Resilience Rocket

The Resilience Rocket podcast is a show at the intersection of business resilience and cybersecurity, hosted by practitioner Matt Topper with over a decade of experience. In each episode, the show explores real-world strategies to help listeners prepare for disruptions and build more resilient organizations.

Networking for Introverts, Featuring Jason Slagle

This is a unique, non-technical episode about a timely topic:  How to start professional networking at conferences.  Jason and I both learned how to do this, but neither of us succeeded at first.  Learn how we got there!

06-30
38:35

Origins, Unique Accounts, Source Control, and Business Transitions - Interview with Martin White

Martin White from TechIDManager joins us to talk about individual accounts for tech, making the transition from engineer to entrepreneur, modern coding standards, and git!

06-23
38:35

Interview with Dioly Alexandre

In this episode, I talked with Dioly Alexandre from BlackShield Cyber about Cyber Warfare, incidents he's seen, and upcoming trends. You can learn more about BlackShield here: https://www.blackshieldcyber.com/

06-16
01:09:18

IT Nation Secure Recap

Very short/quick episode to recap some highlights of IT Nation Secure this past week.

06-09
10:29

Risks From Browser Extensions

This episode talks about the risks and management of browser extensions, similar to a post I shared on LinkedIn. This is the article that led to wanting to devote an episode to it: More malicious extensions in Chrome Web Store | Almost Secure (palant.info) And below are links to get started with browser management for the three major browsers: Chrome: Chrome Enterprise Policy List & Management | Documentation Firefox: Manage updates, policies & customization | Firefox for Enterprise Help (mozilla.org) Edge: Configure Microsoft Edge for Windows with policy settings | Microsoft Learn  

06-02
26:46

MSPGeekCon Recap

This episode recaps my time at MSPGeekCon.  The organizers did an amazing job!

05-26
20:26

News of the World

In this episode, we debut a format reviewing some of the top security headlines this week and how they connect to business resilience. Below is a link to the Microsoft news story that was covered, as discussed:   Microsoft enforces number matching to fight MFA fatigue attacks (bleepingcomputer.com)

05-12
25:26

Resilient Rancher

In this episode, we talk about the "Cattle, not pets" paradigm and how it applies to MSPs.

05-05
28:11

Living on the Edge

In this episode, we discuss the need for standardizing on browsers for MSPs and clients and why that standard should be Edge.

04-28
22:40

Bottoms Up: Perspective on Risk

In this episode, we cover combining top-down and bottom-up risk assessment techniques to get the best of both worlds.

04-21
16:01

BYOD: Bring Your Own Downfall

In this episode, we look at some of the pitfalls of BYOD and losing control of data when it leaves corporate-owned devices, including some remediation options on mobile devices. This is a big topic and will be covered again from other perspectives.

04-14
28:21

Doing the Right Thing: Ethical Considerations for Techs

Reputations are one thing that we don't have second chances on.  This episode discusses some ethical dilemmas I faced during my time as a tech and how we handled them, including one that I would do differently.

04-07
28:28

Security is a Team Sport

A discussion of changing the "us vs. them" mindset that we can fall into as security teams and remembering what the ultimate goal is.  

03-31
15:41

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