Send the hosts a message - try it now!

Show Note: As most of you know, this show has long refused to use advertisements, or ad revenue to keep itself going. That said, I openly welcome organizations who have something interesting to say and some extra marketing dollars to give, to sponsor an episode while still going through the same vetting process as everyone else. This is one of those shows.

This week James and Rafal are joined by Saumitra Das, the Chief Technology Officer for an interesting little start-up called Blue Hexagon. If you find yourself nodding along and interested in hearing more, we encourage you to go check out their website and let them know you hear of them on this show.

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Saumitra shares his insights on AI, machine learning, and the limitations and mis-uses of them
• We discuss the challenges of finding 'malice' at extremely high volumes, at extremely high rates of speed, and in extremely diverse environments
• Saumitra previews the methods Blue Hexagon use to approach this problem and potentially start to draw a viable approach

Guest

• Saumitra Das - CTO at Blue Hexagon - https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumitramdas/
  • Fun fact, Saumitra has over 330 granted patents...how many you got?

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

Friends & listeners - welcome to the 2nd half of the 2019 Verizon DBIR 2-part extravaganza. Gabe Bassett, one of the authors of the DBIR, joins Rafal & James to talk stats and lessons we can take away from the report.

Highlights from this week's show include...

• We all talk patching... why it's hard, what we can do about it, and realities of patching
• Gabe does more live data analysis
• We get an insight into how long and how hard this report is to produce

Guest

• Gabriel Bassett ( @gdbassett ) - Gabe is one of the writers and data scientists behind the Verizon DBIR. His LinkedIn is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-bassett/

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

Friends & listeners - welcome to the 2019 Verizon DBIR 2-part extravaganza. Gabe Bassett, one of the authors of the DBIR, joins Rafal & James to talk stats and lessons we can take away from the report.

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Gabe distinguishes between an incident and a breach - for those of you who need the refresher
• Gabe dives into the stats to talk about small businesses, and the impact of breaches on them
• Gabs does some live data science for us, pulling in stats on-the-fly
• We avoid the 'patching' discussion (that's for the 2nd half)

Guest

• Gabriel Bassett ( @gdbassett ) - Gabe is one of the writers and data scientists behind the Verizon DBIR. His LinkedIn is here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabriel-bassett/

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

This week, Tommy McDowell who is the Vice President at the Retail and Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center, joins Rafal in person, in Dallas.

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Tommy gives us a background on himself, and the RH-ISAC (and it's mission statement, and such)
• Tommy & Rafal discuss the difficulty in setting up an information sharing center
• Tommy gives us insights into why retail and hospitality need their own unique threat sharing network

 

Guest:

• Tommy McDowell - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommy-mcdowell-97184116/ - It's easier to just let you go look at Tommy's page on LinkedIn. He's got a storied, and very interesting, career that we could not possibly do justice to here.

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

This week, Rafal gets the rare occasion of sitting down face-to-face with someone and do an interview in person. Andy Green is a great if not sharky fellow, who helped me get over my PG rating for this podcast. So ... it's probably PG-13.

 

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Andy talks about BSides Atlanta and the labor of love that is getting a conference stood up
• We talk about conference drama - because we all need more of that in our lives
• Andy discusses academic programs, shaping young minds, and being a universally beloved professor (not)

Guest:

• Mr. Andy Green ( @SecProfGreen ) - Andy is a lecturer of Information Security at Georgia's Kennesaw State University. When he's not running Atlanta's BSides ATL he teaches classes in the Information Security and Assurance degree program, in the Information Systems department of the Michael J. Coles College of Business at Kennesaw State University.

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

This week on the podcast, Rafal gets some one on one time with Raffael Marty ... and it's #RaffCon.

 

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Raf & Raffy discuss the origins of #RaffCon
• Raffy talks through Artificial Intelligence...in security
• Raf and Raffy dive into "risk management"

 

Guest:

• Raffael Marty - ( @raffaelmarty ) - Data analytics and visualization enthusiast. Interested in large-scale big data and cloud infrastructures to support cyber security use-cases. "How can we assist users to gain deep insight into large amounts of data?" I have spent a lot of time building and defining the security visualization space through open. I oversee Forcepoint's X-Labs, a specialized department within Forcepoint that is responsible for behavior-based security research and the development of predictive intelligence. In addition to traditional threat and security intelligence, we are the home of data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence within Forcepoint.

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

This week, Rafal is joined by the man, the myth, the Aussie legend - Troy Hunt. We basically talk about whatever is on his mind - which, as it turns out is a lot. Take a listen, we may publish an English translation later (joking, Troy!).

