The Defender's Advantage Podcast

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers spoke about cyber security in 2018 with FireEye CSO, Steve Booth. They touched on various topics, including the threat landscape, threat actor techniques, nation-state activity, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Check-out the podcast to hear more about what the new year has in store, and also learn a little bit about what organizations should be doing to...

Grady Summers, CTO, FireEye recently sat down to speak about FireEye Helix with Paul Nguyen, Vice President and General Manager for Helix at FireEye. During their conversation, Paul reiterated a key focus of Helix, which is to the help analysts be more effective at their jobs. Check out the podcast to hear all about the latest release (Helix 1.2), how FireEye is able to pivot data from the consul...

Chris Porter, chief intelligence strategist at FireEye recently sat down with Jeffrey Ashcraft, senior analyst at FireEye, and Matthew McCabe, senior vice president and advisory specialist at Marsh, to discuss cyber threats to the utilities sector and how much of what you see hackers do in the movies really happens when utilities are breached in the real world? Listen to our podcast to find out wh...

Given recent high-profile incidents, cyber security has quickly risen to the top of the priority list for many organizations, including governments. As with many organizations these days, government information technology and security is migrating to the cloud. As government and public education entities migrate to Office 365, Google Mail or other solutions for their primary email management servi...

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers interviewed Kevin Mandia in the summer of 2016 to discuss his goals as FireEye's newest CEO. One year later he has caught-up with Kevin to discuss his âOne Teamâ philosophy, the successful launch of Helix, and his love of overcoming challenges.

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers caught-up with John Miller, manager of threat intelligence to discuss his thoughts on the current threat landscape. John touched on preventative steps organizations can put in place, popular attack methods and trends he’s observed from the front lines of our cyber investigations.

Matt Snyder, chief information security officer for the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center joins Grady Summers, FireEye chief technology officer, for a thought-provoking discussion spanning a broad range of security-related topics. Organizations in the healthcare sector are experiencing exponentially increasing levels of targeted attacks from organized crime and nation states: Matt shares...

In this podcast, Dan Scali, senior manager for Mandiant consulting and Grady Summers, FireEye Chief Technology Officer, discuss key issues in critical infrastructure and industrial control systems. Bank data centers, nuclear power plants, and water plants make up this niche area of information security thatâs quickly gained increased importance with recent high profile breaches. Dan covers some of...

Detecting today’s attacks is difficult. Attackers are more sophisticated, better funded and better organized. Moreover, the attacks are more targeted, with 80 percent of observed malware showing up just once and 68 percent of malware being used against only a single organization. In many cases, malware isn’t even involved in the attacks – instead, the threat actors use a variety of tactics, some o...

Paul Nguyen, VP, Orchestration & Integration for FireEye discusses how orchestration levels the battlefield by leveraging FireEye's years of expertise battling the world's most consequential breaches.

I was fortunate to sit down with Michael Sikorski, Director, FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering (FLARE) Team. During our conversation we discussed the origin of the FLARE team, Michael’s book “Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software”, and the latest freeware tools FLOSS and FakeNet-NG.

Over the years we have seen our message of detect, respond, and contain resonate through-out the cyber security industry. I wanted to explore this mantra further by speaking with our Vice President, Mandiant Global Consulting â US Central & Latin America and Executive Director, Strategic Services, Russell Teague. On this podcast we discuss how strategic services help by making companies proact...

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia took the helm of the company in mid-June with a tall order: to understand the current challenges and arrange all of the components to make FireEye the best security company in the industry. In this Eye on Security podcast, FireEye Chief Technology Officer Grady Summers talks with Kevin about why he’s so well positioned to lead the company, including why he started Mandiant...

Earlier this year FireEye’s Mandiant business unit launched Red Team Operations, which consists of two unique services designed to assess the strength an organizations’ security program: Red Team Assessments and Red Teaming for Security Operations. During Black Hat USA 2016 I met up with Marshall Heilman, Vice President, Mandiant Consulting – West and Executive Director, IR and Red Team Operations...

Chris Tannery is a senior manager on the FireEye as a Service (FaaS) team. In his role he helps customers with the onboarding process.

Nicole Oppenheim is the manager of Advanced Practices for FireEye as a Service (FaaS). She is responsible for reviewing our analytical strategy within FaaS and determining the best way forward to find advanced attackers.

Pete Smith is a network practice lead for FaaS (FireEye as a Service). In his role as network practice lead, Pete is responsible for designing network services that our analysts use to defend our customers from advanced attackers.

FireEye CTO of Emerging Technologies, Josh Goldfarb sat down with Sr. Director, Yogi Chandiramani and international threat intel liaison, Jens Monrad to discuss findings from the latest EMEA Regional Advanced Threat Report.

FireEye CTO Grady Summers recently sat down with SangYun Jeong, Information Security Manager for GS Caltex to discuss his take on what it's like to manage information security for a large oil refiner company in Korea. Listen to the podcast and hear what the top cybersecurity risks are that face an organization controlling and managing SCADA systems, what prompted manufactures to become intere...

Hear from John Watters - the founder and former CEO of iSIGHT Partners (now the Cyber Threat Intelligence arm of FireEye) on his views of the current state of cyber security, and what you can expect to hear from him at the upcoming Cyber Defense Live Summit hosted by FireEye.

We sat down with Shannon Lietz, head of DevSecOps engineers at Intuit, about the company’s philosophy regarding cloud security. In this podcast she discusses what kinds of resources Intuit has devoted to keeping the cloud safe, advice for companies considering moving to the cloud, and how enterprises can use the cloud while staying ahead of attackers. She also describes Red Team Mondays, Blue Team...

More and more companies are relying on the cloud for storage and collaboration, but what does that mean from a security and cyber standpoint? How safe is it? Who has access? And would you know if someone else was accessing your data? Patrick Heim is head of trust and security at Dropbox. He answers these questions and more – including how Dropbox protects its customer’s data – in our latest podcas...

In this podcast, Grady Summers, FireEye CTO, discusses the cyber issues that organizations face, the communication roadblocks between those on the ground and at the board level, what steps to take to get past these obstacles, and the next big trends in cyber security.

Learn more about the newest members of the FireEye family from Paul Nguyen, founder and CEO of Invotas and John Watters, founder, chairman and CEO of iSIGHT Partners. Hear why they started their companies, how their addition to FireEye adds to our already robust product and subscription offering, and what this all means both immediately and long-term for our customers.

Learn more about the latest trends in cyber and what you can do to protect your enterprise from Jurgen Kutscher, vice president of security consulting services at Mandiant, a FireEye company.