🔐 From Floppy Disk Viruses to the SOC — 15 Years in Cybersecurity | Brett @ Cyber Weekly

🎙️ Cyber Weekly | Episode with Brett (@infosecbret) What turns a kid whose family PC got wrecked by a boot sector virus into a security professional with 15+ years in IT and a Master's in Information Assurance? In this episode, host Deo Okello sits down with Brett to trace that path — and to talk honestly about what the job actually looks like once the "unicorns and rainbows" phase wears off. We get into why information assurance is really just cybersecurity with the spotlight on data, why AI is now the threat he worries about most, and what "doing the basics well" looks like in practice. 🔐 ⏱️ In this episode: \- The Windows 95 floppy virus that started it all 💾 \- IT → SOC analyst: how the transition actually happened \- Information assurance explained (and why the CIA triad still matters) \- Why phishing is still the risk that never goes away 🎣 \- AI in the hands of ransomware gangs — and the well-meaning employee pasting production code into an LLM 🤖 \- What Patch Tuesday teaches us about vulnerability management \- Defenders have to be right 100% of the time. Attackers only need once. ⚔️ \- Brett's top 3: go back to basics, patch all the things, invest in your people 📈 \- The one takeaway: never stop learning 🧠 💬 Favourite line from the episode? Drop it in the comments. 👍 Like, subscribe, and hit the bell for weekly conversations on security, threats, and the people defending against them. 🔗 CONNECT WITH BRET X (Twitter): https://x.com/infosec\_bret YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BretWitt 📌 REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE The "Mythos" story Bret mentions at ~10:00 — Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 launched June 9, 2026. On June 12 the US Commerce Department imposed export controls after researchers found a way to prompt the model into identifying software vulnerabilities and, in one case, producing working exploit code. Anthropic pulled both models globally. Controls were lifted June 30 and access restored July 1. \- Anthropic's statement (June 12): https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access \- Anthropic on restoring access: https://www.anthropic.com/news/redeploying-fable-5 \- Forbes breakdown: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anishasircar/2026/06/16/anthropic-disabled-fable-5-and-mythos-5-after-a-us-export-control-order-heres-what-happened/ \- CNBC on controls being lifted: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/30/anthropic-says-trump-admin-has-lifted-export-controls-on-claude-fable-5-and-mythos-5.html #CyberSecurity 🔐 #InfoSec 🛡️ #InformationAssurance 📊 #CyberWeekly 🎙️ #SecurityPodcast 🎧 #SOCAnalyst 👨‍💻 #Ransomware 🚨 #Phishing 🎣 #AISecurity 🤖 #PatchTuesday 🩹 #VulnerabilityManagement ⚠️ #ThreatIntelligence 🕵️ #ITCareers 📈 #CyberCareers 🚀 #BlueTeam 🔵 #SupplyChainAttack ⛓️ #TechPodcast 🎬 #NeverStopLearning 🧠 #CyberAwareness 👁️