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  • Building Houston Cyber Community with Michael Farnum | CYBR.SEC.CON Founder

    Building Houston Cyber Community with Michael Farnum | CYBR.SEC.CON Founder
    21 Oct 2026
    Join us for an insightful conversation with Michael Farnum, founder of CYBR.SEC.CON (previously HOU.SEC.CON), as we explore cybersecurity, technology events, community building, artificial intelligence, career development, and Houston’s growing tech ecosystem.With over 30 years of experience in IT and cybersecurity, Michael shares his journey building cybersecurity communities, organizing conferences, securing venues and funding, and creating opportunities through education, scholarships, and networking. We also discuss the evolving tech job market, university education, AI-powered event promotion, AI governance, regulation, and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI).For cybersecurity professionals, aspiring technologists, entrepreneurs, and technology community builders, this episode offers insights into the people, ideas, and connections shaping the industry.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Cybersecurity Training with Emage TechWe’re partnering with Emage Tech to provide cybersecurity courses and practical tech training across Cloud, Kubernetes, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps, and AI.Get 5% off eligible courses with discount code HQPROOF.Explore courses: https://emagetech.io/trainingDiscount code: HQPROOF━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Stay Connected with Hacker Proof HQJoin our newsletter for updates on upcoming events, podcast episodes, and services.https://www.hackerproofhq.com/blog━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Build with JotformGet 50% off Jotform annual plans using our partner link.https://www.jotform.com/?partner=hackerproofhqJotform is a no-code platform that helps builders launch forms, apps, and workflows.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Is Your Business Secure and SOC 2 Ready?Protect your business, strengthen your systems, and prepare for compliance with expert-led cybersecurity solutions.Start with a Free SOC 2 Readiness Assessment:https://www.hackerproofhq.com/soc2-readiness-assessment━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Explore Hacker Proof HQ ServicesWe help businesses secure, scale, and stay compliant through:• Security Assessment & Compliance• Fractional CISO / Advisory• AI-Powered Security AgentExplore our services:https://www.hackerproofhq.com/#hphq-services━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Book a Free Consultationhttps://www.hackerproofhq.com/#book-consultation━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Connect with Hacker Proof HQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hackerproofhqTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hacker.proofX (Twitter): https://x.com/hackerproofhqLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackerproofhq/━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Meet Our TeamFemi | Video Editorhttps://www.instagram.com/femiodey/Charity | Social Media Managerhttps://www.instagram.com/charity.okoloezeDavid Ewele | Digital Strategyhttps://www.instagram.com/witty_welz━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Inquiries and SuggestionsEmail: info@hackerproofhq.comSupport Hacker Proof HQSupport our work and help us continue building cybersecurity awareness and community.Donate here:https://app.redcircle.com/shows/6fbd820c-fbca-4dc7-9efb-353a7d33f9eb/donation━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Enjoyed this episode? Follow or subscribe to Hacker Proof HQ for more conversations about cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, technology careers, innovation, and the people building the tech community.#Cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #HoustonTech #TechCommunity #TechEvents
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    53 min
  • AI, Cybersecurity and Leadership: What Leaders Need to Know

    AI, Cybersecurity and Leadership: What Leaders Need to Know
    7 Oct 2026

    In this episode of the Hacker Proof HQ Podcast, we sit down with Bemi Anjous, a cybersecurity leader and adviser with extensive experience across the global oil & gas industry.

    Bemi shares insights from his international experience in Saudi Arabia, Russia, Dubai, and beyond, discussing cybersecurity frameworks, leadership, asset management, vendor selection, hiring, team development, and the growing impact of AI on cybersecurity and the workplace.

    We also explore what it takes to lead cybersecurity in complex organizations, protect critical assets, navigate different security frameworks, build effective teams, and stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape.

    A practical conversation for cybersecurity professionals, technology leaders, engineers, and anyone interested in cybersecurity, technology, and leadership.

    Connect with Bemi Anjous: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anjous

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    CHECK YOUR SOC 2 READINESS

    Take our free SOC 2 Readiness Assessment and receive a personalized report with your readiness score, top security gaps, and estimated audit timeline:

    https://www.hackerproofhq.com/soc2-readiness-assessment

    EXPLORE OUR SERVICES

    Security Assessments & Compliance, Fractional CISO / Advisory, and AI-Powered Security Agent:

    https://www.hackerproofhq.com/#hphq-services

    BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION

    Speak with our experts about your technology and cybersecurity needs:

    https://www.hackerproofhq.com/#book-consultation

    CONNECT WITH HACKER PROOF HQ

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    For inquiries and suggestions:

    info@hackerproofhq.com

    If you enjoyed the conversation, follow the Hacker Proof HQ Podcast and share this episode with someone interested in cybersecurity, technology, or leadership.

