Sources and Sinks

Vickie Li ,  developer evangelist with ShiftLeft in a conversation with Gyan Chaudhary, CEO of Kontra and a partner with ShiftLeft on a new type of developer education.

In this Episode of Sources and Sinks, Vickie Li hosts Alok Shukla (VP of Products) at ShiftLeft.  Alok talks about ShiftLeft's new code analysis platform called ShiftLeft CORE.

Alok also talks about "Attacker Reachability" - an innovation from ShiftLeft that drives software composition analysis component of ShiftLeft platform. 

Who is getting into cybersecurity and how people are getting into cybersecurity has changed a lot in the past few decades. As more and more people start seeing cybersecurity as a career option, how do we educate a new generation of hackers and cybersecurity professionals to keep our Internet safe? 

IIn this episode of Sources and Sinks, Vickie Li talks to Fabian Faessler, also known professionally as  LiveOverFlow.  Fabian is a cybersecurity Youtuber and educator who has inspired many people to get into cybersecurity and penetration testing. He talks about the Hacker Culture he experienced when he got started, and how he sees the future of cybersecurity education going. 

The cybersecurity field has traditionally focused on defending against external threats. But over the past few years, we have really seen an increasing awareness of the threat posed by people inside the organization. We call these threats, “insider threats”. Insider threats are security threats caused by disgruntled employees who intend to harm the organization or negligent employees who put the security of the organization at risk by accident. 

In this episode of Sources and Sinks, Vickie Li talks to Katie Praxton-Fear a cybersecurity researcher and lecturer, on how we can mitigate the risks of insider threats.

Vickie Li  talks to Saif Bhatti about his Rhino Conservation efforts in African Savannah. Saif is a technologist who is using  technology as part of his firm Renoster Systems to become an industry leader in conservation security systems.

A conversation with Rishi Bhargava - Co-founder of Demisto and now VP of Strategy at Palo Alto Networks 

Rishi talks about his learnings on implementing Inbound and content marketing at Demisto in a highly successful manner. He talks about the mechanics of his strategy, his learnings, things he did right, things he avoided and finally things he will not do in next startup.

Demisto was able to make a revenue of 1 Mn USD in first 6-8 months in its first year of existence, a 100 million pipe by the end of 2nd year and eventually getting sold to Palo Alto Networks at 560 million USD.

A conversation with world's only Michelin 2 Star Indian Chef - Srijith Gopinathan.

Srijith is Executive Chef at Taj Campton in San Francisco and is co-owner of a new California Indian restaurant - Ettan in downtown Palo Alto in broader San Francisco Bay Area.

In an engaging chat, Srijith answer many questions including

1. What does it mean by Cal Indian Cuisine?
2. Comparing Indian cuisine vs French Cuisine
3. Indian cuisine and flavor theory rules
4. Can Michelin system truly judge Indian cuisine?
5. Experimental or Authentic Indian cuisine?
6. Top Indian Restaurants in United States
7. Top 5 Indian restaurants in the world.

Alok Shukla in a conversation with Adarsh Natarajan, CEO of Aindra Systems.

Aindra is a AI powered medical device startup based out of India. Adarsh's original background was of Software Engineer who after his management education decided to turn into this heavily specialized field of medicine. 

Aindra's first offering is an AI powered portable device to facilitate early diagnosis of Cervical Cancer

Jonathan Rothwell - Principal Economist at Gallup - in a conversation with Alok Shukla to discuss some major findings of his book - "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society"

PS:- This is a long interview format.

We discuss the surprising composition of 1% and how non-competitive sectors like medical professionals, dentists, lawyers etc have been able to corner a large portion of 1% economic prosperity. 

Jonathan talks about meritocracy being the driver of reduction of inequality, problems of segregation - including Asian School segregation and why does a positive intent can also have negative consequences, when it castes away other communities.

We also touch upon Nassim Nicholas Tayeb observation on IQ tests being a pseudoscientific swindle and how data does not support the natural assertion of genetic superiority of any race.

Vincent Weafer, SVP Security Engineering at Capital One in a conversation with Alok Shukla, VP Product Management at ShiftLeft and host of this podcast.

Vincent and Alok converse on a range of topics - security engineering and #shiftleft of security, security quality automation, machine learning success/failures, Vincent's predictions and his asks from new security startups.

Vincent in his current role at Capital One, oversees the entire security engineering function. Prior to Capital One, Vincent spent 24 years in security research leading the function at two formidable security players - Symantec and McAfee.