The Defender's Advantage Podcast

You’ve heard of security validation and know that it’s necessary to test your security effectiveness, but do you know how our team develops the right attacks to test your controls against threat activity we see in real life? On this episode of our Eye on Security podcast, Henry Peltokangas, Director of Product Management, and Nart Villeneuve, Director of Research & Collections, give us an insi...

In the latest episode of Eye on Security, our host Luke McNamara talks all about the world of operational technology (OT) and cyber physical systems with one of our foremost experts on the topic: Nathan Brubaker, Senior Manager of Analysis for Mandiant Threat Intelligence. Nathan kicked off the chat by explaining what exactly we mean when we use the term ‘cyber physical.’ They then turned their at...

We commonly see the same threat actors, techniques and malware popping up in all corners of the globe, but that doesn’t mean each region isn’t affected differently. In this episode, our host Luke McNamara, Principal Analyst for Mandiant Threat Intelligence is joined by Yihao Lim, Principal Analyst for Mandiant Threat Intelligence, to discuss cyber security and threats related specifically to the A...

COVID-19 has brought on a rapid shift to remote work. Many organizations were unprepared, so they quickly turned to collaboration platforms that could help employees get back to work. But with more applications comes a bigger attack surface. On today’s Eye on Security podcast, Luke McNamara, Principal Analyst for Mandiant Threat Intelligence talks with Marcus Troiano, Managing Consultant for Mandi...

COVID-19 has rapidly taken over the headlines across the globe. As with many other major events, threat actors are quick to adapt relevant topics as part of their phishing campaigns to increase the likelihood of success. The same rings true for COVID-19, especially due to its global impact. On this latest Eye on Security podcast, John Atrache, Principal Consultant for Mandiant, joins me to discuss...

We are back with the second part of our M-Trends podcast where Luke McNamara, Principal Analyst continues discussing highlights and insights from this year’s report with Jurgen Kutscher, EVP of Mandiant Solutions. We pick back up with the nature of multiple attackers in an environment—notably, whether or not they are aware of other attackers in the environment and if they are collaborating. Jurgen...

FireEye released M-Trends 2020 earlier this year to provide visibility into frontline investigations of the most interesting and impactful cyber attacks of the year. In this first episode of our two-part M-Trends 2020 podcast, Luke McNamara discusses the report with Jurgen Kutscher, EVP of Mandiant Solutions. We begin the episode by highlighting the key themes from M-Trends 2020, such as dwell tim...

In this latest episode, we featured M-Trends contributors Dominik Weber (Director - FLARE) and Dan Perez (Manager - Adversary Pursuit) to take us on a deep dive of our annual M-Trends report. We discussed how key metrics from our incident response investigations changed, including: dwell times, source of notification, number of threat actors tracked, and malware families/trends broken down by oper...

Cloud security is more important today than ever before. Luke McNamara was joined once again by Martin Holste, CTO for Cloud at FireEye, Chris Schreiber, FireEye product strategist, and JR Weiks, FireEye security principal engineer. In this second of two podcasts on cloud security, they examine how the point products and various processes that make up cyber security today will set the stage for th...

Cloud security is more important today than ever before. To learn more about the topic, Luke McNamara sat down with Martin Holste, CTO for Cloud at FireEye, Chris Schreiber, FireEye product strategist, and JR Weiks, FireEye security principal engineer. In this first of two podcasts on cloud security, they discuss some of the security challenges that occur when migrating to the cloud, specifically...

In October 2019, FireEye launched its Purple Team and Continuous Purple Team Assessments to enable organizations to quantifiably evaluate security controls and programs against Verodin simulated attack scenarios. With Purple Team Assessments, Mandiant experts guide an organization’s security team through highly-realistic attack scenarios. Luke McNamara spoke with one of our global red team leads w...

Luke McNamara spoke with Jens Christian Høy Monrad, Head of FireEye Intelligence, EMEA at FireEye on the EMEA threat landscape. In their discussion, Jens spoke on the multidimensional threats to the region, what those threats look like today, election security affecting these countries, and continued challenges for the public and private sector.

