Podcast appearances and mentions of dan woods

Tonight I'm joined by Dan Woods of Tailgaters BBQ. Dan is a competition cook and BBQ food truck owner. We get into his journey into BBQ, the competion scene, and running a food truck. Also a few funny food truck stories. Dans Party Rub is available on www.sucklebusters.com

This week I'm joined by fellow retro gaming fan, co-presenter of The Retro Hour Podcast and all round top bloke, Mr Dan Woods. Dan reveals the 3 games he'd take to the desert island and 3 games he believes should never have existed. Tune in to the brilliant The Retro Hour Podcast below.https://theretrohour.com/You can also tune in to Dan's You Tube channel below.https://www.youtube.com/@danwood_uk

Dan Woods is the analysist who found 80% of twit is fake bots. Here is an article with details.---Celebrate, The Savior is Here!Jesus Christ is Alive!Get to know Jesus Christ, He will change your life!!!Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom.Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32)___The Pledge of AllegianceNEO420 = Real News + Real Information for WE THE PEOPLEWE THE PEOPLE are at war with the deepstate criminal cabal!!!Turn off your tv, radio, and stop listening to paid professional liars spreading propaganda.***SUPPORT Independent Free Speech Reporting***Thank you for the SUPPORT & SHARING the TRUTH!!!___Podcast  link is here http://neo420.com/talks-podcast/The video channel link is here. https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4The Viral Delusionhttp://www.theviraldelusion.com/HAARPDARPA BlackjackAshli Babbit false flag Jan 6 video evidence___NEVER FORGET 9 11!!!Rumsfeld admitted $2.3 Trillion missing from Pentagon Sept 10 2001.  https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4/rumsfeld-2.1Trillionunaccountedforb-ccriminalsstoleit:7Planes did NOT bring down the two towers.AE911Truth.orgGeorge Bush Sr was CIA director before being Vice President then President.Towers that fell:-Building 1-Building 2-Building 7 (seldom reported even though BBC reporter reported building down before it happened) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VFMqiSupport the show

Dan Woods is the analysist who found 80% of twit is fake bots. Here is an article with details.---The global criminal cabal perpetuates the entire crime spree by Making drugs for WE THE PEOPLEThe drugs damage us and the childrenWe have to do all we can to make it.The gcc continue to do with our $ what they want to enrich themselves while killing us.We have to continue in their systems to live.---Celebrate, The Savior is Here!Jesus Christ is Alive!Get to know Jesus Christ, He will change your life!!!Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom.Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32)___The Pledge of AllegianceNEO420 = Real News + Real Information for WE THE PEOPLEWE THE PEOPLE are at war with the deepstate criminal cabal!!!Turn off your tv, radio, and stop listening to paid professional liars spreading propaganda.***SUPPORT Independent Free Speech Reporting***Thank you for the SUPPORT & SHARING the TRUTH!!!___Podcast  link is here http://neo420.com/talks-podcast/The video channel link is here. https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4The Viral Delusionhttp://www.theviraldelusion.com/HAARPDARPA BlackjackAshli Babbit false flag Jan 6 video evidence___NEVER FORGET 9 11!!!Rumsfeld admitted $2.3 Trillion missing from Pentagon Sept 10 2001.  https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4/rumsfeld-2.1Trillionunaccountedforb-ccriminalsstoleit:7Planes did NOT bring down the two towers.AE911Truth.orgGeorge Bush Sr was CIA director before being Vice President then President.Towers that fell:-Building 1-Building 2-Building 7 (seldom reported even though BBC reporter reported building down before it happened) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VFMqiSupport the show

Correction, Dan Woods is the analysist who found 80% of twit is fake bots. Here is an article with details. -----Celebrate, The Savior is Here!Jesus Christ is Alive!Get to know Jesus Christ, He will change your life!!!Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom.Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32)___The Pledge of AllegianceNEO420 = Real News + Real Information for WE THE PEOPLEWE THE PEOPLE are at war with the deepstate criminal cabal!!!Turn off your tv, radio, and stop listening to paid professional liars spreading propaganda.***SUPPORT Independent Free Speech Reporting***Thank you for the SUPPORT & SHARING the TRUTH!!!___Podcast  link is here http://neo420.com/talks-podcast/The video channel link is here. https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4The Viral Delusionhttp://www.theviraldelusion.com/HAARPDARPA BlackjackAshli Babbit false flag Jan 6 video evidence___NEVER FORGET 9 11!!!Rumsfeld admitted $2.3 Trillion missing from Pentagon Sept 10 2001.  https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4/rumsfeld-2.1Trillionunaccountedforb-ccriminalsstoleit:7Planes did NOT bring down the two towers.AE911Truth.orgGeorge Bush Sr was CIA director before being Vice President then President.Towers that fell:-Building 1-Building 2-Building 7 (seldom reported even though BBC reporter reported building down before it happened) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VFMqiSupport the show

Correction, Dan Woods is the analysist who found 80% of twit is fake bots. Here is an article with details.____Celebrate, The Savior is Here!Jesus Christ is Alive!Get to know Jesus Christ, He will change your life!!!Go to GOD for discernment and wisdom.Know the Truth as the Truth will make you free! (John 8:32)___The Pledge of AllegianceNEO420 = Real News + Real Information for WE THE PEOPLEWE THE PEOPLE are at war with the deepstate criminal cabal!!!Turn off your tv, radio, and stop listening to paid professional liars spreading propaganda.***SUPPORT Independent Free Speech Reporting***Thank you for the SUPPORT & SHARING the TRUTH!!!___Podcast  link is here http://neo420.com/talks-podcast/The video channel link is here. https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4The Viral Delusionhttp://www.theviraldelusion.com/HAARPDARPA BlackjackAshli Babbit false flag Jan 6 video evidence___NEVER FORGET 9 11!!!Rumsfeld admitted $2.3 Trillion missing from Pentagon Sept 10 2001.  https://odysee.com/@NEO420TALKS:4/rumsfeld-2.1Trillionunaccountedforb-ccriminalsstoleit:7Planes did NOT bring down the two towers.AE911Truth.orgGeorge Bush Sr was CIA director before being Vice President then President.Towers that fell:-Building 1-Building 2-Building 7 (seldom reported even though BBC reporter reported building down before it happened) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0VFMqiSupport the show

In this captivating episode, I sit down with Dan Woods, former FBI Special Agent, CIA Cyber-Operations Officer, and now the Global Head of Intelligence at F5, to explore the world of fraud protection and bot detection. Dan sheds light on the inner workings of bots, mitigation strategies, and reveals specific examples of malicious bot activities targeting banks, hotels, airlines, insurance companies, and social media sites. We delve into the surge of marketplaces like Genesis Marketplace, which provide attackers with an avenue to buy digital fingerprints, and discuss the implications for cybersecurity. Finally, Dan shares his expert advice on what organizations can do to address bot threats and the critical need for neutral third-party validation of bot traffic. Join us for this eye-opening conversation with a cybersecurity veteran who has dedicated his career to staying one step ahead of the ever-evolving cyber threats.

Bots; they can be both helpful assistants and harmful pests, and you'll find them all over the internet targeting most public facing applications in some way or another. But what actually are they?To explore the bad bots on the Internet, Robby is joined by someone that has spent the last seven years studying them, Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence, F5.They talk about why Dan became fascinated by bots, real-life examples of how bots are being used, and what separates the sophisticated bots from the rest.They also discuss if we are underestimating the sophistication and the motivation of the organisations behind these automations, how botnets and human click farms work, and whether Elon Musk will be able to solve his bot problem on Twitter.

FNO: InsureTech revisits with former guest Dan Woods, Founder & CEO, of Socotra. As a modern platform for technology-driven insurers founded in 2014 and based in San Francisco, Socotra is the first cloud-native core platform for insurance and the first core system to believe its APIs and configuration formats should be open to the world. Join Dan, Rob, and Lee as they catch on the continued success of Socotra, Dan's experience, insights on insuretech and embedded insurance, and much more. To learn more about Socotra, visit https://www.socotra.com.

Dan Woods is the founder and CEO of Socotra, the first modern, cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers. Socotra has its own app marketplace and APIs to connect software to insurance businesses, providing open access and clean documentation to get started. Socotra provides solutions that are off-the-shelf, true cloud and fully documented. With computer science being the most popular degree at most universities, we have more people who can implement solutions that go-live and work. Dan created data platforms and smart enterprise software at 8VC and Palantir. He holds a MS in Computer Science from Stanford.   Follow the Insurtech Leadership Podcast airing weekly hosted by Joshua R. Hollander. We give you up-close access and personal insights from the leaders of the fastest-growing #insurtechs and most innovative #insurance carriers and brokers.

Dan Woods, ex-CIA and FBI and current Head of Global Intelligence at F5, shares his stories of IT security, cyber terrorism, makes his triumphant return to the program. He discusses customer friction, two-factor authentication, and shares an incredible story about the time a 30 second conversation cancelled daylight savings time for an entire nation.Bonus show notes: You can see Dan's fierce beard here.

Hello and welcome to the latest episode of the Leadership in Insurance Podcast where this week we are lucky enough to be joined by Dan Woods, CEO of Socotra.We had a great conversation this week where we discussed a wide range of topics such as:Revolutionising core systemsTechnology stacks within incumbents & core system road blocksMisinformation in legacy systems Making chances for efficiency and how that will impact company culture2017 & the cultural shift towards cloud systemsRisk profiles shifting How the insurance industry chooses the low risk path How cloud is now seen as the safer option How true cloud can revolutionize innovation ITC & Socotra's new app market placeThank you Matt for your time, it was great to speak to you!This Podcast was brought to you by FinPro, an executive recruitment business that works in the Insurance and Insurtech space.Our host in FinPro Director, Alex BondPlease like and subscribe if you enjoyed this podcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Auf der gamescom 2022 konnten wir mit Marcus Mera ueber das neue Spiel von Ken und Roberta Williams sprechen: Eine Neuinterpretation des Ur-Adventures Colossal Cave von Will Crowther und Dan Woods in 3D. In diesem Interview sprechen darueber, wie es dazu kam und was genau uns beim dem fuer dieses Jahr angekuendigten Release alles erwartet. Das Interview ist in englischer Sprache. Eine Videoversion davon findet ihr auf unserer Startseite!

Dan Woods, ex-CIA and FBI and current Head of Global Intelligence at F5, shares his stories of IT security, cyber terrorism, gives his best advice for how to get business and fraud teams to work together to protect businesses and customers, and recounts the heartbreaking and untimely demise of his 'Santa Claus' beard.Bonus show notes: You can see Dan's fierce beard here.

Video Version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLLf9pvBzOETony chats with Dan Woods, CEO at Socotra, the first truly modern core insurance system that is truly cloud. Socotra is used by many insurtech MGAs as their policy admin and underwriting system. I learned a lot in this conversation. Don't miss it!Dan Woods: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwoods1/Socotra: https://www.socotra.com/

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Philippians 4:3-8 - New King James Version 3 And I urge you also, true companion, help these women who labored with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are in the Book of Life. 4 Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.

About DanDan is CISO and VP of Cybersecurity for Shipt, a Target subsidiary. He worked previously as a Distinguished Engineer on Target's cloud infrastructure. He served as CTO for Joe Biden's 2020 Presidential campaign. Prior to that Dan worked with the Hillary for America tech team through the Groundwork, and contributed as a founding developer on Spinnaker while at Netflix. Dan is an O'Reilly published author and avid public speaker.  Links: Shipt: https://www.shipt.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/danveloper LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danveloper TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. 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Just like their Torque infrastructure automation platform can deliver complex application environments anytime, anywhere, in just seconds instead of hours, days or weeks. Visit Qtorque.io today and learn how you can spin up application environments in about the same amount of time it took you to listen to this ad.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud, I'm Corey Quinn. Sometimes I talk to people who are involved in working on the nonprofit slash political side of the world. Other times I talk to folks who are deep in the throes of commercial businesses, and I obviously personally spend more of my time on one of those sides of the world than I do the other. But today's guest is a little bit different, Dan Woods is the CISO and VP of Cybersecurity at Shipt, a division of Target where he's worked for a fair number of years, but took some time off for his side project, the side hustle as the kids call it, as the CTO for the Biden campaign. Dan, thank you for joining me.Dan: Yeah. Thank you, Corey. Happy to be here.Corey: So, you have an interesting track record as far as your career goes, you've been at Target for a long time. You were a distinguished engineer—not to be confused with ‘extinguished engineer,' which is just someone who is finally—the fire has gone out. And from there you went from being a distinguished engineer to a VP slash CISO, which generally looks a lot less engineer-like, and a lot more, at least in my experience, of sitting in a whole lot of executive-level meetings, managing teams, et cetera. Was that, in fact, an individual contributor—or IC—move into a management track, or am I just misunderstanding this because these are commonly overloaded terms in our industry?Dan: Yeah, yeah, no, that's exactly right. So, IC to leadership, two distinct tracks, distinct career paths. It was something that I've spent a number of years thinking about and more or less working toward and making sure that it was the right path for me to go. The interesting thing about the break that I took in the middle of Target when I was CTO for the campaign is that that was a leadership role, right. I led the team. I managed the team.I did performance reviews and all of that kind of managerial stuff, but I also sat down and did a lot of tech. So, it was kind of like a mix of being a senior executive, but also still continuing to be a distinguished engineer. So, then the natural path out of that for me was to make a decision about do I continue to be an individual contributor or do I go into a leadership track? And I felt like for a number of reasons that my interests more aligned with being on the leadership side of the world, and so that's how I've ended up where I am.Corey: And correct me if I'm wrong because generally speaking political campaigns are not usually my target customers given the fact that they're turning the entire AWS environment off in a few months—win or lose—and yeah, that is, in fact, remains the best way to save money on your AWS bill; it's hard for me to beat that. But at that point most of the people you're working with are in large part volunteers I would imagine.So, managing in a traditional sense of, “Well, we're going to have your next quarterly review.” Well, your candidate might not be in the race then, and what we're going to put you on a PIP, and what exactly you're going to stop letting me volunteer here? You're going to dock them pay—you're not paying me for this. It becomes an interesting management challenge I would imagine just because the people you're working with are passionate and volunteering, and a lot of traditional management and career advice doesn't necessarily map one-to-one I would have to assume.Dan: That is the best way that I've heard it described yet. I try to explain this to folks sometimes and it's kind of difficult to get that message across that like there is sort of a base level organization that exists, right. There were full-time employees who were a part of the tech team, really great group of folks especially from very early on willing to join the campaign and be a part of what it was that we were doing.And then there was this whole ecosystem of folks who just wanted to volunteer, folks who wanted to be a part of it but didn't want to leave their 9:00 to 5:00 who wanted to come in. One of the most difficult things about—we rely on volunteers very heavily in the political space, and very grateful for all the folks who step up and volunteer with organizations that they feel passionate about. In fact, one of the best little tidbits of wisdom the President imparted to me at one point, we were having dinner at his house very early on in the campaign, and he said, “The greatest gift that you can give somebody is your time.” And I think that's so incredibly true. So, the folks who volunteer, it's really important, really grateful that they're all there.In particular, how it becomes difficult, is that you need somebody to manage the volunteers, right, who are there. You need somebody to come up with work and check in that work is getting done because while it's great that folks want to volunteer five, ten hours a week, or whatever it is that they can put in, we also have very real things that need to get done, and they need to get done in a timely manner.So, we had a lot of difficulty especially early on in the campaign utilizing the volunteers to the extent that we could because we were such a small and scrappy team and because everybody who was working on the campaign at the time had a lot of responsibilities that they needed to see through on their own. And so getting into this, it's quite literally a full-time job having to sit down and follow up with volunteers and make sure that they have the appropriate amount of work and make sure that we've set up our environment appropriately so that volunteers can come and go and all of that kind of stuff, so yeah.Corey: It's always an interesting joy looking at the swath of architectural decisions and how they came to be. I talked on a previous episode with Jackie Singh, who was, I believe, after your tenure as CISO, she was involved on the InfoSec side of things, and she was curious as to your thought process or rationale with a lot of the initial architectural decisions that she talked about on her episode which I'm sure she didn't intend it this way, but I am going to blatantly miscategorize as, “Justify yourself. What were you thinking?” Usually it takes years for that kind of, “I don't understand what's going on here so I'm playing data center archeologist or cloud spelunker.” This was a very short window. How did decisions get made architecturally as far as what you're going to run things on? It's been disclosed that you were on AWS, for example. Was that a hard decision?Dan: No, not at all. Not at all. We started out the campaign—I in particular I was one of the first employees hired onto the campaign and the idea all along was that we're not going to be clever, right? We're basically just going to develop what needs to be developed. And the idea with that was that a lot of the code that we were going to sit down and write or a lot of the infrastructure that we were going to build was going to be glue, it not AWS Glue, right, ideally, but just glue that would bind data streams together, right?So, data movement, vendor A produces a CSV file for you and it needs to end up in a bucket somewhere. So, somebody needs to write the code to make that happen, or you need to find a sufficient vendor who can make that happen. There's a lot more vendors today believe it or not than there were two years ago that are doing much better in that kind of space, but two years ago we had the constraints of time and money.Our idea was that the code that we were going to write was going to be for those purposes. What it actually turned into is that in other areas of the business—and I will call it a business because we had formalized roadmaps and different departments working on different things—but in other areas of the business where we didn't have enough money to purchase a solution, we had the ability to go and write software.The interesting thing about this group of technologists who came together especially early on in the campaign to build out the tech team most of them came from an enterprise software development background, right? So, we had the know-how of how to build things at scale and how to do continuous delivery and continuous deployment, and how to operate a cloud-native environment, and how to build applications for that world.So, we ended up doing things like writing an API for managing our donor vetting pipeline, right? And that turned into a complex system of Lambda functions and continuous delivery for a variety of different services that facilitated that pipeline. We also built an architecture for our mobile app which there were plenty of companies that wanted to sell us a mobile app and we just couldn't afford it so we ended up writing the mobile app ourselves.So, after some point in time, what we said was we actually have a fairly robust and complex software infrastructure. We have a number of microservices that are doing various things to facilitate the operation of the business, and something that we need to do is we need to spend a little bit of time and make sure that we're building this in a cohesive way, right? And what part of that means was that, for example, we had to take a step back and say, “Okay, we need to have a unified identity service.” We can't have a different identity—or we can't have every single individual service creating its own identity. We need to have—Corey: I really wish you could pass that lesson out on some of the AWS service teams.Dan: [laugh]. Yes, I know. I know. Yeah. So, we went through—Corey: So, there were some questionable choices you made in there, like you started that with the beginning of, “Well, we had no time which is fine and no budget. So, we chose AWS.” It's like, “Oh, that looks like the exact opposite direction of a great decision, given, you know, my view on it.” Stepping past that entirely, you are also dealing with challenges that I don't think map very well to things that exist in the corporate world. For example, you said you had to build a donor vetting pipeline.It's in the corporate world I didn't have it. It's one of those, “Why in the world would I get in the way of people trying to give me money?” And the obvious answer in your case is, federal law, and it turns out that the best outcome generally does not involve serving prison time. So, you have to address these things in ways that don't necessarily have a one-to-one analog in other spaces.Dan: That's true. That's true. Yes, correct to the federal law thing. Our more pressing reason to do this kind of thing was that we made a commitment very early on in the campaign that we wouldn't take money from executives of the gas and oil industry, for example. There were another bunch of other commitments that were made, but it was inconceivable for us to have enough people that could possibly go manually through those filings. So, for us to be able to build an automated system for doing that meant that we were literally saving thousands of human hours and still getting a beneficial result out of it.Corey: And everything you do is subject to intense scrutiny by folks who are willing to make hay out of anything. If it had leaked at the time, I would have absolutely done some ridiculous nonsense thing about, “Ah, clearly looking at this AWS bill. Joe Biden's supports managed NAT gateway data processing pricing.” And it's absolutely not, but that doesn't stop people from making hay about this because headlines are going to be headlines.And do you have to also deal with the interesting aspect—industrial espionage is always kind of a thing, but by and large most companies don't have to worry that effectively half of the population is diametrically opposed to the thing it is that they're trying to do to the point where they might very well try to get insiders there to start leaking things out. Everything you do has to be built with optics in mind, working under tight constraints, and it seems like an almost insurmountable challenge except for the fact where you actually pulled it off.Dan: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We kept saying that the tech was not the story, right, and we wanted to do everything within our power to keep the conversation on the candidate and not on emails or AWS bills or any of that kind of stuff. And so we were very intentional about a lot of the decisions that we ended up making with the idea that if the optics are bad, we pull away from the primary mission of what it is that we're trying to do.Corey: So, what was it that qualified you to be the CTO of a—at the time very fledgling and uncertain campaign, given that you were coming from a role where you were a distinguished engineer, which is not nothing, let's be clear, but it's an executive-level of role rather than a hands-on level of role as CTO. And then if we go back in time, you were one of the founding developers of Spinnaker over at Netflix.And I have a lot of thoughts about Netflix technology and a lot of thoughts about Spinnaker as well, and none of those thoughts are, “This seems like a reasonable architecture I should roll out for a presidential campaign.” So, please, don't take this as the insult that probably sounds like, but why were you the CTO that got tapped?Dan: Great question. And I think in some ways, right place, right time. But in other ways probably needs to speak a little bit to the journey of how I've gotten anywhere in my career. So, going back to Netflix, yeah, so I worked in Netflix. I had the opportunity to work with a lot of incredibly bright and talented folks there. One of the people in particular who I met there and became friends with was Corey Bertram who worked on the core SRE team.Corey left Netflix to go off and at the time he was just like, “I'm going to go do a political startup.” The interesting thing about Netflix at the time—this was 2013, so, this was just after the Obama for America '12 campaign. And a bunch of folks from OFA world came and worked at Netflix and a variety of other organizations in the Bay Area. Corey was not one of those people but we were very well-connected with folks in that world, and Corey said he was going off to do a political startup, and so after my non-mutual departure from Netflix, I was talking to Corey and he said, “Hey, why don't you come over and help us figure out how to do continuous delivery over on the political startup.” That political startup turned into the groundwork which turned into essentially the tech platform for the Hillary for America campaign.So, I had the opportunity working for the groundwork to work very closely with the folks in the technology organization at HFA. And that got me more exposure to what that world is and more connections into that space. And the groundwork was run by Corey, but was the CEO or head—I don't even know what he called himself, was Michael Slaby, who was President Obama's CTO in 2008 and had a bigger technical role in the 2012 campaign.And so, for his involvement in HFA '16 meant that he was a person who was very well connected for the 2020 campaign. And when we were out at a political conference in late 2018 and he said, “Hey, I think that Vice President Biden is going to run. Do you have any interest in talking with his team?” And I said, “Yes, absolutely. Please introduce me.”And I had a couple of conversations with Greg Schultz who was the campaign manager and we just hit it off. And it was a really great fit. Greg was an excellent leader. He was a real visionary, exactly the person that President Biden needed. And he brought me in to set up the tech operation and get everything to where we ultimately won the primary and won the election after that.Corey: And then, as all things do, it ended and the question then becomes, “Great, what's next?” And the answer for you was apparently, “Okay, I'm going to go back to Target-ish.” Although now you're the CISO of a Target subsidiary, Shipt and Target's relationship is—again, I imagine I have that correct as far as you are in fact a subsidiary of Target, so it wasn't exactly a new company, but rather a transition into the previous organization you were in a different role.Dan: Yeah, correct. Yeah, it's a different department inside of Target, but my paycheck still come from Target. [laugh].Corey: So, what was it that inspired you to go into the CISO role? Because obviously security is everyone's job, which is what everyone says, which is why we get away with treating it like it's nobody's job because shared responsibilities tend to work out that way.Dan: Yeah.Corey: And you've done an awful lot of stuff that was not historically deeply security-centric although there's always an element passing through it. Now, going into a CISO role as someone without a deep InfoSec background that I'm aware of, what drove that? How did that work?Dan: You know, I think the most correct answer is that security has always been in my blood. I think like most people who started out—Corey: There are medications for that now.Dan: Yeah, [laugh] good. I might need them. [laugh]. I think like most folks who are kind of my era who started seriously getting into software development and computer system administration in the late ‘90s, early thousands, cybersecurity it wasn't called cybersecurity at the time. It wasn't even called InfoSec, right, it was just called, I don't know, dabbling or something. But that was a gateway for getting into Linux system administration, network engineering, so forth and so on.And for a short period of time I became—when I was getting my RHCE certification way back in the day, I became pretty entrenched in network security and that was a really big focus area that I spent a lot of time on and I got whatever the supplemental network security certification from Red Hat was at the time. And then I realized pretty quickly that the world isn't going to need box operators for very long, and this was just before the DevOps revolution had really come around and more and more things were automated.So, we were still doing hand deployments. I was still dropping WAR files onto a file system and restarting Apache. That was our deployment process. And I saw the writing on the wall and I said, “If I don't dedicate myself to becoming first and foremost a software engineer, then I'm not going to have a very good time in technology here.” So, I jumped out of that and I got into software development, and so that's where my software engineering career evolved out of.So, when I was CTO for the campaign, I like to tell people that I was a hundred percent of CTO, I was a hundred percent a CIO, and I was a hundred percent of CISO for the first 514 days of the campaign or whatever it was. So, I was 300 percent doing all of the top-level technology jobs for the campaign, but cybersecurity was without a doubt the one that we would drop everything for every single time.And that was by necessity; we were constantly under attack on the campaign. And a lot of my headspace during that period of time was dedicated to how do we make sure that we're doing things in the most secure way? So, when I left—when I came back into Target and I came back in as a distinguished engineer there were some areas that they were hoping that I could contribute positively and help move a couple of things along.The idea always the whole time was going to be for me to jump into a leadership position. And I got a call one day from Rich Agostino who's the CISO for Target and he said, “Hey, Shipt needs a cybersecurity operation built out and you're looking for a leadership role. Would you be interested in doing this?” And believe it or not, I had missed the world of cybersecurity so much that when the opportunity came up I said, “Yes, absolutely. I'll dive in head first.” And so that was the path for getting there.Corey: This episode is sponsored by our friends at Oracle HeatWave is a new high-performance accelerator for the Oracle MySQL Database Service. Although I insist on calling it “my squirrel.” While MySQL has long been the worlds most popular open source database, shifting from transacting to analytics required way too much overhead and, ya know, work. With HeatWave you can run your OLTP and OLAP, don't ask me to ever say those acronyms again, workloads directly from your MySQL database and eliminate the time consuming data movement and integration work, while also performing 1100X faster than Amazon Aurora, and 2.5X faster than Amazon Redshift, at a third of the cost. My thanks again to Oracle Cloud for sponsoring this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: My take to cybersecurity space is, a little, I think, different than most people's journeys through it. The reason I started a Thursday edition of the Last Week in AWS newsletter is the security happenings in the AWS ecosystem for folks who don't have the word security in their job titles because I used to dabble in that space a fair bit. The problem I found is that is as you move up the ladder to executives that our directors, VPs, and CISOs, the language changes significantly.And it almost becomes a dialect of corporate-speak that I find borderline impenetrable, versus the real world terminology we're talking about when, “Okay, let's make sure that we rotate credentials on a reasonable expected basis where it makes sense,” et cetera et cetera. It almost becomes much more of a box-checking compliance exercise slash layering on as much as you possibly can that for plausible deniability for the inevitable breach that one day hits and instead of actually driving towards better outcomes.And I understand that's a cynical, strange perspective, but I started talking to people about this, and I'm very far from alone in that, which is why people are subscribing to that newsletter and that's the corner of the market I wanted to start speaking to. So, given that you've been an engineer practitioner trying to build things and now a security executive as well, is my assessment of the further higher up you go the entire messaging and purpose change, or is that just someone who's been in the trenches for too long and hasn't been on that side of the world, and I have a certain lack of perspective that would make this all very clear. Which I freely accept, if that's the case.Dan: No, I think that you're right for a lot of organizations. I think that that's a hundred percent true, and it is exactly as you described: a box-checking exercise for a lot of organizations. Something that's important to remember about Target is—Target was the subject of a data breach in 2012, and that was before there were data breaches every single day, right.Now, we look at a data breach and we say that's just going to happen, right, that's the cost of doing business. But back in 2012 it was really a very big story and it was a very big deal, and there was quite a bit of activity in the Target technology world after that breach. So, it reshaped the culture quite literally, new executives were brought in, but there's this whole world of folks inside of Target who have never forgotten that, right, and work day-in and day-out to make sure that we don't have another breach.So, security at Target is a main centrally thought about kind of thing. So, it's very much something that is a part of the way that people operate inside of Target. So, coming over to Shipt, obviously, Shipt is—it is a subsidiary. It is a part of Target, but it doesn't have that long history and hasn't had that same kind of experience. The biggest thing that we really needed at Shipt is first and foremost to get the program established, right. So, I'm three or four months onto the job now and we've tripled the team size. I've been—Corey: And you've stayed out of the headlines, which is basically the biggest and most accurate breach indicator I've found so far.Dan: So far so good. Well, but the thing that we want to do though is to be able to bring that same kind of focus of importance that Target has on cybersecurity into the world of engineering at Shipt. And it's not just a compliance game, and it's not just a thing where we're just trying to say that we have it. We're actually trying to make sure that as we go forward we've got all these best practices from an organization that's been through the bad stuff that we can adopt into our day-to-day and kind of get it done.When we talk about it at an executive level, obviously we're not talking about the penetration tests done by the red team the earlier day, right. We're not calling any of that stuff out in particular. But we do try to summarize it in a way that makes it clear that the thing that we're trying to do is build a security-minded culture and not just check some boxes and make sure that we have the appropriate titles in the appropriate places so that our insurance rates go down, right. We're actually trying to keep people safe.Corey: There's a lot to be said for that. With the Target breach back in—I want to say 2012, was it?Dan: 2012. Yep.Corey: Again, it was a wake-up call and the argument that I've always seen is that everyone is vulnerable—just depends on how much work it's going to take to get there. And for, credit where due, there was a complete rotation in the executive levels which whether that's fair or not, I—people have different opinions on it; my belief has always been you own the responsibility, regardless of who's doing the work.And there's no one as fanatical as a convert, on some level, and you've clearly been doing a lot of things in the right direction. The thing that always surprises me is that when I wind up seeing these surveys in the industry that—what is it? 65% of companies say that they would be vulnerable to a breach, and everybody said, “Oh, we should definitely look at those companies.” My argument is, “Hang on a sec. I want to talk to the 35% who say, ‘oh, we're impenetrable.'” because, spoiler, you are not.No one is. Just the question of how heavy is the lift and how much work is it going to take to get there? I do know that mouthing off in public about how perfect the security of anything is, is the best way to more or less climb to the top of a mountain during a thunderstorm, a hold up a giant metal rod, and curse the name of God. It doesn't lead to positive outcomes, basically ever. In turn, this also leads to companies not talking about security openly.I find that in many cases it is easier for me to get people to talk about their AWS bills than their InfoSec posture. And I do believe, incidentally, those two things are not entirely unrelated, but how do you view it? It was surprisingly easy to get Shipt's CISO to have a conversation with me here on this podcast. It is significantly more challenging in most other companies.Dan: Well, in fairness, you've been asking me for about two-and-a-half years pretty regularly [laugh] to come.Corey: And I always say I will stop bothering you if you want. You said, “No, no. Ask me again in a few months. Ask me again, after the election. Ask me again after—I don't know, like, the one-day delivery thing gets sorted out.” Whatever it happens to be. And that's fine. I follow up religiously, and eventually I can wear people down by being polite yet persistent.Dan: So, persistence on you is actually to credit here. No, I think to your question though, I think that there's a good balance. There's a good balance in being open about what it is that you're trying to do versus over-sharing areas that maybe you're less proficient in, right. So, it wouldn't make a lot of sense for me to come on here and tell you the areas that we need to develop into security. But on the other side of things, I am very happy to come in and talk to you about how our incident response plan is evolving, right, and what our plan looks like for doing all of that kind of stuff.Some of the best security practitioners who I've worked with in the world will tell you that you're not going to prevent a breach from a motivated attacker, and your job as CISO is to make sure that your response is appropriate, right, more so than anything. So, our incident response areas where today we're dedicating quite a bit of effort to build up our proficiency, and that's a very important aspect of the cybersecurity program that we're trying to build here.Corey: And unlike the early days of a campaign, you still have to be ultra-conscious about security, but now you have the luxury of actually being able to hire security staff because it turns out that, “Please come volunteer here,” is not presumably Shipt's hiring pitch.Dan: That's correct. Yeah, exactly. We have a lot of buy-in from the rest of leadership to build out this program. Shipt's history with cybersecurity is one where there were a couple of folks who did a remarkably good job for just being two or three of them for a really long period of time who ran the cybersecurity operation very much was not a part of the engineering culture at Shipt, but there still was coverage.Those folks left earlier in the year, all of them, simultaneously, unfortunately. And that's sort of how the position became open to me in the first place. But it also meant that I was quite literally starting with next to nothing, right. And from that standpoint it made it feel a lot like the early days of the campaign because I was having to build a team from scratch and having to get people motivated to come and work on this thing that had kind of an unknown future roadmap associated with it and all of that kind of stuff.But we've been very privileged to—because we have that leadership support we're able to pay market rates and actually hire qualified and capable and competent engineers and engineering leaders to help build out the aspects of this program that we need. And like I said, we've managed to—we weren't exactly at zero when I walked in the door. So, when I say we were able to quadruple the team, it doesn't mean that we just added four zeros there, [laugh] but we've got a little bit over a dozen people focusing on all areas of security for the business that we can think of. And that's just going to continue to grow. So, it's exciting; it's a challenge. But having the support of the entire organization behind something like this really, really helps a lot.Corey: I know we're running out of time for a lot of the interview, but one more question I want to ask you about is, when you're the CISO for a nationally known politician who is running for the highest office, the risk inherent to getting it wrong is massive. This is one of those mistakes will show indelibly for the rest of, well, one would argue US history, you could arguably say that there will be consequences that go that far out.On the other side of it, once you're done on the campaign you're now the CISO at Shipt. And I am not in any way insinuating that the security of your customers, and your partners, and your data across the board is important. But it does not seem to me from the outside that it has the same, “If we get this wrong there are repercussions that will extend into my grandchildren's time.” How do you find that your ability to care as deeply about this has changed, if it has?Dan: My stress levels are a lot lower I'll say that, but—Corey: You can always spot the veterans on an SRE team because—when I say veterans I mean veterans from the armed forces because, “No one's shooting at me. We can't serve ads right now. I'm really not going to run around and scream like, ‘My hair's on fire,' because this is nothing compared to what stress can look like.” And yeah there's always a worst stressor, but, on some level, it feels like it would be an asset. And again this is not to suggest you don't take security seriously. I want to be very clear on that point.Dan: Yeah, yeah, no. The important challenge of the role is building this out in a way that we have coverage over all the areas that we really need, right, and that is actually the kind of stuff that I enjoy quite a bit. I enjoy starting a program. I enjoy seeing a program come to fruition. I enjoy helping other people build their careers out, and so I have a number of folks who are at earlier at points in their career who I'm very happy that we have them on our team because I can see them grow and I can see them understand and set up what the next thing for them to do is.And so when I look at the day-to-day here, I was motivated on the campaign by that reality of like there is some quite literal life or death stuff that is going to happen here. And that's a really strong presser to make sure that you're doing all the right stuff at the right time. In this case, my motivation is different because I actually enjoy building this kind of stuff out and making sure that we're doing all the right stuff and not having the stress of, like, this could be the end of the world if we get this wrong.Means that I can spend time focusing on making sure that the program is coming together as it should, and getting joy from seeing the program come together is where a lot of that motivation is coming from today. So, it's just different, right? It's a different thing, but at the end of the day it's very rewarding and I'm enjoying it and can see this continuing on for quite some time.Corey: And I look forward to ideally getting you back in another two-and-a-half years after I began badgering you in two hours in order to come back on the show. If—Dan: [laugh].Corey: —people want to hear more about what you're up to, how you view about these things, potentially consider working with you, where can they find you?Dan: Best place although I've not been as active because it has been very busy the last couple of months, but find me on Twitter, @danveloper, find me on LinkedIn. Those—you know, I posted a couple of blog posts about the technology choices that we made on the campaign that I think folks find interesting, and periodically I'll share out my thoughts on Twitter about whatever the most current thing is, Kubernetes or AWS about to go down or something along those lines. So, yeah, that's the best way. And I tweet out all the jobs and post all the jobs that we're hiring for on LinkedIn and all of that kind of stuff. So, usual social channels. Just not Facebook.Corey: Amen to that. And I will of course include links to those things in the [show notes 00:37:29]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I appreciate it.Dan: Thank you, Corey.Corey: Dan Woods, CISO and VP of Cybersecurity at Shipt, also formerly of the Biden campaign because wherever he goes he clearly paints a target on his back. I'm Cloud Economist, Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an incoherent rant that is no doubt tied to either politics or the alternate form of politics: Spinnaker.Dan: [laugh].Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. 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Welcome to the innaugural edition of the InsurTech ATX Podcast. I'm your host Andrew Correll! Our first episode is a live recording of a panel we hosted wrapping up InsureTech Connect 2021 as well as trends we're seeing in the Austin InsurTech scene. The panel includes Dan Woods, CEO of Socotra; Nestor Solari, CEO of Sigo Seguros; Chris Cheatham, VP of Product at Bold Penguin; and Darren Nix, CEO of Steadily. The panel was organized by Dave Perez, Founder and President of Lumen Insurance Technologies and Co-organizer of InsurTech ATX. After the episode, check out InsurTechATX.com where you can check out our upcoming event calendar and catch up on previous episodes of the podcast. And now onto the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/insurtechatx/message

SoutheastHEALTH recently announced plans for a major expansion at its west campus located on South Mount Auburn Road in Cape Girardeau. Dan Woods spoke with SoutheastHEALTH CEO Ken Bateman to learn more about the expansion. Woods : Tell us about the expansion and why you're doing it now. Bateman : Well, the expansion is a three-phase expansion. We actually started design of this expansion back in the early part of 2019, with COVID it got pushed back a little bit but it's a three-phase expansion. The first phase of the project, which was the $30 million dollar behavioral health hospital that we recently opened in the latter part of March [2021], that facility is now open and we're opening that in sections - in various units. The first unit that opened in the tail-end of March is already running consistently full, so probably sometime this summer we'll go to the second unit of that. So phase one was the behavioral health hospital; phase two includes about at $75 million dollar investment

Hilder-Whaaaaaat?? Hildervat! Join Jacob and Leah this week as we meet Dan Woods- founder and creator of Hildervat, the newest race to hit the Florida Beaches! You’ve seen the allstar roster- but have you heard about the axe throwing? This course promises to be fast and nasty with the best of the best fighting in an elimination style bracket! Do you have what it takes to take on the 3 laps of sandy fun? ----------- Got a Review? Want a specific topic this off season? Hit us up on Instagram! We want to hear from the community! @Brosecker @OCRLEAH @thesupercast ----------- As always, This episode was made possible by @VENGACBD. Venga is the best Endurance based CBD oil we have seen on the market made for athletes by athletes. First time users, use code BROCR25 to save 25% off your first order. Repeat customers use code BROCR on check out for 15% off!

If you’ve ever been doing research and needed to find some old documents (old tax records or school records, for example), chances are you make a visit to the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center in Jackson. The center houses documents from every county office and according to their website, they have some of the oldest records in the State of Missouri, dating back to the late 1790s. Dan Woods spoke with Archive Center Director Marybeth Niederkorn and Assistant Lyle Johnston to learn more about the Cape Girardeau County Archive Center .

Southeast Missouri State University was recently awarded as a 2021-2022 Military Friendly Top 10 School and received a gold designation. It recognizes the university’s commitment to increase and improve policies and procedures that benefit veterans and students. Amanda Woods is the Military and Veterans Service Officer at Southeast and Dan Woods spoke with her on the television program, SE Connect to learn more.

And now an update on a story we brought to you late last year. Dr. Jen Bengtson joined us to give us details on a cold case that she and her students in the Department of History and Anthropology at Southeast Missouri State University were working on at the time. We asked her back for an update on that case and what else they were working on. She spoke with Dan Woods on the television program, SE Connect.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment [Josh Long (@starbuxman)](https://twitter.com/starbuxman) talks to Netflixer, Spinnaker continuous delivery platform co-founder, Target distinguished engineer, Biden campaign CTO, RatPack contributor and an all-around epic guy [Dan Woods (@danveloper)](https://twitter.com/danveloper).

Can stock market data be considered music? Investors, stockbrokers and others in the financial industry might think so. Most others would probably say no. Landon Schnurbusch, a senior planning to graduate in May 2021 from Southeast Missouri State University and double major in musical composition and mathematics actuarial science, used a Disklavier piano to compose and program music for his final composition recital using Dow Jones stock market data. Dan Woods spoke with him on the television program, "SE Connect."

On this edition of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR), EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Tara Spalding. Spalding is based in Utah and has extensive experience in enterprise software and startups. She was the VP of marketing at SugarCRM, and is now managing director of Boom Startup Accelerator. Their conversation focuses on startup growth lessons and Spalding’s perspective as an incubator executive in a different environment than is typical for most incubators.

This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio production system.  If you’re looking to upgrade or jumpstart your podcast production please visit www.listendeck.com.  You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Dan Woods, co-founder & CEO of Socotra.  Socotra is a technology platform that builds a cloud-based platform for technology-driven insurers.  Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear Thursdays interview with Michael Serbinis from League About the host:   John, is the host of the  ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin and Million Dollar Startup, a fully remote, high quality pitch competition podcast.   He's also the founder of the remotely recorded, studio quality standardized audio production system ListenDeck.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium

We had kept our eyes on Hildervat's first event last year and they were able to host a successful event during the pandemic! Since their inaugural race was so successful, elites from all over North America have signed up to conquer the Jacksonville Beach Battle on May 22-23!  Show some love to this local OCR by liking them on Facebook, following them on Instagram, and registering for one of their events! 0:00 - 2:22 - Intro 2:22 - 5:47 - Quick News 5:47 - 6:22 - Content Preface 6:22 - 39:25 - Hildervat Interview 39:25 - End - Outro ____ News Stories: Are Savage Obstacles Too Hard? Boston Marathon Virtual Race Medals Orlando and Austin Hyrox Races Ryan Atkins Everest Elevation Ascent Secret Link ____ Related Episodes: Will Hicks had Dan on The OCR Report Last Month ____  The OCR Report Sponsored Athletes: Javier Escobar and Kelly Sullivan! Support us on Patreon for exclusive content and access to our Facebook group For a podcast shirt, send $20 to Katelyn-Ritter-8 on Venmo with your size and address Check out our Threadless Shop Use coupon code "adventure" for 10% off MudGear products Use coupon code "ocrreport20" for 20% off Caterpy products Like us on Facebook: Obstacle Running Adventures Follow our podcast on Instagram: @ObstacleRunningAdventures Write us an email: obstaclerunningadventures@gmail.com Subscribe on Youtube: MStefano Running Intro music - "Streaker" by: Straight Up Outro music - "Iron Paw" by: Dubbest

This episode was produced remotely using the ListenDeck standardized audio production system.  If you’re looking to upgrade or jumpstart your podcast production please visit www.listendeck.com.  You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio. In this episode the host John Siracusa chats remotely with Ted Ross, co-founder & CEO of SpyCloud. SpyCloud is a developer of a prevention platform used to prevent users' accounts and thwart online fraud. It helps businesses of all sizes prevent data breaches and account takeover attacks by alerting when employee or company assets have been compromised. Tune in and Listen. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesdays interview with Dan Woods from Socotra About the host:   John, is the host of the  ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin and Million Dollar Startup, a fully remote, high quality pitch competition podcast.   He's also the founder of the remotely recorded, studio quality standardized audio production system ListenDeck.   Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium

The Southeast Metropolitan Planning Organization (SEMPO) has released the 2021 – 2045 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) for public comment. The MTP is a long-range multimodal transportation plan which will serve to guide regional investments in transportation over the next 20 years for transportation projects in SEMPO’s planning area. The plan is updated every five years. The 2021 – 2045 MTP is available for public viewing on the SEMPO website at . SEMPO's service area. View here . Printed copies are available upon request at Cape Girardeau City Hall, 401 Independence Street, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Jackson City Hall, 101 Court Street, Jackson, Missouri; and Cape Girardeau County Administrative Office, 1 Barton Square, Jackson, Missouri. The public comment period closes on March 16, 2021. To learn more about it, Dan Woods spoke with Alex McElroy. He’s Executive Director of the Southeast Metropolitan Planning Organization.

The 2021 OCR Season starts February 27 and 28 in Jacksonville, Florida. For race results and news updates text OCR to (619) 485-2726 --- Dan Woods is the CEO of Hildervat. Hildervat has established a beachhead (ha!) in OCR with races hosted on beaches and lakes in the southeast U.S. Hildervat makes their 2021 debut on May 22nd at Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The Jacksonville Beach race will host three groups of racers: Open, Elite, and Pro. The Pro Wave is an invitation-only group of six men and six women competing for the biggest prize pool of 2021 so far. Pro Wave athletes announced so far include Lindsay Webster, Nicole Mericle, Rebecca Hammond, and Veejay Jones. More info on Hildervat Non-Alcoholic Craft Beer ---   Review today's show and we will read it on a future episode. --- Want OCR Report Podcast T-Shirts? Visit the merch store at TheOCRreport.threadless.com. The more you buy, the more you GET!  --- Listen here and then follow The OCR Report on Instagram for breaking news updates. --- Text Will at (619) 485-2726 to be notified when new episodes go live or to ask him a question. --- Follow us on Instagram and Facebook.  Don't forget to subscribe and listen for new episodes every week.  

There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about the filibuster in the United States Senate. Republicans want to keep it and most Democrats want to do away with it. A filibuster is used to prevent a measure from being brought to a vote. To break a filibuster, it takes 60 votes which is tough in a 50/50 Senate. If the filibuster remains in place (which looks likely at least for now) will legislation just sit in the Senate in the near-term or will it foster more compromise? Dan Woods spoke with Jason Sides, Associate Professor of Political Science at Southeast Missouri State University.

Vaccinations for COVID-19 are underway in Southeast Missouri. According to the COVID-19 dashboard released by the state of Missouri this week, over 10% of Cape County residents have received the first dose of the vaccine. That compares to 4.7% statewide. To learn more about how vaccine distribution is going in the area, Dan Woods spoke with Maria Sudak Thursday morning, January 28, 2021. Sudak is Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at SoutheastHEALTH. Resources : www.MOStopsCOVID.com SoutheastHEALTH COVID-19 Information Page Centers for Disease Control COVID-19 Information Page

Southeast Missouri State University recently announced a partnership with US Aviation Group and the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport to offer a Professional Pilot Program. Beginning in Fall 2021, students at the university will be able to earn a Bachelor of Science in Professional Pilot. KRCU's Dan Woods spoke with Brad Deken, Chair of the Department of Engineering and Technology at Southeast and Ken Jackson, State Supervisor of Instruction with the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on the television program "SE Connect" to learn more.

This episode of the Designing Enterprise Platforms podcast from Early Adopter Research (EAR) focuses on a topic that is pandemic related. The episode is about the key internal usability metrics for understanding the productivity impact of the pandemic. EAR’s Dan Woods speaks with Brian Berns, the CEO of KNOA, a company that focuses on tracking metrics about the user experience and usability, and they offer a service that tracks users. They’ve noticed a lot of interesting things going on with the workforce during the pandemic.

It's time to travel back to the 1920s and learn what life was life in the Ozarks of Missouri. The Center for Regional History and University Press at Southeast Missouri State University collaborated to produce "Twelve Corners - The Refuge of My Youth." The book of short stories was written by Ruby Allee Wright and gives the reader a glimpse of what life was like in Brumley, Missouri, in the Ozarks in the 1920s. Dan Woods spoke with Dr. Adam Criblez, Director of the Center for Regional History. He said fans of Laura Ingalls Wilder will likely enjoy the book. Criblez said it is available on Amazon by searching "Twelve Corners" and can also be purchased at the Center on the Southeast campus. More information is available at (573) 651-2555.

All links and images for this episode can be found on CISO Series (https://cisoseries.com/defense-in-depth-inherently-vulnerable-by-design/) Much of what we do as practitioners is to prevent inadvertent security problems - oversights, zero-days, etc. What about inherent and unavoidable problems? When the very design of the thing requires a lack of security? What do you do then? Check out this post for the basis for our conversation on this week’s episode which features me, David Spark (@dspark), producer of CISO Series, co-host Allan Alford (@allanalfordintx), and our sponsored guest is Dan Woods, vp of the Shape Intelligence Center, F5. Thanks to this week's podcast sponsor, F5. External threats to your organization’s security are constantly evolving. Your apps need broad and preventive protection from bot attacks that cause large-scale fraud, higher operational costs, and problems for your users. And they need to be optimized for secure operation internally. Silverline Shape Defense helps you stay ahead of cyber threats and fraud. Get a free trial. On this episode of Defense in Depth, you’ll learn: The mere act of conducting business requires you to have certain procedures that would make you vulnerable. Simple things like taking customer information to create user accounts and processing credit cards. That's inherent to doing business, and by opening that up, it makes you vulnerable. A lot of this inherent vulnerability comes down to having users or customers and needing to authenticate them. When you start a business you're also accepting the inherent vulnerability and you have to ask yourself to what level can the business function having that vulnerability abused? It's all about risk appetite. Two factor authentication sure is nice, but there has to be multiple "behind the scenes" authentications going on to verify identity continuously. As you're collecting all these additional data points you can use that information to ask the user to verify. Provide discounts to customers and users for good security practices. Insurance companies do this with people who prove safe driving practices. It could be a win-win for everybody. For example, with Mailchimp, they give you a discount if you enable 2FA. Why not offer a discount for a really long and complicated password? One of the major issues is the password reset process happens through email. Email wasn't designed for critical authentication. Many hacks happen through the reset process via email.

