Podcast

The InfoSec
Control Room

A solo podcast by Taher Amine ELHOUARI about cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, resilience, and the real decisions behind security programs.

Cybersecurity Governance Risk Compliance CISO Thinking
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Choose your preferred platform and follow the show for media archive episodes, selected public interventions, and upcoming original solo episodes.

Core Idea

Security is the symptom.
Governance is the root.

The InfoSec Control Room goes beyond buzzwords, checklists, and surface-level security advice. Each episode explores the gap between what organizations believe they have in place and what actually works when incidents happen, audits begin, regulators ask questions, or leadership needs to make risk-based decisions.

Most organizations do not have a security problem. They have a governance problem that manifests as security.

This podcast is for CISOs, security leaders, GRC professionals, auditors, consultants, executives, students, and practitioners who want clearer thinking, stronger controls, and governance that actually works.

Media Archive

Selected public interventions
now available as audio

The archive collects selected TV appearances, radio interventions, conference talks, panels, and masterclasses as audio-only bonus episodes.

Conference · Assurance
Conformity Assessment Meets Cybersecurity
FIRST & AfricaCERT Symposium session on bridging auditors, SOC analysts, CSIRT teams, evidence, and continuous cyber assurance.
Masterclass · CSIRT
From Chaos to Control
A full masterclass on understanding, building, and maturing cyber response teams, CERTs, CSIRTs, and operational resilience.
TV Analysis · Resilience
CrowdStrike Global Incident Analysis
A national television analysis of the CrowdStrike incident, operational risk, technology dependency, continuity, and digital trust.
National TV · Awareness
The Hidden Face of Cyber Extortion
A public-safety intervention on cyber extortion, online blackmail, privacy risk, social engineering, and family awareness.
Panel · Governance
Cybersecurity & Data Protection Panel
CTO Forum 2025 discussion on cybersecurity strategy, cloud security, data protection, regulatory alignment, and resilience.
OT Security · Risk
IT/OT Convergence and Cyber Risk
North Africa OT Security Forum intervention on industrial cybersecurity, critical systems, business continuity, and risk ownership.
Original Episodes

The archive is live.
The original series comes next.

Future solo episodes will go deeper into cybersecurity governance, CISO leadership, GRC, resilience, CSIRT, assurance, and the real reasons security programs fail.

The InfoSec Control Room · with Taher Amine ELHOUARI