Chris Glanden a cybersecurity professional, tech entrepreneur and thought leader aiming to mentor aspiring security technologists.  He is highly passionate about IT Security Systems, breakthroughs, vulnerabilities, their mitigation and risk management. His profession is Security Consultant by day, Podcast Paladin by night. He decided to launch the BarCode podcast officially in August 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and views it as an alternative way to continue the social and educational attributes of cybersecurity happy hours, technical meetups and security conference peer interaction that our industry so much needed and deserved. Often, this is where new ideas and innovation happen, and not confined within conference walls. He designed the format of each episode interview to chat with cybersecurity leaders and innovators and to also help aspiring professionals gain free advice, knowledge and direction, directly from the industry’s ELITE.