Cloud Security Podcast by Google
Episodes
EP256 Rewiring Democracy & Hacking Trust: Bruce Schneier on the AI Offense-Defense Balance
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Bruce Schneier Topics: Do you believe that AI is going to end up being a net improvement for defenders or attackers? Is short term vs long...
EP255 Separating Hype from Hazard: The Truth About Autonomous AI Hacking
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Heather Adkins, VP of Security Engineering, Google Topic: The term "AI Hacking Singularity" sounds like pure sci-fi, yet you and some other ...
EP254 Escaping 1990s Vulnerability Management: From Unauthenticated Scans to AI-Driven Mitigation
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Caleb Hoch, Consulting Manager on Security Transformation Team, Mandiant, Google Cloud Topics: How has vulnerability management (VM) evolved...
EP253 The Craft of Cloud Bug Hunting: Writing Winning Reports and Secrets from a VRP Champion
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Sivanesh Ashok, bug bounty hunter Sreeram KL, bug bounty hunter Topics: We hear from the Cloud VRP team that you write excellent bugbounty ...
EP252 The Agentic SOC Reality: Governing AI Agents, Data Fidelity, and Measuring Success
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Alexander Pabst, Deputy Group CISO, Allianz Lars Koenig, Global Head of D&R, Allianz Topics: Moving from traditional SIEM to an agent...
EP251 Beyond Fancy Scripts: Can AI Red Teaming Find Truly Novel Attacks?
10 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Ari Herbert-Voss, CEO at RunSybil Topics: The market already has Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS), for testing known TTPs. You're calling ...
EP250 The End of "Collect Everything"? Moving from Centralization to Data Access?
03 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Balazs Scheidler, CEO at Axoflow, original founder of syslog-ng Topics: Are we really coming to "access to security data" and away from "c...
EP249 Data First: What Really Makes Your SOC 'AI Ready'?
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Monzy Merza, co-founder and CEO at Crogl Topics: We often hear about the aspirational idea of an "IronMan suit" for the SOC—a system that ...
EP248 Cloud IR Tabletop Wins: How to Stop Playing Security Theater and Start Practicing
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jibran Ilyas, Director for Incident Response at Google Cloud Topics: What is this tabletop thing, please tell us about running a good securi...
EP247 The Evolving CISO: From Security Cop to Cloud & AI Champion
13 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: David Gee, Board Risk Advisor, Non-Executive Director & Author, former CISO Topics: Drawing from the "Aspiring CIO and CISO" book's focus...
EP246 From Scanners to AI: 25 Years of Vulnerability Management with Qualys CEO Sumedh Thakar
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Sumedh Thakar, President and CEO, Qualys Topics: How did vulnerability management (VM) change since Qualys was founded in 1999? What is diff...
EP245 From Consumer Chatbots to Enterprise Guardrails: Securing Real AI Adoption
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Rick Caccia, CEO and Co-Founder, Witness AI Topics: In what ways is the current wave of enterprise AI adoption different from previous techn...
EP244 The Future of SOAPA: Jon Oltsik on Platform Consolidation vs. Best-of-Breed in the Age of Agentic AI
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jon Oltsik, security researcher, ex-ESG analyst Topics: You invented the concept of SOAPA – Security Operations & Analytics Platform Arch...
EP243 Email Security in the AI Age: An Epic 2025 Arms Race Begins
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Cy Khormaee, CEO, AegisAI Ryan Luo, CTO, AegisAI Topics: What is the state of email security in 2025? Why start an email security company no...
EP242 The AI SOC: Is This The Automation We've Been Waiting For?
08 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Augusto Barros, Principal Product Manager, Prophet Security, ex-Gartner analyst Topics: What is your definition of "AI SOC"? What will AI ...
EP241 From Black Box to Building Blocks: More Modern Detection Engineering Lessons from Google
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Rick Correa,Uber TL Google SecOps, Google Cloud Topics: On the 3rd anniversary of Curated Detections, you've grown from 70 rules to over 47...
