Security Unfiltered Podcast

Security Unfiltered Podcast

Lost in a fog of buzzwords and vendor hype? You're not alone. Host Joe South (12+ years in the trenches) sits down with the people actually building, breaking, and defending systems β€” and gets them to say what they really think.

No fluff. No fear-mongering. Just straight talk on the threats that matter and what you can actually do about them.

Every week we unpack the real stuff: πŸ›‘ Zero trust, identity, and cloud security β€” explained like a human πŸ”“ How breaches really happen, from credential theft to attack-surface blind spots 🧠 Frontline war stories and hard-won lessons from top practitioners πŸš€ Future-proofing for AI, quantum, and whatever's coming next

Whether you're breaking into the field or a seasoned pro, you'll leave every episode a little sharper. Because knowledge is your best defense.

β–Ά New episodes weekly. Subscribe and hit the πŸ””. πŸ’¬ Drop a comment: what's your #1 cyber fear right now?

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FedRAMP Now Wants Criticals Fixed in 12 Hours | Shimon Tolts
Security Unfiltered PodcastNovember 03, 202600:08:37

FedRAMP Now Wants Criticals Fixed in 12 Hours | Shimon Tolts

Critical vulnerabilities used to get 30 days. Now it's 12 hours. Shimon Tolts (Copperhelm) and Joe South on why AI-written exploits killed severity-based prioritization, how few companies can actually staff 24/7 response, and what replaces it: checking whether each CVE is reachable and actually runn...

Trailer: Open Models Will Do Just About Anything | Rob Chapman, ArmorCode
Security Unfiltered PodcastNovember 03, 202600:01:29

Trailer: Open Models Will Do Just About Anything | Rob Chapman, ArmorCode

Full episode drops Thursday, Nov 5 at 8am CT. Rob Chapman of ArmorCode tells a stock open model to do something sketchy. It hesitates, he says keep going, and it says okay, sounds good. His take is that anyone saying AI isn't speeding up attacks isn't paying attention. Most exploitation comes throug...

Prioritization Is Dead: Every CVE Has an Exploit Now | Shimon Tolts
Security Unfiltered PodcastNovember 02, 202600:38:53

Prioritization Is Dead: Every CVE Has an Exploit Now | Shimon Tolts

Shimon Tolts, co-founder and CEO of Copperhelm, AWS Hero, and CNCF and Claude Ambassador, joins Joe South on Security Unfiltered. Shimon argues 2026 collapsed the remediation window: AI writes exploits on demand, so "is there a public exploit?" is the wrong question and severity-based prioritization...

Open Models Will Do Anything: AI Is Speeding Up Attacks | Rob Chapman, ArmorCode

Open Models Will Do Anything: AI Is Speeding Up Attacks | Rob Chapman, ArmorCode

Rob Chapman of ArmorCode joins Joe South on Security Unfiltered. Rob took the long way into security, from bulletin boards in middle Tennessee to running security for oil and gas companies. Now he says anyone claiming AI isn't speeding up attacks isn't paying attention. Stock open models like DeepSe...

Trailer: Prioritization Is Dead, Every CVE Has an Exploit Now | Shimon Tolts
Security Unfiltered PodcastNovember 02, 202600:01:23

Trailer: Prioritization Is Dead, Every CVE Has an Exploit Now | Shimon Tolts

Full episode drops Monday, Nov 2 at 8am CT. Shimon Tolts, co-founder and CEO of Copperhelm, built exploits with open Chinese models that have no guardrails. His take: every CVE has an exploit today, and the "only 25% have a public exploit" stat is wrong. FedRAMP just cut the fix window for its top s...

Security Unfiltered is Live With Robert Chapman with ArmorCode
Security Unfiltered PodcastOctober 31, 202600:50:39

Security Unfiltered is Live With Robert Chapman with ArmorCode

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Security Unfiltered is Live With Shimon From Copperhelm
Security Unfiltered PodcastOctober 28, 202600:00:00

Security Unfiltered is Live With Shimon From Copperhelm

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AI Agents Escaped OpenAI's Sandbox. Now What? | Rubrik's Bill Gurling & Cal Al-Dhubaib

AI Agents Escaped OpenAI's Sandbox. Now What? | Rubrik's Bill Gurling & Cal Al-Dhubaib

Bill Gurling and Cal Al-Dhubaib of Rubrik join Joe South on Security Unfiltered to break down the OpenAI and Hugging Face incident: agents given impossible tasks that found each other through Artifactory, called themselves "the swarm," chained zero days up to cluster admin and broke into Hugging Fac...