CovertSwarm - The Podcast

Listen to our COO Luke Potter and our new Swarm Director talking about red team services, how the industry looks and how to ensure you choose the perfect cybersecurity partner.

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Our Offensive Operations Center just received a major upgrade that will benefit all our users from January 2024.  

Listen to our CEO Anders Reeves, our COO Luke Potter and our Head of Product Ronan Mccrory dive into this new feature, its functionality and how our clients could make the most of it to evaluate their cyber maturity benchmark beyond surface-level. 

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Understanding the user needs and translating them into a product strategy and road map is crucial to stay on top of other Attack Surface Management Platforms in a fast-moving industry such as cybersecurity.  

Today’s host and COO, Luke Potter, talks with our new Head of Product, Ronan Mccrory, who discusses his industry experience and his thoughts on where the Offensive Operations Center is going. Learn how he plans to leverage his product knowledge to make impactful changes and bring CovertSwarm's offerings to a broader audience. 

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Bug Bounty programmes can form an effective component of an organization's security strategy. However, they are prone to testing blindspots, variable quality, and uncertainty around tester skillsets and backgrounds.

Join CovertSwarm COO, Luke Potter, as he interviews Ignacio Garrido on his move from working with popular Bug Bounty vendors over to joining our Swarm of ethical hackers full-time. 

Hear how his work delivering our Constant Cyber Attack service has changed his career and ability to deliver greater levels of client value each and every day through deeper cyber testing engagements founded upon context-aware relationships.

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Earlier this year Chris joined CovertSwarm having taken an unusual and inspiring route into offensive cyber security from being a  member of a successful punk and metal band, through to a prolific music production career, and more recently seeing him join  the world of cyber security.

Hear Chris' story and how 17 years of music performance, production and set of highly-transferrable skills led to a career in cyber, and to him joining as part of the Swarm.

Links to some of the music Chris was involved in producing and that is mentioned in this episode can be found below:

• https://www.discogs.com/artist/5845430-Chris-Edkins
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U36c8fQFVzk
• https://open.spotify.com/artist/0CBj92il3umUuKaDWh9ZSt
• https://www.last.fm/music/From+Plan+To+Progress
• https://juroruk.bandcamp.com/music 

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The mission of the CovertSwarm Academy is to build a new and alternative pathway for people into the cyber industry that removes the traditional barriers to entry by increasing accessibility to a more diverse population.

On this episode hear our founder, Anders Reeves, speak with Iain and Jack from the CovertSwarm team leading the design, implementation, launch and operation of the CovertSwarm Academy.

Learn more about the 'why' behind the CovertSwarm Academy, and how its alternative approach to attracting people from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, levels of education, and geographies has already resulted in an application pool for this year's cohort that positively breaks the mould of the more traditional 'graduate schemes' or cyber induction programmes.

Read more via this recent blog post, or apply to: academy@covertswarm.com

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CovertSwarm’s Will Morrish is joined by Todd Wade to discuss the evolving risk of AI, making security personal, and how to engage your teams in a security journey.

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Today we are bringing a very special episode, recorded live in Las Vegas at DEF CON 31.

Hosted by CovertSwarm founder & CEO, Anders Reeves, hear him and many from the Swarm as they discuss this year's DEF CON event. Featuring, this year's CovertSwarm badge; insights; reviews on talks; tips if it's your first trip to DEF CON, and much more!

To join the Swarm why not visit our website - www.CovertSwarm.com

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Luke Potter interviews Adam Govier, Lead Developer of CovertSwarm's Offensive Operations Center platform.

Previously only accessible to its subscription clients, July's public-release of CovertSwarm's Offensive Operations Center caters for the comprehensive offensive security needs of organizations ranging from single-domained businesses through to global enterprises.

In this in-depth and behind the scenes conversation Luke and Adam explore the Attack Surface Management industry, explain what it is, why it exists...and how it is ripe for disruption via the FREE access to cyber insights that CovertSwarm's Offensive Operations Center SaaS platform delivers.