EP240 Cyber Resiliency for the Rest of Us: Making it Happen on a Real-World Budget
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Errol Weiss, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Health-ISAC Topics: How adding digital resilience is crucial for enterprises? How to make the l...
EP239 Linux Security: The Detection and Response Disconnect and Where Is My Agentless EDR
18 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Craig H. Rowland, Founder and CEO, Sandfly Security Topics: When it comes to Linux environments – spanning on-prem, cloud, and even–gasp...
EP238 Google Lessons for Using AI Agents for Securing Our Enterprise
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dominik Swierad, Senior PM D&R AI and Sec-Gemini Topics: When introducing AI agents to security teams at Google, what was your initial str...
EP237 Making Security Personal at the Speed and Scale of TikTok
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Kim Albarella, Global Head of Security, TikTok Questions: Security is part of your DNA. In your day to day at TikTok, what are some tips you...
EP236 Accelerated SIEM Journey: A SOC Leader's Playbook for Modernization and AI
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Manija Poulatova, Director of Security Engineering and Operations at Lloyd's Banking Group Topics: SIEM migration is hard, and it can take ...
EP235 The Autonomous Frontier: Governing AI Agents from Code to Courtroom
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Anna Gressel, Partner at Paul, Weiss, one of the AI practice leads Episode co-host: Marina Kaganovich, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud Q...
EP234 The SIEM Paradox: Logs, Lies, and Failing to Detect
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Svetla Yankova, Founder and CEO, Citreno Topics: Why do so many organizations still collect logs yet don't detect threats? In other words, w...
EP233 Product Security Engineering at Google: Resilience and Security
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Cristina Vintila, Product Security Engineering Manager, Google Cloud Topic: Could you share insights into how Product Security Engineering a...
EP232 The Human Element of Privacy: Protecting High-Risk Targets and Designing Systems
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Sarah Aoun, Privacy Engineer, Google Topic: You have had a fascinating career since we [Tim] graduated from college together – you mention...
EP231 Beyond the Buzzword: Practical Detection as Code in the Enterprise
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: David French, Staff Adoption Engineer, Google Cloud Topic: Detection as code is one of those meme phrases I hear a lot, but I'm not sure eve...
EP230 AI Red Teaming: Surprises, Strategies, and Lessons from Google
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Daniel Fabian, Principal Digital Arsonist, Google Topic: Your RSA talk highlights lessons learned from two years of AI red teaming at Google...
EP229 Beyond the Hype: Debunking Cloud Breach Myths (and What DBIR Says Now)
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Alex Pinto, Associate Director of Threat Intelligence, Verizon Business, Lead the Verizon Data Breach Report Topics: How would you define ...
EP228 SIEM in 2025: Still Hard? Reimagining Detection at Cloud Scale and with More Pipelines
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest Alan Braithwaite, Co-founder and CTO @ RunReveal Topics: SIEM is hard, and many vendors have discovered this over the years. You need to get...
EP227 AI-Native MDR: Betting on the Future of Security Operations?
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Eric Foster, CEO of Tenex.AI Venkata Koppaka, CTO of Tenex.AI Topics: Why is your AI-powered MDR special? Why start an MDR from scratch u...
EP226 AI Supply Chain Security: Old Lessons, New Poisons, and Agentic Dreams
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Christine Sizemore, Cloud Security Architect, Google Cloud Topics: Can you describe the key components of an AI software supply chain, a...
EP225 Cross-promotion: The Cyber-Savvy Boardroom Podcast: EP2 Christian Karam on the Use of AI
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts: David Homovich, Customer Advocacy Lead, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud Alicja Cade, Director, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud Guest:...
EP224 Protecting the Learning Machines: From AI Agents to Provenance in MLSecOps
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Diana Kelley, CSO at Protect AI Topics: Can you explain the concept of "MLSecOps" as an analogy with DevSecOps, with 'Dev' replaced by 'ML...
