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Coffee Talk with SURGe

by Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, Audra Streetman

Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news and Mick and Ryan will compete in a 60 second charity challenge. You don’t want to miss it!

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Episodes

  1. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Kirsty Paine

    Join Ryan Kovar and special guest Kirsty Paine, Field CTO and Strategic Advisor at Splunk, for a conversation about her career in cybersecurity, including with her work on technical standards and emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, IoT, and quantum computing. Links: -...

  2. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 12-DEC-2023 Kyivstar Cyberattack, Water Utilities Hacked, Log4j Exploited

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Katie Brown and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Ukraine’s top mobile internet company is down, blames Russian cyberattack - IRGC-Affiliated Cyber…

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  3. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Eric McGinnis

    Join Audra Streetman and special guest Eric McGinnis, Senior Threat Researcher at Splunk, for a conversation about Detection as Code and how it helps to streamline the threat detection process, especially at scale. Links: https://github.com/splunk/attack_range https://atomicredteam.io/...

  4. Coffee Talk with SURGe: NCSC Annual Review, ENISA Threat Landscape, Netherlands Cyber Assessment

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Kirsty Paine, and Floris Ladan for a special EMEA edition of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will compare highlights and similarities across recent cyber threat reports, including: - UK NCSC Annual Review 2023 - ENISA Threat Landscape 2023 -...

  5. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Cat Self

    Join David Bianco and special guest Cat Self, Principal Adversary Emulation Engineer at MITRE and macOS/Linux Lead for ATT&CK, for a conversation about Cat’s career journey from military intelligence to cybersecurity along with her current work at MITRE. Links: - Mitre Engenuity CTID Project -...

  6. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-NOV-14 ICBC Ransomware, Sandworm Cuts Power in Ukraine, Volt Typhoon

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar, and Audra Streetman for another edition of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - LockBit says ICBC paid ransom over hack that disrupted US Treasury market...

  7. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring John Hultquist

    Join Mick Baccio and special guest John Hultquist, Chief Analyst at Mandiant Intelligence, for a conversation about John’s career in cybersecurity, his advice for aspiring CTI analysts, and what to expect at CYBERWARCON 2023 on Nov. 9. The link to register is: https://lnkd.in/gsDkmy2u.

  8. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-10-31 SEC SolarWinds Complaint, Biden’s Executive Order on AI

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar, and Audra Streetman for a spooky Halloween edition of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - SEC Charges SolarWinds and Chief Information Security Officer with Fraud, Internal Control...

  9. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Michael Rodriguez

    Join Mick Baccio and special guest Michael Rodriguez, Principal Strategic Consultant for Google Public Sector, for a conversation about Michael’s career path into cybersecurity, the origin of his nickname “Duckie,” and his work as a cybersecurity subject matter expert for Google Space.

  10. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-OCT-17 Cisco IOS XE, Signal Zero-Day Rumor, Conflict Disinformation

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar, and Katie Brown for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Cisco Discloses ‘Critical’ Zero-Day Vulnerability In IOS XE - Signal Pours Cold Water on Zero-Day Exploit...

  11. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Patrick Gray

    Join Shannon Davis and special guest Patrick Gray, host of the Risky Biz podcast, for a discussion about Patrick's cybersecurity reporting career and the work behind the scenes to produce each episode. You can listen to Risky Biz at risky.biz or wherever you get your podcasts.

  12. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-OCT-03 WS_FTP RCE, Exim Scope, ChatGPT, Cybersecurity Awareness Month

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - RCE in Progress WS_FTP Ad Hoc via IIS HTTP Modules (CVE-2023-40044) - Exim patches three of six…

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  13. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Sherrod DeGrippo

    Join Ryan Kovar and special guest Sherrod DeGrippo, Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy at Microsoft, for a discussion about crimeware, threat actor naming conventions, and Sherrod's essay in a new book by SURGe titled, "Bluenomicon: The Network Defender's Compendium."

  14. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-SEPT-19 Data Leaks, Casino Breaches, Ransom Demands, Big Yellow Taxi

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Audra Streetman and special guests Haylee Mills, Katie Brown and Drew Church for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: Microsoft's Xbox plans revealed in emails tied to FTC case 38TB of data...

  15. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Derrick Lawson

    Join Ryan Kovar and special guest Derrick Lawson, Staff Sales Engineer at Splunk, for a discussion about M-21-31, a US memorandum establishing an event logging maturity model for federal government agencies. They’ll discuss strategies and tools that can help agencies with compliance.

