Breakpoint Security Podcast

Season 02  Episode 01 TOPIC: From Threat Actors with Love ! Tackling Malware Attacks for Healthcare The sophisticated cyber attacks post pandemic opens the door for threat actors to craft more mail spam that spans across different sectors of industry. The rise of attacks towards the healthcare industry targeting health care specific devices and infrastructure. How do we stop these ? Wait ! Do we e...

We're wrapping up season 01 and will be back soon in Season 02!! A big THANK YOU! To all our listeners who have been listening to the episodes for this first season of BP :) To all our Guests for sharing interesting stories & practical takeaways. In this cast, we wrap up Season 01 and share a quick glimpse of what was discussed in each episode, so that listeners know and can choose whatev...

TOPIC: Proactive Threat Prevention with Threat Intelligence In this episode, we discuss the challenges of Threat Intelligence in the modern Threat landscape and how security teams can conduct Threat Intelligence to Proactively Stop Advanced Attacks.  Guest: Avkash Kathiriya, Sr. VP - Research and Innovation at Cyware Labs Avkash is the VP of Research at a US-based Cyber security product startup. A...

TOPIC: Proactive Threat Prevention with Threat Intelligence In this episode, we discuss the challenges of Threat Intelligence in the modern Threat landscape and how security teams can conduct Threat Intelligence to Proactively Stop Advanced Attacks.  Guest: Avkash Kathiriya, Sr. VP - Research and Innovation at Cyware Labs Avkash is the VP of Research at a US-based Cyber security product startup. A...

TOPIC: Building a 100% Open Source DevSecOps Stack for Product Teams GUEST: Abhisek Datta He has been a Security researcher in the past. Currently he is dabbling more on the development & product side of things. He is an OSS contributor and Platform & Security engineer. Can still read/write C & x86 ASM. Episode Summary: In this episode we dive deep into the challenges and opportunities...

TOPIC: Building a 100% Open Source DevSecOps Stack for Product Teams GUEST: Abhisek Datta He has been a Security researcher in the past. Currently he is dabbling more on the development & product side of things. He is an OSS contributor and Platform & Security engineer. Can still read/write C & x86 ASM. Episode Summary: In this episode we dive deep into the challenges and opportunities...

TOPIC: [Cloud Security]   Challenges encountered by a SaaS company when they are born in Cloud and how we can tackle those. Running cloud security programs with a small team can be challenging. In this episode we discuss how do we leverage security engineering, automation and cater to a SAAS company's cloud security problems at scale without leaving the depth mindset behind. GUEST: Jayesh Sin...

TOPIC: [Cloud Security]  Challenges encountered by a SaaS company when they are born in Cloud GUEST: Jayesh Singh Chauhan [Founder: Cloudurance Sec & Cloud Village at DEF CON] Guest Intro: Jayesh Singh Chauhan is a security professional with 11 years of experience in the security space and he is the founder of Cloud Village at DEF CON. In the past, he has been part of the security teams of Pay...

TOPIC: OT Cyber Security - Vendor Risk Management Industrial Control Systems are used in critical infrastructure such as utilities, oil & gas, Aviation, Medical Industry and vehicle manufacturing . Some examples - Industrial control systems ( ICS ) or supervisory control and data acquisition ( SCADA ) systems. Since the entire OT ecosystem is often managed by vendors, managing vendor risk beco...

TOPIC: OT Cyber Security - Vendor Risk Management GUEST: Vikash Tiwari ,  IT Audit Manager @ ADQ Vikash is an experienced cyber security professional with 14 years+ in  various cyber security domains like Information Security / I&T Audit, VAPT and IT / OT GRC area. He has been working as Sr. Cyber Security consultant with TUV Rheinland LLC Oman.  He has been focusing on Cloud Security Audits,...

Secrets management talks about the ways and methods of managing application secrets securely all through their lifecycle including storage, transit and use. This has been a tricky area for organisations to solve and has led to some significant breaches lately. In this episode we discover some challenging scenarios when we try to implement secrets management across an organisation and discuss metho...

 Secrets management talks about the ways and methods of managing application secrets securely all through their lifecycle including storage, transit and use. This has been a tricky area for organisations to solve and has led to some significant breaches lately. Episode RELEASE DATE: 09th Feb, 2023 Guest Intro: Ankit Khasgiwale Ankit is Director of Product Security at Unacademy. He has over 16 year...

Guest-  Syed Shahrukh Ahmad Co-founder BeVigil, CloudSEK Syed LinkedIn BeVigil Mobile Application Security Recommended reading/viewing, Paper(on this topic) for practitioners Engineering tech blogs of major internet companies - Netflix, Spotify, Github, Google etc. Podcasts - Smashing Security, The Cloudcast, Malicious Life, and The Changelog  AWS Security guides, HackerNews feed, always watching...

Topic: Securing Your Security Product We start the season with Security Products. In this episode we look into the tricky areas when building Security products and how to address Security for those. We see how the perspective changes when we use the Security and developer lens and what to do about it.  Also we dive into practical approaches to take for Security in the long run, which goes much bey...

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Defensive Security: Although this forms the bulk of Information security, it is not talked about enough. Join me in the br3akp0int Security Podcast, where we go to depths and understand what the best Security teams do to operationalise excellent Security engineering practices across organisations and how do they really optimize for scale.  If you like to see more like this, please Subscribe to Bre...