Security Voices
There are great stories in the security industry that aren’t being told. Fascinating people who fly below the radar and aren’t being heard. We know because we encounter them in hallways, hotel lobbies and just about everywhere imaginable across the globe. Everytime we think “I wish I had recorded that conversation so that everyone could hear it…” Our goal with Security Voices is to provide a place for clear-headed dialogue with great people that’s unencumbered by the hyperbole and shouting that’s far too common in security circles. We don’t have anything against sponsors or sales pitches, but they run counter to our goal of cutting through the noise, so we don’t have either. We’re aiming for 100% clear signal.
Episodes
January 16, 2024 • 41 mins
After 5 seasons, it’s curtain call for Security Voices. In this final episode, Jack and I reflect on half a decade of podcasting together through times that were both extraordinary for the world and for each of us personally. We discuss some of our favorite moments, most memorable guests, and the lessons learned from roughly 60 episodes of exploring the unique personalities and stories of cybersecurity. At around 40 minutes, our l...
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November 27, 2023 • 60 mins
The ascendancy of India in Silicon Valley is undeniable. From top executives such as Satya Nadella (Microsoft) and Nikesh Arora (Palo Alto Networks) to leading investors, we’ve become well accustomed to working with and often for people who have immigrated from India. Given the wave of immigration from India started decades ago, our Indian coworkers, investors and leaders are such an established part of the tech industry that we o...
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October 3, 2023 • 63 mins
The classic mindset of cyber security unmistakably originates from its early leaders: financial services, the defense industrial complex, and big companies that had too much to lose from ignoring what was called at the time “information security risk”. They tried to calculate largely unknowable risks to explain digital concepts to analog executives. They leaned on medieval metaphors such as castles and moats to make formerly arcan...
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August 28, 2023 • 59 mins
Let’s say it’s 2012. And you're graduating Stanford with a comp sci degree. You could go to Google, Facebook or any of a number of well-paying emerging juggernauts. If you’re Frank Wang, you move across the coast and do your PhD in cybersecurity at MIT.
Now you’re doing your PhD. And you make pals with a local VC. So naturally, you start a cybersecurity incubator as an academic (Cybersecurity Factory) which churns out companies such...
Now you’re doing your PhD. And you make pals with a local VC. So naturally, you start a cybersecurity incubator as an academic (Cybersecurity Factory) which churns out companies such...
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This past weekend, the New York Times posted an article explaining the United States is scrambling to clean government systems from a deep, pervasive infiltration of the country’s infrastructure by the Chinese. Much like the Russian attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, the intent appears to be to disrupt any U.S. action that would be a response to Chinese military action in Taiwan. The role of nation state actors in driving the thr...
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"Any country that intervenes in Taiwan will face serious consequences, including cyber attacks."
This statement in January by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs made clear that the United States must be ready to defend itself in what many assume to be an inevitable conflict over Taiwan’s independence. It begs the question, how will we defend ourselves from such a powerful adversary with one of the best cyber armies in the world...
This statement in January by the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs made clear that the United States must be ready to defend itself in what many assume to be an inevitable conflict over Taiwan’s independence. It begs the question, how will we defend ourselves from such a powerful adversary with one of the best cyber armies in the world...
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May 6, 2023 • 64 mins
The breakaway success of ChatGPT is hiding an important fact and an even bigger problem. The next wave of generative AI will not be built by trawling the Internet but by mining hordes of proprietary data that have been piling up for years inside organizations. While Elon Musk and Reddit may breathe a sigh of relief, this ushers in a new set of concerns that go well beyond prompt injections and AI hallucinations. Who is responsible ...
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March 26, 2023 • 66 mins
Hidden bunkers, stacks of canned food and piles of artillery. Disaster preparedness has become an Internet meme and these are some of the “prepper” community’s showcase images. But most of us who have lived through the recent pandemic, the Capital insurrection on January 6th and more no longer take the threat of a major disaster lightly. For those of us not willing or able to dig out a backyard bunker, is there a rational middlegro...
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February 6, 2023 • 52 mins
Continuing from our dialogue with Tomas Maldonado who has the unique job of securing the NFL, we have a conversation with Allen Ohanian whose day job is to protect the Los Angeles Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS). LA DCFS is the largest agency of its type in the United States, its central focus is its 10,000 social workers who help defend some of the most vulnerable people in Southern California. Allen’s role as CISO ...
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January 5, 2023 • 70 mins
After 2 decades of trying to make SIEMs work, security data lakes are a hot topic as they present an increasingly attractive alternative. The only hotter topic is ChatGPT and the game changing potential of AI. So in episode 52 of Security Voices, we mash the two together as Dave, Pathik Patel (Informatica), and Omer Singer (Snowflake) explore the many angles of security data lakes with an AI-assist from ChatGPT.
From a functional de...
From a functional de...
