Build Amazing Things (securely)

Ryan Thomas is the Head of Engineering at Fl0, a platform as a service organization specializing the databases and backends.

In this episode, Laura and Ryan discuss the challenges of building a foundation that others will build upon and how embracing Rust has helped with their mission.

Lachlan "skooch" Temple is the Head of Application Security at Belong, an Australian telco. In this episode, Laura and Lachlan discuss how you manage cyber security at the scale of telecommunications and how you figure out how much security is enough.

Shanna Daly is a computer forensics and cyber security specialist for Cosive Security. She is the person companies call when things have gone very wrong.

In this episode, Laura and Shanna talk through what actually happens when a forensics team is called in after an incident, what data really matters, and what we can do as developers to make investigations easier.

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.