 

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Troy gives a run-down on HaveIBeenPwned
• We talk through some of the interesting use-cases for HaveIBeenPwned data
• Troy gives perspective on usernames, passwords, and other important things technology/security related

Guest

• Troy Hunt ( @TroyHunt ) - Troy is a Microsoft Regional Director and Most Valuable Professionalawardee for Developer Security, blogger at troyhunt.com, international speaker on web security and the author of many top-rating security courses for web developers on Pluralsight.

  I created HIBP as a free resource for anyone to quickly assess if they may have been put at risk due to an online account of theirs having been compromised or "pwned" in a data breach. I wanted to keep it dead simple to use and entirely free so that it could be of maximum benefit to the community.

  Short of the odd donation, all costs for building, running and keeping the service currently come directly out of my own pocket. Fortunately, today's modern cloud services like Microsoft Azure make it possible to do this without breaking the bank!

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

This week, on a riveting edition of Down the Security Rabbithole Podcast Raf sits down with Richie Etwaru, a human data ethicist and Founder and CEO of Hu-manity.co.

What's a human data ethicist, you ask? Listen to the podcast, and find out.

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Richie walks us through data ownership as a fundamental human right, including why now is the right time in history
• Raf and Richie discuss the principles of data ownership and how they're different from privacy or security
• Richie discusses data ownership as a great leveling factor for society
• SO much more...

Guest

• Richie Etwaru - Richie Etwaru is a human data ethicist and the Founder & CEO at Hu-manity.co where he is responsible for vision, strategy and execution focus for the company. He is driven to reshape the world by creating a new data economy, where inherent human data is legally human property.
  
  He has held c-level roles at Fortune 500 companies for two decades, and serves as advisor to venture capitalists, startups, governments, academia, and large organizations on transitioning to Trust Companies.
  
  Richie’s book Blockchain Trust Companies, Every Company is at Risk of Being Disrupted by a Trusted Version of Itself (2017) is used by universities, consulting organizations, and governments, and his TEDx talk Blockchain Massively Simplified has been viewed almost 1 million times.

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

This week on episode 342, Michael Coates joins Rafal & James for the 2nd time. Michael's first episode was way, way back in 2015 on episode 134 titled "Fundamental Security". Looks like things haven't changed much.

We highly recommend you check out episode 134 first, then listen to this one. Trust us, you want the context.

 

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Michael gives us an opinion on "what's changed" in the last decade or so
• Michael discusses "risk", "technical risk", and the Enigo Montoya problem in security
• Michael gives an overview of what he thinks the profile of the CISO should be
• Michael gives his take on why he thinks low false-positive rates are important and automation is the future

Guest

• Michael Coates: ( @_mwc ) All you need to know is here, on his LinkedIn page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcoates/

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast

Send the hosts a message - try it now!

This week, in the final installment of "Live from RSA Conference 2019" Rafal interviews Mark Simos, who is the definitive source for reference architectures at Microsoft. He's the Lead Architect in the Enterprise Security Group and he's doing some amazing things for the community with regards to the Azure cloud and other Microsoft-related security things. Give this episode a listen and share it ...maybe listen again and take good notes!

Highlights from this week's show include...

• Mark discusses security reference architectures (in general)
• Mark and Raf rap on the shared responsibility model for the cloud...again
• Mark answers "What's different about security in the cloud?"
• Mark raises the concept of "raising the cost to the adversary" for defenders...

Guest

• Mark Simos - ( @MarkSimos ) - Mark is Lead Architect in Microsoft’s Enterprise Cybersecurity Group where he is part of a group of cybersecurity experts who create and deliver unique cybersecurity services and solutions to Microsoft’s customers.
  
  Mark has contributed to a significant amount of Microsoft cybersecurity guidance - most of which can be found on Mark's List (http://aka.ms/markslist)
  
  Mark focuses on cybersecurity guidance to help customers manage cybersecurity threats with Microsoft technology and our partner solutions. Mark's current focus is on security assessments and roadmaps that span the spectrum of security topics including privileged access, high value asset protection, security strategies and operations, datacenter security, and information worker protection.

Support the show

>>> Please consider clicking the link above to support the show!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
YouTube home: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyo0dkKRvfVtWXjRxNISrhme1MgBj3C2U&si=scHDiTuLXSEQ9qHq
LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/down-the-security-rabbithole-podcast/
X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/dtsr_podcast