Shop Talk with the Trucking Cyber Guy

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The Trucking Cyber Guy podcast delivers clear, candid insights at the intersection of cybersecurity and North American trucking. It’s an informal, highly educational, ‘off-the-record-but-not-really’ look into the conversations industry pros usually only have over dinner or at events. Expect unfiltered breakdowns of real threats, trends, career paths, leadership, cargo crime, and emerging issues from expert guests who live this stuff every day.

Episodes

  1. Jul 9

    Dr. Gerald Auger Part II

    The second half of my conversation with Dr. Gerald Auger Chapters: 0:00 - Why Your Resume Alone Won't Land a Cybersecurity Job 0:41 - Put Yourself Out There: The Career Advice That Actually Works 1:30 - The Power of a Cybersecurity Network That Lasts a Lifetime 2:50 - How Networking Opens Doors You Didn't Know Existed 2:58 - You Never Know Who Is Watching: The Citadel Internship Story 5:03 - Don't Burn Bridges: Performance Matters in Every Cybersecurity Role 5:41 - Be the CEO of Your Cybersecurity Career 7:23 - You Are Steering Your Cybersecurity Career, Not Drifting 8:09 - Personal Branding in Cybersecurity: Why It Matters More Than Ever 10:10 - The Car Dealership Analogy: How Branding Gets You Noticed 12:05 - Personal Branding Examples: OSINT Pros Who Built Niches 13:31 - When Personal Branding Lands You a Job Without an Interview 14:24 - Find Your Niche: Specialization Beats Generalization in Cybersecurity 15:31 - Embrace Your Weird: Authentic Branding Stories from Cyber Pros 17:06 - Why Authenticity Wins in a Cybersecurity Personal Brand 18:28 - Passion Wins in the Boardroom: Selling Cybersecurity Initiatives 19:22 - Cybersecurity Is a Lifestyle: The Emotional Tax of the Job 20:30 - Why Authentic Cybersecurity Content Beats AI-Generated Noise 22:04 - Building a Practical Guide for AI Security and AI Safety 22:56 - The Promise and Peril of AI: From Curing Disease to Cyber Risk 25:01 - Can We Actually Contain AI? The Guardrail Problem 26:09 - Why AI Governance Is Harder Than Controlling Nuclear Weapons 27:49 - The Origin of Simply Cyber Con: Building a Cybersecurity Conference 29:36 - From Virtual to In-Person: How Simply Cyber Con Evolved 31:10 - Giving First-Time Cybersecurity Speakers a Stage 32:30 - Getting a Cybersecurity Tool Listed on the NIST Website 34:36 - Why Every Cybersecurity Practitioner Should Know NIST Publications 35:07 - Interviewing for a NIST Job: A Risk Assessment Disagreement 38:02 - Wrapping Up with Gerald Auger

  2. Jul 9

    Dr. Gerald Auger Part I

    The resources and events that we discuss in this episode Dr. Auger's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyCyber Dr. Auger's NIST compliance tool: https://github.com/CPAtoCybersecurity/csf_profile And on the NIST site: https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/csf-20-resources-0 Simply CyberCon 2026: https://simplycybercon.org/ NMFTA Cybersecurity Conference 2026: https://cyber.nmfta.org/cybersecurity-conference

  3. Jul 9

    Ched Wiggins Part II

    The second half of my conversation with Ched "Cheddar" Wiggins about life underwater, career paths, and cybersecurity. Chapters: 0:00 - Watching Your Death Come at You: First Days on a Submarine 0:32 - 137 Days Submerged: Inside a Classified Submarine Deployment 1:07 - The 18-Hour Day and How Submariners Adapt 2:13 - Surfacing After 4 Months: When Your Brain Forgets How to See 4:19 - Submarine Life vs. Fallujah: A Lesson in Perspective 6:36 - From Submarines to Surface Warfare to Helicopter Pilot 8:37 - Burning Cash on Helicopters and Landing in Cybersecurity 9:33 - Building a University SOC from Scratch 10:50 - Why Critical Thinking Beats Technical Skills in Cybersecurity Hiring 13:33 - Sensing the Perimeter of Your Knowledge: A Career Survival Skill 14:54 - AI in Cybersecurity: Calculators for Knowledge Workers 17:08 - The SOC Analyst Pipeline Problem: Where Will Tier 2 Come From? 19:40 - Training Data Limits and Microsoft Recall's Hidden Agenda 21:02 - Give Users a Sandboxed LLM Before They Find Shadow AI 22:06 - Building the Plane on the Runway: AI Security in Real Time 23:20 - Being a Senior Who Is Junior: Career Advice for Cyber Newcomers

