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Episode 18 - Live Fire Defense at Locked Shields

In this episode, host Richard Bejtlich sits down with Corelight Senior Sales Engineers Adam Donadeo and Nico Roosenboom to unpack their firsthand experiences at Locked Shields, the world’s largest international live-fire cyber defense exercise. The conversation dives deep into the chaotic, real-world friction of defending a massive virtualized network alongside 4,000 global experts against aggressive red team waves.

Selling to the Government? Here's What CMMC Means for You

CMMC Phase 2 enforcement lands in November 2026, and C3PAOs are already warning about assessment capacity. If your configuration management domain isn't audit-ready, this is the walkthrough to fix that. Roy Ludmir breaks down what changed in enforced CMMC as of November 2025, what auditors actually test versus what they just ask about, and where most organizations get stuck below full compliance — plus which security baselines to standardize on and how to build an evidence package that holds up under a real assessment.

AI Just Shrank the Time Hackers Need to Weaponize Your Vulnerabilities

The Five Eyes intelligence alliance—NSA, CISA, GCHQ, Australia's ASD, Canada's Cyber Centre, and New Zealand's GCSB—just issued a joint warning: AI has compressed the window between vulnerability discovery and exploitation from years to months. Adrian breaks down what the "AI Shift in Cyber Risk" statement actually means for patching timelines and attacker sophistication—and why most organizations aren't moving fast enough to keep up.