Please enjoy our latest podcast, the weekly Security Sprint, on Spotify, Apple, as well as other locations accessible via the Spotify for Podcasters link or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy celebrate America and talk about how resilience requires an all-hazards mindset, natural hazards, evolving extremist recruitment trends, and recent ransomware activity.
Opening:
- Celebrating America!
- The End of Routine Patching — Gate 15
- Nerd Out EP 71. Hostile Events Attack Cycle UFC Style, Plus Drones and Extremist Activity
- The Gate 15 Interview EP 71. ONE-ISAC Returns! Security, Sauces and Streaking, with Scott Moore and Angela Haun
- FB-ISAO Newsletter, v8, Issue 6 — Faith-Based ISAO
Main Topics:
Severe Weather, Climate & Environment:
- Dangerous heat wave hits the US with highs exceeding 100 degrees
- NWS daily updates. Read More
- Power outages hit France as record heatwave set to peak
- London Climate Action Week foiled by climate change
- Mekkhala becomes strongest June typhoon in 22 years, heads toward Japan
- Venezuela earthquakes
Extremism:
- White nationalist groups are recruiting girls and young women
- Terrorism and Targeted Violence (T2V) in the United States: Overview of 2023-2025 Data
New Proofpoint Report: 2026 AI and Human Risk Landscape
- 87% of organizations have AI assistants deployed beyond pilot
- 63% have controls—but 52% don’t trust them
- Only 33% are fully prepared to investigate AI-related incidents
- 12% of successful scams in 2025 used AI deepfakes, according to poll of U.S. adults
Drones:
- Russia Hit by 660-Drone Overnight Barrage Targeting Moscow, Crimea and Key Military Sites
- FBI warns battlefield-style drone attacks could reach US: ‘Only a matter of time’
Quick Hits:
Thomasville man arrested in High Point church parking lot
Water: America’s Most Critical Lifeline!
- (TLP:CLEAR) WaterISAC’s Quarterly Water Sector Incident Summary, January to March 2026 – Executive Summary
- Threat Intelligence Report: Nation-State Targeting of Water Systems 2024–2026
- EPA launches 2026 National Cyber Drill to test water utility resilience during communications outages
- Cal Water Finds No Evidence of OT Activity After Hackers Claimed They Could Disrupt Water Supply
Ransomware & Data Breaches:
- A $2.5 Billion Whodunit: The Hack That Dented the U.K. Economy
- $2.5 Billion in Damage, Zero Ransom Demand: Russia’s New Playbook
- Russian hackers were behind $2.5 billion hack of Jaguar Land Rover, report says
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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