Hacker Valley Studio
by Hacker Valley Media
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The Detection Blind Spot: When Your Dashboard Lies
The Detection Blind Spot: When Your Dashboard Lies
About this podcast
Welcome back… to the show! Hacker Valley Studio podcast features Host Ron Eddings, as he explores the world of cybersecurity through the eyes of professionals in the industry. We cover everything from inspirational real-life stories in tech, to highlighting influential cybersecurity companies, and we do so in a fun and enthusiastic way. We’re making cybersecurity accessible, creating a whole new form of entertainment: cybertainment.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 448 episodes
- The Detection Blind Spot: When Your Dashboard Lies · 34 min · Episode 450Your dashboard says your detections are deployed. But are they still detecting? A quiet SOC can mean your defenses are working, or that the data feeding them has disappeared. In…
- PHP2Shell: Governments Unplugged Their Own Websites. Here's What Scared Them · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 449What would make a government switch off its own websites on purpose? And how does a flaw in the software behind most of the web stay hidden for 14 years? In this solo episode…
- Your Cloud Backup Won’t Save You with Jake Bernardes · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 448If someone wiped your cloud environment tomorrow, how long until you’re back in business? Not what the plan says. What would actually happen? Ron sits down with Jake Bernardes…
- Voice Phishing Is the New Front Door · 22 min · Season 6 Episode 447What would you do if your phone rang and the caller ID showed your own company? Would you pick up? Would you help the person on the other end? This Cybersecurity Awareness Month…
- Securing the Apps Everyone Is Building with Roi Nisimi and Yonatan Levi · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 446What happens when your marketing team, your sales team, and the person down the hall can all ship a full app from a single prompt? And what is that app quietly connected to? In…
- Giving Your AI Agent Its Own Identity with Ashish Rajan · 32 min · Season 6 Episode 445Your newest hire has a Google Workspace account, a Slack login and a laptop. It never sleeps, and it never asks before it acts. So who owns its identity? Ron welcomes back Ashish…
- From Read Access to Admin with just an AI Agent · 32 min · Season 6 Episode 444What if someone got full admin access to your company's platform, including your CRM, your payments app, and your private messages, and the only tool they used was an AI chatbot?…
- Do You Know What Your Agent is Doing at 3AM? with Amir Ofek · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 443Every AI agent in your environment inherits someone's permissions, and most teams have no idea what those agents are actually doing with them. Amir Ofek, CEO and co-founder of…
- Cloud Broke My World Before AI Did with Dr. Jay Abdullah · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 442Cybersecurity has survived cloud, mobile, and a dozen other "biggest disruptions of our lifetime," and each one felt unprecedented in the moment. In this episode, Ron sits down…
- The Dashboard Is Dead, Long Live the Harness with Myke Lyons · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 441Security teams spent decades begging for more logs. Now the enterprise is generating petabytes a day, and the thing drowning in it isn't just the SOC anymore, it's your AI agents…
- The AI Already Inside Your Company with Russell Spitler & Richard Penshorn · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 440A year ago, the average employee held about 30 OAuth grants. Today that number has risen to 88, and it isn't slowing down. Ron sits down with Russell Spitler, co-founder and CEO…
- Humans First: Adobe's Rule for Building AI Security Tools with John Gillis · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 439Imagine how much investigation time your SOC could get back if the busywork just disappeared. Ron sits down with John Gillis, Staff Security AI Engineer at Adobe, who built an…
- Let AI Do More Without Surrendering Your Judgment with Jen Easterly · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 438Fresh off the showroom floor at Black Hat 2026, Ron brings back some hot takes from the crowd. Nearly every booth he visited, including the Exaforce booth, was pushing in the…
- Post-Quantum Cryptography: What Every Organization Needs to Know with Michael Fasulo · 31 min · Season 6 Episode 437What if the encrypted traffic flowing across the internet right now (emails, files, logins) is already being quietly collected and stored by someone waiting for the day they can…
- Stop Defending the Edge: How to Rethink Your Mobile Security with Jared Shepard · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 436What if the biggest risk to your organization isn't the device that gets lost, but the data that lives on it? Ron Eddings sits down with Jared Shepard, Founder and CEO of Hypori…
