Forbes: ‘Midnight In The War Room’ And The Unsung Heroes Of Cybersecurity

If you ask Dr. Chase Cunningham whether we’re in a cyber war, he won’t hedge.“We’ve already had our cyber Pearl Harbor,” he told me. “It just didn’t happen in a single day.”

That line lingered with me because it’s not hyperbole. Cunningham, one of the featured voices in Midnight in the War Room, knows what he’s talking about. The new documentary—produced by Semperis—offers an unfiltered look at the modern cyber battlefield and the people trying to hold the line. It’s raw, unscripted and, in Cunningham’s words, “deeply concerning.”

We tend to talk about cybersecurity as a technical problem: firewalls, zero trust and threat intel feeds. Cunningham sees it differently. He frames it as national defense, full stop. “I’m genuinely concerned about the way our infrastructure runs in this country,” he said. “On the cyber front, we are positioned for failure.”

LeDuc told me Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman gave him one rule before production began: no product mentions, no branding, no sales pitch. “It had to be good and it had to be honest,” LeDuc said.

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