Cybersecurity Perspectives is a show for IT and cybersecurity professionals who want real talk, not talking points.
Every episode, a guest draws one of three cards, each one holding a real statistic pulled from an industry report or news outlet. Whatever card they pick becomes the topic. No pre-set questions, no rehearsed answers. Just an honest conversation about what that number actually means for their company, their team, and the industry at large, and what to do about it.
Hosted by Paul Marco and Owahn Bazydlo, co-founders of TALAS Security, the show brings together practitioners, leaders, and builders from across IT and cybersecurity to talk shop, share hard-won lessons, and build a stronger community for the people doing this work every day.
Stats. Insights. Real talk.
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Owahn Bazydlo is a Co-Founder of TALAS Security with over 10 years of IT and Cybersecurity experience focused on Cybersecurity Strategy in both Operations and Engineering. A trained Six Sigma Greenbelt, Owahn specializes in process development, optimization, and establishing long-term cybersecurity program strategy.
Paul Marco is a Co-founder of TALAS Security with over 20 years of IT and Cybersecurity experience spanning Cybersecurity Operations, Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Identity & Access Management, and Threat Intelligence. Paul specializes in designing cybersecurity solutions and operationalizing control.
Husband, father of three amazing daughters and my little dude, volunteer & land-locked beach lover. Life long technology advocate. 20 years and running career centered around innovative problem solving and product development.
Experience with industry leaders in IoT, automation, telecom, agriculture & nonprofits. Resume looks like a technology gauntlet: SitePro, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Yahoo and many start ups. Constantly looking to push the limits of technology.
Love spreading the technology gospel in the community; founded the Lubbock Software Developers Group among others.
Modern stack zealot and continuous learner with a true passion to inspire and lead. Solutions architect with a container state of mind.
Lou Mazzucchelli brings a unique perspective shaped by a 40-year career in technology and business. The youngest member of the ACM at age 15, he founded the first Junior Achievement IT company and earned the first undergraduate degree in Artificial Intelligence granted in the US in 1977.
He later became CIO of International Data Sciences, then joined Yourdon Inc. and formed Cadre Technologies, a global leader in embedded systems software development tools with over 20,000 users. From 1996 to 1999 he served on The Airlie Council, which helped shape the CMM and CMMI.
On Wall Street, he was ranked the leading PC analyst by The Wall Street Journal in 1999. He was a venture partner at Ridgewood Capital from 2001 to 2009, a Visiting Scholar at Brown University, and led the Entrepreneurship Program at Bryant University from 2015 to 2019. He is currently CTO of SportsEdTV.
Tom Hafemann is a Chief Information Officer with more than three decades of technology leadership experience. He directs enterprise IT strategy, infrastructure, and innovation, with particular focus on cybersecurity, core financial systems, digital channels, and hybrid cloud architectures. His work advances member-centric services while maintaining rigorous regulatory compliance, and he brings a collaborative approach to IT governance, policy development, and risk management aimed at building operational resilience.