- Inside Conti: The Ransomware Gang That Ran Like a Company with Geoff White · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 435What does the world's most prolific cybercrime operation look like from the inside? And why does it operate suspiciously like a mid-sized tech company, complete with HR…
- What AI Agents Should Own in Your SOC, And What Happens If You Wait with Tim Leehealey · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 434What happens when the adversary moves at machine speed, and your SOC is still responding at human speed? Why does nearly every security team say AI should handle L1 work, while…
- We Shipped a Tool That Acts Like You. Meet Interceptor. · 31 min · Season 6 Episode 433Think about everything you could accomplish if you don’t have to be the one driving your browser. In this solo episode, Ron Eddings introduces Interceptor, Hacker Valley Media's…
- How to Turn Cybersecurity Customers into Lifelong Advocates with Antu Buck · 31 min · Season 6 Episode 432What if the same psychology that threat actors use to manipulate their targets is the same psychology that marketers use to earn your trust? In this episode, Ron sits down with…
- What's Really Stopping AI From Running Your SOC with Aqsa Taylor · 32 min · Season 6 Episode 431In 2025, out of all 70+ guests we had on our show, not one of them said they’d trust AI to run their SOC. Now in 2026, that mindset is shifting. In this episode, Ron sits down…
- Feed Your Brain: What Cybersecurity Veterans Are Getting Wrong with Johnny Xmas · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 430Is AI really coming for your red teaming job? What does it actually take to build a team that thinks like the adversary, and what happens when that team stops caring? And what do…
- Fighting Smarter: What Combat Sports Teaches Us About Cyber Defense with Robin Black · 25 min · Season 6 Episode 429What does a calf kick have to do with vulnerability management? What can a fighter's mindset teach a security practitioner about operating against an adversary they've never…
- Is Vibe Coding Breaking the Internet? with Tanya Janca · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 428What happens when AI writes all the code and nobody reads it? What if the security prompt you trusted still produced software designed to leak your secrets? And who exactly is on…
- Why Smart People Fall for Deepfakes with Perry Carpenter · 36 min · Season 6 Episode 427What if the most sophisticated attack has nothing to do with your firewall? In a world where AI can clone voices, re-lip-sync politicians, and spread a fake newscast to 200,000…
- Who Owns Your AI Security Policy? with Chris Cochran · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 426Right now, someone in your organization is probably feeding sensitive data into an AI system that nobody approved. So when something goes wrong, who's responsible? And more…
- Turning 30,000 Findings Into 50 That Matter with Dan Pagel and Brad Hibbert · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 425Mythos just found 30,000 new vulnerabilities, and now every security team is asking the same question: what actually matters? In this episode, Ron Eddings sits down with Dan…
- Killing the Playbook with Agentic AI with Allan Alford and Tom Findling · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 424SOAR promised to close the loop in the SOC and fell flat. Agentic AI is finally delivering what a decade of playbooks couldn’t. In this episode, Ron sits down with Allan Alford…
- The Epidemic of Sameness Is Killing Your Brand with Don Jeter · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 423In 2025, Torq brought a monster truck to RSAC. And Don Jeter, Torq's CMO, will be the first to tell you: nobody's buying an AI SOC platform because of a grave digger in the…
- Minutes to Meltdown: Cyber Recovery When It Counts with Chris Bevil · 29 min · Season 6 Episode 422Most organizations are prepping for disaster recovery when they should be building for cyber recovery, and those are not the same thing. Recorded live at RSAC Conference 2026…
- Building AI Governance Before the Incidents Hit with Guru Sethupathy · 24 min · Season 6 Episode 421AI adoption is outpacing governance at every level, and the cost of waiting is getting higher by the day. Guru Sethupathy, General Manager of AI Governance at Optro and former…
- What Happens When Attackers Collaborate More Than Defenders? Ron Eddings Reporting Live from RSAC Conference · 14 min · Season 6 Episode 420What happens when attackers collaborate better than defenders? Recorded live from RSAC 2026, this solo episode with Ron breaks down the biggest themes shaping cybersecurity right…
- RSAC 2026: Show Up or Fall Behind · 21 min · Season 6 Episode 419What does it mean when your smart doorbell becomes an entry point for surveillance? What happens when a single hacker can jailbreak every major AI model within hours of its…
