Andrew Brandt is hitting the promotional circuit this week for his upcoming memoir, Smarter About Sports, which hits shelves on July 14. The former NFL executive and Villanova consultant spent the week discussing his transition from league front offices to the NIL landscape in a featured Q&A with Awful Announcing.
While the sports media world focuses on his book, Andrew Brandt is currently appearing on podcasts in a completely different capacity. On Darknet Diaries, a different Andrew Brandt—a principal threat researcher—is detailing a high-stakes cyber espionage campaign. He noted, "I was a principal researcher for Sophos, but I am now a principal threat researcher for a company called Netcraft."
Host Jack Rhysider leaned into the gravity of the researcher's work on Darknet Diaries, offering high praise for the clarity of the reporting. "A big thank you to Andrew Brandt and Craig Jones for coming on the show and telling us this incredible story of how Sophos got targeted by a Chinese state-sponsored threat actor." The contrast is jarring: one Andrew Brandt is navigating the business of the NFL, while the other is exposing the vulnerabilities of the global internet.
