A directory with opinions
The technology & B2B SaaS podcasts worth your commute.
Every show on this list has a real editorial take, who it's for, who it isn't, and the single best episode if you only listen to one. No SEO chaff, no “top 100 podcasts of 2026” stuffing. Just the shows I actually recommend, kept honest with a last-verified date on every entry.
Security podcasts
51 security shows, each with a level, who owns it, whether it is still publishing, and three episodes to start with.
By topic
Best episodes
- Best podcast episodes on ransomware
- Best podcast episodes on supply chain attacks
- Best podcast episodes on identity attacks
- Best podcast episodes on AI security
- Best podcast episodes on nation-state hacking
- Best podcast episodes on incident response
- 25 Security Podcast Episodes Every Beginner Should Hear
- Best podcast episodes on the SolarWinds hack
- Best podcast episodes on the NotPetya attack
- Best podcast episodes on the XZ Utils backdoor
- Best podcast episodes on Log4Shell
- Best podcast episodes on the MOVEit hack
- Best podcast episodes on the Scattered Spider attacks
Editorial picks
11 shows
The shows I'd subscribe to if I had to start from scratch tomorrow. Hand-picked, not algorithmic.
Lenny's Podcast
PickLenny Rachitsky
Long, structured interviews with operators about the craft of building product.
Listen if you build product or growth at a venture-backed SaaS company.
interviewweekly60m+Acquired
PickBen Gilbert · David Rosenthal
Four to five hour histories of the companies that defined modern technology.
Listen if you you treat company history as professional reading, not entertainment.
panelmonthly60m+Lex Fridman Podcast
PickLex Fridman
Long-form conversations across AI, science, and culture, guest-list-driven.
Listen if you you want extended, technical-leaning conversations with AI researchers.
interviewweekly60m+Latent Space
Pickswyx (Shawn Wang) · Alessio Fanelli
The technical AI engineering podcast, practitioners talking to practitioners.
Listen if you you ship LLM-powered features and need implementation-grade detail.
interviewweekly30–60mThe Pragmatic Engineer
PickGergely Orosz
Engineering management, hiring, and the business of software at scale.
Listen if you you manage engineers, or are about to.
interviewweekly60m+Risky Business
PickPatrick Gray
Weekly news + analysis show for working security professionals.
Listen if you you work in security and need a weekly news synthesis.
panelweekly60m+Darknet Diaries
PickJack Rhysider
Narrative true-crime stories from the cybersecurity world.
Listen if you you like long-form narrative non-fiction, think This American Life for hacking.
narrativebiweekly30–60mIdentity at the Center
PickJeff Steadman · Jim McDonald
A weekly trade podcast for identity and access management practitioners.
Listen if you you work in workforce IAM, IGA, or PAM.
panelweekly30–60mCyberWire Daily
PickDave Bittner
Daily 25-minute briefing on the cybersecurity news that actually moved markets, regulators, or attackers.
Listen if you work in or sell to cybersecurity and need the daily news pulse.
narrativedaily<30mClick Here
PickDina Temple-Raston
Long-form cybersecurity journalism from a former NPR investigative reporter, with the production values to match.
Listen if you you prefer reported narrative journalism to panel-discussion formats.
narrativeweekly<30mThe TWIML AI Podcast
PickSam Charrington
Deep-dive interviews with AI researchers and engineering leaders, longer-running and more academic than the LLM-shipping podcasts.
Listen if you you're an ML or AI engineer who reads papers and wants the author interview.
interviewweekly60m+
Reading paths
All paths →Don't want to scroll a directory? Pick a path, each one is a 3–7 show listening loop curated for a specific kind of role.
If you're a security student
A listening order for students: a short daily news habit, one story-driven show for motivation, one technical show, one career show, and an exam companion. Each step is free and none assumes a security job.
5 shows
If you're switching into security
For people moving into security from IT, development, or a different field. Start with a news habit and real stories, then spend most of your time with the career shows, where people who made the switch explain how.
5 shows
If you work in a SOC
For SOC analysts, detection engineers and incident responders. A five-minute morning brief, then threat intelligence from the big response teams, then the shows about detection and investigation craft.
