Simplifying Cyber
This show features an interactive discussion, expert hosts, and guests focused on solving cyber security and privacy challenges in innovative and creative ways. Our goal is for our audience to learn and discover real, tangible, usable ideas that don't require a huge budget to accomplish. Shows like “How It’s Made” have become popular because they explain complicated or largely unknown things in easy terms. This show brings the human element to cyber security and privacy.
Simplifying Cyber
Latest Episodes
Part 2: Swords, Subpoenas, & Software
A champagne bottle, a blade, and a clean strike turns into one of the clearest cybersecurity conversations we’ve had. We’re joined by attorney and cyber contracting veteran Drew Tharp, with Todd Wilkinson stepping in as guest host, and we use s...
Part 1: Saberage and Cyber
A champagne bottle can teach you more about cybersecurity than you’d expect. We start with sabrage, the old French tradition of opening champagne with a saber, and we get hands-on with the real mechanics: finding the bottle seam, aiming at the ...
The Vulnerability Playbook
A vulnerability backlog can look like a crisis, but sometimes the real crisis is that you’re staring at the wrong picture. We’re joined by Dave Sims, most recently Staff VP at Elevance Health and a longtime technology leader, to talk through vu...
Spot That Vish!
A phone call from “IT security” used to be easier to dismiss when it sounded robotic or scripted. That’s not the world we’re in anymore. We built a voice agent fast, with no coding, and it can place outbound calls, sound convincingly human, and...
The Evolution of Human Risk
You can’t just “train harder” to mitigate human risk. We sit down with Ashley Rose, CEO and co-founder of Living Security, to unpack why classic security awareness training (SAT) often produces neat dashboards with flimsy outcomes, and what it ...
