What if the most valuable software your company owns isn't something you bought, but the processes your team already knows how to run? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem welcome back Alex Bratton, CEO and Chief Geek of Lextech, founder of AI Why, and author of the new book Capability Equity. Alex helps mid-market organizations get real business value out of AI, and he brings that practical lens to the assistants, wearables, and platforms showing up on ev...
Oct 19
50 min
What does a device shaped like a 90s pager have to do with the Wi-Fi network your laptop joined at Starbucks last month? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem are joined by IT Audit Labs' own Cameron Birkland to get hands-on with the Hak5 Wi-Fi Pineapple Pager, the newest tool in the Pineapple lineup. Before the gear comes out, the crew unpacks a nine-year-old who ran up $118,000 in YouTube ads on his dad's saved work credit card, how Chrome sync quietly bl...
Oct 5
30 min
Nation states are paying top dollar for zero day vulnerabilities, hackers went from an empty lab to domain admin in under four hours, and Nvidia's CEO says we just crossed into AGI. On this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem break down the cybersecurity stories shaping the week and dig into a debate that has no clean answer. The crew opens with news that Eric Brown has a book on the way, built around lessons learned managing technology for clients over the...
Sep 21
37 min
What if your company didn't need a single line of code to build its own CRM, or a board of directors made up entirely of AI agents? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem sit down with Loren Horsager, founder of Model Mind AI, who has been working in AI since 1993 and now spends his days coaching businesses and CEOs on how to actually put it to work. Loren has helped organizations trade their bloated software stacks, their expensive middleware, and their old...
Sep 8
1 hr 15 min
What happens when nation-state hackers target the water coming out of your tap? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem break down the recent wave of attacks on water utilities across Minnesota and 27 other states, where threat actors got their hands on administrative passwords to programmable logic controllers. The crew is joined for the first time by Kelly Venzke, Director of Business Operations at IT Audit Labs, who brings a business leadership perspective...
Aug 24
47 min
What if the way you solve problems has nothing to do with how smart you are or how you feel, and everything to do with instinct? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem are joined by Jen Lotze from SipCyber and guest David Kolbe of Kolbe Corp, whose company built the Kolbe Index to measure the instinctive way people take action. After the whole team takes the assessment live, David breaks down what their scores actually mean and why the crew's mix of Fact Fin...
Aug 10
44 min
Can a $35 padlock from a hardware store really keep anyone out? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem sit down with Eric Osterberg of Grey Duck Locks for a live lock picking demo, a deep dive into how modern car keys get cloned, and a wide-ranging conversation about vibe coding, AI agents, and 3D printing. Eric brings decades of hands-on locksmithing and automotive security experience, along with a builder's instinct that has him constantly shipping his own...
Jul 27
46 min
What happens when a ransomware attack takes less effort than ordering takeout? In this live news episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem sit down with Tabitha Senty of IT Audit Labs to break down the headlines shaping cybersecurity right now. The crew covers how AI is lowering the barrier to entry for ransomware attacks, why identity and access still sit at the center of every breach, and how threat actors are chaining together low and medium severity vulnerabilities...
Jul 18
42 min
What if you didn't have to write a single line of code to automate your entire network — or manage AI agents the way you'd manage employees? In this episode of The Audit, Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem sit down with John Capobianco — Head of AI and DevRel at Itential, Google Developer Expert, and creator of NetClaw — alongside in-studio guest Samuel Cala. John draws on nearly a decade as Senior Network Architect for the Parliament of Canada and three years as a Technical AI Leade...
Jun 29
48 min
An underground forum post breaks down how hackers scan, exploit, and cash out on vulnerabilities — and it reads like a step-by-step guide. Meanwhile, Microsoft is catching heat for stonewalling a researcher who found real zero-days, and a new phishing campaign is hitting small businesses through the platforms they trust most. The OG crew — Joshua Schmidt, Eric Brown, and Nick Mellem — digs into this week's biggest cybersecurity headlines with sharp takes and real-world context that prac...
Jun 15
36 min
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