

Cyber Security & Cloud Podcast
Francesco Cipollone
Welcome to the Cyber Security & Cloud Podcast #CSCP where we will explore the dark secret of cloud and cyber.
The podcast focuses on people and their stories and explores the human element that brings so many people together
Some episode will be for the well-seasoned cybersecurity veteran but most are about stories of infosec people and how they reach where they are now.
The focus and various stream of the podcast is Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Application Security Social Engineering, and community building
The podcast focuses on people and their stories and explores the human element that brings so many people together
Some episode will be for the well-seasoned cybersecurity veteran but most are about stories of infosec people and how they reach where they are now.
The focus and various stream of the podcast is Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, Application Security Social Engineering, and community building
Episodes
Mentioned books

Nov 22, 2020 • 52min
CSCP S02E25 - Chris Hadnagy - History of social Engineering
Chris Hadnagy is the Cheif Human Hacker of social-engineer.com, an author, Ted
Talker, top social engineer, and a sponsor of Innocent Lives Foundation. Chris
shares how he is helping to lock up child abusers and the human history of hacking
and scams. He urges young people to consider a career in cybersecurity so that
companies can remain safe.
The podcast is brought you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
1:00 Introducing Chris Hadnagy
3:30 Innocent Life Foundation
14:43 Reporting security vulnerabilities in companies
18:25 Human history of scams and hacking
24:52 Increase in phishing, vishing, and smishing
37:44 “I told you so” learning moment
42:20 Starting a career in social enginnering
46:42 Final Positive Message
50:24 Closing
Links
Chris Hadnagy
Twitter @humanhacker
https://www.social-engineer.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_J._Hadnagy
https://www.innocentlivesfoundation.org
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Nov 15, 2020 • 41min
CSCP S02E24 - Adam Shostack - Threat Modelling past and future_mixdown
In this episode, Francesco and Adam Shostack discuss application security and threat modelling.
Adam is the author of Threat Modeling: Designing for Security. He helped create CVE
(Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure) and is on the review board for Black Hat. He
encourages coders and computer engineers to work smarter, not harder.
The podcast is brought to you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
1:00 Introducing Adam Shostack
6:00 CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure)
9:46 Finding satisfaction in a job in security
15:00 Frameworks and static analysis
21:22 Threat Modeling
24:50 Work smarter, not harder
29:12 Documentation in DevOps
34:08 4 questions in Threat Modeling
41:32 Positive Message
Links
Adam Shostack
https://adam.shostack.org
Twitter @adamshostack
https://threatmodelingbook.com
https://www.blackhat.com
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Nov 9, 2020 • 42min
CSCP S02E23 - Geoffrey Hill - Threat Modellingand Banter
In this episode, we have the pleasure to speak with Geoffrey Hill an experience and fellow devsecops expert, inventor of Tuamantic and the rapid threat modelling methodology.
In this episode, we discuss the path of Geoffrey from financial, to dev, to security. Geoffrey and Francesco have an in-depth conversation about threat modelling and the “application security mafia.”
The podcast is brought you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
1:00 Introducing Geoffrey Hill
9:33 Rapid threat modelling
13:53 Kill chain
16:06 Probability vector
17:09 Black-Scholes model
23:44 Benefits and values of threat modelling
29:44 Application Security is sexy now
30:30 Shift to the cloud
37:30 Positive Message
41:30 Closing
Links
Geoffrey Hill
Twitter @GHill_security
http://www.artis-secure.com/about.html
https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-hill-61b7bb/
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Nov 2, 2020 • 37min
CSCP S02E22 - Jenny Radcliffe - Social Engineering with the Human Hacker
Jenny Radcliffe AKA the “People Hacker,” is the Queen of Social Engineering, and host of
Human Factor Security Podcast joins Francesco for an in-depth discussion on her career path in
Social Engineering.
The podcast is brought you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
1:00 Introducing Jenny Radcliffe
2:38 State of the Industry
4:56 What makes a Social Engineers
10:46 Starting a career in Social Engineering
16:45 Childhood memories
26:34 Teaching Social Engineering
29:21 Body Language and NLP
35:00 Connecting with Jenny
37:08 Final Positive Message
Links
Jenny Radcliffe
Twitter @Jenny_Radcliffe
https://humanfactorsecurity.co.uk
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Oct 26, 2020 • 31min
CSCP S02E21 - Cyberstu - Community Social Engineer and OSINT
This episode was long overdue, Stuart the master of wall sticker, the OSINT champion, an icon, a community pillar and a well renown meme is here with us to enlighten us with OSINT
The podcast is brought you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
Stuart Peck, AKA CyberStu, is the Director of Cyber Security Strategy at Zero Day Lab and the
founder of The Many Hats Club. In this episode, Stuart shares how he got into the exciting and
sneaky career of Social Engineering and the psychological tricks that scammers and hackers use
to breach security.
1:00 Introducing Stuart Peck
4:48 Background in Social Engineering
10:05 Confidence in key
12:23 Defending yourself again social engineers
15:09 Phishing emails
18:15 Physical vs digital cyber attacks
21:10 Psychological tricks of social engineering
27:12 Urgency
29:18 Career path of a social engineer
34:53 Positive Message
35:48 Closing
Links
Stuart Peck
Twitter: @cybersecstu
Twitter: @TheManyHatsClub
https://www.twitch.tv/themanyhatsclub
https://www.linkedin.com/in/itsecurity/?originalSubdomain=uk
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Oct 19, 2020 • 1h 10min
CSCP S02E18 - Ray(redacted) - Old School community and podcast with Ray
Ray Redacted is an InfoSec Researcher and Technologist at a global firm that does connectivity and
cybersecurity services. He’s also the host of Tribe of Hackers Podcast. He shares how he started his career in cybersecurity and his own security recommendations.
