Let’s just say you didn’t grow up wanting to become a spy. You just wanted out of the family car business. You’re armed with an Ivy League education in your back pocket. You have a more noble profession in mind. I don’t know... maybe... to be an actor. But... to support yourself... you need a survival job. Before you now it, while your acting peers are waiting tables, you begin your apprenticeship as a corporate spy. Dear listeners... everything you about to hear is entirely true... At least as far as we know... I mean... this is the security industry... And we are talking about a worki ..read more

    “I’m like a dog chasing cars, I wouldn’t know what to do if I caught one, you know, I just do…things.” -- The Joker, The Dark Knight, 2008, Jonathon and Christopher Nolan   Matt Stephenson welcomes Chris Humphreys to pm73media. How does a nice boy from Metro Washington DC start playing pro football (or soccer for you heathens) in England, then move on to multiple other international squads before landing in the United States Army as a linguist with a focus on security? After that... how does he become a leading expert for state and national cybersecurity initiatives? And jus ..read more

    How can we make a better mousetrap if the designers of and the materials that go into the contemporary mousetraps aren’t good enough to keep pace with the current mouse?   Adapt or perish… now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative  --HG Wells   It is not the strongest species that survie, nor the most intelligent… but the ones most responsive to change  --Charles Darwin   You improvise! You adapt! You overcome!  -- Gunnery Sgt Tom Highway; Heartbreak Ridge   All due respect to the United States Air Force   Do you know what SecDevOps is ..read more

Standing in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime 'Cause they can't buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old ladies' eyes Just for fun he says, "get a job" That's just the way it is Some things will never change That's just the way it is Ah, but don't you believe them  -- Bruce Hornsby You tired of hearing about that 3.5 million open cybersecurity jobs number? You know for the open I like to bring either culture or data… let’s go with some data this time. How bout we dig a little deeper? There are nearly 465,000 unfilled cyber jobs across the nati ..read more

  “Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.”  —Steve Jobs   “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”    —Wayne Gretzy   “If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.”  —Mario Andretti   Sometimes our show has very eloquently prepared blogs that would bring a tear to Shakespeare’s eye… sometimes we offer Shonda Rhimes level quippy thoughts that should get us a s ..read more

  It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity -- Albert Einstein It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are -- Clive James, writer and poet If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it -- Lyndon B. Johnson The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of eve ..read more

  If you’re a founder of a company whose purpose is to tell the story of other companies… how do you tell the story of your own company… and your own story?   Jim Garrison : And who killed the President? David Ferrie : Oh man, why don't you fuckin' stop it? Shit, this is too fuckin' big for you, you know that? Who did the president, who killed Kennedy, fuck man! It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The fuckin' shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?    -- JFK; 1991, written and directed by Oliver Stone   Okay… that is completely out ..read more

    "Be Water, My Friend. Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. You put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."  -- Bruce Lee   After all of the bullshit of the past couple of years… what do you do? How do you evolve? In these turbulent times, are we reinventing ourselves? Are we reimagining ourselves? Are you a sequel? Are you a reboot? We’re stepping well outside the normal conventions of our tech indus ..read more

Brandon Gilmore and Marco Figueroa: Where are the Young Black and Brown Men in Cyberscurity? Photo by F. Scott Schafer   Let us begin, what, where, why or when Will all be explained like instructions to a game See I'm not insane, in fact I'm kind of rational When I be asking you, "Who is more dramatical?" This one or that one, the white one or the black one Pick the punk and I'll jump up to attack one  -- KRS One; My Philosophy, 1989   Want to have a fun and easy conversation? Let’s talk about race in the world if cybersecurity.   Let’s go with some numbers… According to th ..read more

How hard is it to do your job when your job involves government, the military and the commercial sector?    “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help”  -- Ronald Reagan   Does that actually have to be the case? What if you are really good at what you do and you happen to work for the government… Or you are a civilian contractor who does government work… Or insert any of a thousand variables involved with providing products and services for the federal government   How do you get good and stay good at what ..read more