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26 episodes
since July 7, 2025
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AI hands attackers a hundred-fold army and drops the skill needed to launch plug-and-play attacks.  Jeffrey Bernstein, Founder and Managing Director of Critical Defence, has spent 25 years responding to breaches, and he tells Anne why the same automation speeding up defenders is making attackers f…

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Phishing still works, and Randy Rose argues more tools won't fix it. The VP of Security Operations and Intelligence at the Center for Internet Security brings a forensic anthropology background to cyber, treating attackers as humans with repeatable patterns rather than technical indicators to chase…
Within five years, every organization defending a network will run an agent-first posture, and analysts who can't operate agents won't have jobs. Jason Rivera, Field CISO and Head of Solution Engineering at SimSpace, explains why intelligent autonomous adversaries turn cybersecurity from a responsi…
The least sophisticated fraudsters often teach the sharpest lessons. Blake Butler, who leads financial crime threat intelligence at PayPal, has picked up tradecraft from teenagers who spotted abuse paths that seasoned actors overlooked. He shows Anne how to read an attacker's sophistication, why pr…
Alex Bovicelli runs cyber threat intelligence across 15,000+ insured organizations at Tokio Marine HCC, and his program sits on something most teams will never have: direct visibility into thousands of ransomware claims and full DFIR engagements. That means he's not theorizing about how breaches ha…
GetReal surveyed 700 IT professionals at mid-to-large businesses and found that roughly 40% said they had already hired a fraudulent candidate. Most of those same respondents also said they were confident they could spot a deepfake. Tom Cross has tested face swaps and voice clones against leading b…
Duaine Labno came up through law enforcement before taking over a workplace violence and threat assessment program, and that transition shaped everything about how he runs his threat intel teams. His team processes millions of data points and handles life-safety events in real time. What he lays ou…
Dhruv Majumdar has 15 years across red teams, incident response, EY and Deloitte consulting, and co-founding an MDR company before Gartner coined the term. That history gives him a vantage point most vendor-side voices don't have: he's been the person buying tools, building detection programs from …
David Groveman, Director of Cyber Services, Incident Response at AmTrust has been inside hundreds of ransomware incidents, and the patterns he describes are not what most security teams are preparing for. The first 60 minutes of an attack are less about technical response and almost entirely about …
Darren LaCasse, Director of Threat Intelligence, Detection, & Response at Elastic, makes a case that most SOC leaders are solving alert fatigue the wrong way. Starting with critical alerts keeps teams treading water. His approach of sorting by volume first, clearing the biggest bucket, then usi…
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