Disaster.Stream

Disaster. Stream takes you inside the world of high-stakes cyber incidents and recovery operations, where seconds matter and lessons shape the future. Hosted by veteran network forensics expert Bill Alderson , this show unpacks the anatomy of disasters—from stock market outages to military communications failures—revealing what really happened, how teams responded, and what leaders must learn. Thr...

On September 11, 2001, the Pentagon was left crippled by fire, water damage, and destroyed infrastructure after the terrorist attack. Days later, armed guards escorted my team and me into the still-smoldering building to restore critical communications for the U.S. Department of Defense. In this episode, I share that story firsthand — what it was like to step into the epicenter of national crisis...

In this special interview, I sit down with Radia Perlman — the visionary computer scientist and inventor of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) , often called the “Mother of the Internet.” Her groundbreaking work made modern Ethernet and switching possible, shaping the way every network operates today. Radia shares her journey as a pioneer in networking, her reflections on how STP became a global sta...

In this episode of the Disaster. Stream Podcast , host Bill Alderson takes you inside one of the most critical — and least understood — battles of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: the fight to keep U.S. military biometric intelligence systems running in the middle of the digital war. Bill recounts how he was called by Army G2 at the Pentagon and deployed with U.S. CENTCOM to Iraq when a biometric wa...

In this episode of the Disaster. Stream Podcast , host Bill Alderson sits down with Bill Genovese , CIO Executive Advisor at Kyndryl , to explore one of the most high-stakes failures in modern banking: a nationwide ATM outage during a holiday weekend . Drawing from decades of global experience with IBM, Kyndryl, and Big Four consulting, Genovese shares how banking systems can unravel in moments —...