Cybersecurity Growth
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Welcome to Cybersecurity Growth. A show for aspiring and existing cybersecurity leaders. Each week, we will dive deep into a topic that will benefit you in your cybersecurity career.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross connect cybersecurity threats, workplace decisions, and career growth through practical, candid conversation.
Cybersecurity Growth turns security work into a candid conversation between Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross. Their range runs from Scattered Spider's social engineering and vulnerabilities in network edge devices to the changing cybersecurity job market and the move from…
A fake help-desk call and a thankless promotion: pick which security headache you need company for.
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A candid security leadership conversation about accountability, delegation, and the move from individual contributor to manager.
Cybersecurity Growth focuses on the move from individual contributor to leader, and it grounds that shift in practical terms: delegation, accountability, and keeping revenue moving.
A candid look at cybersecurity hiring shifting from headcount to automation and AI-assisted work.
The episode treats cybersecurity hiring as a market that still exists, just not in the old shape. Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross start from the odd signals they have been hearing and connect them to automation trimming the need for large SOC teams.
A tired but clear RSA recap that cuts through the AI pitch haze.
This RSA recap shows a packed San Francisco week, where hotel rates climbed well above $1,300 a night for late planners and the fatigue of long hours around cyber peers and industry colleagues is easy to feel.
A candid recap of Hacker Summer Camp that favors practitioner-minded vendor behavior over booth theater.
Hacker Summer Camp 2025 tracks the week around Black Hat and DEFCON, with Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross focusing on travel logistics, conference culture, and the way vendors show up in Las Vegas.
A loose, practical DBIR conversation about stubborn edge risk.
Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross use Verizon's 2025 DBIR as a blunt, working-level look at edge risk. It keeps circling back to the same uncomfortable pattern: firewalls, VPNs, and other network edge devices still sit at the center of exposure, and the patching numbers make that…
A practical roadmap update on how Cybersecurity Growth builds in public.
Cybersecurity Growth frames its roadmap around a simple rhythm: move quickly, ship often, listen, then tighten the platform, training, and resources.
A fake help desk call shows how easily a routine work interaction can become a remote-access breach.
Scattered Spider gives the episode its frame, but the stronger focus is the path from threat-actor chatter to a very ordinary workplace trap: a phone call, a borrowed help desk identity, and a request for remote access.
A live security-resume teardown that pushes candidates to prove the work behind the acronyms.
Resume Workshop #2 follows two hiring managers as they put an anonymized security resume through a live review. One has only handled the cleanup of personal and company details, while the other responds fresh, which keeps the conversation close to how a resume can land in real…
Deeply researched narrative dives into hacking history and cyber-law cases, hosted by Ran Levi.
Reported narratives on hackers, spyware, and data crimes from Dina Temple-Raston.
Dave, Joe, and Maria break down phishing kits, deepfakes, and social-engineering scams weekly.
IAPP's Jedidiah Bracy interviews the regulators and lawyers writing privacy and AI law.
A daily cybersecurity briefing hosted by Dave Bittner, pairing breaking incidents with a guest interview.
Sean Valley and Garrett Gross discuss the transition from individual contributor to leader in cybersecurity.
Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross open Cybersecurity Growth with a question that matches the title, "Cybersecurity Jobs: What the Hell is Going On?", after Sean says the field used to hire almost anyone with 10 years of experience and a CSSP.
RSA Conference 2025 lands in San Francisco with 40,000 to 50,000 attendees, hotel rooms above $1,300 a night, and Moscone Center as the center of gravity.
Sean and Garrett recap Hacker Summer Camp 2025, covering key conferences like B-Sides, Black Hat, and DEF CON.
Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross use Cybersecurity Growth to review the 2025 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, citing 22,000 security incidents and nearly 12,000 confirmed breaches from November 1, 2023 to October 31, 2024.
Cybersecurity Growth says its paid subscription plans are live, with Analyst Access, Leader Launchpad, and CISO Pro starting at $29 per month.
Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross examine Scattered Spider, a financially motivated threat actor associated in the discussion with suspected attacks involving MGM and Snowflake since at least 2022.
Cybersecurity Growth's "Resume Workshop #2" has Sean and Garrett review Teffan Styler's anonymized resume for a move from software engineering into application and product security.
Cybersecurity Growth's "This Week In Cyber & Resume Workshop #2" features Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross covering Luma Stealer's fake Cloudflare prompts, Oracle Cloud's reported six-million-record breach, and cybersecurity leadership practices.
Sean Vallee and Garrett Gross examine White House Executive Order 14144, issued January 16, 2025, under the title "Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation's Cybersecurity." They compare it with Executive Order 14028 from 2021 and discuss its references to China, secure software development, open-source software, software bills of materials, and third-party risk.