Cognitive Surrender: How AI Is Hacking Your Brain Before It Hacks Your Network
The Real Talk: A Closer Look: Cognitive Surrender Is the New Attack Surface James McDowell, PhD, forensic psychologist, cybercrime researcher, and adjunct professor at American Military University, opens with a term worth writing down: cognitive surrender. As AI tools absorb more of our daily thinking, we’re not just becoming less sharp—we’re becoming more exploitable. Attackers […]
What a Defibrillator Taught Us About Data Security
The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Device That Knows You Better Than You Do Victor Barge, IT Audit Labs’ Global Delivery Director, joins us with a story that’s equal parts harrowing and eye-opening. After suffering ventricular tachycardia—Victor now has an data-driven defibrillator implanted in his chest. It learns his patterns, adjusts its shock thresholds […]
From Secret Service to CISO: The Spy Who Hacks the Human Mind
The Real Talk: 🔗 Ep 82 – Operation Carder Kaos: A Secret Service Operative’s Guide to the Human Threat A Closer Look: The Man Behind the Cover Richard LaTulip didn’t learn undercover tradecraft at a training academy. He learned it at Indiana University: drinking games, bar conversations, and reading the room. As a Secret Service […]
Phishing’s Greatest Hits, $800 Malware Kits, and Apple’s Spy Pin: Your 2026 Threat Briefing
The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Brands Your Brain Trusts Too Much The crew breaks down the most spoofed brands in phishing—and the list reads like a who’s who of your daily digital life. Microsoft leads at 22%, followed by the usual suspects: Amazon, Google, and a holiday-season spike from DHL. The real insight? […]
From Button Pusher to AI Architect: Why Your Team’s 3X Output Depends on How You Ask
Subscribe to The Audit Brief, where we break down the latest episode of The Audit Podcast. The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Architecture vs. Offloading Problem Carter Jensen from The Uncommon Business draws a hard line: Are you an AI architect or an AI offloader? Most people treat ChatGPT like Google—typing “write me an […]
2025 Year in Review: Deepfakes, Quantum Realities, and the AI Governance Gap
Subscribe to The Audit Brief, where we break down the latest episode of The Audit Podcast. This Episode: As 2025 draws to a close, Joshua Schmidt takes us on a journey through the year’s most thought-provoking conversations—the episodes that challenged assumptions and revealed just how rapidly cybersecurity is transforming. This isn’t your typical year-end recap. […]
Warcraft to Warfare: Why Your Next SOC Analyst Might Be an AI Bot
The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Irony of Alert Overload Edward Wu spent eight years building AI-powered detection systems that generated millions of security alerts. His penance? Founding DropZone AI to automate the investigation of those same alerts. The reality: Most security teams already have too many alerts. What they desperately need is help […]
Critical Infrastructure: Everything is Connected and Vulnerable
Subscribe to The Audit Brief, where we break down the latest episode of The Audit Podcast. The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Vulnerability You Can’t Patch Lesley Carhart, technical director of incident response at Dragos, delivers an uncomfortable truth: Industrial control systems are designed to be vulnerable. When someone hits the emergency stop button […]
Red Team Warfare: A Navy Cyber Officer’s Inside Look at Military Offensive Operations
Subscribe to The Audit Brief, where we break down the latest episode of The Audit Podcast. The Real Talk: A Closer Look: The Continuous Testing Problem Foster Davis, former Naval cyber warfare officer, joins us with a reality check: If you’re only testing annually, you’re essentially not testing at all. Attackers study your infrastructure 24/7—especially […]
Apple Vision Pro Meets AI: Why Your Company Needs Both
The Real Talk: A Closer Look: Spatial Computing Goes Enterprise Alex Bratton ᯅ joins us live from inside an Apple Vision Pro to demonstrate why this is the “iPhone 1 moment” for spatial technology. From million-dollar equipment sales to pharmaceutical rep training with virtual oncologists, the enterprise applications are already here. The AI Governance Wake-Up […]