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Algirde Pipikaite, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum Jul 06, 2021

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Episode sponsored by MongoDB.com.

Algirde Pipikaite, the project lead of the Governance and Policy team at the Center for Cybersecurity at the World Economic Forum, joins the podcast to discuss her work to bridge the gap between cybersecurity experts and decision makers. We chat about communicating risk to different audiences, cybersecurity as a business enabler, and the need for more global private-public collaboration.

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Josh Schwartz on red-teaming and proactive security engineering Jun 18, 2021

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Josh Schwartz, aka FuzzyNop, oversees offensive security, product engineering, and security engagement functions at Verizon Media (soon to be Yahoo). He shares insights on red-teaming, overcoming the adversarial relationship between red/blue teams. chasing the "feeling" of being secure, and why there's a need for more empathy in cybersecurity.

(Episode sponsored by Eclypsium)

Michael Laventure, threat detection and response, Netflix Jun 10, 2021

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Netflix threat detection and response practitioner Michael Laventure joins the show to talk about a simple goal to "do security better." We discuss a transition from .gov security work to the fast pace of Silicon Valley, the culture clashes that can make life difficult, the value of threat-intelligence to a modern security program, and why we should all be optimistic about the future of cybersecurity.

Google's Heather Adkins on defenders playing the long game May 26, 2021

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Founding-member of the Google security team Heather Adkins joins the conversation to stress the importance of defenders playing the "long-game," the need for meaningful culture-change among security leaders, the expansion of zero-trust beyond identities and devices, and some thoughts on the future of electronic voting.

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Collin Greene, head of product security, Facebook May 25, 2021

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Facebook product security leader Collin Greene joins the show to discuss philosophies around securing code at scale, the pros and cons of relying on bug-bounty programs, the humbling lessons from being on the wrong side of a malicious hack, and why "shift-left" should be the priority for every defender.

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Alex Matrosov on the state of security at the firmware layer May 23, 2021

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Former head of offensive security research at NVIDIA Alex Matrosov joins the show to talk about the state of security at the firmware layer, the need for specialized reverse engineering skills, the limits of bug-bounty programs for hardware research, and the future of advanced malware analysis.

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Charles Nwatu, Security Technology & Risk, Netflix May 11, 2021

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Charles Nwatu is an engineering manager in Netflix's Security, Technology Assurance & Risk organization. He joins Ryan on the show to talk about a career pivot from U.S. gov service into cybersecurity in Silicon Valley, the exciting parts of compliance and risk management, and why newcomers should consider jobs in SOCs to kickstart security careers.

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Charles Nwatu on LinkedIn — Corporate Security & Security, Technology Assurance & Risk, Netflix
How Netflix’s Charles Nwatu Turned His Desire to Help People Into a Career in Information Security

Doug Madory on the mysterious AS8003 global routing story Apr 29, 2021

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Director of Internet Analyis at Kentik, Doug Madory, joins the podcast to shed light on the mysterious appearance of unused IPv4 space belonging to the US Department of Defense: the strange connection to a Florida company now managing the world's largest honeypot; the odd Inauguration Day timing of this discovery;, and why enterprise network defenders should pay very close attention.

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The Mystery of AS8003 — On January 20, 2021, a great mystery appeared in the internet’s global routing table. An entity that hadn’t been heard from in over a decade began announcing large swaths of formerly unused IPv4 address space belonging to the U.S. Department of Defense.
Pentagon explains odd transfer of 175 million IP addresses to obscure company | Ars Technica — "Did someone at the Defense Department sell off part of the military's vast collection of sought-after IP addresses as Trump left office? Had the Pentagon finally acted on demands to unload the billions of dollars worth of IP address space the military has been sitting on, largely unused, for decades?"
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Crossbeam CISO Chris Castaldo on securing the start-up Apr 23, 2021

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