About the show

Security Conversations covers the business of cybersecurity, from the lens of veteran journalist and storyteller Ryan Naraine. Thoughtful conversations with security practitioners on threat intelligence, zero trust, securing cloud deployments, penetration testing, bug bounties, advancements in offensive research and targeted malware espionage activity.

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Episodes

  • Google's Shane Huntley on zero-days and the nation-state threat landscape

    April 4th, 2022  |  40 mins 44 secs
    exploits, google, project zero, pwn2own, zero-day

    Director at Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) Shane Huntley joins the show and talks about lessons from the 2009 Aurora attacks, the surge in zero-day discoveries, the usefulness of IOCs, North Korean APT operations, private sector mercenary hackers, the expanding nation-state threat actor map, and much more...

  • Lamont Orange, CISO, Netskope

    March 21st, 2022  |  26 mins 2 secs

    Netskope security chief Lamont Orange joins the show to chat about the changing role of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), managing security as a business enabler, the cybersecurity skills shortage, and his own unique approach to security leadership.

  • Haroon Meer on the business of cybersecurity

    March 19th, 2022  |  1 hr 15 mins
    breach detection, canaries, startup, thinkst, venture capital

    Thinkst founder and CEO Haroon Meer joins Ryan Naraine on the show to talk about building a successful cybersecurity company without venture capital investment, fast-moving attack surfaces and the never-ending battle to mitigate memory corruption issues.

  • Tony Pepper, co-founder and CEO, Egress

    February 22nd, 2022  |  19 mins 37 secs
    email security, entrepreneurship, messaging

    Chief executive officer at Egress Tony Pepper joins the show to talk about entrepreneurship in the fast-paced age of modern computing, the state of e-mail security, and his company's bet on securing the future of messaging in the enterprise.

  • Microsoft's Justin Campbell on offensive security research

    January 8th, 2022  |  27 mins 16 secs
    memory safety, microsoft, secure coding, shift-left, windows, zero-days

    Justin Campbell leads Microsoft’s Offensive Research and Security Engineering (MORSE) team. He joins the show to talk about his team's discovery of a SolarWinds in-the-wild zero-day, the never-ending stream of memory safety vulnerabilities, the evolving 'shift-left' mindset and Redmond's ongoing work to reduce attack surfaces.

  • Costin Raiu on the .gov mobile exploitation business

    December 23rd, 2021  |  41 mins 18 secs
    android, apple, exploits, ios malware, nso pegasus, psoas, zero-day

    Global director of Kaspersky's GReAT research team Costin Raiu returns to the show for an indepth discussion on the mobile surveillance business, the technically impressive FORCEDENTRY iOS exploit, the ethical questions facing exploit developers and the role of venture capitalists in the mobile malware ecosystem.

  • Amanda Gorton, co-founder and CEO, Corellium

    December 20th, 2021  |  46 mins 20 secs
    apple, corellium, emulation, ios, virtualization

    Corellium co-founder and chief executive Amanda Gorton joins the show to talk about raising $25 million in Series A funding, the market fit for device modeling and software virtualization products, the trials and tribulations of startup life, and the nuances of operating in the world of offensive security research.

  • Intel's Venky Venkateswaran on hardware-enabled security

    September 9th, 2021  |  35 mins 20 secs

    Venky Venkateswaran works on client security and roadmap planning at Intel Corp. On this episode of the podcast, Venky joins Ryan to talk about a reported surge in firmware attacks, Intel's ongoing investments in cybersecurity, the importance of transparency and open documentation, and the company's push to fight ransomware with its flagship TDT (Threat Detection Technology).

  • Sounil Yu on SBOMs, software supply chain security

    July 13th, 2021  |  48 mins 26 secs
    open-source, sbom, supply chain

    Episode sponsored by SecurityWeek.com

    JupiterOne CISO Sounil Yu joins the show to sift through the noise and explain the value of SBOMs (software bill of materials), the U.S. government's response to software supply chain security gaps, and what every buyer and seller should be doing to prepare for major changes in the ecosystem.

  • Algirde Pipikaite, Centre for Cybersecurity, World Economic Forum

    July 6th, 2021  |  40 mins 2 secs
    ciso, davos, risk management

    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.
    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 at the highest levels to reinforce the importance of cybersecurity as a key strategic priority.

  • Josh Schwartz on red-teaming and proactive security engineering

    June 18th, 2021  |  37 mins 57 secs
    blue team, red-team, verizon yahoo

    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

    June 10th, 2021  |  30 mins 32 secs
    supply chain, threat-hunting, threat-intel

    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.