Threat intelligence and security news podcasts
The security news and threat intelligence podcasts worth a daily or weekly slot, from 5-minute briefings to long-form analysis of nation-state operations.
Pick one short daily briefing and one weekly analysis show. The daily keeps you current; the weekly tells you which of the week's stories mattered. Shows run by threat intelligence vendors are labelled as such on every review.
23 shows, grouped by level. Each review lists three episodes to start with.
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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<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.
narrativebiweekly30–60mCybersecurity 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+Hacking 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.
panelweekly30–60mMalicious 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.
narrativecompleted30–60mSmashing 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.
panelweekly30–60m
Practitioner
CyberWire 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<30mRisky 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+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<30mDark 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.
interviewmonthly30–60mMicrosoft 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.
interviewbiweekly30–60mPaul'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+Research 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<30mSANS 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+Talkin' 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 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.
interviewirregular30–60mThreat 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.
interviewweekly30–60mUnsupervised 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
Expert
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+Three 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.
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