Phoenix Cast

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.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John, Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Lt. Col. Juliet Calvin, the commander of one of the newest units in the Marine Corps: the 1st Network Battalion. The 1st Network Battalion, first of its kind, is responsible for the information networks that support Marine warfighters in the western region.  Lt. Col. Calvin shares the true story behind the formation of the battalion and why it matters to Marines in the Fleet Marine Force and the future of operations in the information environment for the Marine Corps. As a brand-new unit, Lt. Col. Calvin has the distinction of serving as the first commander for this Camp Pendleton-based network battalion, the first of three battalions and three network activities securing, operating and defending the Marine Corps Enterprise Network throughout the globe. These units fall under the Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group, a subordinate command to Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command.  Quotables:  “It’s on my daily battle rhythm. Reach out to two individuals in the workforce. Have a conversation with them that has nothing to do with work and has everything to do with them as an individual.”  “There’s no one stakeholder that gets the nod every single time. I’ve got to make judgement calls every single day on who’s getting the priority of effort and sometimes that’s not a popular opinion but that’s where it comes in to play for having a commander that’s responsible for it and that’s continuously making those judgement calls ever day.”  “From managing an entire battalion… to a reinforce fireteam at home. That’s a big deal!”  Books Mentioned:  Leading geeks: How to manage and lead people who deliver technology by Paul Glen Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal   Related Articles: Uncase the colors: 1st Network Battalion is born  Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix  Follow MARFORCYBER, MCCOG and the Network Battalions 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 guests Col. Joseph R. Clearfield, chief of staff of Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command and Col. Ed Debish, commander of Marine Corps Cyberspace Operations Group, about their leadership experiences in command of premiere warfighting and cyberspace organizations. They discuss leading a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), their experiences with full-spectrum cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum operations and the importance of being a lifelong learner. Stay tuned until the end to hear what each colonel is most proud of so far in their career. Quotables: “Anybody who’s listening who has ever been on a flight where they clap when you land… try that on a postage stamp in the middle of nowhere on something that’s moving left to right, forward and backward at a steady pace with wind… it’s complicated right! It’s math!” “You can make a machine continue to do something over and over again, relentlessly, non-stop, that can impose a cost on someone.” “The dirty little secret about PME… there’s really three legs of the stool. There’s what the institution provides you in terms of formal schools. There’s what the command provides you in terms of training and education. And then there’s what the individual cares to take on for themselves. And I would say the most important of those three legs is what the individual does.” “The only way you gain trust with people is getting to know people.” Books Mentioned: Team of Teams by General Stanley McChrystal  Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Meltdown by Chris Clearfield The General by C.S. Forester  Addendum: Col. Clearfield was nominated in early March 2021 for appointment to the rank of brigadier general. 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, Kyle and Rich talk to special guest Col. Brian Russell, commander of II Marine Information Group, about his vision for convergence in the information environment. They discuss the challenges and opportunities of competing and combining a variety of information capabilities to collect, protect, and project information. Quotables: “How do I as MIG commander, or all the way down to the individual Marine, collect, protect or project information?” “Human are in fact more important than hardware.” “Operations in the information environment requires a campaigning, competition and protection approach.” “OIE requires agility across authorities.” “Quantity is a quality all its own.” “Everybody fights.” Resources Mentioned: Agile Manifesto The Cognitive Crucible  Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix Follow Col. Russell on Twitter: @OIECol Follow II MIG on Twitter (@iimigofficial) and Instagram (@iimigofficial) Leave your review on Apple Podcasts.

In this episode of Phoenix Cast, hosts John and Kyle and Rich share their instant reaction to a recently revealed vulnerability in sudo, which is a a powerful and near-ubiquitous open-source utility used on major Linux and Unix-like operating systems. How big of a deal is CVE-2021-3156 aka "Baron Samedit"? What should you do if you're vulnerable? When will all these vulnerabilities end? Stay tuned to find out... Share your thoughts with us on Twitter: @USMC_TFPhoenix Leave your review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about Baron Samedit: https://www.deepwatch.com/blog/sudo-vulnerability/ https://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-research/2021/01/26/cve-2021-3156-heap-based-buffer-overflow-in-sudo-baron-samedit https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-years-old-sudo-bug-lets-linux-users-gain-root-level-access/ https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/network-security/one-of-the-most-beautiful-bugs-ive-seen-decade-old-sudo-bug-grants-linux-root-access/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/stepping-up-for-a-truly-open-source-elasticsearch/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/technology/amazon-aws-cloud-competition.html https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/centos-is-gone-but-rhel-is-now-free-for-up-to-16-production-servers/