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   S6 · E434 · 21 Jul 2026 · 36 min

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   S6 · E433 · 14 Jul 2026 · 31 min

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   S6 · E432 · 7 Jul 2026 · 31 min

   How to Turn Cybersecurity Customers into Lifelong Advocates with Antu Buck

   What if the same psychology that threat actors use to manipulate their targets is the same psychology that marketers use to earn your trust? In this episode, Ron sits down with Antu Buck, Senior Director of Customer Marketing & Community at Gigamon, who spent two decades building trust between vendors and the practitioners who use their tools. Antu walks us through the three pillars she's built her career around, and makes the case that advocacy shouldn't be an afterthought, but the very first marketing move a company invests in. The conversation lands on something the community doesn't talk…

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   S6 · E430 · 16 Jun 2026 · 29 min

   Feed Your Brain: What Cybersecurity Veterans Are Getting Wrong with Johnny Xmas

   Is AI really coming for your red teaming job? What does it actually take to build a team that thinks like the adversary, and what happens when that team stops caring? And what do you do when you've been in this field long enough that the job that once fired you up has started to feel hollow? In this episode, Ron catches up with Johnny Xmas, Head of Offensive Security at a Fortune 150 Global Food Manufacturer, and one of the most candid voices in offensive security, for a conversation that covers a lot of ground fast. They go deep on where AI actually fits into offensive security workflows,…

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   S6 · E429 · 9 Jun 2026 · 25 min

   Fighting Smarter: What Combat Sports Teaches Us About Cyber Defense with Robin Black

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   S6 · E428 · 2 Jun 2026 · 36 min

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   S6 · E446 · 7 Oct 2026 · 37 min

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   What happens when your marketing team, your sales team, and the person down the hall can all ship a full app from a single prompt? And what is that app quietly connected to? In this episode, Ron sits down with Roi Nisimi, Principal Security Researcher, and Yonatan Levi, AI Security Researcher, of Orca Security. They built apps on the most popular AppGen platforms and then tried to break into them.Ron, Roi, and Yonatan get into what's really running behind a prompt-built app, and what Orca's team found when they went looking for trouble. In one case, a single misconfigured app gave them a way…

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   S6 · E445 · 30 Sep 2026 · 32 min

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   S6 · E444 · 23 Sep 2026 · 32 min

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    S6 · E443 · 16 Sep 2026 · 38 min

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