  16. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Jamie Williams

    Join Ryan Kovar and special guest Jamie Williams, MITRE ATT&CK for Enterprise Lead and Principal Adversary Emulation Engineer, for a discussion about MITRE ATT&CK use cases and Jamie's essay in a new book by SURGe titled, "Bluenomicon: The Network Defender's Compendium." Download Bluenomicon

  17. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-SEPT-05 Mudge Joins CISA, Qakbot Takedown, Infamous Chisel Malware

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Famed hacker and Twitter whistleblower Peiter 'Mudge' Zatko is joining the Biden administration...

  18. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Rick Holland

    Join Ryan Kovar and special guest Rick Holland, VP and CISO at ReliaQuest, for an interview about Rick’s career journey, his advice for cybersecurity leaders, and his contribution to the SURGe team’s new book titled, “Bluenomicon: The Network Defender’s Compendium.” Follow Rick on Twitter…

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  19. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-AUG-22 Ivanti, Citrix, Space Industry, Tesla Insider Threat, Quantum

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Ivanti: Customers ‘impacted’ by new zero-day vulnerability - Nearly 2,000 Citrix NetScaler Instances...

  20. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Jake Williams

    Join Audra Streetman and special guest Jake Williams (@MalwareJake) for a discussion about hiring in cybersecurity, interview advice, the challenges associated with vulnerability prioritization, Microsoft's Storm-0558 report, and Jake's take on the future of AI and LLMs in cybersecurity.

  21. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-AUG-01 Ivanti EPMM, SEC Reporting Rules, Black Hat, Defcon

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Threat Actors Exploit Ivanti EPMM Vulnerabilities - Splunk Threat Research Team analytic story -...

  22. Coffee Talk with SURGe: the Interview Series featuring Eva Galperin

    Join Audra Streetman and special guest Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, for an interview about data privacy, stalkerware, artificial intelligence, and the recent rise in deepfake sextortion schemes. You can follow Eva on Twitter @evacide and learn…

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  23. SURGe author panel on Bluenomicon: The Network Defender’s Compendium

    Join Mick Baccio and Ryan Kovar as they interview several Splunk cybersecurity experts at .conf23 whose essays are featured in Bluenomicon: The Network Defender’s Compendium. The authors include Sydney Howard, Principal Threat Hunter at Splunk, Jason Lee, Splunk CISO, and Paul Kurtz, Splunk's…

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  24. Coffee Talk with SURGe: APT Tradecraft and Data Privacy with Jake Williams and Eva Galperin

    Join Ryan, Mick, and Audra for a special edition of Coffee Talk with SURGe, live from .conf23 in Las Vegas. This episode, the trio from Splunk is joined by cybersecurity experts Jake Williams and Eva Galperin to discuss the trends in tradecraft they've observed among APT groups along with the…

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  25. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-JULY-11 Meta’s Threads, US/EU Data Sharing, MOVEit Update, iOS Patch

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Threads Becomes Most Rapidly Downloaded App, Raising Twitter’s Ire - U.S. and E.U. Finalize…

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  26. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-JUNE-27 SolarWinds SEC, Iran Hack-and-Leak, MOVEit Fallout, Cyber Force

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - SolarWinds says SEC investigation ‘progressing to charges’ - The...

  27. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Alex Pinto

    Join Ryan Kovar and special guest Alex Pinto, Senior Manager of Threat Intelligence at Verizon for an interview about the key takeaways from the 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). You can watch the livestream of this episode here. Read the DBIR report Follow Alex on Twitter

  28. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-JUNE-13 Fortinet, Barracuda, MOVEit Transfer, CISA Directive, DPRK

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio, Ryan Kovar and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Fortinet fixes critical RCE flaw in Fortigate…

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  29. Coffee Talk with SURGe: the Interview Series featuring Scott Roberts

    Join Mick Baccio and special guest Scott Roberts, head of threat research at Interpres Security for an interview about Scott's career journey, how he's seen cybersecurity evolve over time, and his essay featured in the SURGe team's new book, Bluenomicon: The Network Defender’s Compendium. You can...

  30. Coffee Talk with SURGe: Volt Typhoon, CosmicEnergy, Pentagon Cyber Strategy, AI Risk

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Volt Typhoon targets US critical infrastructure with living-off-the-land...

  31. Coffee Talk with SURGe: the Interview Series featuring Sydney Howard

    Join Audra Streetman and special guest Sydney Howard, Principal Threat Hunter at Splunk for an interview about her career journey, why she thinks purple teaming is so important, and her approach to threat hunting. Links: - Introducing the PEAK Threat Hunting Framework - Hypothesis-Driven Hunting...

  32. Coffee Talk with SURGe: Telegram Vulnerability, Dallas Ransomware Attack, Dragos, Snake Malware

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Software engineer publicly discloses Telegram vulnerability -...

