Beers with Talos Podcast
Threats, Beers, and No Silver Bullets. Listen to Talos security experts as they bring their hot takes on current security topics and Talos research to the table. Along the way, Mitch, Matt and a rotating chair of special guests will talk about anything (and we mean anything) that's on their minds, from the latest YouTube trends to Olympic curling etiquette. New episodes every other Thursday.
Episodes
144 episodes since 2022
Black Hat 2024 preview
It's been a while huh? Apologies for our absence, but the team are back with a run through of everything we've got going on at Black Hat - from our 10 year birthday celebrations, the interesting lightning talks in our booth, and Joe Marshall'...
August 01, 2024
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38:20
Stories from the Power Grid
Power grid security expert Joe Marshall joins the crew today to talk all things, well, power grid security. But not before he gets an impromptu pop quiz from Matt in the roundtable.Joe then tells some stories from his days working in el...
April 11, 2024
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39:02
The old people episode
Matt, Mitch and Lurene discuss if the internet is better or worse today than it was 20 years ago. This leads them to discuss their various career paths, with Lurene talking about how she got into vulnerability exploitation and how Matt go...
March 21, 2024
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48:52
The Reverberations of Volt Typhoon
You will no doubt have seen the advisories published over the last few weeks concerning Volt Typhoon's malicious activities. In this episode, JJ Cummings joins the crew to discuss the background to this threat actor, their impact on the threat ...
February 22, 2024
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Episode 144
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43:30
The Reddit Security Diaries
Matt, Mitch and Lurene sit down to discuss “random stuff from Reddit” (don’t be put off – they’re all genuinely interesting security questions!). Topics range from password managers and how password security guidance has become outdated, how to...
February 14, 2024
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Episode 143
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1:00:56
Talos Speed Dating (the episode we never set out to make but did anyway)
Mitch, Matt and Lurene were almost about to be in the same physical space at the same time to record an episode, and then Lurene couldn't make it...so we made this instead! Mitch is joined by Azim Khodjibaev from the Talos Threat Intelligence a...
December 20, 2023
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Episode 142
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1:08:28
The TurkeyLurkey Man wants YOU to read the Talos 2023 Year in Review report
We recorded this episode AFTER Thanksgiving, so you'll need to forgive us for the amount of Thanksgiving talk that doesn't actually apply until Thanksgiving 2024. It all evens out in the end because the annual "Ranksgiving" from special guest D...
December 06, 2023
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Episode 141
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1:03:20
Chicken Soup and Contact Centers
It's that time of the quarter again when we sit down to look at what we learned over the past three months. Caitlin Huey from the Talos Threat Interdiction Team joins the show for this special look at the latest Talos Incident Response Quarterl...
November 02, 2023
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Episode 140
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48:17
Who is Jacques Wagon?
This episode of Beers with Talos has a very special guest: Our old friend Nigel Houghton. He's one of the OG BWTers and is back with two-plus years' worth of hot takes to get off his chest. Nigel starts out by delivering his long-awaited update...
September 28, 2023
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Episode 139
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1:00:44
"I'm going to breach you off." "Not if I breach you off first!"
We know we're like two weeks late to the Barbie party, but the whole Beers with Talos crew has seen it now so we had to talk about it. Expect a lot of "Barbie" talk up at the top. After that, though, we dive into how to set up deception systems...
August 24, 2023
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Episode 139
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56:47
Rachel Tobac on social engineering, expanding opportunities for women in cybersecurity
In this special episode, Matt is flying solo while he interviews Rachel Tobac, the CEO of SocialProof Security. Rachel's company helps individuals and companies keep their data safe by offering various training and penetration testing opportuni...
August 03, 2023
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Episode 138
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50:57
Yarrr! There be mercenaries on the high seas!
The Beers with Talos Crew is back to a team of four this week, with special guest Nick Biasini joining the show to talk about Mercenary Groups and the spyware they'r...
August 01, 2023
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Episode 137
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43:57
Oh hello, "Susan"
Mitch was out for this recording, so Hazel Burton, the newest addition to Team Talos, stepped in to host this episode! She, Lurene and Matt got together for Mental Health Awareness Month and share stories and advice with one another. Cybersecur...
May 25, 2023
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Episode 136
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55:35
The XDR Files
Our second of two episodes recorded live at the RSA Conference, Mitch and Lurene are joined by Nick Biasini from Talos Outreach and AJ Shipley, a vice president of product management for Cisco Secure. The four of them recap Nick and AJ's talk t...
May 18, 2023
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Episode 135
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31:58
SHIFT_NOP
This is the first of two episodes we have coming out that we recorded live at the RSA Conference. In this edition of Beers with Talos, we welcome Mick Baccio, a security strategist for Splunk, to talk ...
May 11, 2023
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Episode 134
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37:35
The one where they talk a lot about wireless routers
This episode discusses network resilience, hardware hygiene, and the recently disclosed Jaguar Tooth campa...
April 24, 2023
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Episode 133
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54:45
Should we even care about vulnerability severity scores?
Everyone fears the dreaded 10-out-of-10 CVSS severity score on a vulnerability with "critical" written somewhere on the advisory. But does that number even matter to an attacker or hypothetical defender? Matt, Mitch and Lurene discuss the vario...
March 16, 2023
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Episode 131
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43:00
Beers with Talos Ep. #130: Ransomware is a people problem (but getting rid of email helps)
(Recorded Jan. 27, 2023)No Matt this episode, so we have two guests in the rotating chair(s): Nick Biasini and David Liebenberg. Lurene, Mitch and our two esteemed companions talk about the human problem of ransomware. L...
February 17, 2023
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Episode 130
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47:34
Talos Year in Review 2022 w/ Dave Liebenberg
With this episode, we set out to discuss the first annual Cisco Talos Year in Review report - a look back at the major threats, trends, and topics from 2022 and what we should take forward into 2023. Our guest Dave Liebenberg runs the te...
December 14, 2022
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Episode 129
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57:48
I find your vulnerabilities offensive (and exploitable).
We are (finally) talking about the recent OpenSSL vulnerability as we had to redo this EP. In our infinite podcasting wisdom, we took a stab at it roughly 2 hours before the embargo expired and coverage was released - which is obviously i...
November 29, 2022
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Episode 128
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1:00:21
Im a skiddie, and you can too!
Mitch was trying to preserve his voice, so Matt is driving the bus during this episode — hang on! In this edition, we're talking about script kiddies (unfortunately, not "kitties.") These are basically adversaries with an extreme base level of ...
October 26, 2022
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Episode 127
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40:23
The intricacies of cyber conflict in Ukraine
At the onset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, many experts and government officials expected there to be two fronts of the war — one on the ground in Ukraine and one in cyberspace. But all things considered, we haven't seen as much offensive cy...
September 22, 2022
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Episode 126
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58:24
A(nother) new host approaches!
We're excited to add to the growing Beers with Talos family with the addition of Lurene Grenier to the squad. Lurene joins her first episode and ...
August 31, 2022
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Episode 125
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1:00:24
Beers with Talos Ep. #107: Sailing the high seas in search of privateer groups
You’re not going to believe this, but everyone actually agreed on something in this episode. And no, it’s not regarding the best flavor of beef jerky. In this episode, we discuss a new category of threat actors
August 12, 2022
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39:35
Is More than Executive Action in Order?
Recorded May 11, 2020 – Craig wins MVP of the podcast for his attempts to avoid discussing… something. Anyway, we went a little long on this podcast, but stick with us as we wind through the recent Executive Order on cybersecurity, and then d...
August 12, 2022
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50:09