All Episodes
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Threat-Informed Defense: Using ATT&CK and Models to Plan Improvements
Threat informed defense means using knowledge about real attacks to guide security work, so defensive choices stay connected to how adversaries actually behave in the ...
Triage 101: What Happens When an Alert Fires.
Alert triage is the first pass an analyst makes on incoming security alerts. In those first few minutes, the analyst decides whether something needs fast action or pat...
Logs, Events, and Alerts: Turning Raw Data Into a Story
Logs are the raw notes that help turn messy digital activity into clear security stories. Every website, device, and application constantly writes these notes in the b...
Types of Security Controls: Preventive, Detective, Corrective, and More
Security controls are the many small and large actions, tools, and rules that organizations use to keep information, systems, and people safe from harm. When someone i...
Defense in Depth: Layers That Work Together
Defense in depth is a simple idea that quietly shapes strong cybersecurity for real organizations. Instead of trusting one perfect barrier, defense in depth stacks sev...
Network Segmentation Made Simple
Network segmentation sounds like a complex expert topic, but it starts very simply. If you understand that computers send messages over shared roads, segmentation shap...
You Can’t Secure What You Can’t See: Asset Inventory Basics
Welcome to our exploration of why you cannot secure what you cannot see in cybersecurity. This episode focuses on asset inventory, the simple idea of knowing exactly w...
Patch and Update Management Foundations
Patch and update management is where earlier vulnerability concepts finally turn into concrete daily security actions. When you scan for weaknesses or read about new f...
Vulnerabilities, CVEs, and CVSS Scores Explained.
Vulnerabilities sit at the center of almost every cybersecurity story people read about today. A vulnerability is a weakness in hardware, software, or a process that a...
Threat Modeling 101: Thinking Like an Attacker
Threat modeling is a structured way to think about how systems might be attacked before any real harm occurs. Instead of picturing hacking as mysterious magic, threat ...
Cyber Kill Chain and Attack Lifecycles
Cyber attacks rarely happen as single isolated moments; they usually unfold in connected stages over time. When headlines talk about a breach, they often focus on the ...
Navigating the MITRE ATTACK Matrix
Many people first meeting cybersecurity feel lost in a storm of disconnected tools, rules, and scary headlines about breaches. Without a shared map of attacker behavio...
NIST CSF 2.0 in Plain English
The Cyber Insights podcast breaks down NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 in plain English so first-time learners and busy leaders can act with confidence. In this episo...
Designing & Defending Secure Systems
At the expert tier, cybersecurity isn’t a toolbox—it’s an ecosystem. This episode shows how real resilience comes from integration: people, processes, and technology o...
Emerging Threats & Defensive Strategies
Cyber threats have evolved from lone hackers and simple malware into coordinated campaigns that target entire organizations and economies. This episode explores that t...
Application and API Security
Applications—and the APIs that power them—are today’s front door to everything from banking and healthcare to shopping and streaming. This episode maps the risk landsc...
Infrastructure, Cloud, and Supply Chain Security
Infrastructure security has evolved from racks of physical servers to fleets of virtual machines, containers, and cloud services managed by code. In this episode, we t...
Secure Systems & Network Architecture
Architecture is the quiet force that decides whether attacks fizzle or cascade. In this episode, we trace the shift from perimeter-era assumptions to layered, breach-a...
Identity, Authentication, and Access Control
Identity, authentication, and access control are the backbone of every secure system, forming a chain that links proof to permission. This episode unpacks that chain s...