UNSECURITY: Information Security Podcast

Evan and Brad are joined in episode 13 by Jim Nash, who is the assistant minority leader for the Minnesota House of Representatives and also a member of the FRSecure family. Naturally, the state of security in local government and in the state of Minnesota were major talking points this week. In addition, the guys chatted about incident response planning and current events like Apple's FaceTime bug. Give it a listen and let us know what you think!

In episode 12 of the UNSECURITY podcast, Brad and Evan take an in-depth look at the state of employment in the information security industry, including some ways people who are interested in the industry can break through. One example is FRSecure's CISSP Mentor Program, which they also discuss in this episode. Finally, Brad and Evan chat about the news circulating this week surrounding the cost of a cyber-attack, Google's GDPR fine, and hijacked Nests. As always, if you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please pass them along!unsecurity@protonmail.comfrsecure.com/cissp-mentor-program

With Evan back from his trip to Cancun writing his second book, it was a perfect time for the first face-to-face recording of the UNSECURITY Podcast. In our 11th episode, Brad and Evan discuss Evan's writing trip, the next release of the FISASCORE® risk assessment, and current news topics like the American military, a flaw in Cisco routers, and Apple's privacy evangelism. Thanks for following along each week. The feedback and listenership have been exciting! Remember, feel free to send questions or comments to unsecurity@protonmail.com.

Brad hosts another great UNSECURITY Podcast episode with Evan. This week, they discussed information security book writing, day-to-day security challenges, the new Modlishka 2FA proxy tool (hacking 2FA), El Chapo’s chats, Zurich claiming “act of war” while refusing to payout for NotPetya, and another third-party data breach. While Brad’s back home, Evan tries to make this podcast work from a Starbuck’s in Cancun. Everything goes fine for a while until a bunch of kids show up to play Fortnite. Entertaining as usual. Be sure to tune in next week, after Brad and Evan tackle the audio issues!

In this episode, Brad and Evan discuss “Tom” (the "normal people" who are the reason behind what we do at FRSecure), the very soon-to-be-released UNSECURITY book, the next UNSECURITY book being written now, the next book later this year that Brad and I will be writing together, cool vendor risk management and NIST CSF stuff that Brad’s working on, and some current news:2019’s First Data Breach: It Took Less than 24 Hours - https://www.cbronline.com/news/2019s-first-data-breach and https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-01/victorian-government-employee-directory-data-breach/106769322019 security forecast: Cloudy and unsettled, with a chance of gloom - https://siliconangle.com/2019/01/01/2019-security-forecast-cloudy-unsettled-chance-gloom/The 21 scariest data breaches of 2018 - https://www.businessinsider.com/data-hacks-breaches-biggest-of-2018-2018-12Join us next week!

In the last episode of the year, Brad and Evan reflect on what made an impact in 2018 and what we can look forward to in the upcoming year. In episode 8, find out if Evan's 2018 security predictions came to fruition, learn about how many of the top organizations in the world are missing the memo when it comes to security executives, and listen to how GDPR almost ruined Christmas.

In this pre-holiday episode of the UNSECURITY podcast, Evan and Brad begin wrapping up 2018. They took a look back at the biggest vulnerabilities that impacted the information security industry this year, and broke down some of the current events that have presented themselves in the last few weeks of the year.

Brad Nigh hosts episode six of the Unsecurity podcast, where the guys are joined by Wade, a K-12 Director of Technology at a mid-sized public school district. They discuss their innovative Compass Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics course and how they’re preparing the next generation of information security pros. They also discuss the current skills shortage in the industry, Australia’s new encryption law, a 12-state lawsuit against a medical records company, and the Equifax breach according to the newly released House report.

In this week's episode, Evan and Brad are joined by Minnesota State Representative Jim Nash to discuss the state of cyber security and information security in state government. They also break down the recent NRCC hack, more about Google and Marriott, the Quora breach, and sextortion in the U.S. military.

In episode 4 of the Unsecurity Podcast, Evan and Brad break down the massive Marriott breach that happened this week. They also take some time to discuss Microsoft's multi-factor authentication, GDPR issues, third-party risk management, and more.