Hosted by David Redekop · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 24 episodes
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The Defender’s Log Podcast: Stories from the Cybersecurity FrontlinesThe Defender’s Log is your front-row seat to the real-world battles shaping today’s cybersecurity landscape. Hosted by seasoned professionals, each episode brings you face-to-face with the sharpest minds in digital defense, MSP/MSSP founders, CISOs, threat researchers, and architects, who are redefining what it means to secure our connected world.From zero-trust frameworks to ransomware takedowns, from DNS hardening to incident response in regulated industries, this podcast pulls back the curtain on the strategies, frameworks, and mindsets powering modern cyber resilience. Whether you're a security leader, IT strategist, or tech-savvy executive, you’ll walk away with the tools and stories that move the needle.🔐 Why Listen to The Defender’s Log?Cyber threats are evolving and so must our defenses. This isn’t theory. These are the actual voices of those defending systems under pressure, making real-time decisions that pr
David Redekop hosts The Defender’s Log Podcast, a technology show with 24 episodes published.
Cybersecurity is no longer just a technology challenge. It's a policy challenge. In this episode of The Defender's Log, David Redekop sits down with Dr. Amit Elazari, Co-Founder and CEO of OpenPolicy, former Head of Glob
Cybersecurity leaders have spent years building stronger detection and response capabilities. But is that enough? In this episode of The Defender's Log, David Redekop sits down with former CIO, CTO, and cybersecurity exe
What if the biggest threats on the internet are the ones nobody can fully measure? In this special episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with John Todd, Andreas Taudte, and Andrew Campling for a dee
What happens when a childhood curiosity for computers turns into a mission to protect the next generation online? Tom Newton shares the path from experimenting with modems and BBS systems in the early days of computing t
What started as the “phonebook of the internet” is now one of the most critical layers in cybersecurity. In this episode of The Defender’s Log, David Redekop sits down with Cricket Liu—often called the godfather of DNS—t
Most security conversations focus on firewalls, endpoints, and threat detection. Very few start where many attacks begin. That’s why this conversation with Chris Buijs stood out. We unpack why DNS remains one of the most
Cybersecurity is technical. But the humans behind it? That's where it gets complicated. Nim Nadarajah—CISO and managing partner from Critical Matrix, and one of the sharpest minds in the industry—sits down with host Davi
The future of cybersecurity isn’t just about tools—it’s about how we think. In this conversation, David Redekop sits down with Mitch Prior to unpack what really matters in modern security: from default-deny strategies an
Cybersecurity and military defense share the same fundamental principle: you can’t go on offense if you don’t have a secure perimeter. Steven Elliott’s journey—from a farming community in Kansas to the U.S. Army’s 75th R
Cybersecurity used to be about perimeter defenses and patch cycles. Now it’s about decision speed, trust, and restraint—especially when AI is involved. This conversation with Rafael Ramírez moves through decades of engin
Attackers are getting smarter—and the protocol they rely on most isn’t what you think. In this powerful conversation, David Redekop and Johannes Weber break down how modern malware abuses DNS, why attackers prefer DNS tu
The odds remain badly stacked against the defender. As we hurtle toward a digital ecosystem populated by a trillion AI agents, the Universal Threat Ecosystem (UTE) is expanding at an asymmetric rate. The traditional secu
Defending the Internet, One Domain at a Time In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Peter Lowe, the creator and maintainer of one of the internet’s most widely used blocklists, a resourc
The internet is a collision of legacy protocols and modern asymmetric threats. In this episode of The Defenders Log, I sit down with the man who built the foundation: Dr. Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name
In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with DNS and DDI expert Andreas Taudte, who brings more than 16 years of experience in network security, DNS architecture, and threat mitigation. Togeth
In this powerful episode, host David Redekop sits down with Joshua Domagalski, Chief Information Security Officer and former offensive operator, to explore the real complexities of modern cyber defense. Joshua opens up a
In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Tim Adams, DNS threat intelligence expert and founder of ScoutDNS, to uncover the evolving world of DNS security. From his early days running a wir
In this gripping episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Alexander Rau, Partner in Cybersecurity at KPMG, to explore the intense world of cyber incident response. From ransomware attacks and busi
In this episode of The Defender’s Log, host David Redekop sits down with Sami Khoury, the Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, for an inside look at the battle to protect national infrastructure from unseen di
Is your company's most critical blind spot hiding in plain sight? While most security teams focus on firewalls and web traffic, attackers are increasingly using the internet's phonebook—the Domain Name System (DNS)—as a
John Todd
Tonto
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François
IT Networks Engineer · ADAMnetworks
1 appearance on this show
Tim Adams
IT Support Manager · Institute of International Finance
1 appearance on this show
Sami Khoury
Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · Communications Security Establishment Canada
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