We found 6 episodes of Security Conversations with the tag “microsoft”.
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Ryan Hurst on tech innovation and unsolved problems in security
August 16th, 2023 | 42 mins 24 secs
ai, bgp, encryption, google, key management, microsoft, startups
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Peculiar Ventures chief executive Ryan Hurst joins the show to talk about a career that spanned 20 years at Microsoft and Google, his work building the plumbing for encryption on the web, unsolved problems in BGP security, the hype and promise of AI, and Microsoft's ongoing cloud security hiccups.
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Jason Chan on Microsoft's security problems, layoffs and startups
August 7th, 2023 | 27 mins 7 secs
ciso, entrepreneurship, generative ai, layoffs, microsoft, open source software, transparency, vc funding
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Bessemer Venture Partner's Jason Chan returns to the show for a frank discussion on the state of cyber, including thoughts on Microsoft's prominent security failures, the meaning of layoffs hitting security teams, the excitement around AI, and the long road ahead. The former Netflix security chief also talks about merging of the IT and security functions and the importance of cybersecurity proving its value to the business.
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Kymberlee Price reflects on life at the MSRC, hacker/vendor engagement, bug bounties
July 12th, 2023 | 48 mins 38 secs
appsec, bug bounties, microsoft, msrc, pen-testing
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Product security executive Kymberlee Price joins the show to gab about life in the trenches at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), the challenges of maintaining healthy hacker/vendor relationships, the harsh realities of bug-bounty programs, and thoughts on the cybersecurity job market.
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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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Microsoft's David Weston on the surge in firmware attacks
April 6th, 2021 | 33 mins 6 secs
bios, eclypsium, firmware, iot, microsoft, security updates, uefi, windows os
Microsoft's David Weston joins Ryan on the show to discuss a new report that shows 83% of organizations have been hit by a firmware attack in the last two years.
As businesses continue to under-invest in resources to prevent firmware attacks, Weston warns about the inevitability of advanced attacks at the 'invisible' layer, the absence of skills and tools to find malicious activity in firmware, the nightmare of navigating the patching treadmill, and exciting tech innovation in the space.
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David Weston, Principal Security Engineering Manager, Microsoft
June 24th, 2018 | 46 mins 23 secs
exploits, microsoft, mitigations, windows
David Weston manages the Windows Device and Offensive Security Research teams at Microsoft. He joins the podcast to talk about how proactive red-team exercises push major mitigations to Microsoft's products and the current state of security in the Windows ecosystem.