Hurricane Labs InfoSec Podcast

Hurricane Labs is a Cleveland-based managed security firm with a long reputation in the Splunk community, and their podcast has the easygoing feel of a few engineers talking shop after a long on-call shift. Hosts Tom Kopchak, Bill Mathews, and a rotating cast of SOC analysts pick apart recent breaches, new detection techniques, and whatever weird edge cases came across their desks that week. The show leans technical without being exhausting. You'll hear actual Splunk search syntax, SIEM tuning stories, and honest takes on tools the hosts have used in anger, not just ones they read about on vendor blogs. There's also a steady thread of career advice for people trying to break into blue-team work, with guests who describe the unglamorous parts of the job nobody warns you about. Recent episodes have covered the fallout from the MOVEit breaches, how to run a useful tabletop exercise, detection engineering against living-off-the-land binaries, and the operational reality of monitoring cloud workloads at scale. The pacing is relaxed, the banter is genuine, and the hosts clearly enjoy the work. It's a good fit for SOC analysts, detection engineers, and managers who want to stay close to the technical ground truth without wading through marketing noise. Episodes generally run 30 to 60 minutes.