Infosec Report
Be heard in Slovakia
Infosec Report is the only defence and security podcast in Slovakia, published on the front page of the country’s most-read news site. We record in English, and Slovakia hears you in Slovak.
Published since 2019 · 220+ episodes · Weekly · Distributed by Aktuality.sk
What we cover
Security, defence and the technological challenges of our time — the issues that determine the quality of our democracies.
International security and the shifting balance of power between states. Information threats, hybrid operations and intelligence activity. Artificial intelligence, social media and the platforms that increasingly decide what people believe. Education, the media and social cohesion. We treat all of these as one subject, because they are.
If your work touches any of it, it belongs on this show.
Where it goes
Infosec Report is published on Aktuality.sk, Slovakia’s most-read news website, on its front page and its YouTube channel.
2.06 million
domestic real users per month — the most-read website in Slovakia
Against a national online population of 3.76 million aged 12 to 79, that is more than one Slovak internet user in two, every month.
Sources: Gemius Slovakia / gemiusAudience, July 2026 (2,058,816 domestic real users); IAB Slovakia / IABmonitor, March 2026.
The episode is also published on Infosecurity.sk, on the Infosec Report channel, and on all major podcast platforms.
Audience: the general Slovak public. Not a specialist audience. That is the point.
The case
Slovakia is a NATO and EU member state whose government has broken with the Alliance consensus on Russia, where Kremlin-aligned narratives hold significant public traction, and where the quality of democracy has measurably declined.
Your institution almost certainly publishes on countries like this one. It almost certainly does not reach them.
That is the gap we exist to close. Infosec Report takes expert analysis and puts it in front of a general Slovak audience — not analysts, not academics, not a policy bubble. Forty minutes with us reaches the public your work is actually about, in the language they think in.
We take no advertising, no grants and operate no paywall. The platform is funded by its readers, and answerable to no one else.
How we work
Our audience is the general public, and we write for them without exception. Nobody watching has read your report, sat through a NATO briefing, or has any reason to know what FIMI, reflexive control, extended deterrence or algorithmic amplification mean. We will ask you to translate, and we will translate with you.
We do not do tactical detail. Strategic and conceptual framing only.
We do not ambush guests. You will know what we are asking before we ask it.
We do not extend anyone’s expertise beyond their published work. You will be asked about what you actually do.
How the Slovak version works
Every international interview is recorded in English and dubbed into Slovak for broadcast. This is what makes the audience reachable, so it is worth being precise about how it is done.
Translations are reviewed by human translators before the voice track is built, and every finished episode is reviewed in full before publication. The result meets professional broadcast standards.
Voice casting is matched to the speaker — a guest whose first language is French is dubbed by a voice carrying the same origin, so the Slovak is native but the speaker still sounds like themselves.
Your English original is never touched. It is published separately and in full, and you receive the file to use however you wish.
What you get
- The full English recording, free of the Slovak dub, yours to publish
- A full transcript
- A written article on Infosecurity.sk built from the interview, linking to your report, book or institution
- The same article published on Aktuality.sk, putting a live link to your work in front of Slovakia’s largest news audience
- Show notes linking your work across every platform the episode appears on
- Short-form vertical clips, cut and captioned for your own social channels
No approval process, no watermarking, no restrictions on how you use any of it.
Format
- 40 minutes. Occasionally longer if the conversation earns it.
- Remote. Recorded in Riverside — browser-based, nothing to install, no account required.
- In English. We dub into Slovak in post-production. You speak once.
- Questions in advance, shared as indicative rather than binding.
- In person if you prefer — in the podcast studio inside the Aktuality.sk newsroom in Bratislava, or at a conference we are both attending.
Recent English-language guests include Dr Péter Krekó and Dr András Rácz, both internationally recognised experts on Russian influence and Central European politics.
Previous guests
Recent guests from GLOBSEC, DGAP, the European Leadership Network, Political Capital and CEIAS, and from the Slovak and Czech governments — including two former cabinet ministers, a retired general and a former intelligence directorate chief.
