Our first interview of the season. 

The accomplished and ever so humble, Marwan Fayed, joins us today.

Find him at St. Andrews or at Cloudflare.

Timstamps:

0:00 - Intro

1:56 - Interview; Marwan Introduction

2:16 - Role at Cloudflare

4:25 - Community Broadband ISP

5:56 - Industry vs. Academia

7:08 - Day to Day at current role

8:56 - What does an industry lab look like?

10:45 - Security and Privacy research prioritized at Cloudflare

11:31 - What is TLS 1.3

14:26 - Research at Cloudflare

15:09 - Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODOH)

17:56 - More on privacy

21:51 - Where does a research idea come from

23:41 - Humility matters in research

25:37 - 2 guiding principles of research

26:11 - Marwan’s lightbulb moment

30:31 - Overlap between reserach and business

31:21 - Community Broadband ISP

33:56 - “No one gets fired for hiring IBM”

36:21 - Backhaul internet

41:06 - Biggest challenges were people, not technology

43:25 - Goodbye