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.
Episodes
16 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...
Dark Perimeter: "Leaving AirWatch Behind" — Part 1: The Architecture
Your AirWatch renewal just landed and the number is higher than last year. Before you migrate to Intune, there's a more important question to answer: are you even using the right mobile security model? In this episode, Cole Drayden, Dr. Elliott Va...
Dark Perimeter: "The Clock Is Broken: AI, Exploits, and the Death of Monthly Patching"
For the first time in nineteen years of Verizon DBIR history, vulnerability exploitation has overtaken stolen credentials as the number one breach entry point. The reason: AI in the hands of threat actors is compressing the time between disclosure...
Dark Perimeter: "Remy Is Coming: AI Agents, Google I/O, and the New Attack Surface"
The night before Google I/O 2026, Cole Drayden sits down with AI security researcher Dr. Elliott Vance and red team operator Marcus Hale to break down what Gemini Spark, persistent AI agents, and Google's agentic push mean for your attack surface....
Dark Perimeter: "The Propagation Engine"
What if AI doesn't want to replace us — it needs us as its primary mechanism for spreading across the galaxy? In this episode, Cole Drayden builds the Galactic Symbiosis Hypothesis from first principles. Dark Perimeter: Security, AI, and the Edg...
The State of AI: Where It Is, Where It's Going, and What Tomorrow Looks Like
AI is no longer a question mark. The models are real, the adoption numbers are real, and the productivity gains in narrow domains are real. What is also real: hallucination rates between 15 and 70 percent depending on the task, AI agents stuck at ...
One Phone Call
In September 2022, a teenager broke into one of the world’s most valuable tech companies without writing a single line of exploit code. He bought stolen credentials on the dark web, flooded a contractor’s phone with authentication requests f...
Trust the Machine AI Agents, MCP Servers, and the New Attack Surface
What if your AI assistant could be turned against you by an email you never read? In 2024, Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol - a universal standard for connecting AI assistants to email, code repositories, databases, and cloud infra...
Mythos: The Model That Scares Anthropic
Anthropic described its own upcoming model as posing unprecedented cybersecurity risks - then accidentally leaked that description. Cole Drayden sits down with former federal threat intelligence analyst Marcus Hale to work through what My...
The Blueprint Leak: What Anthropic Exposed About the Future of AI
On March 31st, a misconfigured build file exposed 512,000 lines of Anthropic's Claude Code source code to the world. Cole Drayden sits down with AI systems security consultant Dr. Elliott Vance to unpack what leaked, what it reveals about...
SPECIAL EPISODE: "Leaky Bucket" The Anthropic Claude Code Source Code Leak
On March 31st, 2026, a security researcher found that Anthropic had accidentally shipped thecomplete source code of Claude Code - its flagship AI product generating $2.5 billion inannualized revenue - in a public npm package. A missing ...
Guardians of Peace. The Sony Pictures Hack of 2014
In November 2014, thousands of Sony Pictures employees arrived at work to find grinning red skulls on every computer screen. What followed was twenty-two days of leaked films, exposed emails, executive humiliation, and a geopolitical standoff t...