Culture as a Control: Scaling Trust Without the Checkboxes with Andrew Becherer

In this episode of the TPRM Podcast — Threats, Pitfalls & Risk Myths — host Nate Lee sits down with Andrew Becherer, CISO at Sublime Security, former Datadog CISO and beard afficianado to unpack one of the industry’s biggest misconceptions: the belief that compliance equals security.

Andrew shares candid lessons from years leading security programs at high-growth SaaS companies—how to cut through noise, align with business objectives, and build a culture of trust that actually works in practice.

They discuss:

- The real difference between security and compliance

- How to communicate risk in language executives understand

- Why culture is the strongest control in any organization

- What shared responsibility means across security, engineering, and leadership

- How to scale trust as your company grows

This conversation will resonate with CISOs, security leaders, and founders who want to do more than check boxes — they want to lead programs that truly reduce risk.

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👤 About the Host

Nate Lee is a B2B Scaleup CISO and Founder of Cloudsec.ai, helping software-first companies build business-aligned security programs that increase dev velocity, shorten sales cycles, and strengthen trust.

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The TPRM Podcast brings you conversations with security leaders rethinking risk — exploring the threats, pitfalls, and myths that define today’s cybersecurity landscape.

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