The New Stack Podcast

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Vaibhav Kamra, chief technology officer, Kasten by Veeam, discussed the changes he has observed, and ultimately, the lessons learned during the past year. During this time, Kasten has provided the necessary platforms for application and data management that organizations rely on to scale across Kubernetes applications.

Okta sponsored this podcast.

This episode of The New Stack Makers series with Okta on all topics related to development and security at scale features guest Anant Jhingran, CEO, StepZen. Jhingran’s deep well of experience, including long stints at IBM, Apigee, Google, and, currently, CEO of StepZen certainly qualifies him as a leading expert on APIs and their role in today’s DevOps environments. Co-hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at Okta, Jhingran offers his take on how APIs have evolved, their potential for the developer community and how their success accounts, in part, for their exposure to vulnerabilities.

In this The New Stack Makers podcast, Varun Badhwar, senior vice president, product, Palo Alto Networks, puts today’s multicloud security challenges into perspective. He also describes how Prisma Cloud 2.0 offers a single and comprehensive security alternative for cloud native applications across different cloud platforms.

Welcome to our new series ‘Security @ Scale’ on The New Stack Makers with Okta exploring security in modern environments with stories from the trenches including security horror stories and fantastic failures.

In this episode, co-hosts Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, and Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy at Okta, speak with guest Marc Rogers, vice president, cybersecurity, Okta, and co-founder of the CTI League, to discuss the anatomy of what will likely be considered to be one of the most disruptive hacks in the history of Wall Street. It could also change how institutional and individual investors buy, sell — and short — stocks in the future that are traded on U.S. exchanges.

This The New Stack Makers podcast series features a number of guests who speak during Palo Alto Networks’ Cloud Native Security Virtual Event. In this segment, Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, hosts a roundtable with Palo Alto Networks customers who share their experiences and insights about cloud native security and other related topics. The guests are Brian Cababe, director of cyber security, architecture and governance, Cognizant; Tyler Warren, director of IoT security, Prologis and Alex Jones, infosec manager, Cobalt.io.

A key talking point is how legacy on-premises practices and processes cannot be directly transferred to work for cloud native security and management. Jones noted, for example, that when moving to the cloud, the first question for threat modeling is “what are we doing?”

This edition of The New Stack Makers podcast features a number of guests who speak during Palo Alto Networks’ Cloud Native Security Virtual Event. It kicks off with none other than Seth Meyers, an Emmy Award-winning comedian of “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and “Saturday Night Live (SNL)” fame. Meyers’ interview with Palo Alto Networks founder and CTO Nir Zuk is followed by a customer roundtable hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, with guests Brian Cababe, director of cyber security, architecture and governance, Cognizant; Tyler Warren, director of IoT security, Prologis and Alex Jones, infosec manager, Cobalt.io. Meanwhile, the event concludes with a talk on Prisma Cloud 2.0, given by Varun Bradhwar, senior vice president, product, Palo Alto Networks.

Meyers began the session by declaring that “much like Nir Zuk, I am a cyber security luminary.” He also said he didn’t want to “brag too much” about his accomplishments, but said using your mother’s maiden name to recover passwords was his idea.

Meyers then asked Zuk, while at least feigning to be serious, what cloud native means for organizations, as well as its impact on security management.

Prisma Cloud from Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.

Security teams need a higher appetite for risk. While accepting, and even embracing risk is widely accepted outside the sphere of IT, risk also often plays a role in DevOps operations, developer and SRE team culture. However, security teams typically have yet to accept and manage risk in this way.

In this edition of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, how and why security teams need to rethink risk, with the aim of improving resiliency and achieving other benefits that thus far have remained elusive for many organizations, is discussed.

The guests were Matt Chiodi, chief security officer of Public Cloud at Palo Alto Networks, Meera Rao, senior director of product management, Synopsys and Tal Klein, chief marketing officer, Rezilion.

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.

Palo Alto Networks John Morello, vice president of product, has for a long time talked about the basics that come with cloud native security. In this edition of The New Stack Makers, hosted by Alex Williams, founder and publisher of The New Stack, Morello discusses how APIs are less the weakest link and are more so better known due to the widespread use of APIs, especially in the past five years. There are more people developing APIs, there are more people consuming APIS and there are more attackers who are exploiting APIs — and that makes the basics more important than ever both now and as more applications go online.

Harness sponsored this podcast.

The growing pains continue: As organizations push ahead, shifting to Kubernetes and cloud native environments at scale, the complexities of managing Kubernetes clusters increase as well. The associated challenges of adoption, and then managing these highly distributed containerized environments, remain daunting. For many DevOps teams, the advent of “Kubernetes complexity fatigue” has become a concern.

In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, hosted by TNS founder and Publisher Alex Williams, Kubernetes complexity fatigue, and more importantly, what can be done about it, are discussed. The guests were Ravi Lachhman, evangelist at Harness, and Frank Moley, senior technical engineering manager at DataStax.

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks sponsored this podcast.

This edition of The New Stack Makers podcast featured a news announcement: Palo Alto Networks is providing a new approach to protecting APIs with the release of its WAAS (web application and API security). As BotNets become more sophisticated, Palo Alto’s WAAS bot-defense platform offers API security, runtime protection, and other security features for today’s cloud native environments.

Hosted by Alex Williams, founder, and publisher of The New Stack, guest Ory Segal, senior distinguished research engineer, Palo Alto Networks, discussed how the company’s WAAS offers apps end-to-end protection for loosely coupled services in declarative environments and a range of other capabilities.