The Future of Security Operations

In this episode of  Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks with Ryan Noon, Founder and CEO of Material Security, a company that protects the email of high-risk VIPs and top global organizations. A serial entrepreneur and an expert on cloud security, Ryan previously ran infrastructure teams at Dropbox after it acquired his last company, Parastructure. Before that, he helped build a company s...

In this episode of the  Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas speaks with Diana Kelley, Chief Security Officer / Chief Strategy Officer at Cybrize, which connects organizations, security leaders, and job seekers to train and support the next generation of cybersecurity professionals.  Diana has been a trailblazer in the cybersecurity industry for over three decades. She's served as CTO for...

In this episode of the Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas interviews Andreas Schneider - the Field CISO EMEA at Lacework. Leveraging its data-driven platform and cloud-native application protection solution, Lacework helps organizations make sense of immense amounts of security data with minimal effort.  With over two decades of experience in cybersecurity, Andreas started off as a defe...

In this episode of Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks with Jacob DePriest, VP & Deputy Chief Security Officer at GitHub, a company with a mission "to help every developer - regardless of experience level - learn, code, and ship software effectively." Before joining GitHub, DePriest spent more than 15 years as a senior executive at the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US. Topics inc...

In this episode of Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks with  Jon Hencinski, VP of SecOps at Expel, a company with "a mission to make security easy to understand, easy to use, and easy to continuously improve." Hencinski is passionate about getting to the root cause of security issues and using strategy to help organizations make problems go away entirely. Topics include:  How Jon has see...

In this episode of Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks with Madhav Gopal , CISO at a Fintech start-up and formerly VP of Cybersecurity Operations at Comcast Cable. Madhav has over 25 years of experience with a track record of using innovation to protect and support customers and partnering effectively with business teams. Over the course of his career, Madhav has also led engineering ope...

In this episode of Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks with Kristian Kivimägi , Head of Security Operations at Pipedrive, a CRM and intelligent revenue management platform for small businesses, who helped scale Pipedrive's Info Sec team from start-up to 20 people. Kivimägi is also a guest lecturer in vulnerability assessment and cybersecurity at Tallinn University of Technology.   Topics...

Intro: In this episode of the Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks with Andrew DiMichele, Director of Security Operations at Redis, whose background is in building security operations programs. DiMichele's security journey began in the US Air Force Reserves, and brought him to CISCO, banking, IBM, and Citrix.  Topics include:  The evolution of cybersecurity as seen across different types...

In our latest episode of the Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks to Corey Hill , Director of Security Operations and Incident Response at Citrix. After working at organizations such as Mandiant and Cisco, in 2020 Corey joined the Citrix team when there were just a small handful of people on the SOC team. Today, the teams Corey leads spread across four countries and are responsible for De...

Aaron Cooper is the Security Operations Manager at TripActions with 20+ years of experience working in a variety of enterprise infrastructures. He specializes in managing and designing secure network environments to meet the needs of financial and corporate customers, managing security operations centers, designing and implementing highly secure and available data networks while maintaining HIPAA,...

In our 10th episode of the Future of Security Operations , Thomas speaks to Jay Thoden Van Velzen , Multicloud Security Operations Advisor at SAP. Prior to Jay’s current role, Jay scaled the SecDevOps team from 5 to 25 team members across three continents and five countries and was the Initiative Lead for multiple security improvement programs for Multicloud across SAP.  Topics discussed in this e...

Today on the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Rebecca Blair , Manager of the Security Operations Center at Toast , an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and hospitality space. After working in a variety of different cybersecurity roles over the past decade, Rebecca joined Toast in 2021 as the first employee of the...

On Today’s episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Jason Barnes — the former Head of Global Security Operations at Netskope and current Senior Director at Charter Communications.  *Note: this episode was recorded in late May 2022, prior to Jason departing from Netskope*   Topics discussed in this episode: - How Jason describes the current state of security operatio...

Today on the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas is joined by Jack Naglieri , CEO of Panther Labs , a cloud-native SIEM platform that alleviates the pain of traditional SIEM with detection-as-code, a robust security data lake, and huge scalability with zero-ops.  Topics discussed in this episode: - The challenges Jack faced while working on security teams at organizations like Yahoo and...

In our sixth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Niall Heffernan , Head of Security at Cygnvs , a former Senior Manager of Information Security at Informatica, and a Lecturer for BSc, HDIP, PGDip and MSc students studying in the Cyber Security streams at the National College of Ireland.  Topics discussed in this episode: Niall’s view on the current state of sec...

In our fifth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas speaks with Dylan White , an Information Security Engineer at KnowBe4 — a leading security awareness training platform. Topics Discussed:  What KnowBe4 does and the problem they solve for organizations.  The most common lures hackers are using today to trick users.  Dylan’s favorite phishing test of all time — and why it was...

In our fourth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast,  Thomas speaks with Johannes Gilger — CEO and founder of urlscan , a URL and website scanner that enables users to take a look at the individual resources that are requested when a site is loaded. Prior to founding urlscan, Johannes was the managed the Threat Intelligence Automation team at CrowdStrike Topics discussed in this epi...

In our third episode, we speak with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard — CEO and founder of LimaCharlie , a security infrastructure as a service tool that gives security teams full control over how they manage their security infrastructure. Maxime’s unique perspectives come from a career in security, including Canada’s NSA, Google, Arc4dia, and the early days of Crowdstrike.  Topics discussed in this episode...

In our second episode, we speak with Elastic’s Product Marketing Director James Spiteri , an experienced security practitioner turned product marketer with a passion for making security accessible and easy for anyone and everyone.  Topics discussed in this episode: Why James joined Elastic four years ago.  What Elastic is and the different use cases the company offers (Did you know every Netflix s...

The security world has undergone a seismic shift. What a few years ago seemed impossible like having a 100% remote team without a decrease in productivity, today is a reality. But what has been the cost? Do I have a process in place or do I have one person that's holding a lot of the processes together? What other questions should leaders ask themselves to determine the state of security operation...

Security teams are feeling burned out and overwhelmed. They are spending most of their time on alerts and tedious manual tasks, experiencing frustration and churn.  How do you automate these mundane security work that analysts are drowning in? The Future of Security Operations podcast is about empowering security operations teams and leaders and helping them remove the barriers that are preventing...