Our Top Podcasts of 2023!

Happy Holidays! As we wrap up 2023, we want to thank our listeners and all of our great guests for helping to make 2023 the best year yet for our Gate 15 podcasts! This year saw great growth in our listener community, more engagement with listeners, and the introduction of our weekly Security Sprint. You can see some of this year’s success courtesy of Spotify’s Wrapped info, below right.

Our Top 10 most popular podcasts for 2023 are listed, in order, below. Thanks for making this a great year and please enjoy these and any of the other episodes you may have missed!

  1. The Gate 15 Interview: April is Water-palooza! Chuck Egli and Jen Walker talk WaterISAC!
  2. The Gate 15 Interview: Jeff Troy, President, Aviation ISAC, on public service, cybersecurity, understanding threats (and… colonizing the ocean?)
  3. The Risk Roundtable EP 38: The 4 Rs-Ransomware, Reporting, Romance scams and Paul Rudd! Not to mention all-hazards!
  4. Nerd Out Security Panel Discussion: EP 33. Monterey Park, Practical Security Measures, and risks for 2023
  5. Weekly Security Sprint EP 1. Recapping the latest all-hazards security news-ransomware, weather, hostile events, and others.
  6. The Risk Roundtable EP 37: Breaking in 2023 with continuations from 2022 critical infrastructure risks, terrorism, and cyber hygiene
  7. Weekly Security Sprint EP 3. Weather, network outages, protecting data, and cyber news!
  8. The Gate 15 Interview: Getting Weird with Rachel Tobac. Hacking, Twitter, MFA, Being Politely Paranoid and…Time Travel?
  9. Weekly Security Sprint EP 7. Crowd management, Hostile Events arrests, ransomware, cyber news and more.
  10. Nerd Out Security Panel Discussion: EP 36. Making your way into the security profession

As we look to 2024, we’re looking forward to continuing our successful podcasts and excited to add a new pod in January as we introduce our newest podcast, a collaboration with the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM). Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series is our newest podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosts short interviews with venue safety and security experts from IAVM’s Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.


The Gate 15 Interview is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues. Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for PodcastersAppleSpotifyGoogle, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:

  • The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
  • Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
  • The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
  • Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series is our newest podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosts short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community. Starts in January 2024.
  • The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
  • The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.

We hope you’ll subscribe, listen and share your ideas and other feedback! Reach out to us on Threads,  LinkedIn, via email at: podcast@gate15.global, and also on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.