Podcasts

Reading paths

Curated listening loops by role. Each path is a hand-ordered sequence of 3–7 shows that work well together, start with one and you'll be set for a season.

• 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.

  1. 01Cybersecurity Headlines
  2. 02Darknet Diaries
  3. 03Research Saturday
  4. 04Daily Cyber Threat Brief
  5. 05Certified: The CompTIA Security+ Audio Course

• 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.

  1. 01Cybersecurity Today
  2. 02Click Here
  3. 03Breaking Into Cybersecurity
  4. 04Hacking Humans
  5. 05Security Unfiltered

• 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.

  1. 01SANS Internet Stormcenter Daily Cyber Security Podcast (Stormcast)
  2. 02Microsoft Threat Intelligence Podcast
  3. 03The Defender's Advantage Podcast
  4. 04Blueprint: Build the Best in Cyber Defense
  5. 05Detection at Scale
  6. 06Talkin' Bout [Infosec] News

• 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.

  1. 01Cybersecurity Headlines
  2. 02Risky Business
  3. 03CISO Series Podcast
  4. 04Defense in Depth
  5. 05CISO Tradecraft
  6. 06Dark Reading Confidential
  7. 07Resilient Cyber

• 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.

  1. 01Lenny's Podcast
  2. 02The Pragmatic Engineer
  3. 03The Twenty Minute VC
  4. 04Acquired

• 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.

  1. 01Latent Space
  2. 02Lex Fridman Podcast
  3. 03No Priors

• 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.

  1. 01CyberWire Daily
  2. 02Risky Business
  3. 03Identity at the Center
  4. 04Click Here
  5. 05Darknet Diaries

• 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.

  1. 01Indie Hackers
  2. 02SaaStr
  3. 03Lenny's Podcast
  4. 04The Knowledge Project

• 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.

  1. 01Latent Space
  2. 02Practical AI
  3. 03The TWIML AI Podcast
  4. 04MLOps Coffee Sessions
  5. 05No Priors