EP223 AI Addressable, Not AI Solvable: Reflections from RSA 2025
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: no guests, just us in the studio Topics: At RSA 2025, did we see solid, measurably better outcomes from AI use in security, or mostly jus...
EP222 From Post-IR Lessons to Proactive Security: Deconstructing Mandiant M-Trends
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Kirstie Failey @ Google Threat Intelligence Group Scott Runnels @ Mandiant Incident Response Topics: What is the hardest thing about tu...
EP221 Special - Semi-Live from Google Cloud Next 2025: AI, Agents, Security ... Cloud?
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: No guests [Tim in Vegas and Anton remote] Topics: So, another Next is done. Beyond the usual Vegas chaos, what was the overarching security...
EP220 Big Rewards for Cloud Security: Exploring the Google VRP
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Michael Cote, Cloud VRP Lead, Google Cloud Aadarsh Karumathil, Security Engineer, Google Cloud Topics: Vulnerability response at cloud-scal...
EP219 Beyond the Buzzwords: Decoding Cyber Risk and Threat Actors in Asia Pacific
14 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Steve Ledzian, APAC CTO, Mandiant at Google Cloud Topics: We've seen a shift in how boards engage with cybersecurity. From your perspective,...
EP218 IAM in the Cloud & AI Era: Navigating Evolution, Challenges, and the Rise of ITDR/ISPM
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Henrique Teixeira, Senior VP of Strategy, Saviynt, ex-Gartner analyst Topics: How have you seen IAM evolve over the years, especially with t...
EP217 Red Teaming AI: Uncovering Surprises, Facing New Threats, and the Same Old Mistakes?
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Alex Polyakov, CEO at Adversa AI Topics: Adversa AI is known for its focus on AI red teaming and adversarial attacks. Can you share a partic...
EP216 Ephemeral Clouds, Lasting Security: CIRA, CDR, and the Future of Cloud Investigations
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: James Campbell, CEO, Cado Security Chris Doman, CTO, Cado Security Topics: Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) vs Cloud Investigation and Res...
EP215 Threat Modeling at Google: From Basics to AI-powered Magic
17 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Meador Inge, Security Engineer, Google Cloud Topics: Can you walk us through Google's typical threat modeling process? What are the key st...
EP214 Reconciling the Impossible: Engineering Cloud Systems for Diverging Regulations
10 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Archana Ramamoorthy, Senior Director of Product Management, Google Cloud Topics: You are responsible for building systems that need to compl...
EP213 From Promise to Practice: LLMs for Anomaly Detection and Real-World Cloud Security
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Yigael Berger, Head of AI, Sweet Security Topic: Where do you see a gap between the "promise" of LLMs for security and how they are actually...
EP212 Securing the Cloud at Scale: Modern Bank CISO on Metrics, Challenges, and SecOps
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dave Hannigan, CISO at Nu Bank Topics: Tell us about the challenges you're facing as CISO at NuBank and how are they different from your p...
EP211 Decoding the Underground: Google's Dual-Lens Threat Intelligence Magic
17 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Kimberly Goody, Head of Intel Analysis and Production, Google Cloud Topics: Google's Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has a unique position,...
EP210 Cloud Security Surprises: Real Stories, Real Lessons, Real "Oh No!" Moments
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Or Brokman, Strategic Google Cloud Engineer, Security and Compliance, Google Cloud Topics: Can you tell us about one particular cloud consul...
EP209 vCISO in the Cloud: Navigating the New Security Landscape (and Don't Forget Resilience!)
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Beth Cartier, former CISO, vCISO, founder of Initiative Security Guest host of the CISO mini-series: Marina Kaganovich, Executive Trust L...
EP208 The Modern CISO: Balancing Risk, Innovation, and Business Strategy (And Where is Cloud?)
