Isn't Defensible — A Former SEC Examiner on What Actually Gets You Flagged
A former SEC enforcement director on the difference between being secure and being defensible. Ana Petrovic (Kroll) on what examiners really look for, how infosec became an insider-trading control, and where a lean firm should spend its next compliance dollar.
Security Through an Investor's Eyes
Most cybersecurity conversations happen with practitioners—the people building and defending the systems. This one is different. Jeffrey Fidelman, CEO and Founder of Fidelman & Company, sits on the other side of the table:, the one with the checks.With a background at Morgan Stanley and HSBC and a firm that helps startups and emerging funds raise capital, Jeffrey brings an investor's lens to s
Security is a progress not a purchase
Most business leaders approach cybersecurity the way they approach every other operational problem: buy the right tool, check the box, move on. It's a reasonable instinct — and in most areas of business, it works. But cybersecurity doesn't behave like other purchases, and the companies that learn this the hard way usually learn it during a client questionnaire, an insurance renewal, or an incident
Business Adoption of AI
In this episode of the podcast we talk to Bobby Tahir. Bobby has a broad knowledge of technology as a multi-company CTO both for Private Equity and their Portfolio Companies. Bobby has a blog and podcast at Technocratic | Substack
Incident Response Planning
In this episode we talk about responding to an incident response process. We talk to Chris Loehr, a leading incident responder.
Protecting Customer Data
We work on protecting our computers, mobile phones and even our accounts with MFA, but we forget about how to project the actual data.
Human Vulnerabilities
We discuss human vulnerabities, security awareness and more.
Ep1 - Intro
This is our initial introduction video
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