    #Cybersecurity #CISO #AI #OilAndGas #CyberSecurityLeadership #ArtificialIntelligence
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    36 min
  • Building a Career in Platform Engineering, DevOps & Kubernetes with Kena Ofoegbu

    Building a Career in Platform Engineering, DevOps & Kubernetes with Kena Ofoegbu
    16 Sep 2026
    What does it really take to build a successful career in platform engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes, and other emerging areas of technology?In this episode, we sit down with Kena Ofoegbu, a platform engineer, to discuss his journey into tech, Kubernetes, technical recruiting, bootcamps, AI, and the evolving skills companies are looking for.Kena breaks down what Kubernetes is, how workloads and services work together within the Kubernetes ecosystem, and what companies expect when hiring platform engineering and DevOps specialists.We also explore one of the biggest questions facing technology professionals today: Is AI replacing DevOps jobs, or is it changing the skills professionals need to remain relevant?The conversation also covers AI bootcamps, technical interviews, job shadowing opportunities, cybersecurity, dashboards, and the future of technology careers.CHAPTERS00:00 – Introduction00:29 – Meet Kena: From His Journey to Platform Engineering01:03 – How Kena Became a Platform Engineer05:53 – What Is Kubernetes?08:57 – How Kubernetes Services Work Together11:17 – What Is a Workload in Kubernetes?13:18 – What Companies Look for When Hiring Platform Engineers14:25 – The Importance of Tech Bootcamps15:43 – How Companies Hire DevOps & Platform Engineering Specialists16:48 – How Bootcamp Students Are Coached to Pass Technical Interviews18:08 – Do Bootcamps Provide Job Shadowing Opportunities?25:04 – Is AI Really Replacing DevOps Jobs?30:43 – Top Tech Skills for Integrating AI Into Cybersecurity37:56 – The Technical Impact of Dashboards39:04 – HackerProofHQ: Goals & Vision40:29 – How HackerProofHQ Leverages Corporate Sponsorships & Partnerships41:10 – How the Community Can Support HackerProofHQ43:15 – AI Bootcamps, Tech Recruiting & What’s Next📰 JOIN OUR NEWSLETTERStay updated on our future events, technology podcast episodes, cybersecurity insights, and services:https://www.hackerproofhq.com/blog💼 SPONSORGet 50% off Jotform annual plans using our partner link:https://www.jotform.com/?partner=hackerproofhqJotform is a no-code platform that helps builders launch forms, apps, and workflows.🔐 IS YOUR BUSINESS SECURE & SOC 2 READY?Protect your business, strengthen your systems, and prepare for compliance with expert-led cybersecurity solutions.Start with a Free SOC 2 Readiness Assessment.Answer 15 quick questions aligned with all 9 SOC 2 Common Criteria and receive a personalized report including:✔ Your readiness score✔ Your top 3 security gaps✔ A realistic timeline to audit📩 Your personalized report is delivered to your inbox in under 60 seconds.👉 https://www.hackerproofhq.com/soc2-readiness-assessment💼 EXPLORE OUR SERVICESWe help businesses secure, scale, and stay compliant with:• Security Assessment & Compliance• Fractional CISO / Advisory• AI-Powered Security Agent🔗 https://www.hackerproofhq.com/#hphq-services📅 BOOK A FREE CONSULTATIONReady to take the next step? Speak with our experts about your technology and security needs.👉 https://www.hackerproofhq.com/#book-consultation📩 GET CYBERSECURITY INSIGHTS FOR FREEWant practical cybersecurity tips, compliance updates, and expert insights to help protect your business?Join our newsletter and explore our blog:📩 https://www.hackerproofhq.com/blog🔗 CONNECT WITH KENA OFOEGBUInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kennagqCloud, Kubernetes, DevSecOps & AI Training:https://www.emagetech.io🔗 CONNECT WITH HACKERPROOFHQInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hackerproofhqTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hacker.proofTwitter/X: @hackerproofhqLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hackerproofhq/🔗 OUR TEAM👨🏽 Femi – Video Editorhttps://www.instagram.com/femiodey/👩🏽‍🦱 Charity – Social Media Managerhttps://www.instagram.com/charity.okoloeze👨🏽 David Ewele – Digital Strategyhttps://www.instagram.com/witty_welz📧 For inquiries and suggestions:info@hackerproofhq.com❤️ SUPPORT HACKERPROOFHQIf you enjoy our conversations and want to support what we do, you can make a donation here:https://app.redcircle.com/shows/6fbd820c-fbca-4dc7-9efb-353a7d33f9eb/donationIf you enjoyed this episode, like, subscribe, and share it with someone building a career in technology.#Kubernetes #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #Cybersecurity #ArtificialIntelligence #TechCareers #TechBootcamp #CloudComputing #AI #HackerProofHQ #DevSecOps
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    46 min
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