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For more than a decade, Edward Snowden has been portrayed by many as a lone whistleblower exposing illegal domestic spying. In a recent Bytes & Brew  episode , Steven Bay, Snowden’s former manager at NSA, offers a different perspective; one grounded not in operational reality, not politics. And that’s where the lessons for CMMC begin. Separation of Duties: What Snowden Actually Had Access To Bay explains something that rarely makes headlines: NSA operates under strict separat

Cybercrime no longer resembles a loose collection of isolated actors and ad-hoc attacks. As discussed in a recent episode of Bourbon & Bytes , it operates as a mature underground economy —complete with specialization, marketplaces, service models, and increasingly sophisticated use of artificial intelligence. In this episode, Terry McGraw, CEO of Cape Endeavors, sits down with Rebecca Taylor, Threat Intelligence Knowledge Manager and Researcher at Sophos, to unpack how cyberc