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KBKast

Unlike every other security podcast, we don’t get stuck down in the technical weeds. Our remit is to speak with experts around the globe at the strategic level – how security technology can improve the experience and risk optimisation for every organisation.

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From Elastic{ON} Sydney 2026 – KB On The Go |  Mandy Andress

From Elastic{ON} Sydney 2026 – KB On The Go | Mandy Andress

Data is exploding. Environments are getting noisier and the line between observability and security, it's basically gone. Search isn't just a feature anymore, it's infrastructure. It's how you see, how you detect, and ultimately how you defend from ai, power detection, engineering to unified visibility across logs, metrics, t races and security telemetry. We're officially in a world where if you can't search it in real time, you can't secure it. This bonus episode features Mandy Andress, CISO at Elastic, live from Elastic{ON} Sydney 2026. As Australia navigates its unique, sector-led approach to AI regulation, Karissa Breen and Mandy Andress explore the challenges—and opportunities—facing CISOs on the ...
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About Your Host

Karissa Breen, more commonly known as KB, is crowned a LinkedIn ‘Top Voice in Technology’, and widely recognised across the global cybersecurity industry. A serial entrepreneur, she is the co-founder of the TMFE Group, a portfolio of cybersecurity-focused businesses spanning an industry-leading media platform, a specialist marketing agency, a content production studio, and the executive headhunting firm, MercSec.

Now based in the United States, KB oversees US editorial operations and leads the expansion of the group’s media footprint across North America, while maintaining a strong presence in Australia, and the broader global market.

She is the former Producer and Host of the streaming show 2Fa.tv, and currently sits at the helm of journalism for the group’s flagship arm, KBI.Media, the independent cybersecurity media company.

As a cybersecurity investigative journalist, KB hosts her globally-renowned podcast, KBKast, where she interviews leading cybersecurity practitioners, CISOs, government officials including heads-of-state, and industry pioneers from around the world. The podcast has been downloaded in over 65 countries with more than 400,000 global downloads, influencing billions of dollars in cybersecurity budgets.

KB is known for asking the hard questions and extracting real, commercially relevant insights. Her approach provides an uncoloured, strategic lens on the evolving cybersecurity landscape, demystifying complex security issues and translating them into practical intelligence for executives navigating risk, regulation, and rapid technological change.

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What We Do

KBI.Media is The Voice of Cyber.

We broadcast some of the most important and informative cyber content from some of the largest organisations, governments, and promising start-ups from around the world.
We're also responsible for creating a lot of it..

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