Staying up to date is absolutely essential to remaining relevant in your field. Here, I've curated most of the podcasts I listen to, arranged in a few different categories.
Daily - Morning Listens (every weekday morning):
- The CyberWire
- ~20 min
- General cyber landscape news, some interesting features
- https://thecyberwire.com/
podcasts/daily-podcast - SANS Internet Storm Center Podcast
- ~5 min
- Technical, current exploits and vulnerabilities
- https://isc.sans.edu/podcast.html
- BBC Global News Podcast
- ~30 min
- Global news (it is imperative to understand how this can impact the cyber landscape)
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/
programmes/p02nq0gn - The Daily Stoic
- ~3-90 min, depending on the day
- Personal development, stoic philosophy, daily "re-centering" and refocusing
- https://art19.
com/shows/the-daily-stoic - Up First [NPR]
- ~15-20 min
- 3 top stories for the day, focused on US news primarily
- http://www.npr.org/
programs/morning-edition/
- Paul's Security Weekly
- ~3 hours
- Phenomenally insightful and funny cyber security show "for security professionals, by security professionals"
- I always get something useful from this show
- http://securityweekly.
com/ - Risky Business
- ~60 minutes
- Weekly cyber security news and analysis
- Very insightful, regularly voted one of the top industry podcasts
- https://risky.biz/
- Security Weekly News
- Another podcast in the Paul's Security Weekly network (several of these are worth the listen if you've got the time and interest)
- ~30 min, twice weekly
- News and insight, then a show recap from the rest of the network's offerings [ie. Paul's Security Weekly, Enterprise Security Weekly, Application Security Weekly, etc.]
- http://hacknaked.tv/
- Talkin' About Infosec News
- From Black Hills Information Security
- ~60 min
- InfoSec news from BHIS, with John Strand providing a lot of good insight and breakdowns
- https://www.
blackhillsinfosec.com/ - Defensive Security Podcast
- ~40 min
- InfoSec news from industry professionals
- https://
defensivesecurity.org/
As They Become Available (not necessarily time-sensitive content):
- Darknet Diaries
- ~60-90 min
- Amazing stories about hacking and incidents, well-told, and well-produced
- https://
darknetdiaries.com/ - Malicious Life
- ~30-60 min
- Similar to Darknet Diaries (but with a specific underwriter), with a lot more episodes
- https://malicious.
life/ - Cyber Security Interviews
- ~30-60 min
- Interviews with industry professionals, interesting stories, insights and philosophies
- https://
cybersecurityinterviews.com/ - Command Line Heroes
- ~25 min
- Some interesting, technically-focused content from RedHat
- https://www.redhat.
com/en/command-line-heroes - The Idealcast with Gene Kim
- ~90-120 min
- DevOps-focused podcast, with insights that can contribute to the improvement of most projects from the author of "The Unicorn Project"
- https://
itrevolution.com/ - Caveat
- ~30-45 min
- Focuses on the legal and policy sides of cyber security, from The CyberWire
- http://www.
thecyberwire.com/ - Down the Security Rabbithole
- ~40-60 min
- Insightful security topics discussed (usually in interviews) and how those topics interact with the business side
- https://blogwh1t3rabbit.medium.com/
- Click Here
- ~20-30 min
- Former NPR journalist focuses specifically on cyber and intelligence, providing industry insight with geopolitical context
- From Recorded Future
- https://therecord.media/podcast/
- Programming Throwdown
- ~60-90 min
- Two computer scientists describe and discuss programming languages and technologies
- Surprisingly interesting and good primers to languages and technologies you may not be familiar with
- http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/
Other Podcasts with Topical Interest:
- The Art of Manliness
- ~35-60 min
- Interesting topics about most anything in life
- https://the-art-of-manliness.simplecast.com/
- The Jordan Harbinger Show
- ~40-100 min
- Interviews with all sorts of people about all sorts of topics
- https://www.podcastone.com/the-jordan-harbinger-show
- The Digital Forensic Survival Podcast
- ~15 min
- Absolutely phenomenal podcast describing various digital forensic artifacts and collection methods
- http://digitalforensicsurvivalpodcast.libsyn.com/podcast
It's a long list. But there's always something to learn.
I don't necessarily listen to every single episode of each of these (except the daily ones), and I generally listen at accelerated speed (about 1.2-1.5x). I listen to several podcasts that inevitably cover the same thing, because there's usually some decent insight to be gained by listening to several different opinions.
It has been a tremendous source of pride to be able to provide current, relevant information to my leadership, as well as provide insight as to what the geopolitical effects might be.
Happy Listening!!
