Vivek Ramachandran is a security researcher, author, speaker/trainer, and serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in offensive cybersecurity. He is currently the founder of SquareX, building a browser-native security product focused on detecting, mitigating, and threat-hunting web attacks. Prior to that, he was the founder of Pentester Academy (acquired), which has trained thousands of customers from government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and enterprises from over 140+ countries. He has authored multiple books in cybersecurity and spoken at DEFCON, BlackHat multiple times. 

00:00 Introduction 

01:04 Our Guest

05:55 Advice from Vivek to those who want to follow a passion

09:19 Ransomware payments have gone down 

13:37 Why is this still not addressed?

27:55 Should the CISO report to the board or the CIO? 

36:55 Vulnerabilities in Gmail, Outlook, and their counterparts

47:14 SquareX + DEFCON  

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