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
Risky Business #767 – SEC fines Check Point, Mimecast, Avaya and Unisys over hacks
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including:
- SEC fines tech firms for downplaying the Solarwinds hacks
- Anonymous Sudan still looks and qua…
Risky Business #766 – China hacks America's lawful intercept systems
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news, including:
- Chinese spooks all up in western telco lawful intercept
- Jerks ruin the Internet Archive’s day
- Mic…
Snake Oilers: Sandfly Security, Permiso and Wiz
In this edition of Snake Oilers we hear pitches from three security vendors:
- Sandfly Security: An agentless Linux security platform that actually sounds very cool
- Permiso: An identity security …
Risky Business #765 -- The Kaspersky switcheroo
Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s infosec news with everyone’s favourite ex-NSA big-brain, Rob Joyce. They talk through:
- Musk and Durov bow to government pressure
- Tiktok rushes t…
Risky Business #764 -- Mossad expands into telecommunications services
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including:
- Hezbollah’s attempts to avoid SIGINT with pagers ends in explosions
- The US shines many bright ligh…
Risky Business #763 – Microsoft un-patches critical bug
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including:
- Russia’s disinformation peddlers face multifaceted sternness from the DoJ
- Telegram is now law enfo…
Snake Oilers: Authentik, Dropzone and SlashID
In this edition of Snake Oilers Patrick Gray gets pitches from three cybersecurity companies:
- Authentik, an open source identity provider that a lot of large organisations are deploying on prem a…
Risky Business #762 -- Brazil nukes X, Iranian APTs deploy ransomware
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the weeks security news, including:
- Brazil’s supreme court bans X-formerly-Twitter,
- Iranian cyber teams cooperate with ransomware crew…
Risky Business #761 – Telegram v frogs. Fight!
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discusses the week’s security news, including:
- Telegram founder’s arrest in France
- Volt Typhoon 0days some SD-WAN gear
- Russia frets about Uk…
Feature interview: ASIO Director General Mike Burgess on encryption and access
Mike Burgess is the director general of ASIO. But the thing about Mike is he’s actually a cybersecurity guy. He joined ASD, Australia’s NSA, back in 1995 when it was still the Defence Signals Directo…
Risky Business #760 – Microsoft to make MFA mandatory
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news including:
- Microsoft did a good thing! Soon all Azure admins will require MFA
- The three billion row National …
Wide World of Cyber: 2024 election interference, the media and Iran's hack and leak
In this conversation Risky Business host Patrick Gray speaks with SentinelOne’s Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos about what sort of cyber enabled interference we can expect in the 2024 US presidential rac…
Risky Business #759 – Why Iran's hack and leak will amount to naught
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news and recap the best research presented at Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas last week. They cover:
- Iran tries a…
Soap Box: Making security tech more people friendly
In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show we talk to Proofpoint’s Chief Strategy Officer Ryan Kalember about making security tech more people centric.
We often talk about how we can use signals…
Risky Business #758 – Crowdstrike's postmortem underwhelms
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- Crowdstrike talks loud in its postmortem, but says very little
- Digicert fears the CA-Browser Foru…
Risky Business #757 – The ClownStrike cleanup continues
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
- The insurance industry’s reaction to CrowdStrike’s mess
- Google’s Workspace email validation flaw …
Wide World of Cyber: Why we should show CrowdStrike no mercy
In this episode of Wide World of Cyber, Risky Business host Patrick Gray discusses the recent CrowdStrike incident and its implications for security software that operates in kernel space with Chris …
Risky Business #756 -- Move fast and break everything
The Risky Biz main show returns from a break to the traditional internet-melting mess that happens whenever Patrick Gray takes a holiday. Pat and Adam Boileau talk through the week’s security news, i…
Risky Biz Soap Box: Mike Wiacek on lazy mode threat hunting
This Soap Box edition of the show is with Mike Wiacek, the CEO and Founder of Stairwell.
Stairwell is a platform that creates something similar to an NDR, but for file analysis instead of network tr…
Wide World of Cyber: State directed cybercrime
In this podcast Alex Stamos, Chris Krebs and Patrick Gray discuss the relationship between cybercrime and the state, which is often more complicated than it should be.
While the US Government and it…