Hosted by Justin Fimlaid
★5.0on Apple Podcasts · 2 recent reviews
Pwned is a weekly information and cyber security podcast addressing real-world security challenges. Occasionally funny, always informational, and driven by those who live and breathe security. Each episode we dive into the latest and greatest in technology, security frameworks, best practices, and how-tos.
100 episodes · publishes weekly · latest 2024-04-03 · ~22 min/episode
Rank
#4992
Substance
48.0
/ 100
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Scored 2026-07
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#4992 of 6185
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Top 81%
outscores 19% of the index
Pwned: The Information Security Podcast ranks #4992 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 48.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on originality and specificity & evidence. A couple of mildly contrarian positions emerge - TAM overinflation and product manufacturers being a root cause of the industry's problems - but they are asserted rather than argued, and the broader framing (band-aids over root causes, IoT attack surface expanding) is well-worn cybersecurity commentary.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
The episode is a celebration/retrospective where the majority of the runtime is spent on whiskey discussion, toasts, and guessing who said old quotes. Substantive cyber observations (IoT risk, supply-chain, bad investors) surface occasionally but are thin and underdeveloped, never sustained for more than a few exchanges before dissolving into agreement and filler.
“Cheers. Delicious.”
“It is still excellent.”
A couple of mildly contrarian positions emerge - TAM overinflation and product manufacturers being a root cause of the industry's problems - but they are asserted rather than argued, and the broader framing (band-aids over root causes, IoT attack surface expanding) is well-worn cybersecurity commentary.
“the total addressable market for cyber is overinflated”
“we're spending the money in almost all the wrong ways”
There are no external guests whatsoever - this is a host-only retrospective episode. The two hosts present as practitioners with founding experience, but their credentials are barely substantiated in the transcript itself, and the absence of any outside voice severely limits the ceiling here.
“I founded a couple of companies, but this was the first company and I was going off for my first round”
“I've been doing this for a long time, over 20 years”
A handful of named specifics appear - the Aliquippa water system attack, a Stanford stat on ChatGPT cybersecurity decisions, SolarWinds' post-incident self-assessment, Glenn Bressner/Mid Atlantic Capital, and the $10M EPA water utility figure - but most discussion is anecdotal and abstract, with no dollar figures, timelines, or outcome data attached to most claims.
“We saw, um, an attack against Aliquippa in Pennsylvania”
“54% of the time when it made a decision in that kind of sitch around cybersecurity, it made the wrong one and created something that was vulnerable”
With no guest present, the hosts spend the episode largely agreeing with each other and pulling quotes from a cup; there is no follow-up pressure, no productive disagreement, and no challenging of any claim. The format is a pleasant but uncritical mutual affirmation session.
“Yeah. Yeah.”
“That's definitely you.”
First period on the Index - history builds from here.
1 scored on substance · 60 tracked in total.
Great show; however, I am sad that there haven’t been any recent shows
- mary rs
These are informative topics for people in CISO or information security leadership positions. The topics so far are based on common questions most of us have about current topics in our field. Nice short length but packed full of helpful information I can apply on the job.
- Information Security Manager
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