Texas Cyber Alliance

Caleb Queern and Gabe Lawrence cover three things this week: Canvas ransomware — ShinyHunters hit the LMS during finals, affecting major Texas K-12 districts (Plano, Houston, Katy) and universities (UTSA, Texas State, Baylor, SMU, Texas A&M). Canvas reportedly paid. We discuss third-party risk and vendor gravity. National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition — Gabe's red team experience, UTSA...

Caleb Queern and Gabe Lawrence cover three topics this week: Texas school district ransomware — Alamo Heights ISD and San Felipe Del Rio CISD both hit by apparent ransomware incidents. We discuss the "cyber poverty line", account hygiene, MFA bypass, and how AI is about to make vulnerability discovery — and time to respond — dramatically faster. Software supply chain attacks — The Axios npm librar...

Cyber doesn't slow down, and neither should your defenses. In this debut episode, Texas Cyber Alliance co-founders Caleb Queern and Gabe Lawrence break down two of the biggest conversations in cybersecurity right now: the Striker breach and its ripple effects across healthcare, and what a landmark AI-and-cyber conference signals about where the industry is heading. If you work in security, IT, or...

In this inaugural episode of the Texas Cyber Alliance podcast, co-hosts Caleb Queern and Gabe Lawrence introduce themselves, explain why Texas needs a dedicated cybersecurity alliance, and share what listeners can expect from the show going forward. Texas would rank as roughly the 8th largest economy in the world by GDP — but does its cybersecurity posture reflect that? Caleb and Gabe believe the...