Episode 0x9:

In Episode 0x9 of Hack Dissection, host Mike Lisi flips the perspective from offense to defense with guest Cody Spooner, Principal Sales Engineer at Corelight.

While Mike spends his days breaking into networks, Cody helps organizations defend them. Together they unpack how visibility, monitoring, and mindset intersect in modern cybersecurity — from the SOC Triad (SIEM, EDR, NDR) to the realities of MDR services, threat hunting, and alert fatigue.

They dig into:

• Why companies think they’re protected but still miss every alert
• How to turn red-team findings into real defensive improvements
• What threat hunting actually means (and why it’s not just a buzzword)
• Lessons from ransomware incidents and tabletop exercises
• How small businesses can build effective defenses without enterprise budgets

If you’ve ever wondered what happens after the pen testers pack up, this conversation connects the offensive and defensive sides of the same fight — and shows how better collaboration can close the gap.