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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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)
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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.
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Google's Heather Adkins on defenders playing the long game
May 26th, 2021 | 38 mins 47 secs
chrome, google, zero-trust
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 25th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
bug bounties, facebook, pen-testing, product security, security assessments, web app security
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 23rd, 2021 | 58 mins 32 secs
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.