Risky Business
Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and in-depth interviews with industry luminaries. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a must-listen digest for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50-60 minutes, Risky Business is pacy; a security podcast without the waffle.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 115
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Wide World of Cyber: DeepSeek lobs an AI hand grenade
In this episode of the Wide World of Cyber podcast Risky Business host Patrick Gray chats with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about AI, DeepSeek, and regulation.
From its bad transport se…
Risky Business #780 -- ASD torched Zservers data while admins were drunk
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Australian spooks scrubbed Medibank data off Zservers bulletproof hosting
- Why device code phi…
Risky Biz Soap Box: Run your own open source IDP with Authentik
In this SoapBox edition of the show Patrick Gray chats to Fletcher Heisler, the CEO of open-source identity provider Authentik.
The whole idea of Authentik is you can take control of an essential IT…
Risky Business #779 -- DOGE staffer linked to The Com
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Musk’s DOGE kid has a history with The Com
- Paragon fires Italy as a spyware customer
- Thaila…
Risky Business #778 -- Musk's child soldiers seize control of FedGov IT systems
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- DeepSeek leaves an unauthed database on the internet
- Russia hacked UK prime minister’s person…
Risky Business #777 -- It's SonicWall's turn
Coming to you from the same room in Risky Business headquarters Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news. They talk through:
- Sonicwall firewalls hand out remote code ex…
Risky Business #776 -- Trump will flex American cyber muscles
Risky Business returns for its 19th year! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news and there is a whole bunch of it. They discuss:
- The incoming Trump administration gut…
Risky Biz Soap Box: Cool compliance tricks with the Island enterprise browser
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray talks to Island CEO Michael Fey about some of the cool tricks in the Island enterprise browser. You can use it to tick off so many complian…
Risky Business #775 -- Cl0p is back, SEC hack disclosures disappoint
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- The SEC’s cyber incident reporting isn’t very exciting after all
- China Telecom on the way to…
Wide World of Cyber: SentinelOne's Chris Krebs on Chinese cyber operations
In this edition of the Wild World of Cyber podcast Patrick Gray sits down with SentinelOne’s Chief Intelligence and Public Policy Officer Chris Krebs to talk all about Chinese cyber operations.
They…
Risky Business #774 -- Cleo file transfer appliances under widespread attack
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Cleo file transfer products have a remote code exec, here we go again!
- Snowflake phases out …
Risky Biz Soapbox: Enterprise Yubikeys can now be pre-registered
In this interview Patrick Gray talks to Yubico’s COO and President Jerrod Chong about a new Yubikey feature: pre-registration.
You can now ship pre-registered Yubikeys to your staff so you don’t nee…
Risky Business #773 -- Cybercriminals are dropping like flies in Russia
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- The FTC decides its time to take another look at Microsoft
- Exxon’s opponents targeted by hac…
Risky Business #772 -- Salt Typhoon is truly a national security disaster
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- A ransomware attack has crippled US supply chain software provider Blue Yonder
- Russian spies…
Risky Business #771 -- Palo Alto's firewall 0days are very, very stupid
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Microsoft introduces some sensible sounding post-Crowdstrike changes
- Palo Alto patches hella-…
Risky Business #770 -- A Russian IR guy discovers extremely cool spookware
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Apple frustrates law enforcement with iOS auto-reboot
- CISA says most KEV vulnerabilities in 2…
Risky Biz Soap Box: Why black box email security is dead
In this edition of the Risky Business Soap Box we’re talking all about email security with Sublime Security co-founder Josh Kamdjou.
Email security is one of the oldest product categories in securit…
Risky Business #769 -- Sophos drops implants on Chinese exploit devs
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- Sophos drops implants on Chinese firewall exploit devs
- Microsoft workshops better just-in-tim…
Risky Business #768 -- CSRB will investigate China's Wiretap Hacks
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- CSRB to investigate China’s telco-wiretapping hacks
- Euro law enforcement takes down the Redli…
Risky Biz Soap Box: Thinkst Canary's decade of deception
In this Soap Box edition of the podcast Patrick Gray chats with Thinkst Canary founder Haroon Meer about his “decade of deception”, including:
- A history of Thinkst Canary including a recap of wha…