Bonus Track: Don’t You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds (1985)
9th Oct 2025
Bonus Track
Cyber Breakfast Club Rools
Bonus Track: Don’t You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds (1985)
Don’t forget the basics, they hold it all together
If the 12 tracks of Cyber Skool Rools are the mixtape, this one’s the encore. The one the crowd sings louder than the band. The message is simple, don’t forget the basics.
Every lesson from the playlist points back here:
- Gimme Shelter told you to build firewalls and backups.
- Break on Through warned that hackers will try every door.
- Heroes reminded you that staff training creates defenders.
- I Wanna Be Sedated shouted about patching fast, not someday.
- Another One Bites the Dust showed what happens without recovery plans.
- London Calling was the wake-up call that threats are already here.
- In the Air Tonight gave you the gut check, monitoring matters.
- Hanging on the Telephone warned phishing comes in many forms.
- Dancing in the Dark pushed visibility over stumbling blind.
- Eye of the Tiger was all about grit and daily practice.
- Crockett’s Theme showed how calm plans beat chaos.
- Once in a Lifetime reminded you to plan ahead before asking “How did I get here?”
And now? Don’t You Forget About Me.
Because none of those lessons stick if you forget the basics. Strong passwords. MFA. Backups tested. Staff trained. Plans rehearsed. They’re not flashy. They’re not neon. But they’re what keep you in business.
Cyber resilience isn’t one big heroic moment. It’s doing the basics, every day, without forgetting.
So don’t you forget about them. Or me.
David Byrne’s wild-eyed “How did I get here?” is basically the anthem of every breached business without a plan. One day you’re selling widgets, the next your data’s on the dark web and you’re giving free credit monitoring to customers.
Crockett didn’t panic. He didn’t scream. He adjusted his Ray-Bans, drove the Testarossa, and got the job done. That’s incident response done right.
This is the training montage track. Rocky doesn’t win by lounging on the sofa. He sweats, runs stairs, and punches raw meat. Cyber resilience works the same way. You’ve got to train, prepare, and fight every day.
Springsteen wasn’t talking about SIEM tools, but he could’ve been. Dancing in the dark is what happens when you’ve got zero visibility into your IT environment. You’re moving, but you don’t know what’s around you, and sooner or later, you’ll step on something sharp.
is a hacker’s favourite gateway. Vishing, smishing, WhatsApp scams, same old trick, just new packaging.
That drum fill. You know the one. It’s the sound of impending doom. In cyber terms, it’s that feeling in your gut when something’s off on the network. You don’t see it, but you feel it.
London is calling, and it’s not to remind you about your MOT. It’s the wake-up call you’ve been ignoring. Phishing. Supply chain hacks. Ransomware. It’s all here, mate, and it doesn’t care that you’re “just a small business.”
That bass line? Iconic. But when your business is hit by ransomware, the tune is more funeral march than stadium anthem.
Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go, and your server still isn’t patched. That’s how it ends, folks.