Welcome back to the Scinary Information Nexus! After last week's lost episode (thanks to some corrupted files), Richard, Joseph, Mario, and Hunter are back in the studio-while Brazos is off spreading the good word in Tennessee.

This week, the team tackles "Alert Fatigue." If your Security Operations Center (SOC) is blasting you with a thousand alerts a day, are you actually secure, or are you just being conditioned to ignore the warning sirens? We dive into the philosophy behind how Scinary built its SOC, the difference between "Alert Fatigue" and "Data Fatigue," and why picking up the phone to talk to your IT director is sometimes the best cybersecurity tool you can have.

Then, the guys drop the hammer on private equity firms and the "enshittification" of corporate tech. From Tenable (Nessus) quietly hiding web application plugins behind an exorbitant paywall, to Ivanti gutting their engineering teams right before suffering catastrophic VPN vulnerabilities, the truth about corporate cybersecurity might make your blood boil.

Plus, stick around for the end as the guys recount a hilarious team outing in Waco involving terrible hotdogs, a brutally fast chess match, and a trip to Benny's Hog Shed.

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