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talking heads

Track 12: Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads (1980)

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8th Oct 2025

Track 12

Cyber Skool Rools

Track 12: Once in a Lifetime, Talking Heads (1980)

Don’t ask “how did I get here?”  Plan ahead

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.

Gen X knows hindsight.  We’ve all had “what was I thinking?” moments, fashion choices alone prove that.  But in cyber, hindsight costs real money.

Resilience means not waiting for the “once in a lifetime” breach.  Plan now, disaster recovery, business continuity, backups tested, incident drills done.  Don’t ask how you got here.  Know where you’re going.

Because when the water flows underground in cyber, it takes your business with it if you’re not ready.

And you may ask yourself, “Well, how did I get here?”

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Track 11: Crockett’s Theme, Jan Hammer (Miami Vice, 1984)

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7th Oct 2025

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Track 11

Track 11: Crockett’s Theme, Jan Hammer (Miami Vice, 1984)

Cool heads follow the plan & catch the crooks

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.

Gen X soaked up Miami Vice like gospel.  The colours, the music, the suits, all style, but with substance underneath.  Same deal with your cyber plan.  It’s not about panicking when the breach hits. It’s about staying calm, following the steps, and catching the bad guys.

Incident response isn’t a suggestion.  It’s your script.  Without it, your breach response looks more like a Benny Hill chase scene.

Resilience means being Crockett, not chaos. 

Stay cool, follow the plan, and keep your business driving into the neon horizon.

eye of the tiger

Track 10: Eye of the Tiger, Survivor (1982)

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6th Oct 2025

Track 10

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Track 10: Eye of the Tiger, Survivor (1982)

Stay sharp, stay resilient, keep fighting

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.

Hackers don’t rest.  They don’t get bored.  They’re basically playing Eye of the Tiger on repeat while trying to smash into your systems.  If you’re snoozing, you’re losing.

Gen X knows resilience.  We survived dodgy haircuts, dial-up, and waiting three days for film to be developed.  We kept fighting.

Your resilience isn’t built in a crisis, it’s built in practice.  Tabletop exercises, phishing drills, recovery tests.  Stay sharp, stay ready. 

Keep your tiger eye on the prize, business survival.

born in the usa

Track 9: Dancing in the Dark, Bruce Springsteen (1984)

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5th Oct 2025

Track 9

The Boss

Track 9: Dancing in the Dark, Bruce Springsteen (1984)

Shine light on your systems, get visibility

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.

Gen X knows the pain of blackout discos.  Bumping into walls, spilling your drink, chaos. Same with cyber.  Without monitoring, you don’t know where the risks are until you hit the floor.

Visibility means logging, dashboards, threat intel.  Shine light on your network so you’re not slow-dancing with malware.

Resilience is about more than reacting. It’s about seeing. 

In cyber, the dark isn’t romantic, it’s expensive.

hanging on the telephone

Track 8: Hanging on the Telephone, Blondie (1978)

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4th Oct 2025

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Track8: Hanging on the Telephone, Blondie (1978)

Phishing doesn’t stop at email

Back in Blondie’s day, phones had cords and prank calls were the worst thing that could happen.  Now? Your phone is a hacker’s favourite gateway.  Vishing, smishing,  WhatsApp scams, same old trick, just new packaging.

Gen X remembers calling radio stations and hoping we didn’t get cut off.  Hackers use the same persistence.  They’ll keep calling, texting, DM’ing until someone picks up.

Here’s the kicker, your staff are still the weakest link.  A “CEO voice” on the phone saying “transfer funds” is enough to make some poor soul hit send.  Resilience means training them to hang up, verify, and not get starstruck by authority.

Phishing is everywhere, phone, text, socials.  If you’re only watching your inbox, you’re missing half the gig.  Don’t just hang on the telephone. 

Hang up on the scam.

in the air tonight

Track 7: In the Air Tonight, Phil Collins (1981)

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3/10/25

Cyber Skool Rools

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Track 7: In the Air Tonight, Phil Collins (1981)

In the Air Tonight, Phil Collins (1981)

Feel the threat, monitoring matters

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.

