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Weekly Cyber News Rollup, December 5th, 2025
This is your weekly cyber news roll-up for the week ending December 5th, 2025. Holiday shopping dominates the threat landscape, with industrial scale fake Christmas an...
Cyber Talks: Excel Is Not Your GRC Solution: Scaling Governance Beyond Spreadsheets
Excel is great for many things — but it is not a governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) platform. In this Cyber Talk developed by BareMetalCyber.com, Dr. Jason Edwards...
Shadow SaaS: 1,000 Apps, 0 Approvals, Unlimited Risk
In this episode, we pull back the curtain on Shadow SaaS—the hidden world of unsanctioned apps quietly multiplying across the enterprise. You’ll learn how a single “Si...
Insight: Cyber Kill Chain and Attack Lifecycles
This narrated Insight walks through the Cyber Kill Chain (CKC) and broader cyber attack lifecycle models as practical tools for real-world defenders. You’ll hear how C...
Certified: CompTIA Security+ as Your Cybersecurity Launchpad
Step into the world of CompTIA Security+ (Security+) with this narrated guide designed for early-career technologists and career-changers. This episode explains what S...
Weekly Cyber News Rollup, November 28th, 2025
This is your weekly cyber news roll-up for the week ending November 27th, 2025. This week revolves around quiet dependencies turning into loud problems, from abandoned...
Zero Trust Theater: We Put a Fancy Gate on a Cardboard Wall
In this episode, we uncover the reality of “Zero Trust theater”—where organizations invest in flashy front gates like MFA prompts, dashboards, and vendor logos while l...
Weekly Update: Cyber News for the Week ending 21 November, 2025
This is your weekly cyber news roll-up for the week ending November 21st, 2025. We track a crippling cyberattack on a major automaker that shut factories and erased hu...
Cyber Talks - Break Things Safely: A High-Value Cyber Exercise Program with Daniel Hammond
Don’t wait to learn the fire drill while the building’s on fire. In this Cyber Talk developed by BareMetalCyber.com, Army veteran and cyber resilience strategist Danie...
XDR, EDR, NDR, MDR, WTF-DR?
In this episode, we cut through the alphabet soup of cybersecurity—EDR, NDR, XDR, MDR, and even the tongue-in-cheek WTF-DR. You’ll learn what each of these acronyms re...
Weekly Cyber News Rollup, November 14th, 2025
This is your weekly cyber news roll-up for the week ending November 14th, 2025. This week centers on phones, clouds, and core identity systems under pressure from well...
Phishing ‘Hunger Games’: May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor (They Aren’t)
In this episode, we explore phishing as a rigged arena where attackers decide the rules and employees become the unwilling contestants. You’ll learn how phishing has e...
Weekly Cyber News Rollup, November 7th, 2025
This is this week’s cyber news for November third through November seventh, twenty twenty-five. The week unfolded with relentless attacks on edge infrastructure, high-...
The Cult of the Dashboard: Vanity Metrics Anonymous
In this episode, The Cult of the Dashboard: Vanity Metrics Anonymous, we expose the seductive world of flashy dashboards and meaningless numbers. Listeners will learn ...
Weekly Cyber News Rollup, October 31st, 2025
This is this week’s cyber news for October 27th through October 31st, 2025. The week opens with trusted update lanes under attack and an emergency fix to protect enter...
Patch Tuesday, Breach Wednesday
In this episode of Bare Metal Cyber, we break down the monthly ritual every security team knows too well: Patch Tuesday. You’ll learn why the very act of publishing a ...
Weekly Cyber News Rollup, October 24th, 2025
This is the Friday Rollup for October twentieth through October twenty-fourth, twenty twenty-five. A turbulent week put resilience and identity under the microscope: a...
GenAI Policy Mad Libs: ‘Don’t Paste {Sensitive Thing} into {Cool Bot}’
In this episode, we unpack why the popular slogan “don’t paste {Sensitive Thing} into {Cool Bot}” has become the lazy default for GenAI policy—and why it fails. Listen...
Weekly Cyber News Rollup, October 17th, 2025
The Bare Metal Cyber — Friday Edition is your end-of-week cybersecurity intelligence wrap, turning five days of breaking threats into one fast, actionable update. For ...
Shrodingers Firewall
In this episode, we dive into the unsettling paradox of Schrödinger’s Firewall—where your data is both safe and already compromised in the looming quantum era. Listene...