Episodes

Inner Circle Podcast Episode 013 When attackers can consistently crack or compromise the credentials of legitimate users to gain access to your network, it is less and less feasible to trust a user based solely on that initial authentication. For this episode of the Inner Circle podcast, I am joined by Den Jones, director of enterprise security for Adobe, to talk about Project ZEN -- Adobe's implementation of zero trust. ZEN is an acronym for "Zero-Trust Enterprise Network". Adobe wanted to impr...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 012 Chris Bray, senior vice president and general manager for consumer products at Cylance, is my guest for this episode of the Inner Circle podcast. Chris joins me to talk about the new offering Cylance has for the consumer market, and what sets Cylance Smart Antivirus apart from competitors in the consumer antimalware space. Antimalware is primarily reactive--attackers get the first move and then security vendors race to reverse-engineer the new threat and develop...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 011 My guest on the Inner Circle podcast this week is Mike Armistead, co-founder and CEO of Respond Software. We talked about artificial intelligence (AI) and the increasingly important role that AI and machine learning (ML) play--particularly when it comes to cybersecurity and the security operations center (SOC). We all know that robot overlords powered by artificial intelligence (AI) will one day rule the world and subjugate humanity, right? I mean, I've watched ...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 010 My guest on this episode of the Inner Circle podcast is Bill Mann, Chief Product Officer for Centrify. We talk about what Centrify is doing to secure and protect DevOps environments, and then also discuss the Secure the Vote initiative that Centrify is driving in the months leading up to a crucial election this November. The mantra at Centrify is "Never trust, always verify". The company is focused on providing streamlined and automated identity and access manag...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 009 Scott Scheferman, a Senior Director of Global Services for Cylance, is my guest on this episode of the Inner Circle podcast. Scott and I discuss what predictive advantage is and why it matters in the context of defending networks and systems against emerging malware threats and exploits. I've been a CISSP since 2002 and I used to work as a security analyst and security consultant. I spent a number of years focused on antivirus / antimalware--helping to develop a...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 008 On this episode of the Inner Circle podcast, I am joined by Matt Alderman, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer for Layered Insight. We’re both thankful that we’ve moved on to greener pastures, but I worked under Matt not long ago when we were both at Tenable—prior to the Great Marketing Purge of 2017. At Layered Insight, Matt is focused on effective container security—and how to address and overcome the challenges that face most of the existing container securi...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 007 My guest for this episode of the Inner Circle podcast is Daniel Miessler, Director of Advisory Services for IOActive. Daniel presented a session at IOAsis a few weeks ago while we were in San Francisco attending the RSA Conference. I was not able to attend, but the session title--"Machine Learning Demystified: Separating the Magic from Marketing"--piqued my interest. If you read through enough tech and security vendor websites and it will quickly feel like the w...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 006 My guest on this episode of the Inner Circle podcast is Corey Williams, Senior Director of Product Management at Centrify. The focus of our chat is next-gen access, and how the principle of zero trust security is a better approach for identity and access management. I think we can all agree at this point that the perimeter is gone--at least what we traditionally considered to be the perimeter. The idea of an invisible wall at the edge of your network that separa...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 005 Chad Skipper, VP of Competitive Intelligence and Product Testing at Cylance, is my guest for this episode of the Inner Circle podcast. We talk about the importance of anti-malware testing, and how and why you should do the testing yourself. Does your anti-malware solution work? If you are looking at the available options and trying to choose a new anti-malware tool, how can you effectively determine which one is best? You can review information and product specs...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 004 My guest on the Inner Circle podcast this week is Cesar Cerrudo, CTO of IOActive. Our topic revolves around ransomware--but with a twist that involves robots. I think we can all agree that ransomware is annoying. When it comes to the standard ransomware business model of encrypting data and holding it hostage, though, there's a simple solution. As long as you have current backups of your data, you can simply ignore the ransomware demand and restore your unencryp...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 003 Brandon Board, Senior Director of Corporate Security, IT Compliance and Audit at Alert Logic, is my guest for the Inner Circle podcast this week. Alert Logic is a security company and helps customers achieve and maintain compliance with various regulations and frameworks. First and foremost, though, Alert Logic is itself a company--which means it must also comply with those same mandates. I thought it would be interesting to chat with Brandon about the issues an...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 002 In this episode of the Inner Circle podcast, my guest is Christer Edwards from Adobe Security, Christer is a developer and a member of the team that developed HubbleStack--an open source security compliance tool. Christer and I discuss the origin of HubbleStack and why they decided to create it in the first place. We also talk about what it does, why they chose to make it an open source project, and what the future might hold for HubbleStack. [the_ad id="4462"] ...

Inner Circle Podcast: Episode 001 Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new Inner Circle podcast. We wanted to find a way to simultaneously spotlight interesting products and knowledgeable experts, while also providing additional value for the TechSpective audience--so the Inner Circle podcast was born. Each week we will invite a guest or guests to join us to chat. We might talk about breaking news from the tech world in general, or products and research, or upcoming events. We might just talk...

Prevention is always better than a cure. With IT environments continuing to become more and more complex, even the most sophisticated cyber security teams find it hard to fully prepare, and they constantly need tools at their disposal to strengthen their security postures. Simulation software, while helpful, often doesn’t cut it in reproducing real-world environments and their vulnerabilities. That’s why more enterprises, service providers and defense agencies alike are building cyber ranges tha...