Post by Douglas McKee

💥 I’m excited to share something new we’ve been working on at Rapid7 Labs!!! It’s called the Hacktics and Telemetry Podcast hosted by myself and Jonah Burgess! Over the years—whether teaching, doing vulnerability research, or working with security teams—I’ve noticed something interesting. We spend a lot of time talking about security… but not always enough time talking about how things actually work. What attackers are doing. How defenders respond. And what we can learn from both. That’s really the goal of this podcast. Each episode we’ll sit down with researchers, operators, and practitioners across the industry and unpack things like: • How attacks actually unfold in the real world • What defenders tend to miss (and why) • Lessons learned from research, incidents, and a lot of trial and error And to be fair, if you’ve ever done security research, you know the reality is rarely the clean story that ends up in a conference talk. Most of the time it’s more like: “Alright… that didn’t work.” “Let’s try this instead.” “Okay now I’m throwing things in my lab.” Those messy moments are where the interesting lessons usually are. So that’s what we’re trying to capture with Hacktics and Telemetry— honest conversations about how security actually works, from the people doing the work. Episode one features Gregory Richardson , where we dig into OpenClaw and what defenders should actually be paying attention to. If that sounds interesting, the first episode is live. 🎧 https://lnkd.in/e4EQJnta And if there are topics you’d like us to cover, or guests we should talk to, I’d love to hear them. The reality of it is… the more we share what we’re learning, the better the entire community gets.