Cyber Security

Simon and Marc discuss and dissect 9 Hollywood hacker movies from the last 30+ years, including:

• Snowden
• Blackhat
• Die Hard 4.0 (Live Free or Die Hard)
• Who Am I
• Fast and Furious 8 (The Fate of the Furious)
• The Social Network
• Hackers
• Sneakers
• WarGames

Which are the most realistic? Or stupid? And why?

We don't take a totally nerdy approach to this. Reasonable latitude is given to artistic license. But we take a zero tolerance approach to loud keyboards.

Also featured:

The Net
Mr Robot

In this episode we’re going to look at what a computer breach, or hack, actually looks like. From both the attacker and defender’s points of view.

We welcome special guest St. John Harold, a cyber security veteran of 20 years experience in the armed forces, governmental organisations and commercial companies.

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

In this episode Simon and Marc focus on the basics of understanding and managing risk. They discuss insurance, how to assess the risk of anything (from dropping a cup of tea on an expensive server to animal attacks!) and touch on ransomware.

We look at the issues from the perspective of executives in large organisations and founders setting up their own startups.

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

Companies spend trillions on cyber security each year. But how do they decide which products and services are the best?

We dig down into the sometimes shady world of cyber security sales, market analysis and product testing. How do the relationships work between clients, salespeople, analysts, testers and the media?

Simon Edwards (SE Labs) talks to special guests Allison Elizondo (ex-NSS Labs, now SentinelOne) and Nabil Khokhar (ex-Glencore, now DarkGuard)

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

We continue our first series on cyber security by looking at the most basic concepts.

• Why can't we just lock everything up in a safe?
• Is cyber security for large businesses more complicated than it needs to be?
• How do governments and spy agencies approach the problem?
• How can we use these concepts to secure our businesses and our families?

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

Anti-virus seems to keep dying! Simon Edwards looks at why people keep repeating the claim and why it's important to understand the issues, even if you don't agree with them.

• What is "anti-virus" anyway?
• Naughty marketing claims
• Opinionated researchers with inside knowledge
• Outdated opinions
• Grumpy software developers

And the briefest history of computer anti-virus that we could manage.

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

Where can large and small businesses find good, basic cyber security advice?

We look at the options and discuss the UK's Cyber Essentials programme. Is it a good start or a non-starter?

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

How do attacker attack? We look at their tactics and explore your options to help recognise and evade them. We examine social engineering in a cyber security and physical context, as well as technical exploits.

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

We’re excited to announce De:Coded Cyber, our new podcast covering security for large businesses, budding CISOs and even recognising that Chief Information Security Officers are real people too, with families and personal lives.

(Full Show Notes available on our website.) 

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