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Since Feb 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Join us at the intersection of networking and security! Whether you’re fending off ransomware attacks, securing remote workers, hunting for rogue IoT devices, or gearing up for your latest compliance audit, Packet Protector provides practical information that IT and infrastructure pros can put to work. Every episode covers the latest security headlines and then drills into essential topics to provide technical and strategic insights on wired and wireless network security, access control, cloud security, pen testing and red/blue teaming, security hardware and software, and more. Whether security is your full-time job or one of your many responsibilities, Packet Protector is your go-to cybersecurity resource.

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PP113: Patch Gaps, Pretexting, and AI Use for Crimes and Crimefighting: 2026 Verizon DBIR Highlights

Jun 09, 2026 54m

The Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is a postmortem of a year’s worth of cyber incidents and breaches, and a snapshot of how well organizations are responding to actual threats. Drew…

PP112: When You Look But Don’t Find: The Art of Knowing When to Stop

Jun 02, 2026 40m

Starting an investigation—be it for troubleshooting, problem diagnosis, threat hunting, incident response, and so on—is fairly straightforward. There’s a question or thesis you’re pursuing, you have…

PP111: New HPE Mist Features Validate NAC Changes, Enable Inline Microsegmentation (Sponsored)

May 26, 2026 47m

HPE has announced new features in its Juniper Mist portfolio. On today’s sponsored Packet Protector, we dig into those features, including a dry run option that lets organizations test and refine…

PP110: News Roundup–Linux Fragged, Edge’s Password Manager Dragged, Android Intrusions Tagged, and More

May 19, 2026 57m

JJ and Drew unpack an overstuffed suitcase of infosec stories in today’s News Roundup. Microsoft’s Edge password manager stores credentials in plaintext and Microsoft says “Yup”, the Linux kernel…

PP109: ThreatLocker Enforces Zero Trust With Strict Application Control (Sponsored)

May 12, 2026 44m

ThreatLocker takes an opinionated approach to Zero Trust. The company, our sponsor for today’s episode, starts with application control. It uses endpoint software that runs on PCs and servers to…

PP108: How to Build and Sustain a Successful Zero Trust Project

May 05, 2026 51m

In theory, a zero trust initiative seems straightforward: you just need the right tools and maybe some whiteboard sessions to work out the architecture. In practice, our guests note that zero trust…

PP107: Why Now’s the Time to Prepare for a Post-Quantum World (Sponsored)

Apr 28, 2026 51m

A cryptographically relevant quantum computer is, at some point, going to emerge that can crack modern encryption. But we don’t know when, so it’s tempting to set this problem aside. On today’s…

PP106: Architecting for Wi-Fi 7, Zero Trust, PQC, and More

Apr 21, 2026 21m

For decades, network and security professionals have adapted to technology change in a piecemeal fashion: a new rule here, an upgrade there, a new product deployment over yonder. On today’s Packet…

PP105: Cybercrime Has Gone Industrial: Insights from HPE Threat Labs (Sponsored)

Apr 14, 2026 37m

Threat actors are behaving more like professional organizations in an effort to launch more effective and profitable attacks. We explore this and other themes from the latest Threat Labs report from…

PP104: How SocGholish Picks Locks to Let In Ransomware

Apr 07, 2026 28m

In the cybercrime industry, initial access brokers specialize in break-ins. They pick digital locks and slide open electronic windows, and then sell that access to other threat actors who specialize…

PP103: FireMon Brings Clarity to Firewall Rule Chaos (Sponsored)

Mar 31, 2026 56m

Firewall policies are the heart of network security, but over time they can become a tangled mess. Rules might be outdated, or conflicting, or fail to address new applications, services, and risks.…

PP102: What’s Driving SASE Adoption?

Mar 24, 2026 56m

Spending on SASE, which combines SD-WAN and cloud-delivered security, is forecast to nearly triple over the next few years, according to Dell’Oro Group. Today on Packet Protector we talk with that…

PP101: Hackers Tap Intune to Wipe Windows Devices; Tricksters Trump E2E Encryption

Mar 17, 2026 44m

On today’s news roundup we assess the White House’s new US cyber strategy (bellicose, bombastic, and boiler-plate), discuss a cyberattack attributed to Iran that used Windows to wipe thousands of…

PP100: Building and Securing AI Agents – A Case Study

Mar 10, 2026 43m

Kyler Middleton, a software developer in the healthcare sector, builds and supports AI bots and AI agents that are now widely used inside the company where she works. Today on Packet Protector, Kyler…

PP099: The Care and Feeding of Kerberos for Windows Environments

Mar 03, 2026 52m

Today we’re going to learn about the care and feeding of a three-headed dog named Kerberos. Developed at MIT and released in 1989, Kerberos is a free, open source authentication protocol that uses…

PP098: What Goes On Inside a Firewall?

Feb 24, 2026 57m

On today’s show, we pop the lid off of a firewall (figuratively speaking) to understand what’s inside. We talk about how a packet moves through various packet-processing elements inside a firewall,…

PP097: How and Why to Turn the Browser into a Universal Security Agent (Sponsored)

Feb 17, 2026 44m

With the rise of cloud services and SaaS, the browser has become a primary productivity tool. It’s also a primary vector for malware, phishing, identity theft, data leaks, and other risks. On today’s…

PP096: Taking Note of a Notepad++ Attack; Telnet and NTLM Are Still a Thing?

Feb 10, 2026 51m

Everything old is new again in today’s Packet Protector news roundup, as a decade-old Telnet exploit resurfaces, and Microsoft unfolds its roadmap to phase out the ancient NTLM protocol. In other…

PP095: OT and ICS – Where Digital and Physical Risks Meet

Feb 03, 2026 53m

Operation Technology (OT) and Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are where the digital world meets the physical world. These systems, which are critical to the operation of nuclear power plants,…

PP094: Understanding OAuth and Reducing Authorization Risks

Jan 27, 2026 1h 10m

OAuth is a widely used authorization (not authentication) protocol that lets a resource owner grant access to a resource using access tokens. These tokens define access attributes, including scope…

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