Episode Summary

In this Secure Miami panel at Florida International University, Helvetiella Longoria (CISO, FIU), Andrew Phillips (Senior Director of Engineering, Sharefile), Michelle Jackman (Cloud Security Leader, Palo Alto Networks), and Julie O'Brien (CMO, Dazz) break down why securing a multi-cloud environment comes down to visibility, people, and the remediation gap that automation hasn't caught up to yet.

Featuring

Helvetiella Longoria is Chief Information Security Officer at Florida International University — 20+ years in security, all at FIU, where she’s watched higher ed security evolve from perimeter-based models to multi-cloud identity crises.

Andrew Phillips is Senior Director of Engineering at Sharefile (Cloud Software Group) — led cloud engineering and security architecture at Deutsche Bank for their GCP environment before moving to the SaaS side.

Michelle Jackman is Cloud Security Leader at Palo Alto Networks, leading Prisma Cloud Solution Architects for the entire East Coast — previously one of only three Advanced Security Azure Principal Architects globally at Microsoft.

Julie O’Brien is Chief Marketing Officer at Dazz — prior stops include Cisco, Nutanix, Box, and AttackIQ, with deep roots in multi-cloud and hyper-converged infrastructure.

Timestamps

(0:00) Intro — live panel from Secure Miami at FIU, hosted with Digital Era Group

(1:55) Helvi Longoria on securing multi-cloud — losing the perimeter and the identity crisis in higher ed

(5:30) Andrew Phillips on multi-cloud engineering — protecting engineers from themselves with guardrails

(6:49) Michelle Jackman on Prisma Cloud — why visibility across your entire cloud estate is the first step

(10:01) AI and ML in cloud security — opportunity and threat, and securing the training sets

(15:41) Andrew Phillips on FinOps as a security signal — a spike in your AWS bill in Australia is your breach alert

(18:00) Julie O’Brien on remediation — why cloud security fixing is broken and what automation can change

(20:24) People, process, technology — FIU’s CISO on building relationships across DevOps, research, and compliance

(27:38) Skills gap and workforce challenges — internships, pipelines, and tapping into diverse talent

(34:01) Audience Q&A — is it a people problem or a technology problem?

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