What Cybersecurity Pros can Learn from Star Wars

8th Layer Insights

This week's episode is a late Star Wars ("May the 4th Be With You") celebration. We check out a couple interesting articles about security-related lessons embedded in the Star Wars movies, and Perry sits down with Adam Shostack, author of the new book, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars to discuss threat modeling principles using Star Wars related examples.

Guest: Adam Shostack (LinkedIn) (Twitter) (Website)

Books & References (Books are Amazon Associate links)

• Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars, by Adam Shostack
• Threat Modeling: Designing for Security, by Adam Shostack
• Threat modeling videos from Adam
• Threat modeling and security-related games by Adam
• Adam's whitepapers
• BlackPoint: Learn Their Lesson, They Did Not
• Gary Hibbard LinkedIn post

Perry's Books (Amazon Associate links)

• Transformational Security Awareness: What Neuroscientists, Storytellers, and Marketers Can Teach Us About Driving Secure Behaviors, by Perry Carpenter
• The Security Culture Playbook: An Executive Guide To Reducing Risk and Developing Your Human Defense Layer by Perry Carpenter & Kai Roer

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Voice Acting for this episode:

• Darth Vader voice over artist: https://business.fiverr.com/freelancers/mistercorley
• Darth Vader breathing sound: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBi01iy2db8&ab_channel=chefhawk

Production Credits:

Music and Sound Effects by Blue Dot Sessions, Envato Elements, Storyblocks, & EpidemicSound.

8Li cover art by Chris Machowski @ https://www.RansomWear.net/.

8th Layer Insights theme music composed and performed by Marcos Moscat @ https://www.GameMusicTown.com/

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