99 Best cybersecurity podcasts for beginners | InfoSec Reporter

Are you looking for cybersecurity podcasts for beginners to follow? Look no more because we’ve made a list of 99 best cybersecurity podcasts that you can listen to this year.

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Darknet Diaries

According to Wikipedia — Darknet Diaries is an investigative podcast created by Jack Rhysider. The podcast chronicles true stories about hackers, malware, botnets, cryptography, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, and Internet privacy. They release 30–60 minutes episodes twice a week.

Risky Biz — A security podcast without the waffle

Risky Business is a weekly information security podcast featuring news and interviews with industry experts. Launched in February 2007, Risky Business is a podcast for information security pros. With a running time of approximately 50–60 minutes.

Security Now

Security Now! is a weekly podcast hosted by Leo Laporte and Steve Gibson. The first episode was released on 19 August 2005. Released each Thursday, Security Now! consists of a discussion between Gibson and Laporte of issues of computer security and, insecurity. Covered topics have included security vulnerabilities, firewalls, password security, spyware, rootkits, Wi-Fi, virtual private networks (VPNs), virtual machines, full virtualization, hardware-assisted virtualization, and virtual appliances.

Hacking Humans

Hacking Humans is a weekly podcast hosted by Join Dave Bittner and Joe Carrigan. Every Thursday they release 30 minutes episodes about social engineering scams, phishing schemes, and criminal exploits that are making headlines and taking a heavy toll on organizations and humans around the world.

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Unsupervised Learning

Unsupervised learning is a weekly podcast hosted by Daniel Miessler. He spends 5–20 hours a week consuming books, podcasts, and articles around the intersection of security, technology, and humans And Each episode is about 10–30 minutes long. The episodes are available — as both a newsletter and a podcast.

The social Engineering Podcast

The Social-Engineer Podcast is about humans. Understanding how to interact, communicate, and relay information can help us protect, mitigate, and understand social engineering attacks. So, this podcast is about techniques hackers use to manipulate access to protected information.

7 Minute Security

7 Minute Security is a weekly information security podcast focusing on penetration testing, blue teaming, and building a career in security. The podcast also features in-depth interviews with industry leaders who share their insights, tools, tips, and tricks for being a successful security engineer.

Smashing Security

Smashing security is an award-winning cybersecurity podcast hosted by Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. The hosts cover topics such as cybercrime, hacking, and online privacy.

Down the Security Rabbithole

Down the Security Rabbithole information security podcast focuses on useful commentary on relevant events in the information security community, filtered through a no-nonsense business-first approach, this is a podcast that helps you get the same perspective on hacks, risks, threats, and technology that you need to help make decisions in your daily life and in your organization.

Complete privacy and security podcast

The complete privacy and security podcast is a weekly podcast that presents ideas to help you become digitally invisible, stay secure from cyber threats, and make you a better online investigator.

Defensive Security

Defensive Security is a weekly information security podcast hosted by Jerry Bell (@maliciouslink) and Andrew Kalat (@lerg). The podcast covers breaches such as security breaches, data breaches, malware infections, and strategies for defense.

Troy Hunt’s Podcast

Troy hunt releases an audio podcast version of his weekly video update that covers issues on global cybersecurity events and news. In short, the podcast covers everything in InfoSec.

Cyber Security Cafe

Cyber Security cafe hosted by Beverley Roche is a weekly show where the host talks to global experts, academics, and researchers to provide insights on the issues affecting the cybersecurity profession and our connected life. If you’re interested in updates on current professional practice or protecting your online experience against criminal or unauthorized access, this podcast will help you with tips to protect your online identity and data.

Task Force 7 podcast

Taskforce 7 is a weekly podcast series that features up to date insights and analysis by cybersecurity professionals on the most important cybersecurity issues affecting your life today. They explain technical subject matter in non-technical terms. And cover topics that are of vital interest to the cybersecurity expert yet also appeals to the novice interested in learning more about cybersecurity and new threats affecting the social, political, business, and economic concerns of the world.

Defending Digital Podcast

Defending digital podcast hosted by defending digital solves the problem of cybersafety for both kids and adults. You’ll learn about protecting kids online (cybersafety), and general digital security and privacy (for adults as well as kids

The information security forum

Founded in 1989, the Information Security Forum (ISF) is an independent not-for-profit forum, with some of the world’s leading organizations and cybersecurity experts giving daily podcast updates. They are dedicated to investigating, clarifying, and resolving key issues in information security and risk management.

The Swansea Cyber Law and Security Podcast

The Swansea Cyber Law & Security Podcast presented by Sara Correia and Patrick Bishop brings you some news and discussion on the cyber law and security happenings of the last month. The views expressed in this podcast are personal and do not represent those of their employers or partner organizations.

The Application Security Podcast

The Application Security Weekly Podcast decrypts development for the Security Professionals, exploring how to inject security into their organization’s Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) in a fluid and transparent way. The target audience for Application Security Weekly spans the gamut of Security Engineers and Practitioners that need to level-up their skills in the Application Security space — as well as enabling “Cyber Curious” developers to get involved in the Application Security process at their organizations.

Originally published at https://infosecreporter.com on June 25, 2020.