Decipher Security Podcast

Dennis Fisher, Zoe Lindsey, and Pete Baker got tired of waiting for Hollywood to make sequels to some of our favorite hacker movies, so we came up with some pitches for the sequels we'd like to see.

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Katie Moussouris, hacker and CEO of Luta Security, joins Dennis Fisher for a long overdue conversation about vulnerability management, bug bounty programs, and assessing risk. 

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Zoe Lindsey and Peter Baker join Dennis Fisher to break down the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola paranoid classic The Conversation, a film that predicted today's surveillance culture and is a master class is social engineering and hacking.

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Melanie Ensign, CEO and founder of Discernible Communications, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about what effective security and privacy communications look like, how executives can empower security teams to communicate, and the importance of preparing for bad things.

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Alex Pinto from Verizon Enterprise joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the findings of the 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report.

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Ping Look, senior director of Microsoft's Detection and Response Team, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her team's work helping enterprises recover from intrusions, the massive spike in ransomware infections, and understanding attacker behavior.

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Andy Ellis, CSO of Akamai, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the process of planning to move tens of thousands of employees to remote work securely, the increased stress on Akamai's network, and what things might look like from a security perspective on the other side of the quarantine.

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Jeremy Oddo, director of technology at The Third Floor, a premier Hollywood visualization studio, joins Dennis Fisher to discuss the security and logistical challenges of moving to a fully remote workforce while protecting the intellectual property of clients such as Disney, Lucasfilm and Marvel Studios.

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David Brumley, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and CEO of ForAllSecure, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about the importance of software security and the software supply chain as well as the need for better cooperation between developers and security teams.

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Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller is a master of social engineering and possibly the witness protection identity of David Lightman from WarGames. Dennis Fisher, Zoe Lindsey, and Pete Baker five into a 1980s classic to discover what makes Ferris tick and why everyone loves him. Except Jeannie. This is Deciphering Ferris Bueller's Day Off.

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