Gen X grew up trusting instincts.  We knew when a mixtape was going to get chewed by the Walkman before it even started. Same with cyber, monitoring tools are the modern gut check.  If you don’t have them, you’re basically driving blind with the stereo up too loud.

Threat detection isn’t optional. If Phil Collins can feel it coming in the air tonight, you should be able to feel it in your logs.  Real-time alerts, anomaly detection, intrusion monitoring, that’s your drum solo.  Miss it, and you’ll never recover.

Resilience means tuning your ears to the beat.  When that breach hits, you won’t get an encore.

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Track 6: London Calling, The Clash (1979)

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2/10/25

Track 6

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Track 6: London Calling, The Clash (1979)

Track 6: London Calling, The Clash (1979)

The wake-up call: threats are real and here!

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.”

The Clash warned of apocalypse, but cyber’s version is less nuclear winter and more “oops, our customer list is on Telegram.”

Gen X grew up answering landlines without caller ID, how did we survive?  Sometimes it was your mate, sometimes it was a salesman.   Today, it’s the same, every “call” could be friend or foe.  Resilience means treating every one like The Clash, suspicious, urgent, and loud.

London’s calling.  The question is, are you answering with resilience, or just hitting snooze?

London’s call, the hackers are stalling!

Queen-logo

Track 5: Another One Bites the Dust, Queen (1980)

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Track 5: Another One Bites the Dust, Queen (1980)

1/10/25

Track 5

Cyber Skool Rools

Track 5: Another One Bites the Dust, Queen (1980)

Don’t let ransomware take you down

That bass line? Iconic.  But when your business is hit by ransomware, the tune is more funeral march than stadium anthem.

Another one bites the dust because they didn’t have backups.  Or an incident response plan.  Or because Karen clicked on “free gift card.”  Don’t be Karen.

Gen X has seen enough horror movies to know, if you trip, you’re done.  Resilience means being the one who doesn’t trip. Backup everything.  Test recovery.  Drill incident plans until your staff can run them half-asleep (because, let’s face it, they probably will be).

Cyber doesn’t care if you’re Queen or a one-man band, if you’re unprepared, you’re toast.  Resilience isn’t glamorous, but neither is being the SMB equivalent of a VH1 “Behind the Breach” episode.

Ramones

Track 4: I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones (1978)

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30/09/25

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Track 4: I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones (1978)

Track 4: I Wanna Be Sedated, Ramones (1978)

Don’t snooze on patching, stay fast, stay sharp

Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go, and your server still isn’t patched.  That’s how it ends, folks.

The Ramones never did slow.  Two minutes, three chords, done.  That’s how you should treat patching.  Fast. Relentless.  No excuses.  Because sedated is exactly how hackers like you, asleep at the wheel, ignoring updates, clicking “remind me later” until the wheels come off.

Gen X knows procrastination, we invented it. Cyber doesn’t wait.  That “remind me later” button might as well say, “hack me tomorrow.”

Resilience is about staying awake.  Patch like the Ramones played, loud, fast, no nonsense.  Sedation is for after the gig, not for your network.

 

Track 3 Bowie Heroes

Track 3: Heroes, David Bowie (1977)

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29/09/25

Track 3: Heroes, David Bowie

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Track 3: Heroes, David Bowie (1977)

Track 3: Heroes, David Bowie (1977)

Training turns staff into cyber heroes

“We can be heroes… just for one day.”  David Bowie wasn’t talking about your receptionist spotting a phishing email, but he might as well have been.

Cyber heroes aren’t born in capes, they’re made in training sessions.  One bored click on a dodgy link and your “ordinary staff member” becomes the reason you’re explaining to clients why their data’s on the dark web.  But give them training?  Suddenly they’re blocking attacks faster than Ziggy Stardust strummed a chord.

Gen X loved a montage.  Think Rocky running up the steps, or The Karate Kid waxing cars.  Training works the same way, repetitive, boring, but when the big fight comes, you’re ready.

Every employee can be a hero if they know what to look for.  Don’t rely on IT to catch everything, every employee is the 1st line of defense, resilience is a team sport.  With Bowie blasting in the background, remind your staff, one smart click makes a hero.  One dumb click makes a headline!

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