Guest: Or Brokman, Strategic Google Cloud Engineer, Security and Compliance, Google Cloud Topics: Can you tell us about one particular cloud consulting engagement that really sticks out in your memory? Maybe a time when you lifted the hood, so to speak, and were absolutely floored by what you found – good or bad! In... more
Guests: Beth Cartier, former CISO, vCISO, founder of Initiative Security Guest host of the CISO mini-series: Marina Kaganovich, Executive Trust Lead, Office of the CISO @ Google Cloud Topics: How is that vCISO’ing going? What is special about vCISO and cloud? Is it easier or harder? AI, cyber, resilience - all ar... more
Guest host: Marina Kaganovich, Executive Trust Lead, Office of the CISO @ Google Cloud Guest: John Rogers, CISO @ MSCI Topics: Can you briefly walk us through your CISO career path? What are some of the key (cloud or otherwise) trends that CISOs should be keeping an eye on? What is the time frame for them? What ... more
Guest: Bob Blakley, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mimic Topics: Tell us about the ransomware problem - isn't this a bit of old news? Circa 2015, right? What makes ransomware a unique security problem? What's different about ransomware versus other kinds of malware? What do you make of the “RansomOps” take... more
Guest: Allan Liska, CSIRT at Recorded Future, now part of Mastercard Topics: Ransomware has become a pervasive threat. Could you provide us with a brief overview of the current ransomware landscape? It's often said that ransomware is driven by pure profit. Can you remind us of the business model of ransomware gang... more
Guest: Andrew Kopcienski, Principal Intelligence Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group Questions: You have this new Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 report, what’s up with that? We are getting a bit annoyed about the fear-mongering on “oh, but attackers will use AI.” You are a threat analyst, realistically, how afra... more
Guest: Phil Venables, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) @ Google Cloud Topics Why is our industry suddenly obsessed with resilience? Is this ransomware’s doing? How did the PCAST report come to be? Can you share the backstory and how it was created? The PCAST report emphasizes the importanc... more
Guest: Rich Mogull, SVP of Cloud Security at Firemon and CEO at Securosis Topics: Let’s talk about cloud security shared responsibility. How to separate the blame? Is there a good framework for apportioning blame? You've introduced the Cloud Shared Irresponsibilities Model, stating cloud providers will be consid... more
Guest: Amine Besson, Tech Lead on Detection Engineering, Behemoth Cyberdefence Topics: What is your best advice on detection engineering to organizations who don’t want to engineer anything in security? What is the state of art when it comes to SOC ? Who is doing well? What on Earth is a fusion center? Why class... more
Guest: Chris Hoff, Chief Secure Technology Officer at Last Pass Topics: I learned that you have a really cool title that feels very “now” - Chief Secure Technology Officer? What’s the story here? Weirdly, I now feel that every CTO better be a CSTO or quit their job :-) After, ahem, not-so-recent events you had a c... more
Guest: Michael Czapinski, Security & Reliability Enthusiast, Google Topics: “How Google protects its production services” paper covers how Google's infrastructure balances several crucial aspects, including security, reliability, development speed, and maintainability. How do you prioritize these competing demand... more
Guests: Michele Chubirka, Staff Cloud Security Advocate, Google Cloud Sita Lakshmi Sangameswaran, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud Topics: What is your reaction to “in the cloud you are one IAM mistake away from a breach”? Do you like it or do you hate it? Or do you "it depends" it? :-) Everyone's t... more
Guests: Ante Gojsalic, Co-Founder & CTO at SplxAI Topics: What are some of the unique challenges in securing GenAI applications compared to traditional apps? What current attack surfaces are most concerning for GenAI apps, and how do you see these evolving in the future? Do you have your very own list of top 5 GenAI... more
Guest: Travis Lanham, Uber Tech Lead (UTL) for Security Operations Engineering, Google Cloud Topics: There’s been a ton of discussion in the wake of the three SIEM week about the future of SIEM-like products. We saw a lot of takes on how this augurs the future of disassembled or decoupled SIEMs. Can you explain w... more
Guest: Vijay Ganti, Director of Product Management, Google Cloud Security Topics: What have been the biggest pain points for organizations trying to use threat intelligence (TI)? Why has it been so difficult to convert threat knowledge into effective security measures in the past? In the realm of AI, there's often h... more
Cross-over hosts: Kaslin Fields, co-host at Kubernetes Podcast Abdel Sghiouar, co-host at Kubernetes Podcast Guest: Michele Chubirka, Cloud Security Advocate, Google Cloud Topics: How would you approach answering the question ”what is more secure, container or a virtual machine (VM)?” Could you elaborate on ... more
Guest: Daniel Shechter, Co-Founder and CEO at Miggo Security Topics: Why do we need Application Detection and Response (ADR)? BTW, how do you define it? Isn’t ADR a subset of CDR (for cloud)? What is the key difference that sets ADR apart from traditional EDR and CDR tools? Why can’t I just send my application da... more
Guests: Taylor Lehmann, Director at Office of the CISO, Google Cloud Luis Urena, Cloud Security Architect, Google Cloud Topics There is a common scenario where security teams are brought in after a cloud environment is already established. From your experience, how does this late involvement typically impact the o... more
Guest: Nelly Porter, Director of PM, Cloud Security at Google Cloud Topics: Share your story and how you ended here doing confidential AI at Google? What problem does confidential compute + AI solve and for what clients? What are some specific real-world applications or use cases where you see the combination of AI ... more
Guest: Dan Nutting, Manager - Cyber Defense, Google Cloud Topics: What is the Defender’s Advantage and why did Mandiant decide to put this out there? This is the second edition. What is different about DA-II? Why do so few defenders actually realize their Defender’s Advantage? The book talks about the imp... more
Guest: Josh Liburdi, Staff Security Engineer, Brex Topics: What is this “security data fabric”? Can you explain the technology? Is there a market for this? Is this same as security data pipelines? Why is this really needed? Won’t your SIEM vendor do it? Who should adopt it? Or, as Tim says, what gets better once yo... more
Guest: Royal Hansen, CISO, Alphabet Topics: What were you thinking before you took that “Google CISO” job? Google's infrastructure is vast and complex, yet also modern. How does this influence the design and implementation of your security programs compared to other organizations? Are there any specific chall... more
Guest: Dor Fledel, Founder and CEO of Spera Security, now Sr Director of Product Management at Okta Topics: We say “identity is the new perimeter,” but I think there’s a lof of nuance to it. Why and how does it matter specifically in cloud and SaaS security? How do you do IAM right in the cloud? Help us with... more
Guest: Nicole Beckwith, Sr. Security Engineering Manager, Threat Operations @ Kroger Topics: What are the most important qualities of a successful SOC leader today? What is your approach to building and maintaining a high-functioning SOC team? How do you approach burnout in a SOC team? What are some of the ... more
Guests: A debate between Tim and Anton, no guests Debate positions: You must buy the majority of cloud security tools from a cloud provider, here is why. You must buy the majority of cloud security tools from a 3rd party security vendor, here is why. Resources: EP74 Who Will Solve Cloud Security: A View fr... more