Please enjoy our newest podcast, the weekly Security Sprint, on Spotify, Apple, as well as other locations accessible via the Spotify for Podcasters link or almost anywhere you listen to your favorite podcasts.
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In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
- The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs fearedLayoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA
- Top cyber lawmaker wants answers on CISA workforce reductions
- Tech industry unites behind bipartisan effort to urgently reauthorize US cyber threat information sharing law
- What They Are Saying: Technology Stakeholders Urge Passage Of Peters & Rounds Bipartisan Bill To Restore Critical Cybersecurity Protections (CISA 2015)
Main Topics:
F5, AWS, Third Party Risk & Resilience:
- AWS: Operational issue – Multiple services (N. Virginia).
- AWS: Operational issue – Multiple services (N. Virginia). [RESOLVED] Increased Error Rates and Latencies
- What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet
- AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane
- F5: K000154696: F5 Security Incident
- F5, Inc. Form 8K
- ED 26-01: Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices
Ransomware & Data Breaches:
- IT-ISAC: Quarterly IT Sector Ransomware Analysis Q3 2025, July -September. PDF.
- BlackFog’s 2025 Q3 Ransomware Report
Arctic Wolf 2025 Human Risk Report Reveals Escalating Breaches, Overconfidence in Phishing Defenses, and Risky AI Behavior. Key findings from the 2025 Human Risk Behavior Snapshot include:
Quick Hits:
- AG Platkin Sets Standards for Active-Shooter Readiness
- Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
- NCSC Warns Data Centres Face Rising Cybersecurity Threats
- Microsoft Dominates Phishing Impersonations in Q3 2025
- UK NCSC – UK experiencing four ‘nationally significant’ cyber attacks every week
- UK NPSA: Protecting our Democratic Institutions: Countering Espionage and Foreign Interference
- DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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