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest host: Marina Kaganovich, Executive Trust Lead, Office of the CISO @ Google Cloud Guest: John Rogers, CISO @ MSCI Topics: Can you briefly...
EP207 Slaying the Ransomware Dragon: Can a Startup Succeed?
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Bob Blakley, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Mimic Topics: Tell us about the ransomware problem - isn't this a bit of old news? Circ...
EP206 Paying the Price: Ransomware's Rising Stakes in the Cloud
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Allan Liska, CSIRT at Recorded Future, now part of Mastercard Topics: Ransomware has become a pervasive threat. Could you provide us with ...
EP205 Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Andrew Kopcienski, Principal Intelligence Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group Questions: You have this new Cybersecurity Forecast 202...
EP204 Beyond PCAST: Phil Venables on the Future of Resilience and Leading Indicators
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Phil Venables, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) @ Google Cloud Topics Why is our industry suddenly obsessed with re...
EP203 Cloud Shared Responsibility: Beyond the Blame Game with Rich Mogull
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Rich Mogull, SVP of Cloud Security at Firemon and CEO at Securosis Topics: Let's talk about cloud security shared responsibility. How to...
EP202 Beyond Tiered SOCs: Detection as Code and the Rise of Response Engineering
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Amine Besson, Tech Lead on Detection Engineering, Behemoth Cyberdefence Topics: What is your best advice on detection engineering to organ...
EP201 Every CTO Should Be a CSTO (Or Else!) - Transformation Lessons from The Hoff
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Chris Hoff, Chief Secure Technology Officer at Last Pass Topics: I learned that you have a really cool title that feels very "now" - Chief...
EP200 Zero Touch Prod, Security Rings, and Foundational Services: How Google Does Workload Security
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Michael Czapinski, Security & Reliability Enthusiast, Google Topics: "How Google protects its production services" paper covers how Googl...
EP199 Your Cloud IAM Top Pet Peeves (and How to Fix Them)
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Michele Chubirka, Staff Cloud Security Advocate, Google Cloud Sita Lakshmi Sangameswaran, Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Google Cloud ...
EP198 GenAI Security: Unseen Attack Surfaces & AI Pentesting Lessons
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Ante Gojsalic, Co-Founder & CTO at SplxAI Topics: What are some of the unique challenges in securing GenAI applications compared to traditi...
EP197 SIEM (Decoupled or Not), and Security Data Lakes: A Google SecOps Perspective
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Travis Lanham, Uber Tech Lead (UTL) for Security Operations Engineering, Google Cloud Topics: There's been a ton of discussion in the wa...
EP196 AI+TI: What Happens When Two Intelligences Meet?
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Vijay Ganti, Director of Product Management, Google Cloud Security Topics: What have been the biggest pain points for organizations trying t...
EP195 Containers vs. VMs: The Security Showdown!
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cross-over hosts: Kaslin Fields, co-host at Kubernetes Podcast Abdel Sghiouar, co-host at Kubernetes Podcast Guest: Michele Chubirka, Cloud Se...
EP194 Deep Dive into ADR - Application Detection and Response
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Daniel Shechter, Co-Founder and CEO at Miggo Security Topics: Why do we need Application Detection and Response (ADR)? BTW, how do you def...
EP193 Inherited a Cloud? Now What? How Do I Secure It?
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Taylor Lehmann, Director at Office of the CISO, Google Cloud Luis Urena, Cloud Security Architect, Google Cloud Topics There is a common ...
EP192 Confidential + AI: Can AI Keep a Secret?
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Nelly Porter, Director of PM, Cloud Security at Google Cloud Topics: Share your story and how you ended here doing confidential AI at Google...
EP191 Why Aren't More Defenders Winning? Defender's Advantage and How to Gain it!
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dan Nutting, Manager - Cyber Defense, Google Cloud Topics: What is the Defender's Advantage and why did Mandiant decide to put this out...
