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Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security Podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Evan Peña, Managing Director at Mandiant with years of experience in cybersecurity in leading covert red team operations. We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Evan Peña.

About Evan

Evan Peña is the Global Proactive Services Function Lead for Mandiant, a Google Cloud Company. Evan has years of experience in cyber security and leading covert red team operations. His expertise lies in evaluating incident response procedures and assessing network defense capabilities from an attacker's perspective. Evan actively engages in security assessments for major government agencies and Fortune 500 companies, which encompass vast online networks worldwide. He has developed the renowned "Creative Red Teaming" training course, serving as its lead instructor at prominent conferences. Additionally, Evan has contributed multiple open-source tools to the security community, enhancing awareness and knowledge in the field.

Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security Podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with 25+ year security veteran Aaron Wurthmann. Aaron's work has covered industries from software to grocery, and he shares some important insights for living the life of a security practitioner. We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Aaron Wurthmann.

About Aaron:

AboutI built my career from the ground up as an operator and implementor to a strategic leader and visionary. These days my hands are rarely on the keyboard because I focus on more high-level concerns. However, I occasionally enjoy working directly with technical subject matter experts to give them the benefit of my hands-on experience. Overall, my job is about relating to people and solving complex challenges using technology and sound leadership. Some people fear disruption; I am unique because I thrive on the opportunities introduced by market and technology challenges. 

A major reason technology programs succeed is they are aligned to business strategy. The CIO must partner with leadership to understand short- and long-term goals and lean into challenges with a product mindset, ensuring technology meets strategic needs. The most effective model is to run IT as a business within a business and intelligently use technology to fulfill business priorities. Proven security and privacy enable sales. Many customers require compliance with regulation and governance standards. Additionally, consumers have become more demanding about security practices to protect their sensitive data and privacy. Breaches will cause customers to look elsewhere. 

People are at the core of IT. Thus, I encourage team members to take ownership of their career paths, so they achieve their goals while maintaining a healthy life outside of the workplace. I regularly support team members so they can achieve their full potential through active coaching, mentoring, and training. 
A major part of my job is to lean into the go-to-market, accounting, and operations functions to make their processes more efficient while focusing on core strategies. We need to be constantly trying to achieve the best bang for the buck while also improving service to customers and associates. 
Providing the best service means engaging groups of diverse talents from within the company and through an extensive network of knowledgeable individuals. I contribute to networking groups, which enables me to increase the resources available to address any issue. I am an active member of several CIO and CISO professional groups as well as social and investment groups. 

One of the proudest moments of my career is when, at Marketo, the CEO invited me to join them on stage to award the team in front of the entire company. This was to reward them after they had successfully completed three major, company-wide, simultaneous projects within a single quarter without disruption to the business.

Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Fabrizio Di Carlo. Fabrizio is a cyber security expert with cross industry experience in firms from startups to enterprises and is a speaker around the world on cyber security topics. We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Fabrizio Di Carlo.

About Fabrizio

Fabrizio is currently a Group Manager in Avanade, working on topics like Zero Trust, Decentralized Identity and DORA, prior this, he has worked in the financial services industry for more than six years before becoming the Head of Information Security at scoutbee, where he successfully secured the corporate procurement platforms of enterprise clients like Unilever, Siemens, and Audi.

Fabrizio is also a speaker/panelist in several conferences, on topics such as Zero Trust Architecture, Cloud Security, and Information Security, and his talks focus on the human side of security. Whether he's discussing how to make security a part of a company's DNA, demystifying Zero Trust Architecture, or exploring the critical role of identity in securing networks, his presentations are always thought-provoking and highly informative.

His wine blog is: https://www.instagram.com/winesandjoy/ (website is currently in progress).

Hello and welcome to a special episode of Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security Podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with his old pal and longtime colleague Carlos Martinez. Carlos and Den lead Zero Trust initiatives at Adobe and Cisco before both joining Banyan. They share insights, horror stories, and lessons from their well-trodden path together. We invite you to grab a cold drink, sit back, and enjoy this first live episode of the podcast with Carlos Martinez.

Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Dave Raphael, Chief Operating Officer at DNSFilter. Dave has more than 20 years' experience at tech firms large and small, and is an expert in application security and author of the 2009 book "Security on Rails." We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Dave Raphael.

Hello and welcome to Get It Started, Get It Done, the Banyan Security podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Andrej Safundzic, CEO and Co-Founder of Lumos.
Andrej led Angela Merkel's technology task force in the German government, and now he's bringing that background to private sector security solutions. We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Andrej Safundzic covering everything from just-in-time access to what we can learn from aging footballers.

Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Banyan co-founder Tarun Desikan to discuss Security Service Edge or SSE technologies and why Banyan is rolling them out now.
Key Takeaways:
Trust Profiles allow you to treat different devices differently—Den and Tarun discuss Banyan's new SSE offerings in this week's episode of Get It Started Get It Done.
"There are different types of users and applications, and security should accommodate that." Listen as Tarun Desikan explains the philosophy behind Banyan's new SSE features.
Are you using a hammer when you should be using a scalpel? In this week's episode of Get It Started Get It Done, Den and Tarun discuss the pitfalls of heavy-handed security.
Must highly regulated industries sacrifice user experience for the sake of security? Den Jones and Tarun Desikan discuss in this week's episode of Get It Started Get It Done.

Hello and welcome to Get It Started, Get It Done, the Banyan Security Podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with Prabhath Karanth (aka PK), Global Head of Security and Trust at Navan. We hope you enjoy this discussion between Adobe alums about the state of security as an industry, as a career, and more.  Prabhath Karanth (PK) is the Global Head of Security & Trust at Navan where his organization's core mission is to ensure Navan meets its security & privacy obligations to its customers, investors, regulators, and employees. He overseas Product & Platform Security, Detection & Response, Enterprise Security, Security Architecture & Engineering, Governance, Risk & Compliance and the Trust function at Navan.    

About Prabhath Karanth

Hello and welcome to Get It Started Get It Done, the Banyan Security podcast covering the security industry and beyond. In this episode, our host and Banyan's Chief Security Officer Den Jones speaks with FBI Special Agent Scott Hellman. Scott has been investigating cybercrime with the FBI for more than 14 years and shares with us some of the key threats facing organizations in 2023. We hope you enjoy Den's discussion with Scott Hellman.

Scott Hellman, Supervisory Special Agent

Bio: Supervisory Special Agent Scott Hellman has been investigating criminal and national security cyber-crime for 15 years with the FBI. He earned a Bachelor's in chemistry, a J.D. from University of Baltimore, and now leads a team of cyber-crime investigators in the San Francisco Bay area.

Bil Harmer tells his Mom that his job is to “stop bad people from doing bad things to good people.” But in his working world he describes his job as being “a virtual CISO to 185 companies” that his firm, Craft Ventures, invests in. Either way you describe it, his job gets him involved in all kinds of different tech, helping to provide guidance and security advice and education to all of their different portfolios. He loves to find startups and be there at the early stages and help them solve problems.