O'Reilly Security Podcast - O'Reilly Media Podcast
The O'Reilly Security Podcast examines the challenges and opportunities for security practitioners in an increasingly complex and fast-moving world. Through interviews and analysis, we highlight the people who are on the frontlines of security, working to build better defenses.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 43
- Years Active
- 2015 - 2017
Jessy Irwin on making security understandable for everyone
In this episode, I talk with Jessy Irwin, VP of security and privacy at Mercury Public Affairs. We discuss how to communicate security to non-technical people, what security might look like for small…
Doug Barth and Evan Gilman on Zero Trust networks
In this episode, I talk with Doug Barth, site reliability engineer at Stripe, and Evan Gilman, Doug’s former colleague from PagerDuty who is now working independently on Zero Trust networking. They a…
Susan Sons on maintaining and securing the internet’s infrastructure
In this episode, O’Reilly’s Mac Slocum talks with Susan Sons, senior systems analyst for the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research (CACR) at Indiana University. They discuss how she initially got…
Steven Shorrock on the myth of human error
In this episode, I talk with Steven Shorrock, a human factors and safety science specialist. We discuss the dangers of blaming human error, studying success along with failure, and how humans are cri…
Fang Yu on machine learning and the evolving nature of fraud
In this episode, O’Reilly’s Jenn Webb talks with Fang Yu, cofounder and CTO of DataVisor. They discuss sniffing out fraudulent sleeper cells, incubation in money transfer fraud, and adopting a more p…
Cory Doctorow on the real-life dangers of DRM
In this best of 2016 episode, I revisit a conversation from earlier this year with Cory Doctorow, a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer. We discuss the unexpected places where digital ri…
Ame Elliot on designing for usable security and privacy
In this episode, O’Reilly’s Mary Treseler talks with Ame Elliot, design director at Simply Secure. They discuss designing for security and privacy, noteworthy tools, and the real-world consequences o…
Richard Moulds on harnessing entropy for a more secure world
In this episode, I talk with Richard Moulds, vice president of strategy and business development at Whitewood Encryption. We discuss whether random number generation is as random as some might think …
Gilad Rosner on privacy in the age of the Internet of Things
In this episode of the O’Reilly Hardware Podcast, Jeff Bleiel and I speak with Gilad Rosner, a privacy and information policy researcher, and the founder of the Internet of Things Privacy Forum. Ros…
Efrain Ortiz on digital disease control
In this episode, I talk with security architect Efrain Ortiz. We discuss how epidemiology can be applied to infosec, the parallels between using data and patterns to diagnose disease and find endpoin…
Brendan O’Connor on security as a monoculture
In this episode, I talk with Brendan O’Connor, a security researcher, lawyer (but not your lawyer) and owner of security consulting firm Malice Afterthought. We discuss creating a culture that celebr…
Dan Kaminsky on creating an NIH for the security industry
In this episode, I talk with Dan Kaminsky, founder and chief scientist at White Ops. We discuss what a National Institutes of Health (NIH) for security would look like, the pros and cons of Docker an…
Josh Corman on the challenges of securing safety-critical health care systems
In this episode, I talk with Josh Corman, co-founder of I Am the Cavalry and director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative for the non-profit organization Atlantic Council. We discuss his recent work a…
Kyle Rankin on modern server hardening for the cloud
In this episode, I talk with Kyle Rankin, vice president of engineering operations at Final, a credit card startup. We discuss old versus new approaches to server hardening in light of the cloud, how…
Meredith Patterson on using language to build trustworthy systems
In this episode, I talk with Meredith Patterson, a software engineer and leader of the Langsec Conspiracy. We discuss the origins of LangSec, rigidity versus robustness, and game theory as it applies…
Cory Doctorow on legally disabling DRM (for good)
In this episode, I talk with Cory Doctorow, a journalist, activist, and science fiction writer.
We discuss the EFF lawsuit against the U.S. government, the prospect for a whole new industry of pro-s…
Chris Eng on the challenges of improved application security
In this episode, I talk with Chris Eng, vice president of research at Veracode, a software security-as-a-service business.
We discuss Veracode’s research on application security across a broad spect…
Guy Podjarny on making open source more secure
In this episode, I talk with Guy Podjarny, founder of Snyk, a developer tooling company focused on securing open source alongside building a business.
We discuss the parallel paths between the trans…
Eleanor Saitta on security as a product of shared human outcomes
In this episode, I talk with Eleanor Saitta, a security architect at Etsy. We talk about how security isn’t really about what happens to computers—it’s about what happens to the people using those sy…
Jay Jacobs on the importance of statistical literacy in security
In this episode of the Security Podcast, I talk with Jay Jacobs, senior data scientist at BitSight. We discuss the disparity between intuition and analytics in data science, the limitations of unsupe…