Phoenix Cast

In this hot take of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle discuss the recent “PrintNightmare” and Kaseya Ransomware attack. This isn’t the first time ransomware has come up in the podcast and is surely not the last. In this episode, John and Kyle will discuss what was different about these attacks and why they matter. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich, and Kyle talk to Sean Bielat, a defense robotics expert and a previous United States Marine Corps officer with an incredibly interesting backstory. Sean talks to the crew about how to define defense robotics, where he thinks it is headed in the future, and even delves into some of the ethical issues around the technology and the safeguards that have been taken. – Kyle’s hot take “Less than lethal” will change the way we think about and employ the technology. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts. Technology vector created by macrovector

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Rich and Kyle talk to Jared Luebbert, a digital forensics and litigation support professional who currently serves in the United States Marine Corps as a warrant officer and owns his own private practice. He has been practicing digital forensics analysis worldwide for six years. Quotables: “The more and more I do it, the more I fall in love with it.” – Jared “Step one, if you’ve been hacked that’s a crime so you should probably take this to law enforcement, maybe get a criminal investigator … That isn’t typically what I’m for.” – Jared “Focus on the training of this because he operates in a microscopic world … the toolkit is there and you need the training to go with it. Please get your Marines to training.” – Kyle’s hot take “Data lineage, so what do I mean by that, metadata about data is super important. So tracking data or its lineage from data producers to data storage solutions to data consumers, is paramount in an age where data is the center of gravity for all organizations.” Riches knife hand moment Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Lt. Gen. Lori Reynolds, deputy commandant of information, about DMCEN, cyber Marines, and how to support the warfighter with cyber. Before serving as DCI, Lt. Gen. Reynolds served as the Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command commander. She started as a communications officer before the internet was a big deal and talks about her journey to understand the world of cyberspace and how important it is for the Marine Corps. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix (Now verified!) Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Brig. Gen. Loni Anderson, deputy commander of Joint Task Force-Ares, about the cyber battlespace and the role of JTF-Ares. Anderson is a reservist that has served as a pilot, graduating from the Navy’s premier fighter pilot TOPGUN training school, flown many combat sorties over southern Iraq, and was even a member of the Blue Angels. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix (Now verified!) Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

Don’t understand why there was a gas shortage on the east coast? In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle talk about the recent Colonial Pipeline hack. The cast discusses who was behind the hack and broad strokes about what ransomware is and why it is difficult to defend against. This Phoenix Cast gives business owners an idea of what to do in order to protect against ransomware attacks and the importance of this type of security. Quotable: "As an attacker, you have to be right once; as a defender, you must be right all of the time" - Kyle “The majority of us have not been ransomwared, so now is an awesome time to say ‘what would happen if I was?’” - John Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix (Now verified!) Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Nate Fick, Marine officer, author, and CEO of Endgame, Inc., a cybersecurity software company based in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, CA., about his transition from Marine to CEO. In this episode, the cast takes a dive into the world of being a CEO and discusses endpoint detection and response and much, much, more. Quotables: “When you’re trying to solve a security problem you can solve it via people, process, and technology.” – Nate Fick “Don’t be the current executive officer, be the chief explaining officer, know the vision and communicate that vision.” - Rich Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix (Now verified!) Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Brig. Gen. Lorna Mahlock, Director, Information, Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (IC4) and the Deputy Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Marine Corps, about leading Cyber Marines and adapting to change. Mahlock started her career enlisted as an air traffic controller. They discuss the modernization of IC4 in the Marine Corps and how it affects the Marine Corps around the globe. Quotables: “We have to be able to fight as a global enterprise.” - Brig. Gen. Mahlock “We are the only service in the department of defense that has Office 365 implemented across the entire force.” - Brig. Gen. Mahlock Books Mentioned: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix (Now verified!) Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Gene Kim, author of The Phoenix Project and namesake of the podcast. Gene has been studying high performing technology organizations for 23 years. His journey started in 1999 when he was the CTO and founder of a company called Tripwire in the information security space. The hosts share how his book, The Phoenix Project, inspired them and helped them succeed in the IT and innovation world. They discuss Gene's observations about what it takes to be a high performing organization and how the military is uniquely postured to excel as it embraces change and the future. Books Mentioned: The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford The DevOps handbook by Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble, John Allspaw The unicorn project by Gene Kim Follow Gene Kim on Twitter @RealGeneKim. Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix (Now verified!) Follow MARFORCYBER & MCCOG on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Doug Burks, the founder and CEO of Security Onion, a free and open source Linux distribution for threat hunting, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. Doug started security onion in 2008 as a means for helping people "peel back the layers of their networks and make their adversaries cry."  Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix Follow MARFORCYBER, MCCOG, MCCYWG, and the Network Battalions on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube. Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.