6 shows
If you lead security
For CISOs, security managers and anyone being promoted into the job. A daily headline brief, one weekly news analysis, then the shows where practising CISOs argue about budgets, boards, hiring and vendor selection.
7 shows
If you're a B2B SaaS founder
A weekly listening loop for early-to-mid-stage B2B SaaS founders. The order matters: start with operational frameworks, end with market context.
4 shows
If you build with LLMs
For engineers shipping LLM-powered features. Latent Space is the trade publication; Lex and No Priors fill in the wider picture from the research and investor sides.
3 shows
If you run security or identity
For working security and IAM practitioners. CyberWire Daily and Risky Business for the news pulse, Identity at the Center for IAM-specific coverage, Click Here and Darknet Diaries for the narrative pieces you can share with non-technical colleagues.
5 shows
If you're a bootstrapped or indie founder
For founders running capital-efficient or independent software businesses. Indie Hackers for the explicit bootstrapped lens; SaaStr and Lenny's Podcast for the broader B2B SaaS operating playbook when it's applicable; The Knowledge Project to keep the thinking sharp.
4 shows
If you ship AI features in production
For engineers shipping AI in production rather than researching the next paper. Latent Space and Practical AI for the applied weekly cadence; TWIML AI for research depth when you want the author interview; MLOps Coffee Sessions for the platform engineering perspective.
5 shows
All shows
64 of 64 matching the current filters.
Format
Episode length
Level
Security topic
Category
Acquired
PickBen Gilbert · David Rosenthal
Four to five hour histories of the companies that defined modern technology.
Listen if you you treat company history as professional reading, not entertainment.
panelmonthly60m+Click Here
PickDina Temple-Raston
Long-form cybersecurity journalism from a former NPR investigative reporter, with the production values to match.
Listen if you you prefer reported narrative journalism to panel-discussion formats.
narrativeweekly<30mCyberWire Daily
PickDave Bittner
Daily 25-minute briefing on the cybersecurity news that actually moved markets, regulators, or attackers.
Listen if you work in or sell to cybersecurity and need the daily news pulse.
narrativedaily<30mDarknet Diaries
PickJack Rhysider
Narrative true-crime stories from the cybersecurity world.
Listen if you you like long-form narrative non-fiction, think This American Life for hacking.
narrativebiweekly30–60mIdentity at the Center
PickJeff Steadman · Jim McDonald
A weekly trade podcast for identity and access management practitioners.
Listen if you you work in workforce IAM, IGA, or PAM.
panelweekly30–60mLatent Space
Pickswyx (Shawn Wang) · Alessio Fanelli
The technical AI engineering podcast, practitioners talking to practitioners.
Listen if you you ship LLM-powered features and need implementation-grade detail.
interviewweekly30–60mLenny's Podcast
PickLenny Rachitsky
Long, structured interviews with operators about the craft of building product.
Listen if you build product or growth at a venture-backed SaaS company.
interviewweekly60m+Lex Fridman Podcast
PickLex Fridman
Long-form conversations across AI, science, and culture, guest-list-driven.
Listen if you you want extended, technical-leaning conversations with AI researchers.
interviewweekly60m+Risky Business
PickPatrick Gray
Weekly news + analysis show for working security professionals.
Listen if you you work in security and need a weekly news synthesis.
panelweekly60m+The Pragmatic Engineer
PickGergely Orosz
Engineering management, hiring, and the business of software at scale.
Listen if you you manage engineers, or are about to.
interviewweekly60m+The TWIML AI Podcast
PickSam Charrington
Deep-dive interviews with AI researchers and engineering leaders, longer-running and more academic than the LLM-shipping podcasts.
Listen if you you're an ML or AI engineer who reads papers and wants the author interview.
interviewweekly60m+Absolute AppSec
Ken Johnson · Seth Law
Two working AppSec practitioners arguing about what actually helps developers ship safer code.
Listen if you run or work on an application security program and want peers' honest opinions.
panelweekly60m+AI Security Podcast
Ashish Rajan · Caleb Sima
Two former CISOs separate real AI security risk from vendor noise, for the people who have to sign off on it.
Listen if you are a CISO or security architect being asked to approve AI agents and copilots.
mixedbiweekly30–60mApplication Security Weekly
Mike Shema · John Kinsella · Kalyani Pawar
An hour a week on finding and fixing software flaws, from secure design to LLM-written code.
