Iran's Cyber Warfare Playbook: What Defenders Need to Know Right Now
With U.S. and Israeli kinetic operations in Iran (March 2026), Iranian cyber units are scrambling to retaliate in the one domain where they can fight on more equal footing. Dan Mellinger sits down with Symantec threat intelligence veteran Dick O'Brien to unpack what's actually happening on the wire — including active intrusions discovered on 5–6 organizations across the U.S. and Canada, and the recent Stryker attack that didn't use a single piece of malware. In this episode: - Why Iran punches above its weight in cyberspace (and how they got there) - The IRGC and MOIS: espionage today, sabotage tomorrow - The shift from custom disk-wipers to living-off-the-land via Microsoft Intune - How Iranian operators are borrowing Russian cloud-attack tradecraft - The surprisingly effective Iranian social engineering playbook (yes, including the Liverpool "fitness instructor" honey trap) - The little-known Iranian origins of the modern ransomware model - What defenders — especially in the U.S. — should be doing this week
A Brief History of DLP
How did Data Loss Prevention go from a forgotten niche to a boardroom necessity? In this episode, host Dan Mellinger sits down with Matt Jones, Channel Technical Director for Information Security at Broadcom's Enterprise Security Group, to trace the full arc of DLP — from its earliest roots to its role in today's enterprise security stack.
More Data, More Signal: Rich Intelligence for 3DS Payment Optimization, Higher Approvals, and Greater Fraud Savings
Data is at the core of everything Arcot does. Sitting at the heart of the 3-D Secure (3DS) ecosystem, The Arcot Network captures industry-wide intelligence. Arcot shares these insights -- from emerging global fraud trends down to granular, peer-to-peer benchmarking -- to empower smarter payment routing and better outcomes. Today, merchants routing transactions directly to authorization without accompanying data face staggering 15-20% decline rates. Fresh off the heels of MRC Vegas, Arcot is championing U.S. "data-only" adoption to fix this. The continuous flow of rich data strengthens risk-based authentication and fraud defenses, powers the automated fraud savings of The Arcot Smart Ruleset, improves authorization rates, and ultimately makes digital shopping smarter and safer for everyone. The Arcot Smart Ruleset has moved from hypothesis to proof with large issuers seeing $1m+ in annualized fraud savings. In the AI superintelligence era, the best models and the fastest adopters win. Tune in to learn more.
AI-Hacking: Red Team vs. Blue Team
As AI shifts from passive large language models (LLMs) to active "Agents" capable of executing tasks, the cybersecurity landscape is hitting a fever pitch. In this episode, recorded ahead of their Black Hat Europe presentation, your go-to cybersecurity communicator Dan Mellinger sits down with Paul Miller (Threat Intelligence & Ops Leader) and Dick O’Brien (Principal Research Editor, Symantec & Carbon Black) to dissect the escalating AI arms race. From the rise of "SpamGPT" to the shift toward "Predictive Security," we explore why defenders might actually have the winning hand in an AI-driven world.
3-D Secure Superintelligence
3D Secure is well-suited for the AI superintelligence era, as a layer that can process what humans simply cannot. Shifting from basic scoring to models that rapidly analyze transactions that are full of rich and complete meta data, The Arcot Network uses billions of data points to deliver automated fraud savings measured in the millions with The Arcot Smart Ruleset. Arcot is bridging the divide between merchants and issuers through 3DS data and fraud rule automation to deliver real results. Tune in to learn more.