Gloria Globman — CTO of Acclaimed Technical Services, former Senior Cyber Advisor at the US Embassy in Tokyo, US Navy veteran, and Presidential Rank Award recipient — joins Frank Downs and Dustin Brewer to translate what's really happening on your home network. Every smart device is a tiny computer with a camera, a microphone, and an internet connection, constantly talking to its manufacturer, the cloud, and other devices on your Wi-Fi. Many of them will never be patched again. Some of the manufacturers don't even exist anymore.

In this episode we cover why mid-sized companies keep underfunding security until it's too late, how AI tools like Mythos and Zealot are compressing the patch window to almost nothing, why the upcoming TP-Link ban probably won't save you, and the simple home-router moves that actually do.

If you've ever brought a personal phone onto the work Wi-Fi, set up a smart camera you've stopped thinking about, or assumed "the cloud" means it's somebody else's problem — this one is for you.

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👥 Hosts: Frank Downs and Dustin Brewer

🎤 Guest: Gloria Globman, CTO, Acclaimed Technical Services

Chapters:

00:00 The IoT problem nobody locks down

00:36 Meet Gloria Globman — Tokyo, the IC, and 20 years of cyber

02:10 Your smart devices are unlocked front doors

03:51 Cognitive offloading: convenience until it isn't

04:42 The aquarium that hacked a casino (MGM)

05:17 Are IoT devices just printers 2.0?

06:14 When personal phones meet corporate Wi-Fi

08:35 Work moved home — security posture didn't

09:19 Mid-sized companies and the 15–20% rule

10:16 Why "not sexy" budgets keep getting cut

11:24 Highest-impact moves: zero trust, segmentation, encryption

12:16 Patch, patch, patch — and why AI changed the timer

12:39 Mythos vs. Zealot: orchestrated AI attacks

16:09 Microsegmentation for your actual house

17:39 Why companies embrace BYOD anyway

18:48 Why VDI never quite won

22:18 Risk transference dysmorphia: "it's the cloud's problem"

22:53 Botnets, dead routers, and the FBI cleanup

23:24 Goodbye TP-Link — security move or theater?

26:25 What the average person should actually do tonight

28:21 Password managers, quantum, and MFA

29:44 Gloria's one piece of life advice

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