Podcast Episodes

It's Taplunk! Talos and Splunk threat researchers meet to put the security world to rights

What happens when two sets of threat researchers from Talos and Splunk's SURGe team meet? Aside from some highly controversial opinions and omissions about the best horror movie, the team discuss wha…

Published on 11 months ago

The biggest takeaways from Talos IR's new report: New ransomware variants, EDR tool uninstallation, and password spray attacks increasing

The Talos IR Quarterly Trends Q3 2024 is out now! In this episode Hazel Burton, Craig Jackson and Bill Largent discuss three big themes: some new ransomware players, the 'Bring Your Own Vulnerable Dr…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

How Talos IR and Splunk are teaming up

Episode 197

Hazel Burton steps in as guest host this week to talk to Brad Garnett, the head of Cisco Talos Incident Response, and JK Lialias, the head of cybersecurity product marketing for Splunk. Brad and JK s…

Published on 1 year ago

Why the BlackByte ransomware group may be more active than we initially thought

Episode 196

James Nutland from Talos' Threat Intelligence team joins the show this week to talk to Jon about his report on the BlackByte ransomware group. They cover why this group is actually more active than w…

Published on 1 year ago

AI, critical infrastructure dominate conversation at Hacker Summer Camp

Episode 195

It's quite the gang for Talos Takes this week with Joe Marshall, Nick Biasini and Mick Baccio (from Splunk's SURGe team) joining Jon this week to recap Black Hat and DEF CON. They share all the conve…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

A 1-on-1 with Talos VP Matt Watchinski

Episode 194

He's been here since the beginning, and now he's ready to reflect on the past 10 years of Cisco Talos. Matt Watchinski, the Vice President of Talos for Cisco, joins Jon this week to talk about Talos'…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

What should we be doing to better support open-source software?

Episode 193

People who maintain, create and update open-source software are the unsung heroes of the internet. Their work keeps much of our networks running on a daily basis, and the vast majority of them do it …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Threat actor trends and the most prevalent malware from the past quarter

Episode 192

Hazel Burton guest hosts this week to recap the top threats observed by Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) in the second quarter of 2024. She’s then joined by Talos’ Joe Marshall and Craig Jack…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

You got a data breach notification. Now what?

Episode 191

Joe Marshall, Talos' resident ICS and IoT expert, and Pierre Cadieux from Talos Incident Response join Jon this week to discuss data breaches. Between Snowflake, AT&T, Ticketmaster and more, we shoul…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

What we learned from studying the TTPs of the 14 most active ransomware groups

Episode 190

Fresh off an analysis of the 14 most active ransomware groups, James Nutland joins Jon this week to discuss his findings. They talk about the most common TTPs shared among these groups, and the poten…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago