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Chris Wysopal was one of the first hackers to go public. As "Weld Pond" at the L0pht hacker collective in Boston, he testified before the US Senate in 1998, where the group delivered the soundbite that they could take down the internet in 30 minutes. He also wrote the Windows version of Netcat. In 2006 he co-founded Veracode, which by his account has now analysed trillions of lines of code. Today he's the company's Chief Security Evangelist. Tobi and Chris talk about what AI changes for attackers and defenders. Attacks are getting cheaper and faster, and a custom exploit no longer tells you a nation-state is behind it. Chris argues this follows a familiar cycle: attackers adopt a new class of tool first, defenders catch up, and parity returns. That only holds if defenders actually adopt the tools, especially underfunded organisations like hospitals, schools and utilities. They also cover the new attack surface created by agents, plugins and MCPs, why prompt injection may never be fully solvable, and how Chris would handle security debt when acquiring a small SaaS company. CTOs will leave with a concrete shortlist: avoid memory-unsafe languages, put a package firewall in front of open source, run AI-assisted static analysis with real architectural context, and give coding agents explicit security intent rather than hoping "make it secure" does the job. - From the L0pht and BBS culture to the professional security industry - The BGP flaw behind "30 minutes to take down the internet" - How AI changes the cost and speed of attacks - Prompt injection, agents, MCPs and least privilege - Security debt in B2B SaaS acquisitions - Secure on first write: security intent, context and pre-merge testing - How engineering and security roles change over the next two years

The following article of the Professional Services industry is: 'The Invisible Threat: Securing the Internet of Medical Things' by Guillaume Corpart, Founder & CEO, Global Health Intelligence. 

Send us Fan MailAI can help businesses identify threats faster—but it also introduces new agents, behaviors, conversations, and vulnerabilities that must be secured.Ryan Grant, Country Manager for ESET North America, joins Joey Pinz to explain how cybersecurity is changing as organizations rapidly adopt artificial intelligence. Ryan shares lessons from competitive sports, his first technology role with an MSP, more than two decades at Ingram Micro, and his transition to leading ESET across North America.The conversation examines ESET's updated PROTECT portfolio, including AI agent security, behavioral monitoring, conversation security, MDR, and its combination of artificial intelligence with human oversight. Ryan also reveals why many smaller businesses remain dangerously dependent on basic antivirus protection while overlooking fundamentals such as multifactor authentication, patch management, email security, governance, and continuous monitoring.He explains why MSPs should extend existing cybersecurity frameworks into AI instead of creating an isolated AI practice—and why prevention must receive as much attention as incident response.

Is this movie baaaad, or shear genius? Believe us, you wool be surprised how many biblical themes emerge from this fluffy family film featuring Hugh Jackman and a surprising flock of voice actors. Join us as James discusses the biblical parallels with sheep and shepherd and the film's controversial view of religion, which may depend on how ewe look at it.  Chapters: 00:00 - Intro & Welcome 01:27 - Popcorn Theology Ratings 02:55 - Subscribe, Share, Support 03:43 - SPOILERS! Popcorn Thoughts 08:32 - Ads 10:00 - Shepherd & Sheep: a Biblical View 13:20 - Choosing Ignorance 18:28 - Securing a flock's future 20:19 - Atheist View of Religion? 24:46 - Sebastian's Transcendent Truth 30:13 - Inability to Gain Eternity 31:34 - Until Next Time… Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE and click the notification bell. Follow & connect: https://linktr.ee/popcorntheology Support: https://www.patreon.com/popcorntheology Rate and review to get 2 FREE Popcorn Theology Stickers! Write a 5-star review and send a screenshot, along with your mailing address, to feedback@popcorntheology.com, and you'll receive 2 FREE stickers! iTunes link here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/popcorn-theology/id990110281  #sheepdetectives #hughjackman #ThreeBagFull #FaithAndFilm #MoviePodcast #FilmReview #ChristianPodcast #MediaLiteracy #ReformedTheology #christianmoviereview Intro Music by Ross Bugden: https://youtu.be/Bln0BEv5AJ0?si=vZx_YiHK3hNxaETA

On this episode of Your Next Mission® video podcast, host 12th SMA (R) Jack L. Tilley sits down with Captain (R) William S. "Bill" White, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Life Distribution at USAA. They discuss critical steps for Military Families to take regarding financial wellness, retirement planning, and life insurance.Captain White shares insights from his 25 years as a Naval officer and his time at USAA to provide actionable advice for transitioning Servicemembers, Veterans and their Families. The conversation highlights the three big questions to answer before leaving the service and the importance of securing life insurance when you are young and healthy. Additionally, the episode covers mental health support, buddy checks, and building community connections.

In this episode of The Crop Science Podcast Show, Kip Tom, Chairman of Tom Farms and Chairman of Farmers and Rural America at the America First Policy Institute, explains why food security depends on resilient domestic supply chains, digital infrastructure, innovation, and profitable farms. He discusses fertilizer and crop protection dependencies, AI in agriculture, workforce and capital challenges, and the need to balance healthier food systems with multiple farming models. Listen now on all major platforms!"Never put your short-term prosperity ahead of your long-term security."Meet the guest: Kip Tom is Chairman of Tom Farms and Chairman of Farmers and Rural America at the America First Policy Institute. His work connects agricultural production, business leadership, and policy, with a focus on strengthening American agriculture, improving competitiveness, and supporting food security. Hear Kip Tom share perspectives on innovation, agricultural resilience, and the future of farming on The Crop Science Podcast Show, available on all major platforms.Liked this one? Don't stop now — Here's what we think you'll love!What you will learn:(00:00) Highlight(01:38) Introduction(05:04) Farm growth and specialty crops(08:31) U.S. agriculture globally(15:15) Food security risks(19:52) Supply chain weaknesses(23:48) Farming challenges(39:38) Final questionsThe Crop Science Podcast Show is trusted and supported by innovative companies like:- The Owner's Box- Elevate- WiseVAs- ZentrixOS- Zentrix Insights

Ritika brings eight years of cybersecurity experience together with hands-on work in LLM security, GenAI applications, AI red teaming, RAG security, and agentic AI risk. Today, her work at the Institute for Security and Technology focuses on emerging AI security risks and translating technical findings into practical approaches to risk management and governance.We explore what changes when AI isn't simply another technology organizations need to protect but becomes a new attack surface capable of accessing data, using tools, interacting with systems, and taking action.Key Highlights:How prompt injection, jailbreaks, adversarial attacks, and other emerging vulnerabilities challenge traditional cybersecurity approaches.What changes when AI systems gain access to tools, data, applications, and the ability to act autonomously.Where vulnerabilities can emerge across retrieval, proprietary data, model interactions, and enterprise GenAI pipelines.Why testing AI systems requires new offensive security techniques and what organizations should actually be testing.How AI can also help defenders automate vulnerability management, compliance, detection, and remediation.Understanding how increasingly autonomous AI systems introduce new questions around monitoring, containment, governance, and human oversight.

Every AI agent a health system deploys is a new identity with standing access to clinical and financial systems, and most security programs were not built for a non-human workforce. As agents multiply, identity becomes the control plane, and leaders have to govern machine access with the same rigor they apply to people, before an auditor or attacker does it for them. But no identity program stops everything, and the systems that recover fastest treat resiliency as the other half of the same discipline: immutable backups that survive the attack, tested recovery playbooks, segmentation that contains the blast, and third-party risk that does not become an outage. This session covers both, how machine access gets provisioned, revoked, and governed, and how care comes back online in days rather than weeks when prevention fails anyway.Put a model to work for governing non-human identities with the same discipline you apply to clinical staffImplement zero trust built around real clinical workflow instead of bolted on after deploymentSee where standing agent access creates exposure most systems have not mapped, and adopt the backup and recovery architecture that holds if it gets exploited anywayKnow the security, audit, and recovery terms to require from any vendor shipping agents or infrastructure into your environmentUnderstand what a tested recovery playbook includes that an untested one misses, and how segmentation contains the blast so one breach does not take down the enterpriseBen Smith, CISSP, Strategic Agentic Technology Specialist, SailpointMegan Antonelli, Chief Executive Officer, HealthIMPACT Live Subscribe to Digital Health Talks on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you listen.Learn more about HealthIMPACT Live events, virtual forums, and healthcare leader conversations at healthimpactlive.com.Interested in being a guest, sponsoring, or joining the HealthIMPACT community? Visit healthimpactlive.com/digital-health-talks.

This transcript from the Ciber Afterwork radio program features experts discussing the evolving role of data as a strategic asset in the era of artificial intelligence. Guests Sergio Padilla of the Bank of Spain and Nuria Andrés from Zscaler emphasize that effective data governance and cyber resilience are now essential for organizational survival. The conversation highlights how cybercriminals are becoming more professionalized, utilizing AI to launch sophisticated attacks like subscription bombing and geopolitical cyber warfare. Beyond corporate security, the speakers advocate for a paradigm shift where personal data is recognized as a fundamental human right rooted in individual dignity. The dialogue concludes by urging both companies and individuals to take greater responsibility for their digital footprints in an increasingly complex threat landscape. Twitter: @ciberafterwork Instagram: @ciberafterwork Panda Security: https://www.pandasecurity.com/es/ +info: https://psaneme.com/ https://bitlifemedia.com/ https://www.vapasec.com/ VAPASEC https://www.vapasec.com/ https://www.vapasec.com/webprotection/

Robert Smallwood speaks with cybersecurity and data privacy expert Michael Esola about the growing need for practical AI governance. Michael shares insights from his new book, Governance at the Speed of Autonomy, and introduces the CORE framework—Context, Oversight, Responsibility, and Elasticity—for managing the risks of AI and agentic AI.They discuss shadow AI, data-loss prevention, audit readiness, critical infrastructure risks, and how quantum computing may reshape cybersecurity. The episode also previews Michael's upcoming sessions at the AI Governance World Conference in Las Vegas, where he will explore AI governance, cybersecurity, and data privacy in greater depth.

All links and images can be found on CISO Series Check out this post for the discussion that is the basis of our conversation on this week's episode co-hosted by me, David Spark, the producer of CISO Series, and Steve Zalewski. Joining us is our sponsored guest, Abby Kearns, CEO, ActiveState. In this episode: Trust, but nobody verifies The economics of trust just changed Implicit trust doesn't scale anymore Rethinking what "open" even means A huge thanks to our sponsor, ActiveState ActiveState gives security and engineering teams a single governed source for open source software. With 79 million components built from source, continuously remediated, and delivered directly into the tools teams already use, ActiveState eliminates the CVE backlog and the developer toil that comes with it. Companies see a 60 to 99% reduction in CVEs and reclaim up to 30% of developer time. Learn more at activestate.com.

Tanner Dane hops in the car while parked in Wicker Park to talk about turning a canceled summer tour into one of the most exciting grassroots live music movements in Chicago. After his initial plans fell through, Tanner took matters into his own hands, launching spontaneous, pop-up Tuesday night acoustic performances along the Chicago lakefront, eventually settling in near the AIDS Garden. What began as an effort to get back to the basics exploded across TikTok, drawing massive crowds, the attention of Chicago Park District officials, and even an encounter with the police that ended with a citation, a complimentary officer, and pro-bono lawyers stepping in to help. In this episode, we cover: Building community through lakefront pop-ups and leveraging TikTok to connect directly with fans. Transitioning from his band Hollyy into a deeply personal solo project. Collaborating with Chicago rock veterans Scott Lucas (Local H), Blake Smith (Fig Dish, Caviar), and drummer Jason Batchko. The inspiration behind the post-breakup single "Hardest Lessons Learned". Growing up on Stax, Motown, and classic soul records. Securing a major label record deal and gearing up for his first ticketed, headline hometown show at Schubas on November 5. Sponsor Spotlight: Exploding House Printing Exploding House Printing is here for all of your screen printing, embroidery, and other merchandising needs. They are local, headquartered in the heart of Hermosa. If you are a band, an artist, a small business, or a brand, they can handle your t-shirts and merch from top to bottom. Jonathan at Exploding House has been screen printing for decades and brings boutique print shop quality at large print shop prices. Check out their work on Instagram at @explodinghouse, or visit explodinghouseprinting.com to request a quote.  

Our Law mini-series is back for the autumn term and in our first episode we're focusing on securing a vacation placement. In our Law mini-series podcast, our Law Employability and Careers Consultants; Rachel, Tess and Sunny, talk to experienced professionals from both legal and non-legal sectors to hear their career experiences and advice.    In this episode, Tess is joined by current Law student Nando Rodriguez, who shares his journey in successfully applying for a place on the vacation scheme at Trowers and Hamlins LLP.  Nando shares what the application process involved including how much time it took, and how the Career Mentor Scheme along with the Career Zone helped with networking opportunities. Nando also shares his top tips for students wanting to go into to law.  In addition to this episode you can find more information to help with career planning here; University of Exeter Career Zone , My Career Zone, Law and legal services: Information for Law and Non-Law Students , Employability for Law Students and The Law School.    

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For review:1.  Argentine President Javier Milei attacks the UN in a speech to the world body's General Assembly, calling it a “useless organization” filled with “arrogant parasites.” 2. President Donald Trump said Cuba was a failed state and freedom ​would be coming to the island nation in a UN address on Tuesday that ‌increased tensions with the Communist-run government. 3. Iran and the United States hinted on Tuesday at the prospect of reviving negotiations to end the months-old war, with a senior Iranian official suggesting that the Strait of Hormuz could soon be reopened, as the presidents of both countries were due at the UN General Assembly in New York. 4.  Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa held out the possibility of peace with Israel in a speech to the United Nations on Wednesday, while sharply criticizing Israeli military activity in Syria and vowing that Damascus would not relinquish its claim to the Golan Heights. 5.  Responding to Syrian President Ahmed Sharaa's insistence that the Golan Heights are Syrian territory, Defense Minister Israel Katz says that the strategic plateau in the northeast is “an integral, eternal part of Israel,” and that the IDF will not withdraw from a buffer zone it has held in Syria since Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's ouster in 2024. 6.  On Monday, the UK and France said they would provide defensive assistance to Saudi Arabia, which the Houthis have repeatedly struck during the renewed conflict. 7. US Invites Russian President Putin to December G20 Summit in Miami.

Podcast: The Green Insider, powered by ERENEWABLE Host: Mike Nemer, CEO of ERENEWABLE Guest: Jonathan Pollet, Founder & Executive Director at Red Tiger Security Episode Summary What happens when cyber threats move beyond the digital realm and target our essential physical resources? In July 2026, a coordinated cyberattack compromised over 100 U.S. water and wastewater systems across 12 states, forcing facilities into emergency manual operations and exposing critical gaps in municipal infrastructure security. In this episode of The Green Insider, host Mike Nemer sits down with Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and Operational Technology (OT) cybersecurity pioneer Jonathan Pollet. With over 25 years in the field, Jonathan unpacks the root vulnerabilities that leave municipal utilities exposed, contrasts physical security with digital defenses, and provides actionable pathways for municipal water boards and critical infrastructure operators to protect their systems without breaking the bank. Key Takeaways The Vulnerability Void: Smaller municipal utilities and co-ops frequently rely on advisory boards and third-party contractors, resulting in an absence of dedicated in-house IT and cybersecurity oversight. Physical vs. Cyber Gap: While water facilities often feature robust physical protections (fences, locks, cameras, and dispatch alarms), their digital perimeter is frequently left unprotected—exposing SCADA and HMI systems directly to the internet. Real-Time Defense on a Budget: Securing critical assets does not require millions in capital expenditure; deploying low-cost, next-generation firewalls linked to a Managed Security Operations Center (SOC) provides real-time threat protection and visibility at a fraction of the cost. Speed of Defense: Cyber defense must move at machine speed rather than human speed—utilizing automated signature updates as global threats propagate in real time. Enjoyed the Episode? If you find this episode insightful, please leave a 5-star rating and review wherever you get your Podcast from! Don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode on sustainability, renewable energy, and critical infrastructure. TheGreenInsider #CriticalInfrastructure #Cybersecurity #OTSecurity #ICSSecurity #SCADASecurity #WaterSecurity #MunicipalUtilities #IndustrialCybersecurity #ManagedSOC #CyberDefense #InfrastructureResilience #RenewableEnergy #Sustainability #RedTigerSecurity The post Episode 340: Securing Our Critical Infrastructure with Jonathan Pollet appeared first on eRENEWABLE.

Before anyone reimagines the software lifecycle for agents, someone has to secure the place all that code lands. Entire CEO Thomas Dohmke, formerly CEO of GitHub, and Apiiro co-founder and CEO Idan Plotnik see the same problem from opposite ends of the pipeline: agents now write, review, test and deploy the code, and nobody reads it.This week on Dev Interrupted, they join Andrew to argue that the fix is context, injected before the prompt through hooks and captured afterward as session logs committed next to the code. Idan puts numbers on the perfect storm of agents shipping more code as Mythos scans surface 10x the vulnerabilities, while Thomas makes the case that code is the what and the session log is the why. They close the conversation on why every pull request needs a business owner, not just a code owner. Save your seat: Sustaining engineering health through your AI transformationFollow the show:Subscribe to our Substack Follow us on LinkedInSubscribe to our YouTube ChannelFollow the hosts:Follow AndrewFollow BenFollow DanFollow today's guest:Entire: https://entire.io/Entire CLI (open source): https://github.com/entireio/cliApiiro: https://apiiro.com/Apiiro Guardian Agent: https://apiiro.com/blog/introducing-apiiro-guardian-agent/JPMorgan's Patchmageddon report: https://privatebank.jpmorgan.com/nam/en/insights/latest-and-featured/eotm/patchmageddonConnect with Thomas: LinkedIn | Twitter/XConnect with Idan: LinkedInOFFERSStart Free Trial: Get started with LinearB's AI productivity platform for free.Book a Demo: Learn how you can ship faster, improve DevEx, and lead with confidence in the AI era.LEARN ABOUT LINEARBAI Code Reviews: Automate reviews to catch bugs, security risks, and performance issues before they hit production.AI & Productivity Insights: Go beyond DORA with AI-powered recommendations and dashboards to measure and improve performance.AI-Powered Workflow Automations: Use AI-generated PR descriptions, smart routing, and other automations to reduce developer toil.MCP Server: Interact with your engineering data using natural language to build custom reports and get answers on the fly.

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In this episode, Sahil Agarwal talks about the critical challenges of identity, authorisation, and security in the age of AI agents. Sahil introduces the DPACT framework (Delegation, Policy, Auditability, Context, and Time) as a blueprint for building responsible, guardrailed agentic systems, moving away from simple token-based access toward bounded, delegated authority. Read a transcript of this interview: https://bit.ly/3VuM8TJ Newsletter: Subscribe to the Software Architects' Newsletter, a monthly roundup of the patterns and technologies senior practitioners are working through, with the news and lessons from people doing the work: www.infoq.com/software-architects-newsletter InfoQ Online Certification Programs: 5-week online cohorts for senior engineers and architects, built around QCon talks. Programs now cover software architecture, AI engineering, and organizational architecture. Each week you join a four-hour live session with a confidential peer group of practitioners from other companies, apply frameworks from QCon talks to the decisions you're making at work, and earn an InfoQ certification. You leave with new approaches, or confirmation that the calls you're already making are the right ones. Learn more: certification.qconferences.com/ Upcoming Events: QCon San Francisco 2026 (November 16-20, 2026) qconsf.com/ QCon London 2027 (April 13-16, 2027) qconlondon.com/ The InfoQ Podcasts: Weekly conversations with senior software leaders about how they build systems and teams, including what they'd do differently. Listen to all our podcasts and read interview transcripts: The InfoQ Podcast: www.infoq.com/podcasts/ Engineering Culture Podcast by InfoQ: www.infoq.com/podcasts/#engineering_culture Generally AI: www.infoq.com/generally-ai-podcast/ Follow InfoQ: Mastodon: techhub.social/@infoq X: x.com/InfoQ LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/infoq/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/InfoQdotcom Instagram: www.instagram.com/infoqdotcom/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/infoq Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/infoq.com Write for InfoQ: Share what you've learned building software with a community of senior practitioners, and get your work in front of the people who read InfoQ. www.infoq.com/write-for-infoq

Jonathan Rende of Checkmarx on why the model writing your code cannot also be the control that validates it, and why rules-based and AI-driven scanning turn out to find almost entirely different bugs.In this episode I sit down with Jonathan Rende of Checkmarx. Jonathan worked with Fortify and SPI Dynamics back in the day, spent most of the last decade leading product teams in developer and DevOps tooling, and came back to security eighteen months ago because, as he puts it, this is the heart of the hurricane. His argument is that AI is a bigger disruption than the internet, SaaS, or mobile were, not because of any single capability, but because it hits roles, process, and productivity all at once.We get into the two waves he has watched play out with CISOs and their CEOs, why the pendulum has swung back toward program and posture questions in the last quarter, what his research team found when they benchmarked deterministic and probabilistic scanning side by side, and why he thinks agentic AppSec raises the profile of the security team rather than automating it away.In this episode:● Why the first half of 2026 became a real inflection point rather than another AI talking point● The two waves: engineering told to run at any cost, then the pendulum swinging back toward posture and program design● Why functional AI-generated code and secure AI-generated code are still two different things● Separation of church and state, and the conflict of interest in letting the model that generates code also validate it● Benchmarking deterministic and AI-based scanning across dozens of open source projects, and why the overlap stayed consistently under 10%● Fidelity, F1 scores, and the absence of real standards or shared benchmarks in AppSec● Why an incentive to reduce risk and an incentive to sell tokens are not the same incentive● Why agents free AppSec professionals for higher-order work, and why this is not a dark factory● Shadow IT becoming shadow AI, and early scans where half surfaced models, agents, and MCP servers security teams did not know existed● Why new threat vectors show up first in fast-moving unregulated companies while regulated ones see more code-level issues● Low-priority vulnerabilities chained into real impact, and why backlogs now matter as much as incoming code● What to change first: metrics defined up front, in-workflow AppSec, and security reviews that went from annual to monthlyChapters:0:00 Intro0:18 Fortify, SPI Dynamics, and a decade in developer tooling1:24 Why he came back to AppSec2:54 Why the first half of 2026 was the inflection point5:27 Two waves, and the pendulum swinging back9:08 Functional AI code versus secure AI code11:58 Layered defense and the condensed lifecycle15:04 What agents free AppSec teams to actually do17:50 Separation of church and state20:15 Fidelity, F1 scores, and not selling tokens23:25 New threat vectors and organizational maturity25:47 Shadow AI and what the inventory scans found27:58 What to change first in your AppSec program30:44 ClosingConnect with Jonathan:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathanrende/Checkmarx: https://checkmarx.comResilient Cyber: https://www.resilientcyber.ioSubscribe for more conversations with security practitioners and leaders.#appsec #aisecurity #devsecops #shadowai #vulnerabilitymanagement #ciso

Securing financial aid and scholarships for college has become increasingly complex due to major structural overhauls in federal processing systems. WB Nathan Tweedie, is a Student Financial Services professional at the State University of New York. He joins us to dissect the modern financial aid landscape. Bro. Nathan shares the critical pitfalls families must avoid, the exact questions parents need to ask institutional financial aid offices, and how local Lodges can optimize their community outreach with education gifts and awards.Note: Enjoy this week's Subscriber Extra Epsiode (on Thursday) with WB Tweedie as a "thank you" from Craftsmen Online!Show notes and links: Join us on Patreon. Start your FREE seven day trial to the Craftsmen Online Podcast and get instant access to our bonus content! Whether it's a one time donation or you become a Patreon Subscriber, we appreciate your support.Visit the Craftsmen Online website to learn more about the Craftsmen Online Reading Room, New York Masonic History, and our Masonic Education blog!Follow the Craftsmen Online Podcast on Spotify.Subscribe to the Craftsmen Online Podcast on Apple Podcasts.Follow Craftsmen Online on YouTube, hit subscribe and get notified of new recordings!Yes, we're on Instagram.Get our latest announcements and important updates in your inbox with the Craftsmen Online Newsletter.Email the host, RW Michael Arce. Yes, we will read your email and may even reach out to be a guest on a future episode!Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/craftsmen-online-podcast--4822031/support.

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Taylor Cheeseman joins TBD to explain how the Children's Home Network evolved from taking abandoned children off Tampa's streets in 1892 to providing foster care, behavioral health, family support, special-needs services, and interventions designed to stop families from reaching crisis.00:00 Intro01:19 Carrie Hammersley's 1892 founding05:10 From orphanage to cottage care15:47 Securing the Memorial Highway campus24:31 Specialized residential programs today26:50 Community-based prevention programs30:26 Navigating complex public funding52:07 Public scrutiny of nonprofits1:00:05 Private sector's moral obligation1:08:38 Future plans and getting involved

Schopp and Bulldog broadcast live from Wings Flights of Hope to celebrate the Buffalo Bills' regular-season debut at their brand-new stadium against the Detroit Lions. They discuss the shift in betting lines, the expected crowd noise under the new canopy, and the long-term stability this venue provides for the franchise. The conversation also highlights Ralph Wilson's legacy and the festive local atmosphere surrounding the home opener.(00:01:00) Tailgate at Wings Flights(00:04:44) Ronald McDonald Fan Sightings(00:08:21) Bills vs Lions Betting(00:11:39) New Stadium Noise Levels(00:20:31) Securing the Bills Legacy

Critical minerals form the foundation of modern defense and commercial technologies, from fighter aircraft and missile systems to satellites, batteries, and advanced electronics. As global supply chains remain vulnerable to disruption and critical mineral processing remains concentrated overseas, securing reliable access to these materials has become an increasingly important challenge for the U.S. industrial base.In this episode of Emerging Tech Horizons, Dr. Arun Seraphin speaks with Brett Lambert, Executive Chairman of VaultCo and Managing Director of the Densmore Group, about the effort to strengthen U.S. access to critical minerals. They discuss Lambert's experience shaping manufacturing and industrial policy at the Pentagon, the creation of Project Vault and VaultCo, and how a public-private approach can help address vulnerabilities across critical mineral supply chains.Key topics include:- How critical mineral dependencies can create vulnerabilities across the defense and commercial industrial base.- How VaultCo's demand-driven model is designed to create a strategic “stock buffer” of critical minerals and connect industry demand with available supply.- The differences between VaultCo's approach and traditional government stockpiles, and how it complements other federal efforts to strengthen critical mineral supply chains.- Why expanding domestic and allied processing capacity will be essential to building a more resilient industrial base, and how government and private-sector investments can work together to address these challenges.NDIA Emerging Technologies Institute: https://www.ndiaeti.orgBe sure to follow us on social media for updates, early access to upcoming events, inside scoops, & more:LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/4htROo0Twitter: https://bit.ly/48LHAx3Facebook: https://bit.ly/47vlht8And for more podcasts, articles, & publications covering all things emerging tech, visit: ndiaeti.org#CriticalMinerals #DefenseIndustrialBase #SupplyChain #NationalSecurity #EmergingTechnology

Bongani Bingwa speaks to Keri-Lee Edmond, Head of Business Intelligence at Old Mutual Corporate about retirement security, the six levers shaping retirement outcomes, financial pressures and the role of employers and retirement funds. 702 Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa is broadcast on 702, a Johannesburg based talk radio station. Bongani makes sense of the news, interviews the key newsmakers of the day, and holds those in power to account on your behalf. The team bring you all you need to know to start your day Thank you for listening to a podcast from 702 Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa Listen live on Primedia+ weekdays from 06:00 and 09:00 (SA Time) to Breakfast with Bongani Bingwa broadcast on 702: https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj For more from the show go to https://buff.ly/36edSLV or find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/zEcM35T Subscribe to the 702 Daily and Weekly Newsletters https://buff.ly/v5mfetc Follow us on social media: 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/Radio702 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio7See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While agents and LLMs haven't fundamentally changed core mobile vulnerability types, they have supercharged speed, scale, and accessibility—democratizing threats like automated phishing, synthetic identity fraud, and easier identification of hard-coded secrets. Ryan Lloyd and Jason Cortlund break down how threat actors leverage LLMs as a force multiplier to accelerate mobile app attacks. Then we discuss actionable defense strategies, from viewing agents as an active adversary to leveraging server-side threat telemetry, attestation, and layered defense strategies combined with polymorphic code releases. This segment is sponsored by Guardsquare. Visit https://securityweekly.com/guardsquare to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-400

Preparing to hire a high-level fundraiser or campaign manager for your capital campaign? The person you actually need may have a very different job description. In this episode of All About Capital Campaigns, Amy Eisenstein and Andrea Kihlstedt challenge a common assumption about capital campaign staffing and explain how nonprofits can expand their capacity without necessarily adding another senior development professional.The conversation begins with the story of Jersey Community Hospital, a small organization serving a community of approximately 25,000 people. When the organization first approached Capital Campaign Pro, it was considering a $2 million campaign. It ultimately raised more than $5 million while adding just one part-time staff member.That does not mean nonprofits should attempt a campaign without sufficient staff. Instead, Amy and Andrea argue that organizations should think carefully about which responsibilities require senior-level expertise and which can be handled by a capable administrative or development support professional.Capital campaigns require two distinct kinds of help. The first is campaign-specific expertise: strategy, planning, guidance, training, and support from someone who has worked through many campaigns. The second is execution on the ground, including scheduling donor meetings, entering data, preparing reports, managing follow-up, sending acknowledgments, and keeping countless campaign details organized.Many organizations assume they should hire a campaign manager or major gift officer to take over the most important donor relationships. But those relationships usually belong to people who are already part of the organization. The executive director, development director, board chair, founder, and other organizational leaders know the donors, understand the community, and have the credibility required to secure the campaign's largest gifts.That matters because capital campaign fundraising is highly concentrated. Successful campaigns are often made or broken by approximately 20 leadership gifts. Securing those gifts is not a broad-based fundraising exercise. Each prospective donor requires an individual strategy involving identification, cultivation, engagement, solicitation, and follow-up.The right administrative support can free an organization's existing leaders to spend more time with those donors. Other responsibilities, such as grant writing, event planning, or elements of the annual fund, may also be delegated, streamlined, or outsourced during the campaign.Amy and Andrea also address the anxiety many executive directors and development professionals feel about personally leading major gift conversations. Most nonprofit leaders have never raised money at the level their campaign will require. That is where an experienced capital campaign consultant can provide strategy, training, coaching, and the perspective gained from working through many different campaign situations.Listen to learn how to evaluate your existing team, identify the gaps that could interfere with campaign execution, and hire strategically so that your most experienced leaders can concentrate on the donor work that will determine whether your campaign succeeds.Need help determining whether your nonprofit is prepared to staff and launch a capital campaign? Schedule a free introductory call: https://capitalcampaignpro.com/start/Find more episodes of All About Capital Campaigns:https://capitalcampaignpro.com/category/podcast/Subscribe to @CapitalCampaignPro for practical capital campaign guidance, fundraising strategies, and major gift advice.#Fundraising #Nonprofit #MajorGifts #CapitalCampaign

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While agents and LLMs haven't fundamentally changed core mobile vulnerability types, they have supercharged speed, scale, and accessibility—democratizing threats like automated phishing, synthetic identity fraud, and easier identification of hard-coded secrets. Ryan Lloyd and Jason Cortlund break down how threat actors leverage LLMs as a force multiplier to accelerate mobile app attacks. Then we discuss actionable defense strategies, from viewing agents as an active adversary to leveraging server-side threat telemetry, attestation, and layered defense strategies combined with polymorphic code releases. This segment is sponsored by Guardsquare. Visit https://securityweekly.com/guardsquare to learn more about them! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-400

While agents and LLMs haven't fundamentally changed core mobile vulnerability types, they have supercharged speed, scale, and accessibility—democratizing threats like automated phishing, synthetic identity fraud, and easier identification of hard-coded secrets. Ryan Lloyd and Jason Cortlund break down how threat actors leverage LLMs as a force multiplier to accelerate mobile app attacks. Then we discuss actionable defense strategies, from viewing agents as an active adversary to leveraging server-side threat telemetry, attestation, and layered defense strategies combined with polymorphic code releases. This segment is sponsored by Guardsquare. Visit https://securityweekly.com/guardsquare to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-400

While agents and LLMs haven't fundamentally changed core mobile vulnerability types, they have supercharged speed, scale, and accessibility—democratizing threats like automated phishing, synthetic identity fraud, and easier identification of hard-coded secrets. Ryan Lloyd and Jason Cortlund break down how threat actors leverage LLMs as a force multiplier to accelerate mobile app attacks. Then we discuss actionable defense strategies, from viewing agents as an active adversary to leveraging server-side threat telemetry, attestation, and layered defense strategies combined with polymorphic code releases. This segment is sponsored by Guardsquare. Visit https://securityweekly.com/guardsquare to learn more about them! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-400

Interview Highlights:   The Scale of LSU Security: Sumit Jan's 14-person team protects roughly 20,000 endpoints, 6,000 servers, and over 100,000 users across LSU's identity management, incident response, and ERP security. Unlike a single corporation, LSU functions like a multi-company organization—academics, research, athletics, and community relations all require different, case-by-case security approaches rather than one uniform policy. Goodbye Mainframe: LSU fully retired its legacy mainframe system in 2025, migrating student records, registration, and grades to Workday, alongside a parallel move to Okta for identity and access management just 30 days later. Shifting to SaaS platforms like Workday reduces institutional risk by providing built-in redundancy and backups, versus the fragility of aging on-campus legacy hardware. Born From the Ransomware Wave: A surge of ransomware attacks on higher-ed institutions nationally pushed LSU to partner with the Board of Regents and GOHSEP to build a shared Security Operations Center (SOC) model in 2022–2023. A Student-Powered SOC: LSU's SOC, run through LONI, now supports 34 public higher-ed institutions statewide, staffing students 8-to-5 while a private partner covers nights, weekends, and holidays. TigerSOC Expands the Model: A second SOC, TigerSOC, has LSU students working as subcontractors for Atlanta-based Techstream, gaining real-world experience securing casino, healthcare, and banking clients—complete with federal background checks where required. Strong Job Outcomes: Nearly all graduating SOC analyst students land security jobs at or before graduation, often earning more within a year or two than LSU can pay a starting analyst. Open to Any Major: Jan intentionally recruits beyond computer science, arguing critical thinking matters more than a technical background—psychology, sociology, and engineering majors all bring valuable cross-disciplinary perspective to security analysis.

Brian and Aaron interview Gavriel Cohen, co-founder and CEO of Nanoco and creator of the open-source agent framework NanoClaw, about securing AI agents in enterprise environments. Cohen shares how he built NanoClaw after discovering major security and safety gaps while using agents for an AI native marketing agency, and how the project grew to over 30,000 GitHub stars and over half a million downloads. They discuss why Fortune 500s, financial institutions, universities, and government groups feel urgent pressure to adopt agents but are blocked by control, privacy, and security concerns. Cohen outlines a zero-trust approach using microVM isolation, no credentials inside agent environments, a policy-enforcing gateway with granular controls, audit logs, cost attribution, and human-in-the-loop approvals at key decision points.SHOW: 1062SHOW TRANSCRIPT: The Enterprise AI Show #1062 TranscriptSHOW VIDEO: https://youtu.be/h906EEQSRs8SHOW LINKS:NanoClaw on GitHubNanoCo homepageTechCrunch: The wild six weeks for NanoClaw's creator that led to a deal with DockerThe New Stack: Gavriel Cohen found his own code inside OpenClaw, so he walked awayOpenAI: The Hugging Face incident and the road aheadSHOW SPONSORS:Nasuni - Activate your data for AI and request a demoNordLayer - Use ENTERPRISE10 for 10% offGUEST BIO:Gavriel Cohen is co-founder and CEO of NanoCo, and creator of NanoClaw, the open-source agent harness he built as a small, auditable, secure alternative to OpenClaw. He spent a decade as a developer and team lead at Wix before building NanoClaw in a weekend, a project that has since drawn a Docker integration and an outside security review. He holds a BSc in Physics and Computer Science from Tel Aviv University.FEEDBACK?Email: show @ the enterprise ai show dot comBluesky: @TheEntAIShow.bsky.socialTwitter/X: @TheEntAIShowInstagram: @TheEntAIShow

As enterprises hand production access to autonomous AI agents, identity — not the network perimeter — is becoming the real control plane. In this episode, Brandon Krieger talks with Ev Kontsevoy, Co-Founder and CEO of Teleport, about securing access for humans, machines, and AI agents alike. Ev traces his path from co-founding Mailgun (acquired by Rackspace) to launching Teleport in 2015 and building it into a $1.1 billion company that pioneered Infrastructure Identity and, in 2026, launched Beams — trusted, isolated runtimes that give AI agents their own identity and governance in production.Topics include:From Mailgun founder to CEO of a $1.1B infrastructure-identity companyWhy traditional access models like VPNs and shared credentials break under AI agentsWhat 'Infrastructure Identity' means for humans, machines, and agentsHow Beams isolates and governs AI agents in productionWhat security leaders should ask before their next agent deploymentGuest: Ev Kontsevoy — CEO & Co-Founder, TeleportHost: Brandon Krieger — CEO & vCISO AdvisorWatch Full Episode: https://www.youtube.com/BrandonKriegerListen: https://www.DailyCyber.ca

Empowering non-technical users to build production-grade applications requires a proactive, secure-by-design architecture. In this episode, Ashish sits down with Marcus Hallberg and Samuel Kelemen, security engineers at the AI software creation platform Lovable, to discuss how they actively secure AI-generated code and protect creators from supply chain risks.Focusing on solutions rather than alarmism, Marcus and Samuel detail their response to an incident where malicious contractors mimicked AI agent commits. They outline their multi-layered defense strategy: securing a predefined tech stack, utilizing integrated security scanners, and tuning coding agents with strict guardrails to ensure secure output by default. The conversation also covers the evolution of the shared responsibility model in the AI era, the critical importance of foundational hygiene like Git commit signing, and the necessary transition from local "YOLO mode" to secure, sandboxed agent environments. Discover how platforms can leverage AI not just to write code, but to actively assist users in finding and resolving security issues through concepts like "CISO agents."Guest Socials -⁠⁠ ⁠Marcus's Linkedin + Samuel's Linkedin Podcast Twitter - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@CloudSecPod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:-⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Podcast- Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠- ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cloud Security Newsletter ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠If you are interested in AI Security, you can check out our sister podcast -⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ AI Security Podcast(00:00) Introduction to Securing AI App Builders(02:00) Marcus & Samuel's Backgrounds and Roles at Lovable(04:30) Empowering Non-Technical Users to Build 40 Million Apps(08:30) Securing Predefined Tech Stacks and Tuning Coding Agents(11:00) Managing Trust When Customers Hire External Contractors(14:00) Addressing Supply Chain Risks with Synced GitHub Repositories(17:30) Educating Users and Developing "CISO Agents" for Support(24:00) Analyzing the Attack: How Threat Actors Mimicked Agent Commits(31:00) The Importance of Basic Hygiene: MFA and Commit Signing(38:30) Moving Agents from "YOLO Mode" to Sandboxed Environments(46:00) The Buy vs. Build Debate for Internal AI Capabilities(52:30) AI as an Educational Tool and Democratizing SQL Queries(01:05:00) Hobbies, Plants, and Pushing AI to Design 1940s Bridges

Podcast: Hack the Plant (LS 35 · TOP 3% what is this?)Episode: From DC to Sacramento: Building Resilient Critical Infrastructure and OT WorkforcesPub date: 2026-09-09Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWelcome to season 6 of Hack the Plant! In this premiere episode, our host Bryson Bort is joined by three special guests: Institute for Security and Technology Exec in Residence and UnDisruptable27 leader Josh Corman, Clutch CEO James Regan, and Palo Alto Networks Head of OT Threat Research Adam Robbie. First, Josh and Bryson recap the biggest moments from Critical Effect DC ‘26 this summer—from CISA Acting Director Nick Anderson's keynote to policy experiments like the Cyber Policy Shark Tank. Then, James offers a preview of Critical Effect CA, where the OT/ICS workforce will gather in Sacramento to confront cyber threats. Finally, Adam presents the Intelligence-Driven Active Defense Report 2026, a joint effort by Palo Alto Networks, Siemens, and the Idaho National Laboratory to analyze global telemetry from over 61,000 firewalls.“Securing critical infrastructure is not one person's job. You bring multiple people, multiple teams with different expertise to come together,” Adam said.Join us for this and more on this episode of Hack the Plan[e]t.The views and opinions expressed in this podcast represent those of the speaker(s) and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of their employers.Hack the Plant is brought to you by ICS Village and the Institute for Security and Technology. The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Bryson Bort, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.

A family calls your funeral home, asks about cremation pricing, thanks your team, and says they will call back.Then they disappear.We're kicking off a fresh new month on the Direct Cremation Podcast as our host, Will de Michaelis, explains why this happens so often—and why the problem usually has little to do with price.Watch the full interview here

We have an action-packed podcast lined up with Doomberg and Steven Wang, CEO of Jackery Americas. We will be covering the new executive order on the United States grid's transformers, supply chain, and key components. Some of these components have years-long resupply times in a disaster, and many people could be without power for considerable periods. The administration is recommending that people prepare and have safety supplies, and even short-term power supplies. Check out Jackery Products: https://www.jackery.com/Check out Doomberg's Substack: https://newsletter.doomberg.com/Storms, and we have also seen 30 or more water companies attacked this year by cyber hackers. Being prepared is not just a Boy Scout motto; it is now a way of life. Many of our larger utilities are recommending that we get ready for any disaster.1. Grid Reliability & Power OutagesThe hosts emphasize that the U.S. power grid is becoming increasingly unreliable, with warnings of potential rolling blackouts. A critical incident in July 2022 in Northern Virginia affected 3% of PJM's peak load, and there are concerns about cyber attacks on utilities (Iran recently targeted 30 utilities). The grid is running with less margin for error than previously.2. Exponential Demand Growth from Data Centers & AIThere's a dramatic shift from decades of stagnant demand to explosive growth driven by data centers and AI infrastructure. This "lumpy demand" is straining the grid in unexpected ways, requiring new solutions beyond traditional grid expansion.3. Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) & Home Battery SystemsThe discussion centers on how residential battery systems (like Jackery) can serve dual purposes: personal emergency backup and grid support. Plug-in solar and battery systems are becoming more accessible, lowering barriers to entry for consumers and apartments.4. Battery Technology & Supply ChainTopics include:Lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) as the current standardEmerging sodium-ion batteries (safer, better cold performance, lower cost, but lower energy density)Supply chain concentration and the need for cost reductionManufacturing localization in response to Trump's executive orders5. Trump's Emergency Declaration & ManufacturingThe administration's focus on onshoring transformer and inverter manufacturing to address critical shortages. There's a 2-3 year wait for transformers and 5-year wait for large natural gas generators—creating vulnerability if major infrastructure fails.6. Energy Independence & Personal PreparednessEmphasis on individual preparedness through home battery systems, solar panels, and backup generators. The philosophy that grid reliability starts at home, with consumers taking agency over their own power supply.7. Pricing & Grid EconomicsDiscussion about how current pricing structures favor wind and solar while penalizing natural gas and coal, without accounting for grid resiliency and storage costs. The need to shift from "Levelized Cost of Electricity" (LCOE) to metrics that value reliability.8. Regional Differences: U.S. vs. EU MarketsEuropean markets favor smaller, apartment-friendly systems (1-2 kWh), while U.S. demand is for larger capacity (3+ kWh) due to larger homes and greater energy needs.At Energy News Beat, we Make Appendices Great Again.At Energy News Beat, we Make Appendices Great Again.Check out the World's Greatest Podcast Show Notes at EnergyNewsBeat.co or EnergyNewsBeat.com, and the Energy News Beat Substack at: https://theenergynewsbeat.substack.com/A shout-out to Steve Reese and the Reese Energy Consulting group for sponsoring the Podcast https://reeseenergyconsulting.com/.Data2 if you have any business systems, can you trust A? Well, they have the patent on validation. . https://data2.zoholandingpage.com/energyAnd we have WellDatabase rolling, and we use their tools for the Energy News Beat weekly Rig Reports: https://welldatabase.com/Also entering Sponsor Rey Trevino, Pecos Operating https://pecos.energy/

Send us Fan MailWelcome back to "Laundromat Resource." In this episode, host Jordan Berry dives deep into one of the most important—and misunderstood—questions for prospective laundromat owners: how much money do you really need to buy a laundromat? While the internet might toss around purchase prices of $200,000 to $500,000, Jordan Berry breaks down why the sticker price tells only part of the story. He introduces the concept of the "capital stack"—the full picture of every dollar you'll need to safely acquire and operate your laundromat, from down payments and working capital to equipment reserves and closing costs.In this episode, Jordan talks about:00:00 Understanding laundromat capital stack03:16 Discussing cost expectations06:53 Securing financing for laundromats10:17 Explaining seller financing basics14:19 Managing working capital reserves18:27 Navigating fees and penalties21:50 Financing strategies for laundromat buyers25:09 Understanding SBA loans and seller financing26:12 Benefits of seller financing31:24 Buying laundromats with low capital32:28 Identifying and addressing financial gaps35:50 Laundromat investment potential39:38 Engagement call and episode 3 previewFree Strategy Zoom Call with Jordan:https://calendly.com/laundromatresource/free-strategy-call?back=1

Vibe coding is accelerating code development within the Enterprise, but at what cost of security? Retool's CEO shares how you can accelerate software development while managing the risks effectively.Topics Include:Internal software runs pharmacies, grocery checkouts, and airport check-ins dailyRetool manages and de-risks environment from insecure codeAI has driven a 10x surge in code volume since 2025More code plus less human review means falling code qualityNon-engineers can now build working apps in minutes flatBut deploying and securing those apps remains genuinely difficultMultiple CIOs found private company data exposed on the internetUncontrolled model choice is quietly driving up company costsAttackers now deploy automated agent swarms, not lone hackersDefense is asymmetric: one flaw in, everything must holdRetool runs inside customers' own cloud, often on AWSA single data choke point enables logging, audits, authorizationGuardrails, not their absence, actually let teams move fasterSecurity audits reveal major gaps in nearly all companies checkedNearly all companies may face a serious hack within 18 monthsParticipants:David Hsu – Founder, CEO, RetoolSee how Amazon Web Services gives you the freedom to migrate, innovate, and scale your software company at https://aws.amazon.com/isv/

What does it take to run the most operationally complex department in the federal government? Securing borders. Responding to disasters. Protecting critical infrastructure. At the Department of Homeland Security, keeping those missions running takes focused management. This week on The Business of Government Hour, host Michael J. Keegan talks with Troy Edgar, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, about sustaining mission-critical operations and what lies ahead in a more complex world.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

AI isn't just affecting how businesses operate, it's reshaping the threats they're up against. In this episode of our Committed Capital podcast series, partners Brenda Sharton and J.J. Jones of Dechert's top ranked cybersecurity, privacy & AI practice explore how advances in AI are transforming the cybersecurity threat landscape, and what that means for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies at every stage of the deal lifecycle.

“Does DNA barcoding actually work?” It's the first question Kent Rapp hears from prospective customers when he pitches Biolinco's DNA barcoding platform. By his own admission, the technology can sound too good to be true.In Part 2 of this conversation, Kent rejoins the Smart Biotech Scientist Podcast to address that skepticism head-on, unpack how subclone variability and bispecific antibody purity concerns shape customer trust, and share what it actually took to move Biolinco from a Johns Hopkins postdoc project to a company with its first paying customer.In this episode:Common pushbacks and questions from industry regarding new cell line development technologies (03:18)Practical advice for resource-constrained startups developing cell lines, emphasizing efficiency and data quality over brute force automation (08:42)The role and value of DNA barcoding in screening and developing robust cell lines for therapeutics (08:56)Lessons learned from translating scientific innovation into a commercial product, including securing early support and customer trust (10:27)Insights on adapting messaging, leveraging feedback, and understanding market needs as part of the entrepreneurial process (13:52)Key differences between academic research and industry requirements for reliable, repeatable biotech tools (15:26)Kent's most important takeaway for successful cell line development: focus on collecting the right data at the right scale for informed decisions (17:14)Smart insight: Translating innovations from academia to industry brings a new wave of challenges. Kent describes the “valley of death” separating a publishable prototype from a reliable, commercial-grade product. Academic success is often tied to novelty, publications, and grants, while industry demands repeatability, robustness, and consistent performance across labs and operators. Securing early champions and funding, iterating based on tough industry feedback, and building trust with initial partners all require resilience, and a willingness to pivot as needed. Feedback, even when harsh, becomes a “gift” that helps refine the product and business model. The secret is not a single breakthrough, but adaptability and relentless customer focus.If this got you rethinking how you screen clones, you'll want these next. We've tackled cell line development, high-throughput screening, and the art of spotting manufacturable candidates early from a few different directions — here are four worth queuing up.Episodes 117 - 118 : Cell Line Development Secrets: Eliminating Critical Bottlenecks for Faster Timelines with Andrea GoughEpisodes 09 - 10: Revolutionizing Cell-Line Development: Unleashing the Power of Nanopens and Microenvironments with Tanner NevillEpisodes 123 - 124: Manufacturability: Why Most Protein Candidates Fail (And How to Pick Winners Early) with Susan SharfsteinEpisodes 115 - 116: Revolutionizing Biologics Development with Hyper Throughput Screening and AI with Jeremy AgrestiConnect with Kent Rapp:LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kent-rapp Biolinco website: www.biolinco.comFree 5-day email course, The CMC Failure Chain: the five recurring CMC mistakes that put your promising program at risk → Get it hereSupport the show

Steven Walchek is originally from the Bay Area in California, but lives in Denver now. He's been there for 8 years with his family. He comes from a family of risk takers and entrepreneurs - for example, his Dad was a tech guy who did his thing and had success in Silicon Valley. Outside of tech he is a family man, married with kids. He enjoys doing anything he can with them, as they are his "why". He plays hockey, coaches hockey, and rides dirt bikes and mountain bikes. Steven and his team built an application security platform, and ended up hitting every branch on the way down from the startup tree. When they sat down to figure out what they needed to do next, they combined their deep security tooling with a multi-modal platform, to enable complete AI governance in one central hub for regulated companies. This is the creation story of Liminal. SponsorsTiger DataProtected HarborRenderLinkshttps://www.liminal.ai/https://www.linkedin.com/in/swalchek/Checkout our episode stacks on Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor.Our Sponsors:* Check out Perplexity and use my code CODESTORY for a great deal: https://www.perplexity.aiAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

https://teachhoops.com/ Title: What Are the Five Attributes Every Great Rebounder Has? Subtitle: Why the best rebounders on the floor are rarely the tallest players in the gym Show Notes Every coach says they want a team that rebounds. Very few actually teach it. In this episode we break down the five attributes that show up in every great rebounder, and how to build each one in players who do not have length or leaping ability on their side. What we cover: Anticipation. Reading the shot before it leaves the shooter's hand. Understanding that most misses come back long and to the weak side, and how that knowledge gives a player a half second head start on the ball. Toughness and physicality. Rebounding is a contact skill and a decision, not a talent. The willingness to initiate contact and hold ground under the rim is what separates a rebounder from a tall player standing nearby. Positioning and technique. Finding a body, making contact, and going to get it. Hit and go, not hit and stand. Players who box out and then admire their work hand the ball right back. Pursuit and motor. Most rebounds are not caught on the first jump. Keeping the ball alive, tapping it out, and chasing it down again is where possessions get won. Securing and finishing. Two hands, chin it, land strong, then make the right next play. A rebound you cannot keep is not a rebound. Drills and teaching points to take with you. How to build these attributes into your daily practice plan, how to track rebounding in a way players actually respond to, and how to make it a program value instead of a pregame talking point. Join the conversation and get more coaching resources at https://teachhoops.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last time we spoke about the reaction after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. After four years of fighting Japan almost alone, China's Chiang Kai-shek learned of Pearl Harbor with profound relief. Japan's attack, meant to neutralize American naval power, instead galvanized the entire Western world against Tokyo. Within hours, Chiang declared war on the Axis powers, transforming China from an isolated nation to a recognized Allied member. The strategic mathematics were clear to Chiang: America's industrial might would ultimately crush Japan. China simply needed to survive long enough. The United States quickly formalized this partnership, pledging military support through Lend-Lease and elevating Chiang to leadership of Allied forces in the China theater. Yet Pearl Harbor brought catastrophe for Western civilians in China. Americans and Britons, previously protected as neutral foreigners, were suddenly rounded up and interned in camps. For many, decades of presence in China ended in hasty evacuation, leaving behind lives built over generations.   #216 The Battle of Hong Kong Part 1: The Approaching Storm Welcome to the Fall and Rise of China Podcast, I am your dutiful host Craig Watson. But, before we start I want to also remind you this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Perhaps you want to learn more about the history of Asia? Kings and Generals have an assortment of episodes on history of asia and much more  so go give them a look over on Youtube. So please subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry for some more history related content, over on my channel, the Pacific War Channel where I cover the history of China and Japan from the 19th century until the end of the Pacific War. Japan emerged as a significant threat to British interests during the 1920s following the collapse of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. This concern intensified dramatically after Japan's invasion of China, with the ensuing Sino-Japanese War escalating tensions further. British assets in the region came under direct assault, including attacks on Western military and commercial vessels such as HMS Ladybird. Yet despite these provocations, the British Government maintained an inconsistent stance toward Japan, responding with only feeble diplomatic and military countermeasures. This contradiction characterized London's approach: while diplomatic channels remained conciliatory, military planners viewed Japan with genuine apprehension. During the 1930s, Singapore and Malaya represented Britain's most valuable and prosperous holdings in the Far East and consequently received substantial garrison reinforcements. By contrast, Hong Kong was widely acknowledged to be indefensible—a conclusion reached repeatedly by successive military studies. Despite this consensus, the British Government proceeded with the Hong Kong Defence Scheme in 1936, which aimed to transform Hong Kong Island into a fortified redoubt while establishing delaying positions in Kowloon and the New Territories. The Hong Kong Garrison's mandate was straightforward: repel external attacks and prevent enemy use of the harbour and dry dock. The underlying strategy relied on a simple principle: hold Hong Kong Island as an impregnable fortress and await relief from the Royal Navy. Consequently, protecting the harbour became the paramount objective. Japanese strategists were correctly identified as Hong Kong's primary threat, with military planners anticipating attack from the sea rather than overland. To counter such an offensive, the defence scheme incorporated five successive layers of protection: naval mines fitted with indicator nets and anti-submarine booms formed the first barrier; coastal artillery provided the second; beach installations featuring pillboxes, wire entanglements and mines constituted the third; infantry strongpoints positioned on commanding heights guarded against amphibious landings; and finally, a mobile reserve force stood ready to counterattack and eliminate any successful enemy incursion. The 1936 plan also mandated extensive fortification of Kowloon's bottleneck approaches through bunkers, trenches and blocked passages, with a principal defensive line—resembling a miniature Maginot Line—constructed across the mountains immediately north of Kowloon. The garrison structure comprised three infantry battalions plus the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC), a unit approximately regiment-strength equipped with armoured cars, engineers, artillery, anti-aircraft guns and infantry. These forces organized into three brigades: mainland, island, and garrison reserve. The air component was planned to be formidable: a reconnaissance squadron, a fighter-bomber squadron, two torpedo squadrons and a flight of auxiliary spotting aircraft operated by the HKVDC. Naval forces consisted of a modest destroyer contingent, an MTB flotilla, gunboats and patrol vessels. When Japan occupied Guangzhou, Hong Kong found itself effectively encircled. In response, limited conscription was implemented, though restricted to non-Chinese males for HKVDC service. Chinese personnel were largely confined to non-combat positions such as air-raid precautions and medical duties. The expanding Japanese threat prompted a substantial expansion of the Hong Kong Garrison to four regular infantry regiments—two British units (one specializing in medium machine-gun support) and two Indian regiments. Supporting forces included two coastal artillery regiments, a field artillery regiment-plus, and an anti-aircraft regiment. The Royal Navy expanded to include the 2nd MTB flotilla (eight 60-foot, 29-knot motor torpedo boats armed with twin torpedoes and eight Lewis guns each, plus two smaller 55-foot vessels), four shallow-draught river gunboats (HMS Cicala, Tern, Moth and Robin), four aging World War I S-class destroyers (HMS Thracian, Thanet, Scout and Tenedos—the last transferred to Singapore in 1939), HMS Cornflower sloop, and various auxiliary vessels including tugs, boom defence ships and minelayers. The Fleet Air Arm deployed three Supermarine Walruses—single-engine reconnaissance amphibians—at Kai Tak Airport. The Royal Air Force remained the weakest service, equipped with only four Vickers Wildebeest torpedo-bombers and a handful of HKVDC aircraft: one Avro Tutor, two Hornet Moths and two Cadet biplanes. When World War II erupted in Europe, Britain's focus necessarily shifted to national survival, inevitably leaving distant imperial outposts like Hong Kong neglected. Rather than receive reinforcements, Hong Kong actually lost capable personnel; many veteran troops were repatriated to Europe, leaving behind a less proficient garrison. Peacetime duties had proven a poor preparation for combat—officers and men had passed their time socializing rather than maintaining combat readiness. Governor Sir Geoffrey Northcote persistently urged London to adopt a firmer stance against relentless Japanese provocations: aircraft incursions, sinking of junks and fishing vessels, and infiltration by Taiwanese fifth columnists (Japan had colonized Taiwan in 1895). Recognizing the hopelessness of his position, Northcote recommended withdrawal in October 1940, arguing that defending the colony would inevitably result in mass civilian casualties and widespread destruction—a pragmatic assessment given Hong Kong's indefensible state. London categorically rejected this proposal, reasoning that withdrawal would demoralize China, embolden Japan and undermine American confidence in British resolve. Underlying this decision was an additional consideration: the long-standing dispute over Hong Kong's sovereignty. Since Britain acquired Hong Kong in 1841, the prospect of surrendering it, even temporarily, raised fears about reclaiming it afterward. Preserving the appearance of British determination was deemed crucial to demonstrating to Chiang Kai-shek, Nationalist China's leader, that Britain intended to retain the territory. Despite these political calculations, London consistently refused fresh troop deployments. Major-General A. E. Grasett, the China theatre commander, requested reinforcements only to face rejection—London offered only Indian or other colonial forces. Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, appointed British commander in the Far East in 1941, likewise pressed for garrison strengthening, to no avail. The situation shifted dramatically after Grasett, a retired Canadian who had recently left his China post, travelled to Britain via Canada. Upon arriving in Canada, he independently approached his former classmate Major-General Crerar, Chief of the Canadian General Staff, and advocated for reinforcement. Grasett argued persuasively that deploying two or more additional battalions would enable the Hong Kong garrison to withstand an extended siege. When Grasett reached London in early September 1941, he presented this case directly to the British Chiefs of Staff, simultaneously proposing that Canada could provide the extra units. His arguments proved persuasive; the Chiefs of Staff altered course and convinced a reluctant Churchill to reconsider. In light of accelerating Japanese pressure, Britain substantially enlarged the Malaysia/Singapore garrison from nine to 32 battalions and despatched two capital ships—HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse—to the region, reasoning that this show of force would deter Japanese aggression against British Far Eastern interests, including Hong Kong. The original defence strategy envisaged holding Hong Kong Island exclusively while denying the harbour to attackers. A single battalion (the Punjabis) would execute delaying actions across the New Territories, followed by a three-battalion defensive stand on the Gin Drinkers Line. This brief mainland resistance would allow time for demolishing stores, power installations, docks and wharves, clearing food stocks and removing vital matériel before withdrawing to Hong Kong Island for a protracted resistance awaiting relief from Singapore or American forces from the Philippines. The Gin Drinkers Line—styled after the French Maginot Line in miniature—ran approximately 18 kilometres south of the Sino-Hong Kong border. Beginning near Gin Drinkers Bay west of Kowloon, it extended 17 kilometres across the Kowloon Peninsula hills toward its eastern extremity. The strategic expectation was that this line would delay the Japanese assault for three weeks or longer, permitting battalion withdrawal to Hong Kong Island for sustained resistance while mainland forces completed evacuation procedures. The 1937 war plan stipulated that four battalions would be necessary for an effective delaying action and seven for an adequate Gin Drinkers Line defence—figures which excluded the aircraft and naval support essential to success. With only a single army brigade available and virtually no air capability, planners abandoned the mainland defence concept, leaving defensive works incomplete and deteriorating under tropical conditions. Chinese personnel were conspicuously absent from initial war preparations and strategic planning, only being incorporated late in the process. The largest Chinese component was the volunteer contingent serving with the HKVDC. On the regular army side, approximately 150 Chinese recruits were enlisted in mid-1941 for the 5th Anti-Aircraft Regiment. The Hong Kong Chinese Regiment, hastily constituted on 3 November 1941, comprised officers borrowed from British and Indian units alongside 52 Chinese junior NCOs and other ranks with minimal training. A Royal Engineers troop staffed entirely by Chinese soldiers saw service, and some Chinese personnel served with the Royal Navy and Dockyard Defence Corps. Chinese participation increased substantially in auxiliary services—air-raid precautions, auxiliary police, nursing, St John Ambulance and fire brigades. This reluctance to fully integrate Chinese forces likely reflected prevailing attitudes of the era. Pre-war British propaganda had frequently mocked Japanese military capability, portraying officers and soldiers as myopic and incompetent. Japanese combat prowess was systematically underestimated; their victories in China were attributed to facing inferior opposition rather than evidence of genuine military strength. Japanese weaponry was dismissed as inferior to European standards. Consequently, British confidence remained high that the colony could hold indefinitely if adequately reinforced. In September 1941, Hong Kong received heartening news: two additional Canadian battalions would be deployed to the garrison. Brigadier John Maltby promptly revived the pre-war plan for defending the Gin Drinkers Line, developing a strategy centred on three mainland battalions (2nd Royal Scots, 5/7 Rajputs and 2/14 Punjab) supported by HKVDC elements and four artillery troop detachments, while three island battalions (1st Middlesex, Royal Rifles of Canada and Winnipeg Grenadiers) bolstered by the bulk of the HKVDC would hold Hong Kong Island. Command responsibility was divided between two brigades: the Island Brigade (Hong Kong Infantry Brigade) under Brigadier Lawson, a recently arrived Canadian, and the mainland Kowloon Infantry Brigade under Brigadier Wallis. The Canadian regiments arrived on 16 November 1941. Maltby was commissioned into the Indian Army in 1911, and  saw extensive service across multiple campaigns: World War I, the Persian Gulf (1913–14), and the North-West Frontier (1923–24). His early promise earned him selection for accelerated advancement through prestigious staff colleges at Quetta and RAF Andover. By 1937, he was again serving on the North-West Frontier, and by 1939 commanded both the 3rd Jhelum Brigade (later the Calcutta Brigade) and the 19th Infantry Brigade in Deccan. In 1940, posted to China, Maltby orchestrated the closure of the North China Command by withdrawing two infantry battalions from Shanghai. Promoted to major-general as GOC China in August 1941, he had only three months to prepare the colony's defenses, a race against time he could not win.  The Gin Drinkers Line occupied a naturally dominant position atop mountains spanning northern Kowloon's breadth, yet possessed inherent weaknesses that would prove fatal. The line lacked defensive depth and remained vulnerable to flanking manoeuvres, with two sectors representing particular danger: Customs Pass and the gap between Golden Hill and Laichikok Peninsula near Gin Drinkers Bay. Given the extended front, each battalion arranged its forces in a string of platoon positions with gaps covered by daytime fire and nighttime patrols. One company per battalion could be held in reserve within prepared positions guarding the most dangerous sectors. The reserve company of the centre battalion (2/14 Punjab) initially advanced as forward troops, screening demolition operations and delaying the enemy's initial thrust. The hasty decision to establish mainland defences meant that essential support systems—communication networks, artillery registrations, mortar calibrations—remained incomplete when combat commenced. Ammunition shortages compounded the problem. For instance, the 2/14 Punjab conducted only a single 3-inch mortar practice session before the attack; adequate ammunition arrived only in November and totalled a mere 70 rounds per battalion for both training and combat. These mortars were registered for the first time in their battle positions, with combat beginning just 12 hours later. The 2-inch mortar situation was even more desperate: troops received live ammunition only as fighting started, making their baptism of fire an actual combat situation. Transportation deficiencies—trucks and animals in short supply—forced manual ammunition transport across Hong Kong's challenging terrain, imposing severe physical demands on already stretched personnel.   On 6 November 1941, Imperial Japanese Headquarters ordered its Commander-in-Chief in China to prepare plans for capturing Hong Kong. The 23rd Army, part of the China Southern Expeditionary Army Group and commanded by Lt. Gen. Sakai Takashi with Maj. Gen. Kuribayashi Tadamichi serving as Chief of Staff, would form the invasion's backbone. All preparations were to be completed by the end of November 1941. The operation, designated 'Operation C', sought to 'seize Hong Kong within ten days'. Takahashi was the son of a factory worker, and rose through the ranks to become a veteran of China campaigns. He was tasked with capturing Hong Kong using the 38th Division normally assigned to the Southern Expeditionary Army Group. Despite setbacks and humiliation over requests for additional resources—particularly following intelligence reports of tanks (actually Bren carriers) in Hong Kong—Sakai remained determined to succeed. He served as Governor of Hong Kong from 26 December 1941 to 20 February 1942. Kuribayashi, best remembered as the Japanese commander at Iwo Jima, graduated from the Army Academy in 1914 specializing in cavalry. He served as deputy military attaché to Washington and Canada and studied at Harvard University. In December 1941, he held the position of Chief of Staff to the 23rd Army during the Hong Kong operation. Operation C followed a straightforward strategic framework. A blocking force would prevent Chinese interference from the rear, while the main invasion force would spearhead the assault. The 23rd Army, comprising four divisions plus a mixed brigade and two infantry regiments, received the assignment to attack Hong Kong. Of these four divisions, only the 38th played a substantive role in the invasion itself. The attack employed a combined-arms approach. Naval forces would establish a blockade and deliver bombardment while aircraft targeted key installations. Ground forces from the 38th Division—specifically the 228th, 229th, and 230th Regiments—would execute the land invasion using a three-pronged strategy. The right column would sweep westward in a wide arc, clearing Castle Peak Road and targeting the western flank of the Gin Drinkers Line near Laichikok Peninsula. The centre force would press directly through the line's middle, while the left column would cross Tidal Cove (Tolo Harbour) toward Kai Tak Airport and eastward toward Devil Peak, a crucial defensive position. The objective was to annihilate British forces on the mainland and compel Hong Kong's surrender through sustained bombardment. Should British forces resist, the island phase of the campaign would commence. Securing the rear against the Chinese National Army of the 7th Military District and Communist guerrillas fell to the 66th Regiment, normally part of the 51st Division but attached to the 38th for this operation. The 66th would simultaneously occupy and secure rear areas throughout the New Territories and Kowloon while the three assault regiments engaged the main defensive forces. This rearguard operation was organised into columns named after their commanding officers: Kitazawa, Kobayashi, Sato, and Araki. The Japanese selected the narrowest approach between Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, targeting the eastern coast near Lyemun Passage where only 410 metres of water separated the mainland from the island. Upon landing, forces would rapidly advance inland to seize the critical junction of Wongneichong Gap, then pivot westward and southward to capture Victoria City and the remainder of Hong Kong. The naval contingent divided into two groups: the Bombardment Group and the Attack Group. Approximately 300 personnel from the Special Naval Landing Force (SNLF) were attached to the invasion force. Air support came from the First Air Brigade under Col. Habu Hideharu, which contributed 56 light bombers and fighters. Their mission was to neutralise the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy, thereby securing aerial and maritime superiority for the ground campaign.   On the eve of war, the British garrison numbered 13,981 all ranks, including nursing staff and St John Ambulance personnel. Of these, 8,919 were British and Canadian, with 4,402 Indian and Chinese. The core infantry force comprised 5,422 regular soldiers, complemented by approximately 6,000 additional personnel across artillery, engineering, naval, and Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps (HKVDC) units. By 1941, the Royal Navy had become a shadow of its former self as the once-dominant China Squadron. Of the three World War I destroyers present on 8 December, two had been sent to Singapore—the third undergoing repairs—by 1930. This redeployment stemmed partly from the futility of defending the colony and partly from a commitment by senior US Navy officers: Britain would reinforce Singapore with Hong Kong's fleet in exchange for four American destroyers at Singapore. This American guarantee, however, never materialized. The defensive infrastructure focused primarily on countering a seaborne attack: twenty-nine coastal guns (9.2in., 6in., 4.7in., and 4in. calibres), ten 18- and 2-pounder beach defense guns, and twenty-eight field guns (60-pounder, 6in., 4.5in., and 3.7in. calibres). The Hong Kong Garrison's infantry comprised four regular army battalions—two British and two Indian—bolstered by five HKVDC infantry companies, each averaging 100 men. The 1st Middlesex Regiment, deployed in August 1937, served as a machine-gun battalion equipped with forty-eight Vickers medium machine guns. Having been abroad since 1931, the regiment had deteriorated through protracted garrison service, Hong Kong being among the softest postings available. From September 1939 onward, all regiments—including the 5/7 Rajputs (arrived June 1937) and the 2/14 Punjab—experienced systematic loss of experienced officers and NCOs to other theaters. The Royal Scots proved particularly hard hit, suffering disciplinary problems and an unusually high court-martial rate. Units like the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery suffered critical leadership gaps that went unaddressed. By December 1941, many formations fielded inexperienced replacement troops, significantly undermining combat readiness. The Punjabis exemplified these deficiencies. Stationed in Hong Kong since November 1940, they received their vehicles and mortars only in August 1941—three months before combat. Compounding this, forty percent of their strength consisted of raw recruits arrived just in October. When war erupted, artillery regiments found themselves relying on junior officers in senior roles, with British commanders unfamiliar with Urdu directing Indian troops, a handicap that severely compromised effectiveness. Deficient equipment compounded leadership shortages. Shells dating from 1918 detonated prematurely upon discharge, while ammunition shortages crippled operations. On 8 December, all field guns deployed with merely 100 rounds apiece, with 200 rounds held in reserve for the entire campaign, and coastal guns received only 25 rounds each. Insufficient cross-training meant many infantrymen failed to understand the artillery "clock face" targeting system, causing them to miss their objectives. Malaria devastated European troops, particularly the Royal Scots. Of approximately 770 personnel, at least 180 suffered recurring malarial episodes from the Shing Mun Redoubt area's notoriously endemic conditions. Staff shortages forced nearly every unit to promote junior officers to positions beyond their rank, exacerbating structural weaknesses. Although the Canadians' arrival bolstered the garrison, significant handicaps undermined their effectiveness. Both battalions carried a C-class designation—deemed unfit for foreign service—having spent years in soft garrison postings without rigorous training. The deficit was stark: each Canadian soldier received only thirty-five rifle practice rounds. The two battalions incorporated 115 men with fewer than sixteen weeks' training, while sixty-two of seventy-five recruits joining the Winnipeg Grenadiers in June came directly from a training depot lacking even basic rifles. Twelve percent of the Canadian force remained untrained. Equipment deficiencies proved even more damaging. A standard 1941 Canadian infantry battalion required 102 motor vehicles—including twenty-two Universal Carriers, thirty-seven ¾-ton trucks, thirteen 1-ton trucks, thirty-one bicycles, and twenty-two Boys anti-tank rifles. When the Canadians landed, logistical failures left them with only six Bren carriers, two water tankers, twelve ¾-ton trucks, and a single Boys anti-tank rifle. Although they carried 3in. mortars, neither ammunition nor radios accompanied them. Canada possessed only 300 3-inch mortar bombs in its entire inventory at that time, making any allocation to Hong Kong impossible. A second vessel, the SS Don Jose, was dispatched with replacement vehicles and equipment but never reached Hong Kong before 8 December. The Japanese seized it en route to Manila. Despite these shortcomings, the force departed on 27 October with 1,975 men and arrived on 16 November. Intelligence estimates regarding Japanese available forces varied widely, ranging from two to four divisions. On 6 December evening, Chinese reports confirmed the previous day's arrival of three Japanese divisions at Buji township, located eight miles from the border in what is now Shenzhen. Earlier, around 1 November, a Japanese deserter provided intelligence of significant troop concentrations north of the frontier, including large-calibre artillery indicative of at least divisional strength.   