How do we ensure firmware integrity and security? Join hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla and guest Nazmus Sakib, a Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, to dive deeper and assess the complexities and challenges that come along with securing firmware - bootstraps and all!  

Megamind Bhavna Soman, a Senior Security Research Lead, joins us later in the show and we learn about her journey in optimizing AI and ML to improve efficiency in security and give the humans a break.  

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How Microsoft ensures firmware integrity and security 
• How firmware is making it harder for attackers
• Where AI and ML will take threat intelligence in the near future 

Some Questions We Ask:

• What is firmware? 
• Do we know where firmware attacks begin? 
• What does the threat landscape look like for firmware? 
• What part of ML should be automated better so that humans can shift to other tasks? 

Resources: 

Microsoft Digital Defense Report

Nazmus’s LinkedIn

Bhavna’s LinkedIn

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

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