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Episode 1: What's all this then?
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Welcome to the Scotch and Security podcast! This is the first episode of the podcast and is really just an introduction to the show and what it's going to be all about.
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Introduction to Scotch & Security Podcast
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Hello, and welcome to the Scotch & Security podcast. I'm your host, Matt Egan, and this is episode one. Well, episode one is really just an introductory episode.
The Journey to Launching the Podcast
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It's not going to cover a whole lot of depth, but I figured at the very least I should probably get this thing off the ground, considering I've been trying to do it for about five years now, and this is probably the only way that I will actually force myself to deliver on this content.
00:00:29
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As I said, this project is something I've been trying to do for about five years now. Every single time I tried to get started, I would feel that it wasn't quite perfect and it wasn't quite right. Maybe I should change this or maybe I should tweak that. Maybe I should, maybe I should, maybe I should. What I finally decided today is that maybe I should just get it done.
00:00:49
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So that is why we have episode one.
Casual Cybersecurity Conversations
00:00:52
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That is, again, just going to be explaining kind of what this podcast is all about, who I am, and what we can look to in the future. So don't expect this to be too long, but hopefully it will be at least informative.
00:01:04
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The podcast is called the Scotch and Security podcast. Why Scotch and Security, you might ask. Well, when I came up with this idea originally, it was to be based on the concept of sitting around in a pub or a bar or someplace with your peers, your friends, your coworkers, and really just talking about security, right? And talking about the things that you knew or learned or things that were sort of coming up on the horizon.
00:01:34
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Things that really you just talk about when you're at a bar. Let's be honest, many of us have done that. Maybe not a bar. Maybe it's just over coffee. It doesn't really matter. I wanted this to be a really casual cybersecurity conversation, not going into an academic exploration necessarily.
00:01:54
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But providing enough technical detail to actually make it interesting, especially to people who are practitioners in cybersecurity, but also making sure that while being technical, it is still accessible to those who may not be as deep in cybersecurity. And so the concept was, you know, really, let's just talk about security. Let's just talk about the different threats of the day. And let's
00:02:19
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make it a little bit fun too, right? The original thought was that I was going to do these remote or mobile, actually go to a coffee shop or a bar or a restaurant and have a one-to-one conversation.
Remote Beginnings and Future Plans
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Well, there was this little thing called the pandemic that actually interrupted that thought pretty quickly. And as time went on, you know, like I said, I just kept pushing things back. Now, does that mean I'm not going to do this as maybe a live on the scene sort of scenario? No, that actually still is planned.
00:02:48
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if for nothing else because I bought a little portable recorder and I still have to actually justify the expense of that. But for now, I think to get started, I'm really just gonna be doing a lot of these remote. It's going to be still with other folks. There actually are some guests that I have planned to invite to the show and maybe one, two, three, four, who knows how many. We'll try and have as many people on to the call as possible and we'll see what we can actually do.
00:03:17
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Now, the original show, like I said, was designed to be this remote one. And since we'll be doing these a little, or not designed to be a remote one, pardon me, was designed to be done in person, doing it remote is gonna be kind of interesting. So we're gonna be testing out some new technology, et cetera. The show itself will actually probably get a little bit better production quality than it does today. Obviously, there's no intro music, no outro music, or anything like that.
00:03:45
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But we'll get that all sort of working as time goes on.
Host's Background and Podcast Independence
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Now, one thing about this podcast that I should probably explain is who the heck am I and why do I think you might want to listen to me and talk about cybersecurity with me?
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So as I said already, my name is Matt Egan. I've been in software and cybersecurity for over 30 years. I have worked with some of the smallest companies and some of the largest companies. Now, that is not to say that this is in any way, shape or form representative
00:04:17
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of the thoughts of my employers, either past, present, or future, this is a purely personal podcast. It is not sponsored by them, not sponsored by, well, anyone at the moment because this is episode one. And like I said, it doesn't represent any employers that I have had or may have or have today. That being said,
00:04:42
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I think that I can actually bring a fairly, I wouldn't say unique. I mean, I'm not that special, but I could think that I could bring at least a helpful view of cybersecurity.
Content and Format Overview
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I can go very deep in cybersecurity, but also explaining it to folks who may not understand it. Explaining the, you know, what exactly is multi-factor authentication and why is it important to you as an end user? Why is it important to you as a CISO?
00:05:13
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What is a sim or a seam, depending on how you want to pronounce them? I'm a sim person myself. Others pronounce them as seams. And how do things like, you know, endpoint detection and response, email-based security tools, anti-phishing tools, et cetera, how do all those things work and why are they important for us?
00:05:34
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We'll also be talking about top security stories of the day or the week or the month, depending on what they are, including things going broad scale like the legal ramifications of different policies that may be coming out from different entities around the world or what do different cyber attacks or vulnerabilities mean to the world at large.
00:06:00
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As I said, there will be some guests on the show. There may be co-hosts at different times as well. The overall episodic planning is going to be hopefully at the very least two times a month. I'm going to try and get in as many episodes as I possibly can, but I'm going to commit myself to do at least two times a month. Not including February of this year.
00:06:25
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because February of this year ends in about a week. I don't think I'm going to get a second episode up and running by then, but at least starting in March of 2024, I'm going to go ahead and do as many of these as I can. Of course, it's all going to be based on whether or not people actually want to listen to it. There's no sense in my shouting in an empty room, but if folks do actually like it and do want to hear a bit more, I would say,
00:06:49
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the classic like subscribe comment whatever you need to do and really just feel free to tell me you know what am i doing right what am i doing wrong what are the things you think i could be talking about should be talking about if there are any questions that you have about cyber security that you wanted to maybe
00:07:07
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get my opinion on or those of folks who may be on the show or if you just have a question, you know, feel free to ask.
Conclusion and Excitement for Future
00:07:14
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Like I said, I want this to be a very accessible podcast so that anybody could actually listen to it and take something away from it. So with that, I am not going to make this episode any longer because from an introductory standpoint, I think it's gotten a little bit long in the tooth.
00:07:33
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Again, thank you very much for joining the podcast today, and I look forward to talking to folks in subsequent episodes.