The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

• #238 - Defender Fridays: Building trusted ecosystems for incident response with Dr. Mike Saylor, CEO of Blackswan Cybersecurity

  Christopher Luft, Co-Founder and CCO of LimaCharlie, and Dr. Mike Saylor, CEO of Blackswan Cybersecurity, sat down with the Defender Fridays community for Black Hat week wrap up and a deep dive building secure environments for IR.Dr. Mike Saylor is an accomplished, outcome-driven and solution-focused business professional and entrepreneur with 30+ years of Consulting, IT Audit & Risk, Cyber Security & Incident Response experience. Uniquely qualified as a leader with a solid knowledge of operations, strategy and management, Dr. Mike has enjoyed repeated success guiding highly skilled, cross functional teams in areas of intelligence, security, technology, and audit & compliance. Dr. Mike is an experienced public speaker, writer, and researcher on topics of technology, security, and cybercrime. He stays current with changes in the industry through professional affiliations and continuing professional development. Learn more about Blackswan Cybersecurity at blackswan-cybersecurity.comOn Defender Fridays we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.Join the live discussions by registering at limacharlie.io/defender-fridays

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• #237 - Intel Chat: Black Hat roundup - Gemini AI, NeuralTrust & SPLX, VisionSpace Tech, BCM5820X - & CISA/FEMA grant funding

  In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.At Black Hat USA in Las Vegas, three security researchers demonstrated how Google's Gemini AI could be hijacked to take control of smart home devices using a novel form of indirect prompt injection.Two separate security teams - NeuralTrust and SPLX - have conducted red teaming evaluations of the newly released GPT-5, and both report serious deficiencies in the model’s security posture.Another Black Hat story, security researchers Milenko Starcik and Andrzej Olchawa from VisionSpace Technologies presented a compelling case that hacking satellites is not only more cost-effective than deploying anti-satellite missiles, but alarmingly easy due to widespread software vulnerabilities.Our final Black Hat story, Cisco Talos researchers disclosed five critical vulnerabilities in Broadcom’s BCM5820X series chips, used in Dell’s ControlVault3 secure enclave hardware.CISA and FEMA have jointly announced over $100 million in cybersecurity grant funding for the 2025 fiscal year, targeting state, local, and tribal governments.Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform.This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows. Start today for free at limacharlie.io.

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• #236 - Defender Fridays: Explore the Challenges of Securing AI Adoption with Jeremy Snyder, Founder and CEO of FireTail.ai

  Maxime Lamothe-Brassard, Founder and CEO of LimaCharlie, and Jeremy Snyder, Founder and CEO of FireTail.ai, sat down with the Defender Fridays community to discuss the hurdles of maintaining secure processes while adding AI to your workflow.Jeremy is the founder and CEO of FireTail.ai. Jeremy was an IT and cybersecurity practitioner for over 10 years before transitioning into product and sales roles in cloud security and cyber. Jeremy once went three days without seeing another human, but saw lots of reindeer. Another time, Jeremy was kicked off a train in central Sweden. Find out more at FireTail.ai.On Defender Fridays we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.Join the live discussions by registering at limacharlie.io/defender-fridays.Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment.This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows. Start today for free at limacharlie.io

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• #237 - Intel Chat: Black Hat roundup - Gemini AI, NeuralTrust & SPLX, VisionSpace Tech, BCM5820X - & CISA/FEMA cyber grant funding

  In this episode of The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast, we discuss some intel being shared in the LimaCharlie community.More than 90 state and local government organizations have been targeted in a recent wave of cyberattacks exploiting a vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint, according to the Center for Internet Security (CIS).Traditional cyber attack methodologies - exploiting endpoints, moving laterally, escalating privileges - are increasingly outdated as enterprise IT shifts toward SaaS and browser-based access.The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added CVE-2023-2533 - a high-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in PaperCut NG/MF print management software - to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.Researchers at Nozomi Networks have disclosed over a dozen security flaws in Tridium’s Niagara Framework, a vendor-agnostic building management platform used in sectors ranging from industrial automation to energy and smart infrastructure.Between April 2024 and April 2025, ransomware attacks on the oil and gas industry increased by an unprecedented 935%, according to new research from cybersecurity firm Zscaler.Support our show by sharing your favorite episodes with a friend, subscribe, give us a rating or leave a comment on your podcast platform.This podcast is brought to you by LimaCharlie, maker of the SecOps Cloud Platform, infrastructure for SecOps where everything is built API first. Scale with confidence as your business grows. Start today for free at limacharlie.io.

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• #234 - Defender Fridays: Autonomous SOC, AI for cybersecurity, and security automation with Filip Stojkovski, Staff Security Engineer at Snyk

  Join us every Friday as we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

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