Luke McNamara spoke with Jens Christian Høy Monrad, Head of FireEye Intelligence, EMEA at FireEye on the EMEA threat landscape. In their discussion, Jens spoke on the multidimensional threats to the region, what those threats look like today, election security affecting these countries, and continued challenges for the public and private sector.

The healthcare industry faces a range of threat actors and malicious activity. FireEye EVP, Products, Grady Summers spoke with Principal Analyst, Luke McNamara on the types of financially motivated cyber threat activity impacting healthcare organizations, nation states threats that the healthcare sector should be aware of, and how the threat landscape for healthcare organizations evolve in the fut...

The importance of being prepared cannot be understated. Companies experiencing an email compromise must undertake costly investigations involving forensics services and data mining of affected inboxes to see if sensitive information has been impacted. If that isn’t bad enough, productivity and reputation also stand to take a hit. To shine some light on the business email compromise threat and how...

In April 2018, FireEye CTO, Grady Summers had the opportunity to talk about some of the latest features of FireEye Email Security with Ken Bagnall, VP for Email Security at FireEye. Their conversation ended up being one of our more popular 'Eye on Security' podcast episodes, so it was a no-brainer that Grady would have Ken back in July 2018 to discuss some of the changes in email attacks...

In recent weeks FireEye has been talking all about Expertise On Demand, our annual subscription service that gives customers access to security experts and more. As FireEye Chief Intelligence Strategist, it has been exciting to see the transformation on the Intelligence side of things, but to get a better look at the Expertise On Demand service as a whole we turned to Gareth Maclachlan, VP of Stra...

The United States District Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington recently unsealed indictments and announced the arrests of three individuals linked to a criminal organization we have been tracking since 2015 as FIN7. With the threat group in the news quite a bit lately, FireEye CTO, Grady Summers sat down to discuss the actors and the arrests with two of the foremost FIN7 exper...

Back in April 2018, FireEye CTO, Grady Summers had the chance to talk with Ken Bagnall, VP for Email Security at FireEye. At the time, Ken and Grady chatted about FireEye’s acquisition of the company The Email Laundry, which took place late 2017, and about some of the new capabilities that was gained in FireEye Email Security from that integration. They also discussed some of the trends that had b...

FireEye Chief Intelligence Strategist, Christopher Porter had the opportunity to speak with Jared Semrau, head of our Vulnerability and Exploitation intelligence team. Jared discusses how his team gathers information on new and existing exploitable bugs, combines that with what FireEye knows from engagements and device detections, and how they map that intelligence to known threat actors. There ar...

It’s hard to believe, but April 2018 marked the release of our 9th edition of M-Trends. To learn more about the latest report, FireEye CTO, Grady Summers sat down and spoke with one of the key contributors: Jurgen Kutscher, senior vice president responsible for all Mandiant Consulting and Managed Defense offerings at FireEye. During their conversation, Jurgen and Grady discussed a wide variety of...

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers discussed email security with Ken Bagnall, VP of the FireEye Email Security side of the business. Ken came to FireEye following its 2017 acquisition of The Email Laundry, where he was a founder and CEO. <br> <br> During their chat, Ken and Grady discussed a wide variety of topics, including Ken's history in the industry and how he got into email security...

Chris Porter, chief intelligence strategist at FireEye had the opportunity to speak with Parnian Najafi Borazjani, senior cyber security analyst at FireEye, and Michael Rastigue, vice president, cyber risk practice growth leader for the central zone at Marsh, on cyber threats to the manufacturing industry. Listen to the podcast to learn about today's threats, including who the bad actors are,...

Chris Porter, chief intelligence strategist at FireEye had the opportunity to speak with Parnian Najafi Borazjani, senior cyber security analyst at FireEye, and Michael Rastigue, vice president, cyber risk practice growth leader for the central zone at Marsh, on cyber threats to the manufacturing industry. Listen to the podcast to learn about today's threats, including who the bad actors are,...