EP190 Unraveling the Security Data Fabric: Need, Benefits, and Futures
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Josh Liburdi, Staff Security Engineer, Brex Topics: What is this "security data fabric"? Can you explain the technology? Is there a market...
EP189 How Google Does Security Programs at Scale: CISO Insights
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Royal Hansen, CISO, Alphabet Topics: What were you thinking before you took that "Google CISO" job? Google's infrastructure is vast and...
EP188 Beyond the Buzzwords: Identity's True Role in Cloud and SaaS Security
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Dor Fledel, Founder and CEO of Spera Security, now Sr Director of Product Management at Okta Topics: We say "identity is the new perimete...
EP187 Conquering SOC Challenges: Leadership, Burnout, and the SIEM Evolution
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Nicole Beckwith, Sr. Security Engineering Manager, Threat Operations @ Kroger Topics: What are the most important qualities of a successf...
EP186 Cloud Security Tools: Trust the Cloud Provider or Go Third-Party? An Epic Debate, Anton vs Tim
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: A debate between Tim and Anton, no guests Debate positions: You must buy the majority of cloud security tools from a cloud provider, her...
EP185 SAIF-powered Collaboration to Secure AI: CoSAI and Why It Matters to You
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: David LaBianca, Senior Engineering Director, Google Topics: The universe of AI risks is broad and deep. We've made a lot of headway w...
EP184 One Week SIEM Migration: Fact or Fiction?
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Manan Doshi, Senior Security Engineer @ Etsy Questions: In your experience, what are the biggest challenges organizations face when mi...
EP183 Cloud Security Journeys: Improve, Evolve, Transform with Cloud Customers
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Jaffa Edwards, Senior Security Manager @ Google Cloud Lyka Segura, Cloud Security Engineer @ Google Cloud Topics: Security transfo...
EP182 ITDR: The Missing Piece in Your Security Puzzle or Yet Another Tool to Buy?
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Adam Bateman, Co-founder and CEO, Push Security Topics: What is Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR)? How do you define it? Wh...
EP181 Detection Engineering Deep Dive: From Career Paths to Scaling SOC Teams
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Zack Allen, Senior Director of Detection & Research @ Datadog, creator of Detection Engineering Weekly Topics: What are the biggest chall...
EP180 SOC Crossroads: Optimization vs Transformation - Two Paths for Security Operations Center
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Mitchell Rudoll, Specialist Master, Deloitte Alex Glowacki, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Topics: The paper outlines two paths for SOC...
EP179 Teamwork Under Stress: Expedition Behavior in Cybersecurity Incident Response
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Robin Shostack, Security Program Manager, Google Jibran Ilyas, Managing Director Incident Response, Mandiant, Google Cloud Topics: You...
EP178 Meet Brandon Wood: The Human Side of Threat Intelligence: From Bad IP to Trafficking Busts
24 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Brandon Wood, Product Manager for Google Threat Intelligence Topics: Threat intelligence is one of those terms that means different thing...
EP177 Cloud Incident Confessions: Top 5 Mistakes Leading to Breaches from Mandiant
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Omar ElAhdan, Principal Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud Will Silverstone, Senior Consultant, Mandiant, Google Cloud Topics: Most or...
EP176 Google on Google Cloud: How Google Secures Its Own Cloud Use
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Seth Vargo, Principal Software Engineer responsible for Google's use of the public cloud, Google Topics: Google uses the public cloud, n...
EP175 Meet Crystal Lister: From Public Sector to Google Cloud Security and Threat Horizons
03 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Crystal Lister, Technical Program Manager, Google Cloud Security Topics: Your background can be sheepishly called "public sector", what's...
EP174 How to Measure and Improve Your Cloud Incident Response Readiness: A New Framework
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Angelika Rohrer, Sr. Technical Program Manager , Cyber Security Response at Alphabet Topics: Incident response (IR) is by definition "rea...
EP173 SAIF in Focus: 5 AI Security Risks and SAIF Mitigations
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Shan Rao, Group Product Manager, Google Topics: What are the unique challenges when securing AI for cloud environments, compared to t...