On this episode of Industry Insights, GEMG's Constance Sayers is joined by Dan Woods, vice president at Shape Security, to discuss the importance of application security — and what steps agencies can take to protect their data.

The Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance at Southeast hasn't slowed down during the pandemic. They are still performing, although to smaller crowds to follow CDC guidelines, and are planning for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival next summer. In addition, they have launched a fundraising intiative called "Keeping Live Theatre Alive" which features videos of some of the biggest stars of stage and screen performing a piece that they wrote. Dan Woods spoke with Dr. Kenn Stilson, chair of the Conservatory and Kitt Lavoie, Assistant Professor of Theatre - Acting and Directing.

We all know that the pandemic has changed many facets of daily life. It has also impacted the job market and highlights the importance of a job candidate's online presence. And have you ever heard of "digital dead weight"? Dan Presson is Director of Career Services at Southeast Missouri State University. He spoke with KRCU's Dan Woods about those issues and more on the television program "SE Connect."

Live OCR races are few and far between right now. One exception is the new Hildervat race taking place this weekend at Jacksonville Beach in Florida. We talk with race founder and CEO Dan Woods about this new Viking and Water-based OCR, the struggles of creating something new during these times, and the future plans for Hildervat. For more information on Hildervat go to Hildervat.com --- Welcome to The OCR Report Podcast!  We are the only podcast to focus exclusively on the Elite SPORT side of Obstacle Course Racing. Each week we talk about who won the latest race, who lost, and what that means for next week's race.   ---   The OCR Report Podcast is hosted by Will Hicks, the host of World's Toughest Podcast, and presented by The OCR Report. The OCR Report is home to Overcome and Run with Heather Olson, Obstacle Running Adventures with Mike Stefano and Katelyn Ritter, and OCR Talk with Jason Dupree and Anna Landry and OCR Coven with Kim De Voss.   ---   What do you think of The OCR Report Podcast? Leave us a review and we will read it on a future episode. Subscribe to get new episodes as soon as they are available and find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

Dan Woods spoke with Nathan Bullock. He is the Dean of Extended Learning at Southeast Missouri State University. He shared some of the latest happenings at the university's regional campuses, about a new Learning Management System and more.

The quality of air in the home is critical for all of us but more so for those suffering with asthma. Dr. John Kraemer is the Director of the Institute for Environmental Health Assessment & Patient Centered Outcomes. Kraemer is a professor of biology and environmental science and director of the University’s Center for Environmental Analysis. He has completed research and training related to the identification and management of environmental triggers. He spoke with KRCU's Dan Woods about the work he and his colleagues are doing to help people breathe easier. John Kraemer, Ph. D. Professor/Director of Environmental Science; CEO, Institute for Environmental Health Assessment & Patient Centered Outcomes jkraemer@semo.edu (573) 651-2355

Acts 16:6-14 - King James Version 6 Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7 After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not. 8 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas. 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 10 And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. 11 Therefore loosing from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, and the next day to Neapolis; 12 And from thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days. 13 And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither. 14 And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.

It is Election season and this one has been as unpredictable as any in recent memory with the nomination of a Supreme Court justice before the election and the impact of the pandemic on campaigning and on the debates. It proves to stay unpredictable and to talk about what may be in store -- and specifically the battle for the U.S. Senate, Dan Woods spoke with Dr. Jason Sides, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Southeast Missouri State University.

Episode 16 :: Hildervat: The Ultimate Viking Warrior OCRA wise man once said, "the obstacle is the way," and "what stands in the way becomes the way." As one of the fastest growing sports, Obstacle Course Racing is making athletes around the globe feel like victorious warriors. Maybe you're like the Dudeologists who get bored running in a straight line, maybe you're 4-minute mile guy who revels in competition, maybe you're an OCR junkie or maybe your'e just having a hard time just getting off the couch. The reality is that 2020 has hit the OCR world hard and it's disappointing that so many races have been cancelled, BUT, there is one race, one opportunity to get better, stronger, tougher. It's called The HILDERVAT!Our guest, Dan Woods, talks about his early years as a rescue swimmer in the Navy, training and becoming a triathlete and ultimately his journey into and love for Obstacle Course Racing. All of these things in Dan's life, including challenges and real life obstacles has led him to this very moment when his dream will become a reality; His very own OCR // The HILDERVAT! HILDERVAT was born out of Dan's absolute love and obsession of obstacle course racing. You may be thinking, "What is a Hildervat?" You'll have to listen to the show to find out. What we can tell you is that the Hildervat OCR promises 15+ obstacles over a 5k distance. The Dudeologist also discuss the evolution of the modern man and comforts of society that allow us to be lazy. Don't give yourself the luxury of an excuse. Time to look that comfort zone in the face and challenge yourself to get better. The HILDERVAT OCR may be just what you need to get out of the funk, conquer your fears, crush some goals and grow in confidence with a renewed passion for every aspect of your life. Turn 2020's trials into victory. Boost your confidence and prove to yourself that you can survive any battle, on the course and in life! Don't beat around the bush and wait until you're shape to sign up. Just do it!When: October 24th 2020Registration: www.hildervat.comLocation: 75 1st Street North Jax Beach, FL 32250Approx. 5K distance15+ ObstaclesElite Men Wave 7:30AMElite Women Wave: 7:45AMOpen Division Waves: 8:00AM - 2:00PMFour Person Relay Event Wave: 10:00AM - 11:00AMCome join the party and find your inner Viking Warrior...and maybe even win some prize money! Jax Beach also boasts of many beachfront hotels, restaurants, bars (our favorite, The Really Good Beer Stop) and night life. Mentions: Ryan Woods - https://twitter.com/rjwoodsyGett Itt Core Fitness - The premier OCR training center in NE FL - https://gett-ittcorefitness.com/Class Axe Throwing - https://www.classaxethrowing.com/jacksonville/The Obstacle is the Way - https://www.amazon.com/Obstacle-Way-Timeless-Turning-Triumph/dp/1591846358RiverBend CBD - https://riverbendcbd.com/shop/Check us out on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, GooglePlay and YouTubeMusic

On this episode of FNO: InsureTech, Lee talks with Dan Woods, Founder & CEO of Socotra. Socotra has built a modern, enterprise-grade core platform that enables users to rapidly develop and distribute insurance products to better serve their customers. Leveraging their powerful data model, intuitive suite of APIs, and cloud-native services, they’ve made a robust, scalable, and testable system. Join Dan and Lee as they discuss: the motivation for the creation of Socotra, Socotra’s open-API approach, the specialization and separation of the insurance industry; legacy, siloed systems versus a cohesive core platform, and more.