Show Notes
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 begins as an uneasy discovery about an overshared conversation quickly spirals into a board-level ri...
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