Security Unlocked

About Security Unlocked

Security Unlocked presents The BlueHat Podcast From 2020 to 2022, Security Unlocked, hosted by Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla, explored the technology and people powering Microsoft's Security solutions. Today, the Security Unlocked feed brings you new episodes from The BlueHat Podcast where hosts Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone speak with security researchers, responders, hackers and industry leaders, both inside and outside of Microsoft, working to secure the planet's technology and create a safer world for all. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Microsoft

Category

news · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Sept 2020

Latest episode

9 Jul 2025

Latest episodes

67 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Jul 2025

   Hunting Variants: Finding the Bugs Behind the Bug

   Microsoft's George Hughey discusses variant hunting with Nic Fillingham, detailing how Microsoft uses hacking competition data to discover Windows security vulnerabilities and improve overall system protection in this interview.

2. 

   25 Jun 2025

   Securing Redirections with Mike Macelletti

   Mike Macelletti from Microsoft's MSRC explains to hosts Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone how Redirection Guard mitigates file path redirection vulnerabilities in Windows, reducing a common bug class across Microsoft products in this interview.

3. 

   11 Jun 2025

   Ignore Ram Shankar Siva Kumar’s Previous Directions

   Ram Shankar Siva Kumar delivers a keynote at BlueHat India 2025, discussing the AI threat landscape through Microsoft's AI Red Team, including adversarial machine learning and psychosocial harms, emphasizing the need for red teaming practices; Nic Fillingham and Wendy Zenone host this interview.

Who has been a guest on Security Unlocked

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Mike Macelletti
• Ram Shankar Siva Kumar
• David Weston
• Felix Boulet
• Marco Ivaldi

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

56 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

82

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

50

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Books guests

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