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Adam Marrè: Learning to be a leader. [CISO] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Adam Marrè, CISO from Arctic Wolf, sits down to share his story of rising through the ranks. After 9/11 he decided he wanted to make a difference in the world, and so he chose to go into the FBI. There he learned the skills that got him to where he is today. In his time at the FBI, he was able to do what he loved, which was working with computers while gaining more knowledge on cybersecurity, and he became computer forensic certified. Ultimately, he needed a change in the end and decided to leave the FBI. He was able to learn the leadership skills he needed to move past that career path and follow a new dream. He is now able to share his passion with the world and help people understand security to help protect themselves as well as helping people finding success in their careers and in their lives. We thank Adam for sharing his story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K.

0:09.6

Quick question. Have you watched Project Hail Mary yet?

0:15.9

Humanity is facing an existential threat and racing to solve it with the clock ticking.

0:21.7

For security teams, that probably hits close to home with AI use, rapidly spreading.

0:27.6

Everyone's using AI, marketing, sales, engineering.

0:31.2

Chris the intern without security even knowing about it.

0:34.4

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0:37.0

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0:39.4

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0:41.2

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0:43.4

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0:45.7

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0:46.8

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0:48.6

slash Cyberwire.

1:00.1

Hello. Hello, my name is Adam Marais.

1:05.0

I am the chief information security officer at Arctic Wolf.

1:18.1

So growing up, like many people of my vintage, I got into video games at a pretty young age.

1:23.7

And boy, I just loved, you know, the stories, the visuals, everything about video games. And even got into, you know, some of the underlying code and things like that at an

1:29.5

early age. And in fact, I actually designed my own video game at, I think it was about seven

1:37.4

years old and sent my design into Nintendo. And they were kind enough to send me back a letter

1:42.8

saying, you know, we don't take designs from young children and sent me some swag.

1:48.6

But I was very interested in that.

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