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Information Security vendors offer a wide variety of products and services that can enable success for organizations. Derek Eid joins us this episode to share wisdom in selling products and services. Derek is an expert communicator and leverages technical and non-technical conversations to capture necessities for existing and potential customers. Derek's most effective tool in his repertoire is his ability to listen. Tune in and learn how he uses this powerful tool to help enable his success.

Neelima Rustagi joins Chris and Ron in this episode to share her experiences creating valuable work to dissolve barriers, gatekeepers, and glass ceilings. While transitioning from Software Engineer to Cybersecurity Product Manager, Neelima provided value to her stakeholders, mentors and advocates to position herself as a key resource in the industry. Neelima celebrates a decorated background in startups and Fortune cybersecurity companies.

In this Episode, Ron and Napoleon put Chris in the hot seat and reviewed his EASY framework for making an impact in threat intelligence.   - Elicit Requirements - Assess Collection - Plan Strive for Impact - Yield to Feedback   All four pillars are vital for ensuring success during each phase of providing threat intelligence as a service

New Member Alert 🚨! Napoleon Bing joins forces with Chris and Ron and present a Serverless Threat Intel Bot. As organizations mature and scale their security infrastructure, it's vital that analysts, engineers, and other team members are able to query and enrich data on demand. Additionally, application features are being introduced at an increasing rate, creating the need for software defined infrastructure. In this project, we'll be exploring scaling automation efforts - with a focus on Threat Intelligence. This project can serve as a guide for when to leverage an interactive bot, creating API endpoints, serverless architecture, and applying actionable threat intelligence.

How important is being vulnerable in life and in your career? In Episode 7, our guest of honor - Charles Nwatu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/cnwatu/) joins Ron and Chris in starting the conversation about vulnerability and diversity. Charles Nwatu celebrates a decorated infosec career - and has built security teams at companies such as Twilio, Stitch Fix, and Netflix.

In this episode, Chris Cochran and Ronald Eddings review the MITRE ATTACK Matrix and discuss related threat actors, TTPs, Threat Intelligence, and vendor evaluations.

In this episode, Chris presents a deep question to Ron during a live recording. What legacy do you want to leave? This can have many meanings for people. Do you want to leave a legacy with your family? Your career? Life in general? In this video, Ron and Chris also share future episode topics

In this Episode, Scott Behrens (https://twitter.com/helloarbit) join us to discuss optimizing diet, fitness, and focus for performance. These three pillars ensure exceptional performance on and off the court of cybersecurity.

In this episode Ron and Chris do a function deep dive on threat intelligence. They discuss everything from training and processes to sharing across communities. As always leave a comment on what you want us to tackle next!

In this video Ronald Eddings and Chris Cochran discuss Layer 8 - The Human Element. It's vital to onboard and promote productivity, positivity, and creativity to Security Practitioners. Ron and Chris share tips on patching and updating Layer 8 for continued success.