- What’s Next After Building a $2.5B Cybersecurity Company with Dean Sysman · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 418What does it look like when a cybersecurity founder who built a $2.5 billion company decides to level up, again? Dean Sysman, co-founder of Axonius, sits down with Ron Eddings to…
- Can AI Do Your Cyber Job? Post Your Job Req and Find Out with Marcus J. Carey · 39 min · Season 6 Episode 417Last episode, Ron and Marcus made predictions. This episode, they brought the receipts. A journalist built an app with vibe coding and got hacked on live television. A social…
- Why 69% of CISOs Are Ready to Walk Away with Anthony Johnson · 40 min · Season 6 Episode 416The CISO role isn’t the finish line, it’s a launchpad. 69% of security executives are eyeing the exit, and Anthony Johnson is proof that what comes next can be even bigger…
- Securing the Workspace Attackers Already Live In with Rajan Kapoor · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 415Your email gateway isn't enough anymore, attackers are already inside the workspace through OAuth apps, browser extensions, and account takeover. In this episode, Ron sits down…
- Beating “Checkbox Security” With Continuous Offense with Sonali Shah · 42 min · Episode 414Security doesn’t fail because you missed a tool, it fails because “secure today” tricks you into relaxing tomorrow. This episode exposes why the real fight isn’t compliance… it’s…
- Turning Agent Chaos into a Command Center with Pedram Amini · 38 min · Season 6 Episode 413Text threads made AI feel personal, then agents made it productive, and suddenly “success” turns into chaos you can’t even track. In this episode, Ron sits down with Pedram…
- Why MFA Isn’t the Safety Net You Think It Is with Yaamini Barathi Mohan · 33 min · Season 6 Episode 412Phishing didn’t get smarter, it got better at looking normal. What used to be obvious scams now blend directly into the platforms, workflows, and security controls people trust…
- When Cybercrime Learned How to Make Money and Never Looked Back with Graham Cluley · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 411Cybersecurity didn’t start as a billion-dollar crime machine. It started as pranks, ego, and curiosity. That origin story explains almost everything that’s breaking today. Ron…
- When Automation Outruns Control with Joshua Bregler · 37 min · Season 6 Episode 409AI doesn’t break security, it exposes where it was already fragile. When automation starts making decisions faster than humans can audit, AppSec becomes the only thing standing…
- The Day AI Stopped Asking for Permission with Marcus J. Carey · 34 min · Episode 408AI didn’t quietly evolve, it crossed the line from recommendation to execution. Once agents stopped advising humans and started acting inside real systems, trust replaced…
- When AI Ships the Code, Who Owns the Risk with Varun Badhwar and Henrik Plate · 35 min · Season 6 Episode 407AI isn’t quietly changing software development… it’s rewriting the rules while most security programs are still playing defense. When agents write code at machine speed, the real…
- Think Like a Hacker Before the Hack Happens with John Hammond · 28 min · Episode 406What if the most dangerous hackers are the ones who never touch a keyboard? The real threat isn't just about stolen credentials or ransomware; it's about understanding how…
- Breaking Into Banks and Bypassing Modern Security with Greg Hatcher and John Stigerwalt · 34 min · Season 6 Episode 405Three banks in four days isn't just a bragging right for penetration testers. It's a wake-up call showing that expensive security tools and alarm systems often fail when tested…
- Defending Your Cyber Systems and Your Mental Attack Surface with Chris Hughes · 34 min · Season 6 Episode 404When your firewall forgets to buckle up, the crash doesn’t happen in the network first, it happens in your blindspots. In this episode, Ron is joined by returning guest Chris…
- Thriving Beyond Human Labor with Context-Powered AI with Daniel Miessler · 30 min · Season 6 Episode 403The real disruption isn’t AI replacing humans, it’s the shocking possibility that human labor was the economic bubble all along. In this episode, Ron Eddings sits down with…
- Building EDR for AI: Controlling Autonomous Agents Before They Go Rogue with Ron Eddings · 20 min · Season 6 Episode 402AI agents aren't just reacting anymore, they're thinking, learning, and sometimes deleting your entire production database without asking. The real question isn't if your AI…
- Can AI Run Your SOC Better Than You? with Ahmed Achchak · 33 min · Season 6 Episode 401What if your security team never missed a single alert and actually had time to think strategically? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak, CEO and Co-Founder of Qevlar AI, reveals how…
- Making Cybersecurity Marketing Creative (and a Little Sexy) with Maria Velasquez · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 400Who said cybersecurity had to be serious? The future of cyber is creative, human, and even a little sexy.In this special 400th episode, Ron Eddings celebrates six incredible…