- Dr Péter Krekó Director, Political Capital Institute; Senior Fellow, CEPA; Associate Professor, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
- Dr Róbert Ondrejcsák Executive Director, European Leadership Network; former Ambassador to the United Kingdom; twice State Secretary, Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic
- Dr András Rácz Senior Fellow, Center for Security and Defense, German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)
- Róbert Vass Founder and President, GLOBSEC
- Miroslav Wlachovský Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic; Distinguished Fellow, Centre for Democracy & Resilience
- Martin Sklenár Head of the Future of Security Programme, GLOBSEC; former Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic
- Colonel Otakar Foltýn, PhD Deputy Chief of the Military Office of the President of the Czech Republic
- Lieutenant General (ret.) Pavel Macko Slovak Armed Forces
- Colonel (ret.) Juraj Kulik, PhD Former Director, National Security Analytical Centre (NBAC), Slovak Information Service
- Matej Šimalčík Executive Director, Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS)
- Michal Vašečka Sociologist; Programme Director, Bratislava Policy Institute; Slovak member of the Council of Europe European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
- Tomáš Nagy Senior Research Fellow for nuclear, space and missile defence, Future of Security Programme, GLOBSEC; former Senior Policy Adviser, Ministry of Defence of the Slovak Republic
- Veronika Víchová Senior Analyst, Centre for an Informed Society, Prague
- Andrea Michalcová Director and co-founder, Centre for an Informed Society, Prague; specialist in democratic resilience and Russian hybrid influence
- Alexandra Alvarová Author and expert on political propaganda; co-host, Kanárci v síti
- Jakub Šimko Lead Researcher and head of the Web and User Data Processing team, Kempelen Institute of Intelligent Technologies (KInIT)
- Jan Vobořil Lawyer and digital privacy expert, Iuridicum Remedium
- Ivan Novotný Lecturer in international law, Trnava University; former diplomat, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Slovak Republic
- Josef Holý AI and cognitive security specialist; lecturer, Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague; co-host, Kanárci v síti
- Tomáš Halász Chief Executive Officer, TrollWall AI
- Ján Machaj Director, EDULAB; lecturer, Comenius University Bratislava
Watch first
Episodes are published in Slovak. Interviews with international guests are conducted in English and dubbed in post-production.
Without Ukraine, we cannot defend ourselves
Róbert Vass — Founder and President, GLOBSECWhy Ukraine stopped being a consumer of European security and became one of its suppliers.
Slovak
The lesson from Budapest
Dr Péter Krekó — Political Capital Institute; CEPAWhat finally broke Orbán’s grip, and whether the same is possible in Slovakia.
English · dubbed into Slovak
Nobody expects anything from Slovakia any more
Dr Róbert Ondrejcsák — European Leadership NetworkA former state secretary for defence on what Slovakia forfeited before the NATO summit.
SlovakThe host
Victor Breiner is the founder and editor-in-chief of Infosecurity.sk and host of Infosec Report. A former foreign correspondent who reported from Syria, Libya, Mali, Lebanon and Ukraine, he holds a master’s degree in international security from the University of Leicester and served as an advisor and director at Slovakia’s Ministry of Defence, specialising in hybrid threats and foreign information manipulation.
FAQ
Do I need to speak Slovak?
No. We record in English.
What do I need technically?
A laptop or phone with a camera, headphones, a quiet room, and a window or lamp in front of you rather than behind. Nothing to install.
Can I see the questions first?
Yes, always, and they are indicative rather than binding.
Is the interview edited?
Lightly, for pacing and clarity. Never in a way that changes meaning.
Can you hold an embargo?
Yes. Tell us the date.
Can I use the recording myself?
Yes, without restriction.
How far ahead do you book?
Usually four to six weeks. We can move faster when something is timely.
Who else has been on the show?
More than 220 episodes since 2019. The show moved to video in February 2026; earlier episodes were published as audio. The full archive is on Infosecurity.sk.
Book a recording
Email bookings@infosecurity.sk with two or three dates that work for you, and we will confirm within one working day.
If you have a report or book with a publication date, tell us — we can time the episode to your launch and hold an embargo.
Infosecurity.sk and Infosec Report are published by Inštitút pre budovanie odolnosti o.z., a registered non-profit organisation in the Slovak Republic.
Registration number (IČO): 55586023
Lermontovova 3, 811 05 Bratislava, Slovakia
