Dark Perimeter: True Cybersecurity Stories
Every major cyberattack has a story behind it. A vulnerability no one patched. A phishing email someone clicked. A nation-state with a motive. Dark Perimeter goes beyond the headlines to explore the true stories of the hacks, breaches, and cyber operations that shaped history - told in narrative form for security professionals and curious minds alike. No guests, no panels, no filler. Just the story.
Dark Perimeter: True Cybersecurity Stories
Latest Episodes
The Breach Files: Plaintext (A Dramatized Special)
A dramatized special. The launch of The Breach Files. Harvest now, decrypt later. It is not a theory. Right now, somewhere, every encrypted message you send is being copied and stored by people who cannot read it yet. They are patient. They are b...
Keys to the Kingdom, Part Two: Building the Vault the Right Way
Part Two of the Azure Key Vault series goes into the architecture. The specific decisions. The configuration that separates a deployment that is genuinely secure from one that looks right on a diagram but has gaps. Cole Drayden covers: provisioni...
Keys to the Kingdom, Part One: The CISO's Guide to Managing Your Azure Key Vault Deployment
Most organizations building on AI infrastructure right now are handling their API keys badly — not because their people are careless, but because the default patterns of software development are not secure patterns. In Part One of this two-part s...
Dark Perimeter: "Leaving AirWatch Behind" — Part 2: The Migration
The architecture is sound. Now comes the work. In part two, Cole Drayden, Dr. Elliott Vance, and Marcus Hale walk through the full AirWatch-to-Intune migration in practical terms: inventory first, licensing and Entra ID prerequisites, the Apple MD...
Dark Perimeter: "Finals Week" — The ShinyHunters Canvas Extortion
It was the first week of May 2026. Students across 8,800 institutions worldwide were sitting down to final exams. And then their screens went dark — replaced by a ransom note. ShinyHunters had been inside Canvas, the learning management system us...