  4. Jul 9

    Ched Wiggins Part I

    From Submarines to the SOC Chapters: 0:00 - From Submarines to Student SOC: Meet Ched "Cheddar" Wiggins 1:11 - Incident Response Lessons from a Nuclear Submarine 3:50 - Louisiana's Student-Powered Security Operations Center Explained 4:30 - Closing the Cybersecurity Skills Gap and Talent Pipeline 5:45 - Is SOC Analyst Tier 1 Really an Entry-Level Cybersecurity Job? 8:03 - Why Career Transitioners Win in Cybersecurity Hiring 10:47 - From Psychology Major to Threat Hunter: A SOC Success Story 14:52 - What Gen Z Cybersecurity Students Are Really Like 18:29 - Internet, Social Media, and the Real World Trust Problem 21:01 - Deepfakes, Generative AI, and the Future of Digital Trust 23:25 - Life Inside a Nuclear Submarine: The Navy Nuke Training Pipeline 27:43 - "It's Like Watching Your Death Come at You"

  5. Jul 9

    Danielle Spinelli Part II

    Chapters: 0:00 - Big Brother, ELDs, and Vetting the Vendors Behind Your Data 1:13 - Why "Just Say No" to Vendors Doesn't Cut It Anymore 1:53 - Capacity Crunch 2026: When Tight Markets Fuel Cargo Theft and Fraud 3:24 - Building Carrier Vetting Processes That Survive Pressure 4:20 - Winning a 2024 Women in Logistics Award and the Power of Networking 6:00 - Conference Stories: Dallas Heat and the FreightWaves Fraud Symposium 8:02 - Career Advice: Get Comfortable Being Awkward at Conferences 9:40 - It's a Small Industry: Why Burning Bridges Will Cost You 11:07 - Brokers Collaborating on Cargo Theft and Threat Intelligence 13:31 - From Ransomware Silence to Shared Cyber Incident Reporting 15:36 - Does Trucking Need Regulation to Fix Fraud and Cargo Theft? 17:21 - Safety, Out-of-Service Rates, and English Proficiency Standards 19:15 - A PCI DSS Style Standard for Trucking Cybersecurity? 21:16 - Process Discipline: Why Living Documents Beat Stagnant SOPs 22:52 - The Four Pillars of Carrier and Driver Vetting 24:53 - Driver-Level Vetting and the Bad Apple Problem in Cargo Theft 26:06 - Why Logistics Is the Career You'll Never Want to Leave 27:34 - Women in Trucking: Three Years of Real Cultural Change 29:58 - AI in Carrier Vetting: Where Automation Helps and Where It Fails 32:00 - AI Check Calls, Driver Quality of Life, and the Human Touch 34:14 - Wrapping Up with Danielle

  6. Jul 9

    Daniell Spinelli Part I

    Danielle Spinelli: Broker, Carrier Vetting Expert, Director of Partnerships at Genlogs, Winner of the 2024 Women in Logistics award and host of the Tell Me Everything podcast. Danielle (AKA. Fraud Girl) shares her expertise, her insights, her backstory and a few hot takes on the state of carrier vetting and the cargo crime problem facing the transportation sector.

  7. Jul 9

    Elliot Mattice Part II

    The second half of my conversation with Elliot about all things geopolitics, AI and risk management. Elliot's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ElliottMattice Website: https://elliottmattice.work

  8. Jul 9

    Elliot Mattice Part I

    In this first part of my conversation with Elliot Mattice, we his career path, AI, and the geopolitical fallout of the war in Iran.

  9. Jul 9

    Steve Hankel

    Director of Information Technology at Johansen Transportation Service, Steve brings a wealth of experience from the software developments, disaster recovery and cybersecurity perspectives to his role. Cutting his teeth during the dot-com boom, Steve's path has been anything by "typical." We cover everything from diving in with no experience to zombie apocalypse survival exercises. Don't miss this one!

  10. Jul 9

    James McQuiggan

    Edutainer, Social Engineering Expert, CISO advisor, James has worn too many hats in this industry to count, Through it all he's gained invaluable insights and experience that he's ready to share.

  11. Jul 9

    Welcome

    Welcome to Shop Talk

  12. Jul 9

    Artie Crawford

    A candid conversation with James "Artie" Crawford, Director of Cybersecurity for the National Motor Freight Traffic Association and former Cybersecurity Chief of the USMC.

  • 12 Episodes

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The Trucking Cyber Guy podcast delivers clear, candid insights at the intersection of cybersecurity and North American trucking. It’s an informal, highly educational, ‘off-the-record-but-not-really’ look into the conversations industry pros usually only have over dinner or at events. Expect unfiltered breakdowns of real threats, trends, career paths, leadership, cargo crime, and emerging issues from expert guests who live this stuff every day.

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