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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Jerod Brennen, an Executive Advisor, Cybersecurity Career Coach, and vCISO at SideChannel. The conversation touched on a wide variety of cybersecurity concepts including the role and use of storytelling as a security tool; the 2025 cyber threat landscape; AI as a friend or enemy; data privacy gray zones, and lots more.

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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde examines the disappearance of independent and small franchise restaurants as a result of multiple intersecting factors.

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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde takes a policy-oriented look at reports of hidden cameras, unauthorized key copies leading to break-ins, cyberstalking of guests, and other criminal acts at vacation rental properties, and how major platforms have responded.

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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Tom Arnold, a cybersecurity expert, digital forensics investigator, and educator, to trace cybercrime’s rapid evolution—from early password hacks to today’s AI-powered phishing, deepfakes, and nation-state ransomware crews. Tom explained how attack typologies shape prevention, detection, and response for companies and families; why gaming platforms are the new frontier for child exploitation; and how a near-miss involving his grandson turned him into an outspoken advocate for digital safety education. His latest book, The Digital Detective, is available on Amazon.

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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde spoke with Joshua Lauer, the Founder and CEO of Lauer Creations Inc. During the conversation, Joshua explained how companies can avoid drowning in meaningless data, how to get rid of messy manual processes and automate reports that focus on scaling, how to fix GA4 tracking issues to allow you get back to actionable insights, and lots more.

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In recent years, criminals worldwide have increasingly targeted cryptocurrency executives and investors with kidnappings, physical threats, extortion, and even "virtual" coercion schemes.

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde examined global patterns since 2020, highlighting confirmed cases, tactics, organized crime links, geopolitical and market factors, and the protective measures emerging in response.

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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde explored how state-sponsored influence operations intersect with the exploitative outsourcing of digital labor—such as social media content moderation, data labeling, and click-work—to low-wage workers in poor conditions across Africa between 2015 and 2025. The analysis draws on insights from academic research, investigative journalism, policy studies, and intelligence reports.

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In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde examined the decade-long deception that placed North Korean operatives in the heart of Western companies

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