The cybersecurity industry is gaslighting you. We spend billions on dashboards that look pretty but act like “sleep paralysis demons” for the analysts trying to use them.

In this episode, Jennifer Von Kainold (VP of Product Management at BlueVoyant) reveals the dirty secret of security engineering: the tools are built for the builders, not the defenders. Jen breaks down the “Sleep Paralysis” of modern SOCs, why the industry refuses to simplify, and how she went from a Chemistry degree to leading product strategy for a major MDR firm.

We also dismantle the panic over Quantum Computing and explain why you’re worried about Q-Day when you don’t even have an asset inventory.

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⏱️ CHAPTER BREAKS

00:00 – The Dashboard That Causes Panic Attacks

00:14 – The “Illusion of Safety” in Tech

02:31 – From Coding Fortran to Hacking Genomes

06:18 – The “Sleep Paralysis Demon” of Bad UI

09:16 – Why Engineers Build Tools for Robots, Not Humans

14:29 – Translating “Engineer” to “Human” (The Polyglot Problem)

19:31 – The Archer Paradox: When Flexibility Becomes Failure

21:58 – Agentic AI: The End of the Dashboard?

31:22 – The Myth of the “Single Pane of Glass”

35:37 – The Quantum Computing (“Q-Day”) Hysteria

37:44 – “Where Is Your Super Cold Fridge?!”

40:32 – Why We Refuse to Do the Basics (Burnout & Cognitive Load)

44:29 – Don’t Wait for the Apocalypse to Lock Your Door

46:22 – The Final Verdict

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