The podcast is brought you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
Notes:
1:00 Introducing Ray and Tribe of Hackers Podcast
15:46 Origin story Ray Redacted
24:12 Ray’s professional career and “machine learning”
28:38 Started a career in cybersecurity
30:20 Shifts in the industry causing security concerns
33:00 Phishing
43:46 Security recommendation and pie hole
46:19 Facebook is evil
49:58 PCI
55:57 Migration to cloud
10:8:23 Positive Message
10:09:30 Closing
Links
Ray [Redacted]
rayredacted.com
@RayRedacted
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Oct 12, 2020 • 46min
CSCP S02E17 - Matt Stamper - Wartime Ciso risk across the globe
Francesco had the honour to be joined by Matt Stamper an early riser, inspiration and published author as well as cybersecurity personality.
Matt was so kind to get Francesco a signed copy of the Books and when he was stranded in LA due to covid he had them shipped, he was a hero!
Matt Stamper is a CISO (Certified Information Systems Auditor) and Executive Advisor at EVOTEK
and one of the authors of CISO Desk Reference Guide, A Practical guide to CISO. Francesco and Matt
discuss the difference in privacy laws in Europe and the US. They also discuss the factors a CISO should consider when weighing a risk decision.
The podcast is brought you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
1:00 Introducing Matt Stamper
3:36 Current state of the cybersecurity industry
6:23 Role of the CISO
10:22 Rise in ransomeware
13:00 Avoiding distractions
16:46 Risk Decisions
19:16 Integrity and transparency
23:34 European vs US Privacy laws
31:40 Barrier for entry, compliance concerns
35:11 Social Engineering
29:24 Postive message
42:13 747 Enterprise
46:40 Closing
Links
Matt Stamper
Twitter @mattstamperCISO
https://hmgstrategy.com/network/people/matt-stamper
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Oct 5, 2020 • 44min
CSCP S02E16 - Gary Hayslip - Peacetime CISO in covid times
Francesco had the honour to be joined by Gary an inspiration and published author as well as cybersecurity personality.
Gary Hayslip is the Chief Information Security Officer at Investment living in San Diego and part of the San Diego cybersecurity community.
Gary is a gamer extremely discipled learner and loves technology, sharing his insights from his long and accomplished career in cybersecurity.
Gary shares in this episode how business has changed since COVID and what a wartime CISO does in peacetime and how to return to normality
The podcast is brought you by the generosity of NSC42 Ltd, your cybersecurity partner. Cybersecurity is a complex and different for every organization, and you need the best-tailored service to make sure your customer's data is safe and sound so that you can focus on what's important, focusing on your clients and bringing the best and safest experience.
1:00 Introducing Gary Hayslip
3:50 Giving back and riding work/life balance
7:17 COVID effects on business
11:30 Security concerns working from home
15:40 Preventing hacks and breaches
20:26 Adjusting to working from home
31:49 Stories of application security
34:15 Advice to a new executive
36:29 Advice to students and young professionals
41:32 Mentorship
44:48 Final positive thought on cybersecurity
Links
Gary Hayslip
Twitter @ghayslip
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ghayslip/
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Oct 4, 2020 • 46min
CSCP S02E15 - Allan Alford - Wartime CISO in covid times
In this Episode of the CSCP i have the pleasure to have back one of the amazing guest Allan Alford.
Allan Alford is a veteran CISO, author, speaker, and co-host of the Defense in Depth Podcast in Texas.
Francesco and Allan discuss the many changes companies are facing during COVID. The companies with the most prepared BCP and IT teams have adjusted the smoothest into remote working, but there are still security concerns and challenges being out of the office.
Podcast Breakdown
1:00 Introducing Allan Alford
4:05 State of the Cybersecurity Industry
8:47 Telehealth
11:05 Zoom
16:34 Need for perimeters
23:37 Preparedness for COVID
31:36 Predictions about companies going back, going back to work, working remote
42:45 Positive Message on cybersecurity
46:08 Closing
Links
Allan Alford
https://allanalford.com
Twitter @AllanAlfordinTX
https://www.linkedin.com/in/allanalford/
https://cisoseries.com
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Sep 21, 2020 • 44min
CSCP S02E14 - Eddie Jaude - Security vs Developer - round 1
This episode of Cyber Security and Cloud Podcast features GitHub Star, Eddie Jaoude. Francesco and
Eddie talk about the importance of clear and direct communication between clients and developers and the importance of updating code. There are many complexities in coding to ensure security and prevent hacking down the line.
1:52 Eddie’s background
5:32 Background in Open Source and GitHub
10:25 More than just good code
12:20 Eddie’s coding horror story
22:28 Cost of bad communication
29:37 Issues and opportunities of Open Source
32:10 Two factor authentication
39:48 T-shaped learning
43:46 Final positive message
Links
Eddie Jaoude
Twitter @eddiejaoude
https://github.com/eddiejaoude
https://www.youtube.com/eddiejaoude?sub_confirmation=1
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eddiejaoude/?originalSubdomain=uk
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