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Standing in the Rain Isn't Diving in the Sea

Natural events certainly have their effect on security, and this week Jesse tells us how in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida. The two most pressing components that natur...

Can You Hear Me, Can You See My Screen?

In the age of Zoom, Google Meet, and all the other various offenders—why do our conference calls still suck? Well, this week Jesse has some insight into how even now, ...

Attacks, Tools, and Ails

How do you understand attacks? This week Jesse tells us. The function of software languages, and how hardware memory works are places to start. Join Jesse as he takes ...

The Castle is Lost

Man the perimeter! This week Jesse divulges some of the latest on perimeter defense, to include recent news thats changed how its done! There is no large perimeter any...

Security Summer Camp

for a chance to form those foundational security memories! Jesse keeps us up to date on your summer security needs as cloud-native micro services become even more com...

All Roads Lead to Cloud

Building new things in the cloud can be fun! But it comes with its own difficulties. Tune in this week as Jesse discusses the different migrations strategies for movin...

Compliance, Ransomware and Privacy, Oh My!

Compliance, privacy, ransomware, and DevSecOps are common topics in the realm of cybersecurity. You may notice that these themes emerge from the topics covered each we...

Who's Fooling Who?

Join Jesse as he talks about learning FOOLS, which is an entire AWS functional objection orientation language suite of tools and APIs services. The first public rollou...

Use a Vault Before Ransomware Does It For You

Don’t get held ransom by ransomware! Remember to balance your production and your security. This week there are ways to keep it all secure across the systems. Ransomwa...

Thesauruses are fun: Adaptable Durable Flexible

In an age of fail themed YouTube compilations and memes, do we even fail gracefully anymore? If we do, or ever did, what does it mean to do so? Join Jesse this week as...

Real Risk vs Movie Risk

The magic weaver himself, Jesse Trucks, is back at it again and this time he is going after Hollywierd and all its misinformation. Unlike in the movies (password: penc...

You Down with ATP? Yeah, You Know Me

Join Jesse as he talks about Advanced Persistent Threats, otherwise known as APTs. He touches upon the easiest way to stop worrying about APTs, why you need to secure ...

Pirates and Castles

Join Jesse as he talks about the two types of security mindsets and why both are wrong, why you should embrace the principle of least privilege, why you’re going to ge...

Caution with Automation

Join Jesse as he talks about the critical role automation plays in security, why you need to be cautious when automating tasks, why you need to patch your Pulse Secure...

Stop Using Passwords, No Really, Stop

Join Jesse as he explains why you should stop using passwords and use a password vault instead, why you should use passphrases when you have to memorize one and what t...

A Jump To The Left Not A Step To The Right

Join Jesse as he explores the ins and outs of shifting left and what it means for software development, why you should begin writing code with security top of mind, wh...

The Grid Has Fallen and It Can't Get Up

Join Jesse as he examines the importance of infrastructure security and touches upon why it’ll take months or years before it catches up to mainstream cybersecurity, w...

Meanwhile in Security Trailer

Cloud security is a minefield of news that assumes the word "Security" is lurking somewhere in your job description. It doesn't have to be this way. Weekly cloud secur...

All Changes Are Permanent Until Replaced

Join Jesse as he talks about how quick fixes often become de facto supported production implementations, how all changes are permanent until replaced, why you should i...

Hooked on Compliance

Join Jesse as he explores the wonderful world of compliance requirements and talks about why you don’t necessarily need to know the intricate details of every law and ...

ZTA: What's Your Plan?

Join Jesse as he talks about Zero Trust Architecture through the lens of a zombie apocalypse. In this episode, Jesse discusses the basic components of Zero Trust Archi...

Zero Trust: Do You Trust Me?

Join Jesse as he takes a look at the Zero Trust model of security and discusses how it works using a multi-tenant office building as a metaphor, how Zero Trust opens p...

AWS, Verizon, and MEC: Demystified

Join Jesse as talks about Verizon’s deepening partnership with AWS and the launch of a private mobile edge computing (MEC) service. In this episode, he explores what t...

Know News Is Good News

Join Jesse as he talks about the endless amount of news out there for security professionals and how to find the signal in the noise, how understanding your organizati...

Trilogy of Threes and a New Mantra

Join Jesse as he talks about why it's useful to know how to build a security program from the ground up yet how people never really have the luxury to do so, the diffe...

The Holy Trinity & the CIA Triad

Join Jesse as he explores the Holy Trinity of security: confidentiality, integrity, and availability of all data and services. Find out why Jesse thinks access to and ...

The Golden Triangle

In this episode, Jesse opines on the fact that defensive security is much more important than the offensive security that’s portrayed in media, why defending systems i...

Welcome and Why Does Security Matter?

Jesse Trucks is the Minister of Magic at Splunk, where he consults on security and compliance program designs and develops Splunk architectures for security use cases,...

Introducing Meanwhile in Security

Ever noticed how security tends to be one of those things that isn't particularly welcoming to folks who don't already have the word "security" somewhere in their job ...

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