Listen if you build or secure software and want one reliable AppSec interview a week.
mixedweekly60m+Behind the Binary by Google Cloud Security
Josh Stroschein
Hour-long conversations with the reverse engineers who build the tools and crack the malware everyone else studies.
Listen if you are learning malware analysis or reverse engineering and want role models and tool context.
interviewmonthly60m+Blueprint: Build the Best in Cyber Defense
John Hubbard
SANS's blue team show: long, teaching-first conversations on running a SOC, from metrics to ransomware negotiation.
Listen if you work in a SOC or are training for one and want structured, evergreen material.
interviewirregular60m+Breaking Into Cybersecurity
Christophe Foulon · Renee Small
Short career-transition interviews: how real people got their first security job, step by step.
Listen if you are changing careers into security and want stories from people with your background.
interviewirregular30–60mBusiness Security Weekly
Matt Alderman · Jason Albuquerque · Ben Carr
Security leadership as a business discipline: boards, budgets, people and the security market.
Listen if you are a CISO, security manager or aspiring one who has to speak budget and board.
mixedweekly30–60mCaveat
Dave Bittner · Ben Yelin
A journalist and a lawyer explain the week's surveillance, privacy and cyber law fights in plain English.
Listen if you work in security and need to understand surveillance, privacy and cyber law without a law degree.
mixedweekly30–60mCertified: The CompTIA Security+ Audio Course
Dr. Jason Edwards
A free, ad-free Security+ course in 12 to 20 minute audio lessons, now rebuilt for SY0-801.
Listen if you are studying for Security+ and want objective-by-objective audio review.
soloirregular<30mCISO Series Podcast
David Spark · Andy Ellis · Mike Johnson
Weekly CISO roundtable built on community posts, quick verdicts and a running joke in every title.
Listen if you are a security leader or aspire to be one and want to hear peers disagree.
panelweekly30–60mCISO Tradecraft
G Mark Hardy · Ross Young
A weekly career course for security people who want to lead, structured like lessons rather than banter.
Listen if you are a senior engineer or manager working toward a security leadership role.
mixedweekly30–60mCISSP Cyber Training Podcast
Shon Gerber
Weekly CISSP domain lessons and practice questions, each tied to a real incident from the news.
Listen if you are studying for the CISSP and want domain-by-domain audio review.
soloweekly30–60mCloud Security Podcast
Ashish Rajan
Practitioners from Netflix, Block, and Adobe explain how they actually run cloud security, now with a heavy AI tilt.
Listen if you are a cloud or platform engineer moving into security.
interviewbiweekly30–60mCloud Security Podcast by Google
Anton Chuvakin · Timothy Peacock
293 episodes of Google's cloud, SOC, and SIEM thinking, with Mandiant breach lessons. Ended August 2026; the archive holds up.
Listen if you run or are building a SOC and want sharp takes on SIEM, detection engineering, and AI in the SOC.
interviewcompleted30–60mCloud Security Today
Matthew Chiodi
Monthly-ish conversations on the how of cloud security and cyber leadership, hosted by the former Unit 42 cloud threat lead.
Listen if you lead or aspire to lead a cloud security program and want strategy more than tooling.
interviewirregular30–60mCritical Thinking - Bug Bounty Podcast
Justin Gardner · Joseph Thacker · Brandyn Murtagh
Full-time bug bounty hunters trading techniques, write-ups, and payout war stories every week.
Listen if you hunt bugs on HackerOne, Bugcrowd, or Intigriti, or want to.
mixedweekly60m+Crying Out Cloud
Eden Koby Naftali · Amitai Cohen
Wiz's monthly roundup of cloud vulnerabilities and incidents, plus interviews with researchers who find them.
Listen if you need a monthly briefing on cloud vulnerabilities and incidents in under half an hour.
mixedmonthly<30mCybersecurity Headlines
Rich Stroffolino · Sarah Lane · Steve Prentice
Three security stories in about seven minutes, every weekday, plus a Friday live discussion with CISOs.
Listen if you want the day's security news in under ten minutes.
mixeddaily<30mCybersecurity Today
David Shipley · Jim Love
A Canadian business-first cyber news brief, ten minutes most weekdays, with longer weekend interviews.
