Get ready for an insightful episode this week! Maggie MacAlpine joins us bringing her mix of knowledge from history and present-day cybersecurity.

We get into election security and there's no better person than Maggie to guide us through it. We explore the fall of the Bronze Age and connect it with our current digital ecosystem. And we chat about the renowned MITRE and its significant role in Cybersecurity!

Being a passionate writer, Maggie will also share her experiences with playwriting.

Whether it's understanding the Bronze Age or tackling today's election security, you don't want to miss out on this episode. So tune in and embark on this exciting journey with us!

What an episode! Amit Serper joins us this week to talk about hacking IOT devices and his love of 90s rock music! Amit has an unrivaled history of discovering fixes to large scale ransomware attacks, participating in amazing research, and being an all around good dude! 

Tune in to hear us talk about the ridiculously cavalier approach many vendors take to security when it comes to the internet of things, smart grids, home appliances and more. We also talk about how to approach finding new exploits with Amit's way of thinking. 

Follow his work here: https://infosec.exchange/@0xamit

Episode 5 with Rebecca Blair! This exciting episode features an enlightening conversation between Rebecca Blair, Jacob Berry, and Sam Curry. They explore the details of Rebecca's newly published book on security operations and engage in a lively debate over Jacob's radical viewpoint on the perpetual challenge that CISOs face (with Sam providing a contrary opinion). They also discuss the often-controversial topic of gatekeeping in the security industry, and expectedly, venture into realms of Sci-Fi and gaming. (Is this a Sci-Fi and gaming podcast masquerading as a security podcast?)

Each episode of our series delivers a distinct perspective on the multifaceted world of cybersecurity. If you're intrigued by the journey of career progression in cybersecurity, curious about the ins and outs of becoming a published author, or eager to understand the daily trials a CISO confronts, then this engaging episode is perfect for you! 

Buy Rebeca’s new book, “Aligning Security Operations with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework: Level up your security operations center for better security” here

https://a.co/d/h6w81hq

Ready for another engaging episode of "On The Hook"? This time around, Sam Curry and Jacob Berry are chatting with Daniel Miessler, a visionary who's been writing since the 90's on tech. He publishes a weekly news letter "Unsupervised Leaning" on AI, Security, Tech, and is, as he puts it, on a mission of "Building a model of human flourishing, as well as frameworks for increasing it".

We talk AI and digital life - From exploring the impact of AI on our everyday life to speculating about augmented knowledge, it's another conversation that you don't want to miss. Tune in for some tech talk, a few laughs, and much more. Thanks to our guest, Daniel!

We are back!  On this episode we have Jason Straight Senior Managing Director and CPO at Ankura. We talk about the non-traditional way he got into security and how he has built one of the best managed detection and response businesses in the industry, a little bit of MDR history, and his love for music and motorcycles. 

Topics include some thoughts on interesting incident response engagements and a horror story from Sam's days of motorcycles too.

As noted in the show, go listen to Hello Mary on Spotify!

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/hello-mary-new-york-band-1234607414/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6kgB8Ix1GHS4t8OWmsMDGn?si=JC3KN8jyR-ygyKsVUFU6rw

This week we have a 15 minute short episode for you!

We have a brief discussion on Sam's take aways from RSA 2023 and discuss the reality of this years big trend... We will be back in two week with a normal full length interview!

We have an excellent guest this week - Gary Hayslip! A fantastic CISO, SiFi collector, Lego connoisseur, and author! 

We talk about the underground CSIO fight club, lots of Sifi, DnD, neurodiversity, speaking with the board, CISO burnout, raising kids, Legos,  get an office tour, and so much more.

Our inaugural episode with John Dwyer head of research at IBM X-Force.

The history behind 90s hacker Hollywood, thoughts on whats driving people in the industry to crazy, near death experiences, and ninjas in the data center. Can't ask for better conversation!

Thanks to our guest John!