Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Staying Relevant in Cyber and Information Security: PODCASTS!

    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):

As They Are Published (mostly time-sensitive content):
  • 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
  • Defensive Security Podcast

As They Become Available (not necessarily time-sensitive content):
  • Darknet Diaries
  • 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
  • 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
  • Down the Security Rabbithole
  • 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:


    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!!

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