Listen if you run IT or a small security team and need to brief leadership on what matters this week.
mixeddaily<30mDaily Cyber Threat Brief
Gerald Auger
A live weekday news stream that explains why each story matters, with a career community attached.
Listen if you are a student or junior analyst who wants news explained, not just reported.
mixeddaily60m+Dark Reading Confidential
Becky Bracken
Monthly-ish first-person stories from people who were in the room: pen testers, CISOs, threat hunters.
Listen if you learn best from first-person accounts of incidents and investigations.
interviewmonthly30–60mDay[0]
Specter · zi
A finished archive of 283 episodes on how real vulnerabilities were found and exploited.
Listen if you are learning exploit development or vulnerability research and want worked examples.
panelcompleted60m+Defense in Depth
David Spark · Steve Zalewski · Geoff Belknap · Edward Contreras
One contested security question per week, argued by a CISO co-host and a guest in about 30 minutes.
Listen if you want one security leadership question argued properly in 30 minutes.
panelweekly30–60mDetection at Scale
Jack Naglieri
Detection and response leaders from Google, Block, and Snowflake on running a modern SOC on cloud-scale data.
Listen if you are a detection engineer or SOC lead building a detection-as-code practice.
interviewirregular30–60mHacker Valley Studio
Ron Eddings
Upbeat 30-minute conversations about security careers, people and, lately, AI agents.
Listen if you are new to security and want relatable career stories with energy.
interviewweekly30–60mHacking Humans
Dave Bittner · Joe Carrigan · Maria Varmazis
Weekly look at social engineering, phishing, and the human side of cybersecurity, accessible enough for non-technical colleagues.
Listen if you you work in or sell to security awareness training programs.
panelweekly30–60mIndie Hackers
Courtland Allen
Interviews with bootstrapped and indie founders, the antidote to venture-backed-only podcast diets.
Listen if you you're a bootstrapped or indie founder and want peers on the mic, not VCs.
interviewirregular30–60mMalicious Life
Ran Levi
A finished archive of 260-plus narrated histories of hacks, from the Morris worm to Volt Typhoon.
Listen if you are new to security and want the history that explains why controls exist.
narrativecompleted30–60mMicrosoft Threat Intelligence Podcast
Elliot Volkman
Microsoft's own threat hunters on the Blizzards, Typhoons, and crime crews they track, plus the takedowns they run.
Listen if you work in a SOC or CTI team and want the analyst story behind Microsoft's threat reports.
interviewbiweekly30–60mMLOps Coffee Sessions
Demetrios Brinkmann
The community podcast for ML platform engineers, with the loose conference-corridor energy that the topic actually has.
Listen if you you work on ML platforms, training infrastructure, or model deployment systems.
interviewweekly30–60mNo Priors
Sarah Guo · Elad Gil
Two AI investors interviewing the people building the AI era.
Listen if you you're building or investing at the application layer of AI.
interviewweekly30–60mOpen Source Security
Josh Bressers
Half-hour conversations with the maintainers and foundations who keep open source secure.
Listen if you own dependency risk, SBOMs, or vulnerability management for a software team.
interviewweekly30–60mPaul's Security Weekly
Paul Asadoorian · Larry Pesce · Josh Marpet · Jeff Man · Mandy Logan · Tyler Robinson
Two hours of hacker news, hardware hacking, and Linux tech segments from a show running since 2005.
Listen if you like hardware, firmware, and IoT hacking and want a weekly dose of it.
mixedweekly60m+Practical AI
Daniel Whitenack · Chris Benson
Applied AI engineering conversations, the right pitch for practitioners shipping AI in production rather than researchers publishing papers.
Listen if you you're a software engineer shipping AI features in production.
panelweekly30–60mResearch Saturday
Dave Bittner
One fresh threat research report a week, explained by the researcher who wrote it, in about 25 minutes.
Listen if you work in a SOC or CTI role and want the week's notable malware and campaign research.
interviewweekly<30mResilient Cyber
Chris Hughes
Supply chain, vulnerability management and AI agent security, from a practitioner who writes the books on them.
Listen if you work in AppSec, product security or vulnerability management and want the current debates.
interviewweekly30–60mRisk Grustlers
Nicholas Muy
Scrut's interview show where security and GRC leaders argue about what compliance is actually for.
