Episodes

Jax Garrett is the CEO and founder of GGWP Academy, a platform that teaches gamers how to monetize their social media and online presence while doing what they love. In this episode, Laura and Jax dive into how machine learning is applied in marketing/gaming to understand and categorize players, how this uses data, and the privacy and security considerations of this new space.

Ben Chartrand is the CTO of Spotlight Reporting, a popular financial reporting platform. In this episode, Ben shares a recent real-world application security incident faced by him and his team and how they responded.

Antonio Loquercio is a roboticist and academic from the University of California, Berkeley, specializing in autonomous space traversal for both legged and flying robots. In this episode, Laura and Antonio dig into the current state of autonomous robots, the challenges involved with making them navigate environments safely and where this exciting leap in technology might take us.

Paul McCarty is the CEO and founder of SecureStack and has a dream. What if you could quickly know all the components your software is made from, trust they were secure, and push to prod? In this episode, Laura and Paul dig into what we would need to do should we try to make this dream happen, how to think about the components and dependencies in our software today, and how we can manage that risk in the future.

Lisa Hall is the CISO at ColorHealth, a healthcare company based in San Francisco specializing in health testing and DNA screening. In this episode, Lisa joins Laura to discuss the realities of securing software in the healthcare industry and the impact of security risks when you store a person's DNA and have an actual, physical lab in the mix.

Dan Walsh is a distinguished engineer at Red Hat. With a long history of securing systems from the operating system level and up, he has moved into functional safety, a subsection of cyber security related to keeping people safe from harm. This week, Dan joins us to discuss his work bringing containerization into cars and his work on PodMan, an open-source tool for container orchestration in these environments.

Jon Gelsey has had an incredible career for someone who describes themselves as "unemployed." Most notably, however, you may know him last as the founder and former CEO of Auth0. In this week's episode, Jon joins us to talk about the importance of cyber security from day 1, planning on being wildly successful, and what the future of authentication may hold.

This week we are joined by Ariel Shin, Product Security Lead at Twillio. Join us as we chat through how security works when you provide messaging services for some of the world's biggest brands and how to scale your security practices when you have 3000 engineers to manage.

Meet Santiago Bernhardt, a self-confessed cyber security lover and software engineer passionate about securing the Internet of Things (IOT). Join us as we dig into what remarkable technologies are being developed to solve this world-sized problem and the challenges along the way. Be prepared to dive into a problem that brings together cars, formal methods and scaled networking in a way you may not have seen before.

Today's guest is Dr. Vaughan Shanks, the Co-Founder, and CEO of Cydarm Technologies. In this episode, we will dig into Attribute Based Access Control(ABAC), a little-used technology for authorization that Vaughan believes can help us not just authorize people but also support critical functions such as incident response.

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