For  instant access to CovertSwarm:

• Threat Alerting
• Auto-recon of infrastructure assets
• Slack and JIRA integration
• MITRE & CWE aware reporting
• Vuln data
• Reporting
• ...or to simply access your latest pentest...

Join hundreds of global CovertSwarm users and sign up for FREE here:
https://subscribe.covertswarm.com

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Having started in the cyber security industry at just 16 years of age, our special guest Frankie Gallop shares her thoughts, insights and experiences of the rapid changes occurring within the domain these past 5 years.

Discussing how to approach, build and deploy an effective security programme, and sharing the number 1 security risk in practically every business today, listen to Frankie describe the importance of training your people, and how the emergence of mass-market AI is likely to impact your security posture.

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CovertSwarm's COO, Luke Potter, welcomes returning guest Haroon Mahmood to this episode of our podcast focusing on the many aspects necessary to gain and employ insights derived from Threat Intelligence (TI). Learn how best to identify, report and take action on threats with expert opinion and advice from Haroon.

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Hear special guest and privacy expert Ulrika Dellrud share her experiences with Luke around building and maintaining a data privacy-centric organizational culture; the importance of data privacy champions; and where NOT to maintain the reporting line for data privacy within your organization.

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Delve behind the scenes at this month's SwarmCon event as Luke interviews several CovertSwarm ethical hackers around their expectations from the event; their career backgrounds; explores the launch of CovertSwarm's new "Academy" programme; and brings to life some of the presentations planned for SwarmCon#5.

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Having spent a career working in 40 countries as a self-proclaimed 'curioso', Dominic Cameron has joined CovertSwarm as Chairman of the Board.

Starting with his attraction to working with technology startups that are transforming and disrupting industries, and supporting the people-needs of rapidly scaling and evolving businesses, hear the former Managing Director of ITV.com, founding CTO at lastminute.com, and Group CTO of Moonpig.com and Photobox share his thoughts on what makes the companies he engages with competitive; his refreshing views on doing dynamic business outside the UK; how the levels of technology complexity and business change have increased to 'scary' levels during his career; and much more...

Recorded in the heart of London, U.K.

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We're excited to mark the start of 2023 with the news that Will Morrish has joined CovertSwarm as Chief Revenue Officer.

On this episode hear CovertSwarm founder and CEO, Anders Reeves, interview Will as he shares his thoughts around the opportunities for organisations to enhance their security posture via an offensive security strategy, and the moment his jaw dropped when he learned what CovertSwarm's red team of ethical hackers deliver to our clients every day...

Social. Digital. Physical.

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CovertSwarm COO, Luke Potter, and Haroon Mahmood - Offensive and Defensive Infomation Security Specialist - discuss collaborative "Purple teaming", and how it can address and resolve the disconnect that can exist between the traditional Red:Blue cyber testing dynamic.

For more information on CovertSwarm, or to speak with one of our Swarm of ethical hackers please visit our website - www.covertswarm.com

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On a very special episode of The CovertSwarm podcast we welcome John Elliott - Security Advisor at Jscrambler, to discuss PCI DSS 4.0 and why you must mitigate skimming attacks!

For more information on CovertSwarm, or to speak with one of the team, please visit our website - www.covertswarm.com

We're hiring! Please visit our careers page for current vacancies - www.covertswarm.com/careers

  

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On today's episode CovertSwarm's COO, Luke, is joined by one of our brilliant Hive Members, Jorge, to discuss his first ever DEF CON experience, what he learnt and how this new knowledge can be used to further compromise our clients. 

For more information or to speak with one of the team, please visit our website - www.covertswarm.com

We're hiring! Please visit our careers page for current vacancies - www.covertswarm.com/careers

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Today we are bringing a very special episode, recorded live in Las Vegas at DEF CON 30!

Join CovertSwarm CEO, Anders and COO, Luke as they discuss this years iteration of the world's largest hacker convention - DEF CON. Featuring, this years badge, talks and the latest and most exciting exploits!

Visit our website - www.covertswarm.com

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