Listen if you work in GRC or compliance and want sharper thinking than audit checklists.
interviewirregular30–60mSaaStr
Jason Lemkin · Harry Stebbings
Founder and operator conversations from the SaaStr conference team, tighter on B2B SaaS than the general founder shows.
Listen if you you're an operator or founder at a B2B SaaS company.
interviewweekly30–60mSANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast (Stormcast)
Johannes B. Ullrich
Five to eight minutes every weekday morning on what the SANS honeypots and handlers saw overnight.
Listen if you work in a SOC or run infrastructure and need to know what to patch today.
solodaily<30mSecurity Now
Steve Gibson · Leo Laporte
Steve Gibson takes one security story apart every Tuesday, slowly, until you understand how it actually works.
Listen if you want security news explained down to the protocol or code level, not just reported.
panelweekly60m+Security Unfiltered
Joe South
Career-first conversations with hackers, CISOs, and ex-intelligence officers, aimed at people getting into security.
Listen if you are trying to break into security and want honest career talk.
interviewbiweekly30–60mSerious Privacy
K Royal · Paul Breitbarth · Ralph O'Brien
Three working privacy pros talk through the week in data protection, with regulators as regular guests.
Listen if you work in privacy, data protection or GRC and want a weekly read on regulation.
mixedweekly30–60mSmashing Security
Graham Cluley
Weekly conversational take on cybersecurity news, irreverent enough to share with non-security colleagues.
Listen if you you want cybersecurity coverage that's accessible to non-specialists.
panelweekly30–60mTalkin' Bout [Infosec] News
Corey Ham · John Strand · Ralph May · Wade Wells
Black Hills Information Security's pentesters riff on the week's security news, live on Monday.
Listen if you want a weekly news habit with commentary from people who do penetration testing.
panelweekly60m+The Azure Security Podcast
Michael Howard · Sarah Young · Gladys Rodriguez · Mark Simos
Microsoft security veterans on Azure, Entra ID, and Zero Trust, with a news segment on what changed in Microsoft's cloud.
Listen if you secure Azure, Entra ID, or Microsoft 365 and want feature changes explained by the people behind them.
mixedmonthly30–60mThe Defender's Advantage Podcast
Luke McNamara
Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group analysts on the intrusions they responded to, in 30 tight minutes.
Listen if you do incident response or threat hunting and want lessons from Mandiant engagements.
interviewirregular30–60mThe Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish interviews thinkers about mental models, decision-making, and applied wisdom rather than industry mechanics.
Listen if you you read Farnam Street or are interested in mental models and meta-cognition.
interviewbiweekly60m+The Lawfare Podcast
Benjamin Wittes · Tyler McBrien · Anna Bower · Scott R. Anderson · Kevin Frazier
Daily national security law from the Lawfare team. Cyber is one strand among many.
Listen if you work on security policy, compliance or legal risk and need the legal reasoning behind cyber rules.
interviewdaily30–60mThe Privacy Advisor Podcast
Jedidiah Bracy
The IAPP's interview show: regulators, lawmakers and privacy leaders on where data protection law is heading.
Listen if you follow privacy and AI governance law and want to hear the people who write and enforce it.
interviewirregular30–60mThe Twenty Minute VC
Harry Stebbings
High-velocity interviews with venture capitalists and founders.
Listen if you you want a wide read on what venture capitalists are saying right now.
interviewweekly30–60mThreat Vector by Palo Alto Networks
David Moulton
Unit 42 incident responders and threat researchers explain what they saw on real engagements, in 35 minutes a week.
Listen if you want breach lessons from people who answer the incident response call.
interviewweekly30–60mThree Buddy Problem
Ryan Naraine · Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade · Costin Raiu
Three veteran APT hunters argue about nation-state malware, attribution, and the week's zero-days for two hours.
Listen if you work in threat intelligence or malware analysis and want expert argument, not summaries.
panelweekly60m+Unsupervised Learning
Daniel Miessler
A security veteran's essays on where AI is taking security, work, and people, published when he has something to say.
Listen if you want frameworks for thinking about AI's effect on attack and defense.
mixedirregular30–60m