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Historical Artifact · February 2016

Cybersecurity Podcasts Today, Executive Series

By Brian Lathrop, CISSP — Founder and Editor-in-Chief. Published February 2016. The v0 proof-of-concept corpus source for the CastingBridges v2026 platform.

"It took decades to realize the power of the printing press … Have you realized the power of podcasts yet?"

This February 2016 issue is the source-of-truth corpus for CastingBridges v0. The ten Executive Reviews featured in this issue — with their full Description, Learning Points (Q&A), and Answer Key — power the platform's flagship cybersecurity vertical. The 2016 issue shipped under fair-use editorial posture; the v0 Executive Reviews on this platform ship under the identical posture, until the first CastingBridges institutional partnership activates the provider-compensation flow.

Why we did it (verbatim, February 2016)

The printing press revolutionized information sharing and forever changed the world. We believe podcasts have the same power to revolutionize professional development.

How we did it (verbatim, February 2016)

Our monthly podcast recommendations are roadmaps to continuing your professional education and growing your professional network.

What we did (verbatim, February 2016)

Bridging the skills gap … one podcast at a time. LISTEN | LEARN | CONNECT.

Two product tiers (2016)

The 10 Executive Reviews featured (February 2016)

  1. Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast — 100, David Kris on Section 702 (0:59, 1.0 CPE, Feb 9, 2016)
  2. Risky Business — 398, Professor Lawrence Gordon (0:51, 0.5 CPE, Feb 10, 2016)
  3. Crypto-Gram Security Podcast — Crypto-Gram 15 February 2016 (0:31, 0.5 CPE, Feb 15, 2016)
  4. Southern Fried Security Podcast — 174, Doing Threat Intelligence Smartly (0:27, 0.5 CPE, Feb 15, 2016)
  5. Sound Security Podcast — 019, Federal Backdoor Inspectors (0:39, 0.5 CPE, Feb 22, 2016)
  6. Down the Security Rabbithole — 182, Apple Versus the FBI (0:55, 1.0 CPE, Feb 23, 2016)
  7. The Cybersecurity Podcast — Encryption Wars and Privacy Shield (0:59, 1.0 CPE, Feb 23, 2016)
  8. Paul's Security Weekly — 453, Jeff Frisk & Jeff Pike w/ SANS (1:51, 1.5 CPE, Feb 26, 2016)
  9. Brakeing Down Security Podcast — 009, Brian Engle, Info Sharing and… (1:05, 1.0 CPE, Feb 28, 2016)
  10. Silver Bullet Security Podcast — 119, Jacob West, IEEE CSD, Bugs,… (0:28, 0.5 CPE, Feb 29, 2016)

Total: 8.0 hrs.

Where this issue lived in 2016

www.cybersecuritypodcaststoday.com (now retired). The Executive Series ran monthly across 2016. A later issue of the same series — November 2016 — was adopted by a Middle Georgia cybersecurity professor as required course material for his students that term, modifying the CPE-hours column into academic points (1.0 hour → 100 points, 0.5 hours → 50 points). The five 2016–17 institutional-reception receipts CastingBridges carries into its 2026 launch posture cover the series broadly, not any single issue.

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