Welcome back… to the show! Hacker Valley Studio podcast features Host Ron Eddings, as he explores the world of cybersecurity through the eyes of professionals in the industry. We cover everything from inspirational real-life stories in tech, to highlighting influential cybersecurity companies, and we do so in a fun and enthusiastic way. We’re making cybersecurity accessible, creating a whole new form of entertainment: cybertainment.
Latest episodes
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46 min
Your Cloud Backup Won’t Save You with Jake Bernardes
If someone wiped your cloud environment tomorrow, how long until you’re back in business? Not what the plan says. What would actually happen? Ron sits down with Jake Bernardes, CIS…
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22 min
Voice Phishing Is the New Front Door
What would you do if your phone rang and the caller ID showed your own company? Would you pick up? Would you help the person on the other end? This Cybersecurity Awareness Month, R…
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37 min
Securing the Apps Everyone Is Building with Roi Nisimi and Yonatan Levi
What happens when your marketing team, your sales team, and the person down the hall can all ship a full app from a single prompt? And what is that app quietly connected to? In thi…
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32 min
Giving Your AI Agent Its Own Identity with Ashish Rajan
Your newest hire has a Google Workspace account, a Slack login and a laptop. It never sleeps, and it never asks before it acts. So who owns its identity? Ron welcomes back Ashish R…
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32 min
From Read Access to Admin with just an AI Agent
What if someone got full admin access to your company's platform, including your CRM, your payments app, and your private messages, and the only tool they used was an AI chatbot? C…
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38 min
Do You Know What Your Agent is Doing at 3AM? with Amir Ofek
Every AI agent in your environment inherits someone's permissions, and most teams have no idea what those agents are actually doing with them. Amir Ofek, CEO and co-founder of Aizo…
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37 min
Cloud Broke My World Before AI Did with Dr. Jay Abdullah
Cybersecurity has survived cloud, mobile, and a dozen other "biggest disruptions of our lifetime," and each one felt unprecedented in the moment. In this episode, Ron sits down wit…
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36 min
The Dashboard Is Dead, Long Live the Harness with Myke Lyons
Security teams spent decades begging for more logs. Now the enterprise is generating petabytes a day, and the thing drowning in it isn't just the SOC anymore, it's your AI agents t…
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36 min
The AI Already Inside Your Company with Russell Spitler & Richard Penshorn
A year ago, the average employee held about 30 OAuth grants. Today that number has risen to 88, and it isn't slowing down. Ron sits down with Russell Spitler, co-founder and CEO of…
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35 min
Humans First: Adobe's Rule for Building AI Security Tools with John Gillis
Imagine how much investigation time your SOC could get back if the busywork just disappeared. Ron sits down with John Gillis, Staff Security AI Engineer at Adobe, who built an in-h…
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24 min
Let AI Do More Without Surrendering Your Judgment with Jen Easterly
Fresh off the showroom floor at Black Hat 2026, Ron brings back some hot takes from the crowd. Nearly every booth he visited, including the Exaforce booth, was pushing in the same…
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31 min
Post-Quantum Cryptography: What Every Organization Needs to Know with Michael Fasulo
What if the encrypted traffic flowing across the internet right now (emails, files, logins) is already being quietly collected and stored by someone waiting for the day they can fi…
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38 min
Stop Defending the Edge: How to Rethink Your Mobile Security with Jared Shepard
What if the biggest risk to your organization isn't the device that gets lost, but the data that lives on it? Ron Eddings sits down with Jared Shepard, Founder and CEO of Hypori, w…
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35 min
Inside Conti: The Ransomware Gang That Ran Like a Company with Geoff White
What does the world's most prolific cybercrime operation look like from the inside? And why does it operate suspiciously like a mid-sized tech company, complete with HR headaches,…
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36 min
What AI Agents Should Own in Your SOC, And What Happens If You Wait with Tim Leehealey
What happens when the adversary moves at machine speed, and your SOC is still responding at human speed? Why does nearly every security team say AI should handle L1 work, while 64%…
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31 min
We Shipped a Tool That Acts Like You. Meet Interceptor.
Think about everything you could accomplish if you don’t have to be the one driving your browser. In this solo episode, Ron Eddings introduces Interceptor, Hacker Valley Media's fi…
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31 min
How to Turn Cybersecurity Customers into Lifelong Advocates with Antu Buck
What if the same psychology that threat actors use to manipulate their targets is the same psychology that marketers use to earn your trust? In this episode, Ron sits down with Ant…
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32 min
What's Really Stopping AI From Running Your SOC with Aqsa Taylor
In 2025, out of all 70+ guests we had on our show, not one of them said they’d trust AI to run their SOC. Now in 2026, that mindset is shifting. In this episode, Ron sits down with…
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29 min
Feed Your Brain: What Cybersecurity Veterans Are Getting Wrong with Johnny Xmas
Is AI really coming for your red teaming job? What does it actually take to build a team that thinks like the adversary, and what happens when that team stops caring? And what do y…
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25 min
Fighting Smarter: What Combat Sports Teaches Us About Cyber Defense with Robin Black
What does a calf kick have to do with vulnerability management? What can a fighter's mindset teach a security practitioner about operating against an adversary they've never faced?…