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The Audit Turns 100: Cyber Trivia, Zero-Days and Red Teams

• IT Audit Labs • Season 1 • Episode 100

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How well do cybersecurity pros really know their own acronyms, hacker movies, and tech history? For the 100th episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt turns the St. Paul studio into a live game show with Eric Brown, Jen Lotze, and Kelly Venzke, while Nick Mellem buzzes in from Texas. Thirty questions across five rounds put everything from MFA and zero-day vulnerabilities to HAL 9000 and Dennis Nedry to the test. 

Between buzzer disputes and point deductions, the crew digs into the security concepts that matter most. Jen explains why living off the land attacks are so hard to spot, Eric breaks down how watering hole attacks work, and the group revisits how AI is giving a new generation of script kiddies more power than ever. Along the way, Eric and Kelly share stories from their trip through Europe, Nick learns why you shouldn't trust AI with your trivia answers, and the team celebrates 100 episodes and a spot in the top 10% of podcasts globally. 
 
In this episode: 

  • The crew defines MFA, phishing, ransomware and zero-days. 
  • IT Audit Labs explains its proactive PHP patch alerts to clients. 
  • Jen breaks down how honeypots attract attackers. 
  • Nick explains why living off the land attacks are so hard to detect. 
  • How a watering hole attack works. 
  • Least privilege and zero trust go head to head. 
  • Hacker movies get their due, from WarGames to The Net. 
  • The final question asks who the biggest non-state hacking group is. 

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