{"id":16363,"date":"2020-12-17T08:42:49","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firewalls.com\/blog\/?p=16363"},"modified":"2020-12-17T08:42:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T13:42:49","slug":"twas-hack-before-christmas-ping-podcast-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev01.firewalls.com\/blog\/twas-hack-before-christmas-ping-podcast-35\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Twas the Hack Before Christmas &#8211; Ping Podcast &#8211; Episode 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Episode 35: &#8216;Twas the Hack Before Christmas<\/h3>\n<h3><div id=\"buzzsprout-player-6884066\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t <script src=\"https:\/\/www.buzzsprout.com\/536932\/6884066.js?container_id=buzzsprout-player-6884066&amp;player=small\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/h3>\n<p>In case you&#8217;ve missed it, the holiday season is here. And at Ping, we&#8217;ve kind of developed a tradition. Last year, we shared &#8211; <em>and very capably voice acted if we do say so ourselves<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/christmas-carol\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>A CyberSecurity Christmas Carol<\/strong><\/a>. This time, we tackle another classic tale, and it&#8217;s a bit poetic. Of course, this story has a network security bent cause that&#8217;s what we do. Gather round your phone, laptop, Alexa, or whatever podcast listening device you favor, for &#8216;Twas the Hack Before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>In an anything but silent night of headlines, hear about the FireEye\/SolarWinds\/federal government cyber attack. And then, we share concerns about COVID-19 vaccine distribution cybersecurity. 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You can get them anywhere you listen to podcasts, or go to our <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ping.firewalls.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">full episode list<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn even more about network security through <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/firewalls.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our blog<\/a><\/strong>, which features new content every week.<\/p>\n<p>New episodes are usually released every other Wednesday. Have a special request for a topic or a question for our network engineers to address? Email us at <strong><a href=\"mailto:podcast@firewalls.com\">podcast@firewalls.com<\/a><\/strong> and it could be on our next show. Thanks in advance for any listens, follows, subscribes, reviews, comments, shares, and generally spreading the word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 35: &#8216;Twas the Hack Before Christmas In case you&#8217;ve missed it, the holiday season is here. And at Ping, we&#8217;ve kind of developed a tradition. Last year, we shared &#8211; and very capably voice acted if we do say so ourselves &#8211; A CyberSecurity Christmas Carol. This time, we tackle another classic tale, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286],"tags":[450,525,524,154,523,521,153,388,522,526,79],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Twas the Hack Before Christmas - Ping Podcast - Episode 35 - Firewalls.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We celebrate the holidays with a retelling of a holiday classic, with a network security twist. 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