Top Security Podcasts

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By Ann Grove, Logical's President

Added Hacker Valley and other updates: 10/2/2020
Original post: 8/2/2017

​If you are looking for opportunities to keep your finger on the pulse of security, podcasts fit the bill. Here are some of our favorite security podcasts, in alphabetical order.

1. Brakeing Down Security covers a range of topics such as conferences, software bloat, containerization, and technology culture. Hosts Bryan Brake, Brian Boettcher, and Amanda Berlin broadcast every week or two.  
2. Crypto-Gram Security Podcast is Bruce Schneier's newsletter, read by Dan Henage. Schneier covers news and books that are often overlooked by others.
3. Cyber Security Interviews offers insights into the minds of security thought leaders and the direction of the industry.
4. Cyberwire podcast lineup includes a daily 20-minute podcast covering news about cyberspace and commentary.
5. Defensive Security Podcast is a deep dive into recent cyber security breaches with Jerry Bell and Andrew Kalat. 
6. DevSecCon (previously The Secure Developer) covers application security, security tools for developers, and development best practices. Guy Podjarny, CEO at Snyk, launched this podcast in 2016.
7. Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast provides "a business-first approach" to security hacks, risks, and threats.
8. Hacker Valley Blue by Ron and Chris (a friend of mine) focused on threat intelligence. Coming soon: Hacker Valley Red, focused on the human element of security.
9. ITSPmagazine discusses security within the context of IT, privacy, and society.
10. Malicious Life by Cybereason tells the unknown stories of the history of cybersecurity, with comments and reflections by real hackers, security experts, journalists, and politicians
11. Paul's Security Weekly (aka Paul Dotcom), in play since about 2005, hasn't published for some time but some of the team's other shows including Enterprise Security Weekly are still in play. 
12. Risky Business, hosted by Patrick Gray since 2007. Security luminaries provide commentary. For instance, a 2020 episode talks about identity as the new perimeter.  
13. SANS Internet Storm Center StormCast, daily security threat updates in 10 minutes or less for the TL;DR crowd.
14. Security Now! with Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte in part focuses on the evolution of threats, vulns and security with a smattering of news and trends. On the air since 2005.
15. 7-minute Security Podcast has been talking about pentesting, blue teaming, and building a career in security since 2004. Bonus: Check out host Brian Johnson's  original song, CryptoLocker'd, inspired by a client experience in 2017.
16. ​Social-Engineer Podcast (broken link in 2020) is about the risks humans create in interacting with technology. 
17. Unsupervised Learning Podcast features Daniel Miessler providing perspective on the human impact of technology and security. It's Daniel's summary of 20 hours of reading each week. 

Let us know if you have any podcasts to add! 


About Ann

​Ann Grove, president of Logical, is Logical’s lead consultant. Logical's clients include security and compliance vendors as well as penetration test consultants.