Josh and Robbie are joined with a special guest, Kyree GRC, who tells us how some key mentors, numerous internships and personal tenacity helped him find his pathway into governance risk compliance.

Today Kyree is a risk analyst, who passes the favour on by mentoring people for GRC roles in his spare time. Listen in and find out the realities of working in GRC and how GRC can either clash, or better yet, compliment security operations.

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We all face procrastination in some form, but in the high paced and high stakes world of cyber security, dealing with procrastination can be even more challenging. AJ, Rob and Vaughan share their experience of getting into cyber security and how they face, and deal with procrastination throughout their careers to the present day.

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Josh is joined by all four of the Empirical Trainers, combining their decades of experience in the field to discuss how the CrowdStrike outage has changed security buyers and customers, a fun update on AJ's wedding celebrations where AJ and Vaughan met for the first time IRL, before ending with some ransomware questions from our Skool community.

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Josh takes Robbie back to school, and a 2000 year old computer to explain the compute evolution from analogue to digital and the impending quantum revolution. We'll discuss the security implication of quantum computers, the 'steal now, crack later' issue, how NIST are progressing with post-quantum cryptography and a brief discussion on privacy vs convenience as the NFL look to roll out facial recognition technology.

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Josh has gone MIA, so AJ hosts Robbie and Vaughan to explore their experiences with imposter syndrome during their careers in cyber security. 

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Josh, Robbie and AJ sit down with the community to discuss how the Crowdstrike BSOD update has affected their security teams and organisations, identifying lessons can learn and exploring the knock on effects while also discovering that this wasn't the first time Crowdstrike broke an OS with an update! They then turn to the Olympics and the heightened cyber security threat posed by geo-political events and financially motivated threat actors.

Join us and enjoy this relaxed security podcast.

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Rob and Josh jump on for an emergency episode while the world tries to deal with, what has been dubbed; "The biggest IT outage of our time". Join us for an update on all the latest public information, as well as some security and developer perspectives to work out exactly what caused this outage? what lessons can we learn? and what might be yet to come as the story unfolds.

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This bonus episode is a little different, with less focus on security and more focus on getting to know the Empirical Team, Josh, AJ, Robbie and Vaughan. We share stories on how we kept each other sane during our tough first SOC roles, re-visit AJ's origin story as a bus driver, and Rob shares a secret talent.

Usually programming will resume next week!

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Josh, Robbie, AJ and Vaughan are back to talk all things cyber security, again with the Empirical community as part of this live podcast. Join us to talk about the emerging CloudSorceror advanced persistent threat (APT), as well as diving into the principles behind tracking threat actors, open source intelligence and how this information can make you a better cyber security professional. 

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Josh is out sick, so AJ and Vaughan take the reigns and discuss incident response tooling, answering questions about TheHive Project, an open source incident response tool and how real world organisation use tools like that. They quickly move onto automation, and how now is the perfect time to start your career in Cyber Security, before they automate some of the entry level tasks completely!... Don't worry, we're not there yet.

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