Episodes

Aug. 3, 2023

DEFCON 2023

Hey folks, I'll be at DEF CON in Vegas this year! Would love to see you all there! Jack's Parties: https://twitter.com/JackRhysider/status/1686785376327987200 Checkout Miscreants at the Vendor Area: https://www.miscreants.com...

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March 11, 2022

Rana Khalil - From Cryptography to Pentester!

Journey into Cybersecurity and OSCP Certification with Rana Khalil This episode features Rana Khalil, a Senior Cybersecurity Assessment Analyst with a rich background in pen-testing, especially in the financial sector. Rana s...

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Feb. 25, 2022

Norman Weekes— From Contractor To Security Ops Analyst

Norman Weekes is on the Security Operations Team at Salesforce. He is in charge of scanning their infrastructure and ensuring that everything is set up and operating properly. Norman already spent almost a year in the informa...

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Aug. 5, 2021

Niru Ragupathy - From Almost Biotech to QA to Google Security Lead

Niru Ragupathy is a Security Engineer at Google and works as the Offensive Security Lead and manages part of the Offensive Security Team. She is currently the Tech Lead Manager. Niru sees managing as a challenging, interestin...

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June 16, 2021

John Gates - From Car Mechanic to Lead IT Security Analyst

John Gates is a Lead IT Security Operations Analyst for a global food brand. John has always liked to know how do things work - and that has proven to be a beneficial trait - from his first job as …

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June 1, 2021

Samantha Cowan - From National Parks Service To Head Of Compliance

Samantha Cowan is the Head of Compliance at HackerOne. She's the former Director of Compliance at OneLogin and former Security Engineer at CoverHound, Cyber Policy, and Zenefits. Sam initially perceived Infosec as an "unhappy...

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March 1, 2021

Betsy Bevilacqua - From Almost Lawyer to CISO and Security Leader

Betsy Bevilacqua is the current VP of Information Security at Chainalysis. Initially, she had her mind set on law school until she did a self-audit and realized that she enjoyed computers and tech much more. Her journey into ...

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Jan. 11, 2021

Dr. Eric Cole - Accidental CIA Hacker To Fortune 500 Security Advisor…

Dr. Eric Cole is an accomplished cybersecurity hacker and executive advisor. His career has been a mix of sixth-sense chance encounters and wisdom/foresight of the future. His uncanny ability to see the opportunity in cyberse...

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Nov. 24, 2020

Lisa Jiggetts - From Navy Cook To Pentester To Non-Profit Founder!

Lisa Jiggetts knew from an early age that she was going to be in tech and cyber. A navy veteran who started off as a cook, she always found herself gravitating towards technology. She is also the Founder & Board …

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Oct. 24, 2020

Eric Strom - From Lawyer to FBI Cyber Division Unit Chief

Eric Strom is the Unit Chief of the Mission Critical Engagement Unit, Cyber Division. In this role, Mr. Strom oversees the FBI Cyber Division’s private sector outreach efforts to the 16 critical infrastructure sectors, forgin...

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Oct. 11, 2020

ICS Gabe - Electrical Engineer to Accidental Cybersecurity ICS Expert

Gabriel Agboruche (@ICS_Gabe) is a senior ICS and OT cybersecurity consultant, helping organizations solve their most challenging industrial control security problems. And that was a mouthful, but that's what he does. His jou...

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Aug. 16, 2020

BONUS - Lisa Jiggetts - Salary Negotiations

Lisa Jiggetts is the founder of the Women's Society Of Cyberjutsu. After recording, we continued talking and the topic of salary negotiations came up. It was so good I started recording again. This topic is super important. I...

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July 16, 2020

Switching Into Infosec Success Story And Lessons Learned

Today's episode features a story that was sent to me by a listener. He reached out to me on LinkedIn, telling me of his success story posted on Reddit. This is the audio version. I think you're going to be …

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June 2, 2020

Black Lives Matter

Transcript Hey everyone… So, as if this time was not hard enough as it was with Covid, the American Black community has been affected yet again. It's difficult to post motivating content while so many are feeling a sense of …

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May 14, 2020

BONUS - Announcing Getting Into Infosec BITES

Hello! Wanted to let you know I'm creating daily (almost) videos on YouTube called Getting Into Infosec BITES: https://www.youtube.com/c/gettingintoinfosec Please like, subscribe, and spread the word. The best thing you can d...

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April 19, 2020

Kavya Pearlman - From Hairstylist to CISO to XR Superhero

Kavya Pearlman is an award-winning cybersecurity professional with a deep interest in immersive and emerging technologies. Kavya is the founder of the non-profit XR Safety Initiative (XRSI). XRSI is the first global effort to...

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April 3, 2020

BONUS - Pandemic and The Coming Recession / Depression

We are in the middle of a worldwide pandemic (COVID-19), a recession is here, a depression might be coming, and everyone is remote! Everything has changed. What can you do? How can you find a job in these crazy times? …

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March 10, 2020

Syntax - Arrested Teenager to Motorcycle Racer To Pentester

Syntax, an internal pentester for a large organization, had an interesting ride into infosec, filled with pitstops, detours, and countersteering along the way. At an early age, he was influenced by his father, got started hac...

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March 7, 2020

Bonus - Cyber Security Job Search Frustrations (Ivan)

These are quick hallway conversations with recent graduates discussing the difficulties they've faced in their job search. I did not know any of these people before interviewing, and it's the first time I'm asking them these ...

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March 6, 2020

Bonus - Cyber Security Job Search Frustrations (Zoe)

These are quick hallway conversations with recent graduates discussing the difficulties they've faced in their job search. I did not know any of these people before interviewing, and it's the first time I'm asking them these ...

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March 6, 2020

Bonus - Cyber Security Job Search Frustrations (Jayesh)

These are quick hallway conversations with recent graduates discussing the difficulties they've faced in their job search. I did not know any of these people before interviewing, and it's the first time I'm asking them these ...

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March 4, 2020

Bonus - David Zeichick - Cybersecurity College Professor

So as I was at RSAC, I was trying to keep an eye out for those looking to get into the field. RSA is not usually the place for that, but I saw the NetWars tournament and figured that might …

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Feb. 23, 2020

Tanya Janca - From Insecure Developer to Appsec, Diversity/Inclusion …

BIO Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the author of ‘Alice and Bob Learn Application Security.’ She is also the founder of We Hack Purple, an online learning academy, community, and podcast that revolves around te...

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Feb. 4, 2020

Nick Vissari - Engineering Dropout to Math Tutor to Security Architec…

Nick Vissari went from being an engineering dropout (he didn't like creative writing) to a tech consultant to a math tutor. His penchant for fixing things homed him back into tech, where he is now responsible for security in ...

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