About

Risky.biz is the home of the Risky Business security podcast, which was first published in February 2007.

Since then, Risky Business has published over 200 episodes and developed a significant following among security, intelligence, risk and law enforcement professionals.

Risky Business has won four, peer-judged awards for excellence in journalism (See below). In addition to covering IT security news and features, Risky.Biz has established itself as a news-breaking outlet.

The podcast is presented and produced by Australia-based journalist Patrick Gray, who been reporting on the information security discipline since 2001. He has written extensively for Fairfax newspapers, including The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, ACP Magazines, Wired.com, ZDNet Australia, SecurityFocus.com, Business Week and many, many more.

Each week his news cohost is Adam Boileau, a security consultant and researcher based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Regular guests on the program have included In-Q-Tel's CSO Dan Geer, HD Moore, Kevin Mitnick, David Litchfield, Mark Dowd, Peter Gutmann, Australian senators, former NSA technical director of information assurance Brian Snow, and many more.

Since its launch the Risky Business podcast has been sponsored and supported by companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, Juniper Networks, Arbor Networks, RSA Security, Tenable Network Security, Symantec, Kaspersky, Sophos, Veracode and others.

Awards and commendations:

WON:

Mediaconnect IT Journalism Awards Lizzie, Best Audio Program, 2011
Mediaconnect IT Journalism Awards Gold Lizzie, Best Technology Title, 2009
Mediaconnect IT Journalism Awards Lizzie, Best Technology Audio Program, 2009
Mediaconnect IT Journalism Awards Lizzie, Best Audio Program, 2010

HIGHLY COMMENDED:

Mediaconnect IT Journalism Awards, Best Audio Program, 2008
Mediaconnect IT Journalism Awards, Best Multimedia Reporting, 2007