WE'RE IN!
On WE’RE IN!, you'll hear from the newsmakers and innovators who are making waves and driving the cyber security industry forward. We talk to them about their stories, the future of the industry, their best practices, and more.
- Update frequency
- every 16 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Season 2 Trailer
Ready to hear from top cybersecurity newsmakers, executives and storytellers? Eager for advice on how to launch a successful cyber career? Curious about hacking threats that seem to grow more menacin…
Tanya Janca on Cyber Mentorship, “Shifting Left” and Punk Rock
Application security maven Tanya Janca – AKA SheHacksPurple – is an accomplished author, pentester and onetime music festival organizer. But she’s perhaps best known as the founder of We Hack Purple,…
Melanie Teplinsky on the Value of Cybersecurity Policy, a Zero Trust Model for Small Businesses and her Start at the NSA
Melanie Teplinsky fell in love with cryptography at an early age, which led her to landing her first job at the National Security Agency at 16. From there, she found her niche in cybersecurity at the…
Zinet Kemal on Starting Over, Infosec for Kids and the Importance of Mentorship
Zinet Kemal is an infosec powerhouse. After emigrating from Ethiopia to Minnesota with her husband, she started her life over. She left behind her community and career as a lawyer and dived into the …
Sean Zadig on the “Paranoids,” Ethical Hacking and Crafting a Security Culture
Sean Zadig has plenty to be paranoid about. The internet is a frightening place, and Yahoo’s Paranoids–the name for the company’s infosec team–have their work cut out for them protecting Yahoo’s more…
Jack Rhysider on Podcasting, Plot Twists and Infosec Burnout
Four years ago, Jack Rhysider quit his job as a security engineer to move full time into the storytelling business. His podcast, Darknet Diaries, now boasts tens of millions of total downloads and ha…
Tracy Maleeff on Diversifying the Cyber Workforce, OSINT Skills and “Librarian Face”
Tracy Maleeff led a successful career transition into the tech and cybersecurity world nearly seven years ago. Now a security researcher with the Krebs Stamos Group, the former librarian still uses h…
Beau Woods on Medical Device Security, Hacker Culture and Cyber Psychology
Beau Woods knows firsthand how every moment counts when it comes to medical cybersecurity. He launched his career in a hospital, where it wasn’t always possible for doctors to punch in complex passwo…
Robert M. Lee on Hacking Industrial Systems, Pay Transparency and Oysters
Dragos CEO and founder Robert M. Lee has been talking about cybersecurity risks to critical infrastructure long before threats to utility operators and water plants were making headlines. In this epi…
Jim Manico on Secure Coding, OWASP and Being a Decent Human
Jim Manico is full of opinions. The founder of Manicode Security has advice on how to use the OWASP Top 10, on secure coding and especially on the OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (AS…
Alex Holden on Russia's Cyber Arsenal, Conti Leaks and Infiltrating Ransomware Gangs
Alex Holden has a knack for tracking Russian cyber criminals. The Ukrainian-born cybersecurity expert understands what it takes to infiltrate ransomware outfits, learn their secrets and help organiza…
Hacking for Ukraine, Supply Chain Risk and Cyber Moonshots
There's a flood of cybersecurity news as a result of the Ukraine War as well as Washington's recent efforts to compel organizations to report cyberattacks to federal officials. In this episode, Trey …
Gabriella Coleman on Anonymous, Hacker History and the Evolution of Infosec
Gabriella Coleman, a Harvard University anthropology professor, describes how she immersed herself in hacker culture and eventually became embedded in the shadowy and mercurial world of Anonymous, t…
Micah Hoffman Breaks Down OSINT, the Dark Web and Beer Apps
In this episode, Micah Hoffman talks about his career in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and the value it has for investigations, cybersecurity and understanding how information is weaponized. He al…
Nicolas Chaillan takes on the Pentagon, China and TikTok
Nicolas Chaillan, former Air Force Chief Software Officer, resigned from the DoD over frustrations with what he called a lack of innovation, collaboration and agility. He gets into those issues and t…
Phillip Wylie on Bear Wrestling, Pentesting and Understanding the Adversary
In this episode, Phillip Wylie talks about his journey from pro wrestling to pentesting and what motivated him to start teaching, mentoring and giving back to the infosec community. It's an inspirati…
Kim Zetter on Election Security, Stuxnet and Substack
Kim Zetter is a former staff writer at WIRED and author of the seminal cybersecurity book “Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon.” Her work has appeared in…
Defense Digital Service Acting Director Katie Olson on drones, DEF CON and Hacking the Pentagon
Defense Digital Service Acting Director Katie Olson heads up a team of about 80 technologists working on some of the toughest challenges facing the U.S. Department of Defense. Since Katie started lea…
CryptoHarlem Founder Matt Mitchell on Hacking for Humanity
Earlier this year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation named Matt Mitchell, founder of CryptoHarlem, one of its 2021 Pioneer Award winners for his groundbreaking work to protect Black communities from…
Lifelong Hacker Alyssa Miller Breaks Down Cybersecurity Barriers
Alyssa Miller, Business Information Security Officer at S&P Global Ratings and author of the forthcoming book, “Cyber Defenders' Career Guide, is one of the most provocative, unfiltered and interesti…