The Hong Kong invasion force comprised three service branches: the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA) deployed the 38th Infantry Division, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) committed the Second China Fleet, and the Imperial Japanese Air Force (IJAF) contributed the 1st Air Group. Command of the ground assault rested with Lieutenant-General Sano Tadayoshi of the 38th Division, supported by Major-General Ito Takeo heading the infantry group, while supporting arms including artillery, engineers, armor, and transport fell under Sano's authority. The main assault force consisted of three infantry regiments from the 38th Division, each led by a colonel: the 228th under Doi Teihichi, the 229th under Tanaka Ryosaburo, and the 230th under Shoji Toshishige. The 38th Division itself was a standard 1940s B-class infantry division of approximately 20,000 troops (ranging from 18,000–21,000 depending on operational requirements), organized into three regiments with three battalions each. Reflecting the Japanese army's reliance on animal and human transport, each regiment fielded roughly 3,800 troops supported by some 700 horses. Battalion strength averaged around 1,071 personnel, with companies numbering approximately 180 men. Japanese infantry battalions of this period featured a distinctive organization: rifle platoons consisted of four sections (three equipped with rifles and light machine guns, one with light mortars and rifles), complemented by an additional heavy machine-gun company fielding twelve Type 92 weapons and a troop of light artillery—likely Type 92 70mm infantry guns. The divisional field artillery regiment operated 75mm Type 41 mountain guns organized into three 688-man battalions, each with two troops of two guns. Mountain artillery units, numbering 36 guns total, carried additional personnel (3,400) and animals (1,400) to navigate the terrain complexities of Hong Kong operations. Recognizing the need for overwhelming firepower to compel Hong Kong's surrender, the IJA augmented the invasion force with heavy artillery—15cm and 24cm howitzers commanded by Major-General Kitashima Kineo. News of the Canadian reinforcements arriving in Hong Kong forced a reassessment. Commander-in-Chief Sakai Takashi of the 23rd Army informed his superiors that the original ten-day timeline was unrealistic and requested additional troops. Although most formations were already committed to other operations, Imperial Headquarters eventually authorized two depot regiments from Japan to support the campaign. Intended for second-line duties rather than frontline combat, these units were to be returned promptly after freeing experienced personnel for Hong Kong operations. This arrangement allowed the 19th and 20th mixed brigades—approximately 6,000 men organized in five infantry battalions, a field artillery battalion, and an engineer battalion—to be released for Hong Kong. However, Sakai's request for reinforcements met with disapproval from Imperial Headquarters, and he received an unmistakable message: a swift, decisive campaign was essential. His situation worsened when Japanese agents mistakenly identified British Bren carriers as tanks, forcing Sakai to improvise armor by raiding the 1st Reserve Tank Battalion and tankette units from infantry depot divisions. In attempting to secure additional armor from the 11th Army's 9th Reconnaissance Regiment, Sakai encountered resistance. General Hata Shunroku lodged sustained complaints with senior officials, and Sakai received a sharp rebuke—further requests would not be entertained, and his replacement would follow if necessary. Stung by this loss of face, Sakai abandoned all additional requests and became even more determined to achieve success. Vice-Admiral Niimi Masaichi, commanding the 2nd China Expeditionary Fleet, oversaw the entire naval element, divided into bombardment and attack groups. His flagship, the light cruiser Isuzu, carried Captain Ura Koichi, who simultaneously commanded the bombardment group. This naval force assembled ships from various China Expeditionary Fleet units, particularly from the Canton Special Base Force, 15 Squadron, and 11 Torpedo Boat Division at Guangzhou. Reflecting Niimi's lack of confidence in the army's air support capabilities, the seaplane tender IJN Kamikawa Maru joined the operation on his insistence, providing organic naval aviation against the threat posed by British Wildebeests. Niimi also petitioned for destroyers IJN Wakaba and Yugure to counter the three British destroyers, though this request was denied. The Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) were assigned to conduct diversionary attacks south of Hong Kong Island, intended to distract British forces from the main land invasion thrust. The IJAF's 1st Air Brigade, commanded by Colonel Habu Hideharu, centered on the 45th Air Regiment with 34 Kawasaki Ki-32 Type 98 'Mary' light bombers. This composite force drew aircraft and units from airfields across China and Manchuria—Beijing, Shanghai, Taiwan, and Qiqihar—all assembled at Baiyun Aerodrome in Guangzhou on 7 December 1941. Supporting the 1st Air Brigade were the 10th Independent Squadron under Captain Takatsuki Akira with 13 Nakajima Ki-27 Type 97 'Nate' fighters, 3 Mitsubishi Ki-15 Type 97 'Babs' command reconnaissance aircraft from the 18th Independent Reconnaissance Squadron, and the 44th Independent Squadron fielding 6 Tachikawa Ki-36 Type 98 'Ida' observation aircraft. Years before the invasion, the Japanese cultivated an extensive network of agents and sleeper operatives in Hong Kong, methodically gathering intelligence and mapping military installations. This sophisticated network proved remarkably effective: invasion maps carried by IJA officers were actually Hong Kong Government and British military maps, overprinted with Japanese annotations and interpretations. British officers later discovered in captivity that the Peninsula Hotel's regular barber was a Japanese Navy lieutenant-commander who had exploited the intimate setting to extract valuable information about British force dispositions. Intelligence operatives infiltrated every level of Hong Kong society—the garrison tailor and barber both served as spies. This groundwork enabled exceptional accuracy in artillery fire and bombing campaigns. The Japanese further leveraged criminal networks, recruiting gangsters throughout Hong Kong and Guangdong province with money and arms, turning them into irregular auxiliaries supporting the invasion.   On Sunday, 7 December, seven hundred members of the 2nd Royal Scots and Middlesex Regiment marched to St John's Cathedral for the morning service. As Major-General Maltby read a passage from Matthew, his aide-de-camp, Lieutenant I. MacGregor, delivered an urgent message that would change everything. Preparations for conflict had already begun. On 5 December, the HKVDC had mobilized fully, yet Hong Kong's broader population remained unmoved—the Happy Valley racetrack reported record attendance that very day. The contrast was stark: while one institution prepared for war, another celebrated as though nothing threatened. Japanese forces had been positioned advantageously since autumn 1941. The 23rd Army was already stationed west of Guangzhou, with contingents scattered across Foshan Town, Zhuhai, and other locations on the Pearl River delta. Upon orders for war on 1 December, they faced minimal distances to cover. The army regrouped at Humen, Shilong Town, and Guangzhou itself—staging areas for the invasion. The first visible signs arrived on 4–5 December when Japanese forces landed at Mirs Bay; the 228th Regiment moved into its staging area at Buji Town, now part of Shenzhen City. Maltby received these reports and immediately departed the cathedral service to issue urgent stand-to orders. Yet skepticism persisted within military circles. Some dismissed the threat, dismissing such intelligence as "astonishingly erroneous." Meanwhile, the Imperial Japanese Navy massed in the waters beyond Hong Kong's horizon. The Kowloon Infantry Brigade held a stretched defensive line: the 5/7 Rajputs anchored the centre, the 2/14 Punjab the east, and the 2nd Royal Scots the west. Forward positions extended far—C Company, 2/14 Punjab, under Major S. Burns ranged along Castle Peak Road toward Yuen Long. The brigade screen, C Company of the 2/14 Punjab, held Shueng Shui and Taipo Market with four Bren carriers and two armoured cars from the HKVDC, backed by engineers and the 22nd Fortress Company. The Hong Kong Infantry Brigade held Hong Kong Island itself. The Winnipeg Grenadiers occupied Victoria City on the north-west coast, while the Royal Rifles of Canada stretched along the north-east shores from Saukiwan to Lyemun. Brigadier Lawson commanded from his headquarters at Wongneichong Gap in the island's centre. At 0355 hours on 8 December, the code word "Blossom Blossom" was transmitted. Eleven minutes later, Lieutenant-General Sakai ordered the invasion to commence. Fifty minutes after that, at 0445 hours, Major Charles Boxer—a fluent Japanese speaker formerly of the Lincolnshire Regiment—was roused by Radio Tokyo announcing that war was imminent. Governor Young and Major-General Maltby were informed at once. By 0500 hours, the forward demolition points had been blown by Major Gray, OC of C Company 2/14 Punjab, and the HKVDC engineers under Major J. H. Bottomley. At 0645 hours, the garrison received formal notification: Britain and Japan were at war. Seventy-five minutes later, air-raid sirens wailed. Within moments, smoke billowed from Kai Tak Airport as Japanese aircraft destroyed virtually the entire air garrison. The Wildebeests, Walruses, HKVDC biplanes, and several civilian planes were engulfed in flames. Only two Ju-52s of the Eurasia Corporation and one CNAC T-32 Condor escaped destruction—dispersal bays had never been built due to lack of funds. The Japanese then turned to secondary targets, bombing Shamshuipo Camp and the neighbouring police station. The Canadians suffered few large-scale casualties in the initial strikes, though Sergeant Routledge and Signalman Fairley of the signal platoon were wounded—the first Canadian soldiers injured in World War II. Remarkably, Hong Kong Island's theatres, cinemas, and restaurants continued operating as though the island faced no peril. Japanese demolition efforts proved only minor obstacles. Bridges blown were quickly replaced. The invasion proceeded on three fronts: the 230th Regiment advanced westward along the northern route toward Yuen Long and Castle Peak, targeting the northern slope of Tai Mo Mountain. The 228th Regiment drove down the centre, following the Sheung Shui–Taipo–Kowloon road toward Grassy Hill north of the Shing Mun Redoubt. The 229th Regiment, crossing at Sha Tau Kok and by boat at Starling Inlet, proceeded via Taipo toward Tai Shui Hang and Ma On Mountain. Whenever confronted with strongly defended positions, the Japanese bypassed them entirely rather than engage. The first day brought scattered but spirited resistance. Around 1300 hours, the Punjabis inflicted the first serious check, drawing blood from advancing Japanese forces. At 1830 hours, they ambushed and decimated several Japanese platoons south of Taipo market town. The HKVDC's armoured cars and Bren carriers struck similar successes nearby. The 2 Royal Scots' reconnaissance platoon clashed with elements of the 229th Regiment around Yuen Long. Despite these minor victories, Japanese momentum continued. Armed with stolen British maps and guided by fifth columnists, they pushed forward relentlessly. By late afternoon on the 8th, the Punjabis withdrew toward Grassy Hill to avoid being outflanked. The artillerymen of the 12th Battery engaged an IJN destroyer and Japanese forces around Taipo, inflicting heavy casualties. Farther south near Shatin, on the Taipo–Kowloon highway, rapidly advancing Japanese troops surprised the defenders and severed the fuse at an HKVDC demolition point. Their triumph proved momentary; the engineers completed the backup circuit and detonated the bridge, destroying it along with the Japanese soldiers crossing it. By early morning on 9 December, orders came to withdraw all mainland units to the Gin Drinkers Line. The Punjabis, already at Shatin Wai overlooking Tide Cove, held their position under pressure and continuous shelling for the next two days. The HKVDC withdrew to Fotan, a village south of Shatin. Maltby ordered D Company, 5/7 Rajputs, under Captain H. R. Newtons to Smuggler's Ridge to close the gap between the 2 Royal Scots and 2/14 Punjab. HKVDC armoured cars and Bren carriers continued patrols along Castle Peak Road while HMS Cicala, having survived two air attacks, maintained station in Castle Peak Bay. Despite an IJN blockade, the destroyers HMS Thanet and Scout slipped anchor and escaped to Singapore around 2130 hours. The surviving CNAC and Eurasia aircraft took off with high-value evacuees: Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's widow and her two equally renowned sisters—the Soong sisters—along with Chinese Finance Minister H. H. Kung. Also departing was Lieutenant-Colonel H. Owen-Hughes of the HKVDC, who carried orders to coordinate with the Chinese Nationalist Army for a rear-guard attack on Japanese forces to relieve the pressure on Hong Kong. I would like to take this time to remind you all that this podcast is only made possible through the efforts of Kings and Generals over at Youtube. Please go subscribe to Kings and Generals over at Youtube and to continue helping us produce this content please check out www.patreon.com/kingsandgenerals. If you are still hungry after that, give my personal channel a look over at The Pacific War Channel at Youtube, it would mean a lot to me. On 8 December 1941, Japan attacked Hong Kong with the 38th Division, supported by naval and air forces. Despite British defenses manned by undertrained, under-equipped troops, Japanese forces advanced rapidly across three fronts. Within hours, the RAF was destroyed, demolitions proved futile, and British units withdrew toward the Gin Drinkers Line facing overwhelming odds.

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