The Edu-Tainer Podcast

Cybersecurity, leadership, and stories from the digital front lines — with David Bigger.



🎙️ Episode 1: Psychology in Cyber Defense

14 min | October 2025

An excerpt from the blog "Cyber Insights from Bigger," asserts that the most critical aspect of organizational security is the human element, not technical defenses. It argues that attackers succeed primarily through social engineering, which exploits psychological principles like urgency, authority, and fear to manipulate employees into making security mistakes.

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🎙️ Episode 2: The Gap between Training and Real-world Operations

11 mins | September 2025

In today's cybersecurity world, what we teach in training rooms often fails to survive real-world operations. There's a growing chasm between theory and practice — and too many defenders learn on the job under fire. In this episode, we dig into why that gap exists, how it undermines security postures, and what we can do to close it.

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🎙️ Episode 3: Deepfakes and Digital Doppelgangers

11 mins | August 2025

In a world where your face, voice, and likeness can be cloned with a few lines of code, the rise of deepfakes isn't sci-fi — it's here. This episode explores how malicious actors are using digital doppelgängers to impersonate execs, weaponize trust, and reshape the battlefront of cyber identity. Buckle in — we're diving into the next hellscape of deception

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