EP172 RSA 2024: Separating AI Signal from Noise, SecOps Evolves, XDR Declines?
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: None Topics: What have we seen at RSA 2024? Which buzzwords are rising (AI! AI! AI!) and which ones are falling (hi XDR)? Is this re...
EP171 GenAI in the Wrong Hands: Unmasking the Threat of Malicious AI and Defending Against the Dark Side
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Elie Bursztein, Google DeepMind Cybersecurity Research Lead, Google Topics: Given your experience, how afraid or nervous are you about ...
EP170 Redefining Security Operations: Practical Applications of GenAI in the SOC
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Payal Chakravarty, Director of Product Management, Google SecOps, Google Cloud Topics: What are the different use cases for GenAI in secu...
EP169 Google Cloud Next 2024 Recap: Is Cloud an Island, So Much AI, Bots in SecOps
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: no guests (just us!) Topics: What are some of the fun security-related launches from Next 2024 (sorry for our brief "marketing hat" mo...
EP168 Beyond Regular LLMs: How SecLM Enhances Security and What Teams Can Do With It
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Umesh Shankar, Distinguished Engineer, Chief Technologist for Google Cloud Security Scott Coull, Head of Data Science Research, Google C...
EP167 Stolen Cards and Fake Accounts: Defending Google Cloud Against Abuse
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Speakers: Maria Riaz, Cloud Counter-Abuse, Engineering Lead, Google Cloud Topics: What is "counter abuse"? Is this the same as security? Wha...
EP166 Workload Identity, Zero Trust and SPIFFE (Also Turtles!)
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Evan Gilman, co-founder CEO of Spirl Eli Nesterov, co-founder CTO of Spril Topics: Today we have IAM, zero trust and security made e...
EP165 Your Cloud Is Not a Pet - Decoding 'Shifting Left' for Cloud Security
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Ahmad Robinson, Cloud Security Architect, Google Cloud Topics: You've done a BlackHat webinar where you discuss a Pets vs Cattle ment...
EP164 Quantum Computing: Understanding the (very serious) Threat and Post-Quantum Cryptography
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jennifer Fernick, Senor Staff Security Engineer and UTL, Google Topics: Since one of us (!) doesn't have a PhD in quantum mechanics, coul...
EP163 Cloud Security Megatrends: Myths, Realities, Contentious Debates and Of Course AI
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Phil Venables, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) @ Google Cloud Topics: You had this epic 8 megatrends idea ...
EP162 IAM in the Cloud: What it Means to Do It 'Right' with Kat Traxler
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Kat Traxler, Security Researcher, TrustOnCloud Topics: What is your reaction to "in the cloud you are one IAM mistake away from a breach"...
EP161 Cloud Compliance: A Lawyer - Turned Technologist! - Perspective on Navigating the Cloud
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Victoria Geronimo, Cloud Security Architect, Google Cloud Topics: You work with technical folks at the intersection of compliance, securi...
EP160 Don't Cloud Your Judgement: Security and Cloud Migration, Again!
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Merritt Baer, Field CTO, Lacework, ex-AWS, ex-USG Topics: How can organizations ensure that their security posture is maintained or im...
EP159 Workspace Security: Built for the Modern Threat. But How?
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guests: Emre Kanlikilicer, Senior Engineering Manager @ Google Sophia Gu, Engineering Manager at Google Topics Workspace makes the claim t...
EP158 Ghostbusters for the Cloud: Who You Gonna Call for Cloud Forensics
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Jason Solomon, Security Engineer, Google Topics: Could you share a bit about when you get pulled into incidents and what are your goals w...
EP157 Decoding CDR & CIRA: What Happens When SecOps Meets Cloud
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guest: Arie Zilberstein, CEO and Co-Founder at Gem Security Topics: How does Cloud Detection and Response (CDR) differ from traditional, on-pr...