Is Kevin McCallister the Greatest Hacker in Movie History?
There may not be any computers in Home Alone, but few movie characters embody the old-school hacker ethos like Kevin McCallister does.
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The Hacker Movie Canon: Die Hard
Pete Baker and Zoe Lindsey join Dennis Fisher on the roof of Nakatomi Plaza to discuss one of the great action classics* and a beloved movie in the hacker community: Die Hard. Yippee ki-yay! *Not a Christmas movie
The Enduring Hacker Legacy of Heat
It was 30 years ago this week that Michael Mann's masterpiece Heat hit theaters like a semi T-boning an armored car. In addition to being a masterful heist movie and insightful depiction of the toll that obsession can exact, Heat is also a criminally underrated hacker movie.
From CIA Officer to a Career in Cybersecurity With Erin Whitmore
Coming from a military family, Erin Whitmore was prepared for a career of service. But her path took her not into the military, but the intelligence community, first in the private sector supporting the DIA and NGA, and later as a cybersecurty program manager in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She eventually […]
Jeff Gothelf on Designing for Users, Enterprise Agility, and the AI Conundrum
Jeff Gothelf, a renowned author and product strategist and co-founder of Sense and Respond Learning, joins Dennis to discuss the need to design products with users in mind, how critical thinking can help teams succeed, and what the AI revolution means for security teams and other groups.
Rich Mogull on the Cloudflare Outage, Resilience, and Single Points of Failure
Dennis is joined by Rich Mogull, chief analyst at the Cloud Security Alliance, cloud security trainer, and all around good guy to talk about the Cloudflare outage, why the internet is now just six companies, and what, if anything, organizations can do to improve their resilience in the current environment.