Don’t wait to learn the fire drill while the building’s on fire. In this Cyber Talk developed by BareMetalCyber.com, Army veteran and cyber resilience strategist Daniel Hammond shows how to move past check-the-box drills and turn exercises into a core learning culture. He walks through goal-driven planning (so every exercise serves a sponsor’s real need), the HSEEP spectrum from seminars and workshops to tabletops, drills, and full-scale events, plus when to go operations-based, run no-notice tests, and invite regulators, comms, and third-party partners into the room.

Daniel shares hard-won lessons from building programs at Fortune 500s: validating response playbooks, avoiding “single-layer defense” with purple teaming, closing gaps regulators spot across your industry, and using board briefings to turn findings into funding. If you lead incident response, risk, or compliance—and you want confident teams that discover blind spots before adversaries do—this talk is for you. Join us, bring questions, and leave with practical patterns you can run this quarter.

In this episode, we cut through the alphabet soup of cybersecurity—EDR, NDR, XDR, MDR, and even the tongue-in-cheek WTF-DR. You’ll learn what each of these acronyms really means, how they differ, and where they overlap. More importantly, you’ll gain clarity on how they fit together in practice, why no single tool is enough, and how to build a layered defense without wasting budget on hype. Through clear explanations and vivid scenarios, the episode brings order to the chaos of detection and response technologies.

Listening will sharpen your ability to evaluate tools, vendors, and services with confidence. You’ll improve your skills in mapping security investments to real outcomes, spotting hidden gaps in coverage, and asking the right questions about integration, costs, and response workflows. Whether you’re a security leader, analyst, or simply navigating the jargon jungle, this episode equips you to separate buzzwords from business value.

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This is your weekly cyber news roll-up for the week ending November 14th, 2025. This week centers on phones, clouds, and core identity systems under pressure from well funded attackers who prefer to move quietly. You will hear how new spyware campaigns abuse Samsung devices and WhatsApp features, while hotel and travel scams blend real booking details with fresh malware delivery. The episode also walks through developer and infrastructure risks, from poisoned code editor extensions to critical flaws in firewalls and container platforms that can turn one foothold into broad access. It all adds up to a week where leaders and defenders need to rethink how personal devices, travel workflows, and cloud control planes intersect in daily operations.

Across these stories you will move from data exposure at an artificial intelligence company ecosystem to massive breach data feeds landing in tracking services, and from long running espionage inside a policy nonprofit to new tools that help small businesses fight review extortion. Executives will gain a faster sense of which threats can disrupt revenue and trust, while security teams hear where to focus monitoring, patching, and multi factor authentication, M F A, improvements right now. Builders and cloud operators get practical insight into container escape flaws, risky extensions, and identity platform weaknesses that change how they should think about shared environments. Students and early career defenders can use the narrative to map how scams, espionage, and infrastructure bugs all connect in real attacks. Listen in to get the full story arc in one pass, available at DailyCyber.news.