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November 7, 2022 • 83 mins
The winds of change are always blowing in cybersecurity, but there’s moments when they reach a gale force, When the landscape is reshaped dramatically by an event that hits us like a hurricane, changing how we feel about our jobs, our industry, and perhaps even shaking our resolve to continue on in the same career path. When Joe Sullivan, former head of security for Uber, was found guilty of concealing a breach in early October the...
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October 25, 2022 • 50 mins
In cybersecurity, we have teams focused on managing vulnerabilities. We have SOCs who spend their days obsessing over threats. App sec teams. Data privacy teams. In the typical, modern cybersecurity team, we have exactly zero people focused on helping humans defend themselves and the organization in spite of a massive increase in scams and fraud that are squarely aimed at tricking people into making bad decisions. Are we really mor...
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July 22, 2022 • 62 mins
Imagine you’re walking past the sports book in Las Vegas. People are betting on baseball, horses, and the usual fare. Something catches your eye, you look more closely and you can’t believe your eyes. People are betting on whether or not you're going to fail at doing your job this week!
While this may sound far-fetched, this exact scenario played out for Tomas Maldonado, the then freshly minted CISO of the National Football League w...
While this may sound far-fetched, this exact scenario played out for Tomas Maldonado, the then freshly minted CISO of the National Football League w...
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June 16, 2022 • 67 mins
First, a confession: this is the last episode we would have envisioned when we started Security Voices. Compliance was as mundane as it is mandatory– where’s the fun in that? Where’s the untold, fascinating story of the person who summited the tallest mountain? Rose from ashes to improbable success?
In the short years that have passed since we started in early 2019, the world has changed dramatically. And so has compliance. From dr...
In the short years that have passed since we started in early 2019, the world has changed dramatically. And so has compliance. From dr...
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April 26, 2022 • 72 mins
For the second episode in a row, we’ve caught a seasoned entrepreneur at that perfect moment when they’ve started a new company but still have time for a conversation before their new adventure kicks into high gear. Oliver Friedrichs, founder of several security companies including Immunenet and Phantom, joins us to talk product strategy as he embarks on a new journey to disrupt the security industry once again with his new venture...
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March 15, 2022 • 76 mins
2+ years to interview Alfred Huger wasn’t too long to wait. After spending 8 years at Cisco following the acquisition of SourceFire, Al recently departed the networking giant to do his 4th startup in as many decades. Unbound from the usual PR police, Al candidly speaks on a wide range of topics from why he has stayed at companies long past acquisition and how to distinguish between a miserable and a winning acquirer.
Having raised ...
Having raised ...
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February 7, 2022 • 84 mins
There are few people, if any, who have given more of themselves to the cybersecurity community than Lesley Carhart. Our conversation with Lesley came immediately after the 3rd annual PancakesCon, a free conference she conceived with a unique “20 on, 20 off” format that celebrates who we are outside of work as much as what we accomplish as security professionals. In the fashion of a person who is both an incident response expert an...
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December 27, 2021 • 53 mins
Your fledgling startup has just been sued by one of the most powerful companies in the world.
How do you defend yourself?
And keep your company afloat?
This was the challenge faced by Amanda Gorton, CEO of Corellium, a company whose virtualization platform enables efficient mobile security research and quality testing across a massive variety of devices. Sued by Apple for both copyright infringement and violation of the Digital Mille...
How do you defend yourself?
And keep your company afloat?
This was the challenge faced by Amanda Gorton, CEO of Corellium, a company whose virtualization platform enables efficient mobile security research and quality testing across a massive variety of devices. Sued by Apple for both copyright infringement and violation of the Digital Mille...
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December 2, 2021 • 56 mins
What if there was someone who could take all of the best security research over recent months and distill it down into the greatest hits? Sort of like a Spotify “Release Radar”, but for the best talks at conferences.
There is.
It’s not in Blinkist.
It’s (back) at ThinkstScapes after a multiyear hiatus.
And it’s now gloriously free.
This episode of Security Voices covers the return of Thinkstscapes with Jacob Torrey who led the reboot...
There is.
It’s not in Blinkist.
It’s (back) at ThinkstScapes after a multiyear hiatus.
And it’s now gloriously free.
This episode of Security Voices covers the return of Thinkstscapes with Jacob Torrey who led the reboot...
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September 13, 2021 • 71 mins
Hundreds of inexpensive satellites are now regularly launched into space through SpaceX’s Smallsat Rideshare program. Some are sophisticated and commercial, others are DIY and experimental. They share space with now over 3,000 other artificial satellites orbiting the Earth. What could possibly go wrong?
Frank Pound joins Jack and Dave for a conversation to answer the question of just how hackproof satellites really are and why it ma...
Frank Pound joins Jack and Dave for a conversation to answer the question of just how hackproof satellites really are and why it ma...
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