SipCyber - Presented by IT Audit Labs

About SipCyber - Presented by IT Audit Labs

SipCyber: Where Great Coffee Meets Essential Cybersecurity What happens when a former special education teacher turned Minnesota State Cybersecurity Coordinator sits down with a perfect cup of coffee? You get cybersecurity advice that's actually approachable. Jen Lotze from IT Audit Labs brings you SipCyber — the podcast that pairs cozy coffee shop discoveries with decaffeinated cybersecurity tips. No jargon. No fear-mongering. Just practical ways to protect yourself, your family, and your organization from digital criminals who want to ruin your perfectly good day. What You'll Get: Real-world cybersecurity advice anyone can follow Coffee shop reviews and community spotlights Stories from someone who's been in classrooms, boardrooms, and government coordination centers A mission to make security everyone's job, not just the IT team's From teaching special needs students to coordinating statewide cyber defense, Jen proves that cybersecurity expertise comes from the most unexpected places. And the best conversations happen over great coffee. Perfect for: Coffee lovers, small business owners, educators, parents, and anyone who wants to stay safe online without the technical overwhelm. Let's get brewing.

Publisher

IT Audit Labs

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Sept 2025

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

55 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   What Makes You Interesting to Foreign Spies?

   You don't need a security clearance to be valuable to a foreign intelligence officer. What you know, who you know, and what you can access might matter more than you think. In this episode of SipCyber, Jen Lotze visits Saint Paul Brewing in St. Paul, MN, right after the annual InfraGard Minnesota meeting at Metro State University, where an FBI counterintelligence briefing left her with one question, she can't stop thinking about: what makes you interesting to someone else? Set inside th...

2. 

   14 Oct 2026

   AI Assistant Privacy: How Much Access Is Too Much?

   Trust between people builds over time, but AI assistants are asking for all of it on day one. In this episode of SipCyber, Jen Lotze settles in at Roots in St. Paul, MN, a youth-led coffee shop and economic development program just down the street from Metro State University, with a tiramisu cold brew before an InfraGard meeting. Fresh off a solo trip to see The Avett Brothers at Wolf Trap, where a group of strangers became friends over a weekend of music and conversation, Jen uses that exper...

3. 

   8 Oct 2026

   AI Hackers Found a Way Into Your Phone's Camera

   Our phones hold our photos, conversations, locations, cameras, and microphones, and every app we install gets a key to some part of that space. In this episode of SipCyber, Jen Lotze takes a detour from coffee to Eldon St. Tea Shop in Reston, VA, ahead of a concert at Wolf Trap. She uses Reston's history as one of America's first intentionally planned communities as a lens for how we should be designing our digital lives. Jen breaks down a recent story about Depthfirst, a cybersecurity ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

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