  33. Coffee Talk with SURGe: the Interview Series featuring DomainTools

    Join David Bianco and special guest Aaron Gee-Clough, Senior Data Engineer at DomainTools for an interview about their collaboration for a research project evaluating the trustworthiness of certificate authorities (CAs) by analyzing five billion TLS certificates using Splunk. Watch the livestream...

  34. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-MAY-02 SolarWinds, US Marshals Service, OT Threat Sharing, Bluesky, RSA

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - The DOJ Detected the SolarWinds Hack 6 Months…

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  35. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-APR-25 The Interview Series live from RSA Conference

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Mick Baccio and special guests Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Jon DiMaggio for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe, live from RSA Conference in San Francisco. Guerrero-Saade and DiMaggio are both contributing authors for Bluenomicon, a new book by SURGe that...

  36. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-APR-18 NSO Group, LockBit macOS Encryptors, AI in CTI, MSFT Taxonomy

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the livestream of this episode here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Citizen Lab releases report on NSO Group's new...

  37. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Michael Haag

    Join Coffee Talk with SURGe for our bi-weekly interview series. This week, Audra Streetman interviews Michael Haag, Senior Threat Researcher at Splunk. They'll discuss his YouTube show, Atomics on a Friday, along with the Living off the Land Drivers project, which aims to consolidate vulnerable…

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  38. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 3CX Supply Chain Compromise, Medical Device SBOMs, Italy bans ChatGPT

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: -The Splunk Threat Research Team releases a blog with…

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  39. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Allan Liska

    Join Coffee Talk with SURGe for our bi-weekly interview series. This week, SURGe member Shannon Davis interviews Allan Liska, threat intelligence analyst at Recorded Future and author of Ransomware: Understand. Prevent. Recover. They'll talk about the threat of ransomware, including recent…

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  40. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-MAR-21 Oakland Ransomware Attack, BreachForums, Acropalypse, GPT-4

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Oakland could be dealing with a second ransomware attack in...

  41. Coffee Talk with SURGe: The Interview Series featuring Sergio Caltagirone

    Join us as we kick off our new bi-weekly 1-1 interview series, starting with Sergio Caltagirone. Sergio was formerly at NSA, Director of Threat Intelligence at Microsoft, VP of Threat Intelligence at Dragos, Technical Director of the Global Emancipation Network, now the founder and president of…

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  42. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-MAR-07 National Cybersecurity Strategy, CVE-2023-21716, Health Data

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Kirsty Paine for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Biden administration releases U.S. National Cybersecurity...

  43. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-FEB-21 Twitter SMS 2FA, Ukraine Cyber Threat Landscape, Pyramid of Pain

    Grab a cup of coffee and join David Bianco, Shannon Davis, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Twitter plans to remove access to SMS 2FA for non-subscribing users...

  44. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-FEB-07 ESXi servers, Royal Mail ransomware, Gamaredon, Bard AI

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Audra Streetman, and special guest David Bianco for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - VMware warns admins to patch ESXi servers,...

  45. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-JAN-24 Ticketmaster, Apple Hardware Security Keys, Ukraine, Bias

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - Ticketmaster says a cyberattack disrupted Taylor Swift…

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  46. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2023-JAN-10 LastPass, Slack, CircleCI, Chick-fil-A, CISA, ChatGPT

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - LastPass, Slack, and CircleCI notify customers of security...

  47. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2022-DEC-13 GovSummit, NIS2, Cyber Collaboration, Exercise Crossed Swords

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Kirsty Paine for a special episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe, live in Washington, DC for GovSummit. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - NIS2 is coming… What...

  48. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2022-NOV-29 RansomBoggs, Log4Shell, Medibank Update, Twitter E2EE Messaging

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - ESET Research identifies a wave of ransomware attacks...

  49. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2022-NOV-08 Election Security, OpenSSL, Medibank, Azov Ransomware, Mastodon

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - CISA reminds voters that there is no credible threat to...

  50. Coffee Talk with SURGe: 2022-OCT-25 DOJ China Espionage, Drizly Complaint, Text4Shell, U.S. Midterms

    Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio, and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. You can watch the episode livestream here. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news, including: - The DOJ announces charges against two Chinese intelligence...

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Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news and Mick and Ryan will compete in a 60 second charity challenge. You don’t want to miss it!

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Grab a cup of coffee and join Ryan Kovar, Mick Baccio and Audra Streetman for another episode of Coffee Talk with SURGe. The team from Splunk will discuss the latest security news and Mick and Ryan will compete in a 60 second charity challenge. You don’t want to miss it!

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