Cloud Security Podcast by Google focuses on security in the cloud, delivering security from the cloud, and all things at the intersection of security and cloud....
EP206 Paying the Price: Ransomware's Rising Stakes in the Cloud
Guest: Allan Liska, CSIRT at Recorded Future, now part of Mastercard Topics: Ransomware has become a pervasive threat. Could you provide us with a brief overview of the current ransomware landscape? It's often said that ransomware is driven by pure profit. Can you remind us of the business model of ransomware gangs, including how they operate, their organizational structures, and their financial motivations? Ransomware gangs are becoming increasingly aggressive in their extortion tactics. Can you shed some light on these new tactics, such as data leaks, DDoS attacks, and threats to contact victims' customers or partners? What specific challenges and considerations arise when dealing with ransomware in cloud environments, and how can organizations adapt their security strategies to mitigate these risks? What are the key factors to consider when deciding whether or not to pay the ransom? What is the single most important piece of advice you would give to organizations looking to bolster their defenses against ransomware? Resources: Video (LinkedIn, YouTube) 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report EP89 Can We Escape Ransomware by Migrating to the Cloud? EP45 VirusTotal Insights on Ransomware Business and Technology EP29 Future of EDR: Is It Reason-able to Suggest XDR? EP204 Beyond PCAST: Phil Venables on the Future of Resilience and Leading Indicators
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EP205 Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality
Guest: Andrew Kopcienski, Principal Intelligence Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group Questions: You have this new Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 report, what’s up with that? We are getting a bit annoyed about the fear-mongering on “oh, but attackers will use AI.” You are a threat analyst, realistically, how afraid are you of this? The report discusses the threat of compromised identities in hybrid environments (aka “no matter what you do, and where, you are hacked via AD”). What steps can organizations take to mitigate the risk of a single compromised identity leading to a significant security breach? Is this expected to continue? Is zero-day actually growing? The report seems to imply that, but aren’t “oh-days” getting more expensive every day? Many organizations still lag with detection, in your expertise, what approaches to detection actually work today? It is OK to say ”hire Managed Defense”, BTW :-) We read the risk posed by the "Big Four" sections and they (to us) read like “hackers hack” and “APTs APT.” What is genuinely new and interesting here? Resources: Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 report Google Cloud Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 webinar EP147 Special: 2024 Security Forecast Report EP171 GenAI in the Wrong Hands: Unmasking the Threat of Malicious AI and Defending Against the Dark Side EP153 Kevin Mandia on Cloud Breaches: New Threat Actors, Old Mistakes, and Lessons for All Staying a Step Ahead: Mitigating the DPRK IT Worker Threat
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EP204 Beyond PCAST: Phil Venables on the Future of Resilience and Leading Indicators
Guest: Phil Venables, Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) @ Google Cloud Topics Why is our industry suddenly obsessed with resilience? Is this ransomware’s doing? How did the PCAST report come to be? Can you share the backstory and how it was created? The PCAST report emphasizes the importance of leading indicators for security and resilience. How can organizations effectively shift their focus from lagging indicators to these leading indicators? The report also emphasizes the importance of "Cyber-Physical Modularity" - this sounds mysterious to us, and probably our listeners! What is it and how does this concept contribute to enhancing the resilience of critical infrastructure? The report advocates for regular and rigorous stress testing. How can organizations effectively implement such stress testing to identify vulnerabilities and improve their resilience? In your opinion, what are the most critical takeaways from our PCAST-related paper for organizations looking to improve their security and resilience posture today? What are some of the challenges organizations might face when implementing the PCAST recommendations, and how can they overcome these challenges? Do organizations get resilience benefits “for free” by using Google Cloud? Resources: 10 ways to make cyber-physical systems more resilient “Cyber-Physical Resilience and the Cloud: Putting the White House PCAST report into practice” report Megatrends drive cloud adoption—and improve security for all EP163 Cloud Security Megatrends: Myths, Realities, Contentious Debates and Of Course AI Advising The President On Cyber-Physical Resilience - Philip Venables (at PSW) EP201 Every CTO Should Be a CSTO (Or Else!) - Transformation Lessons from The Hoff EP171 GenAI in the Wrong Hands: Unmasking the Threat of Malicious AI and Defending Against the Dark Side
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EP203 Cloud Shared Responsibility: Beyond the Blame Game with Rich Mogull
Guest: Rich Mogull, SVP of Cloud Security at Firemon and CEO at Securosis Topics: Let’s talk about cloud security shared responsibility. How to separate the blame? Is there a good framework for apportioning blame? You've introduced the Cloud Shared Irresponsibilities Model, stating cloud providers will be considered partially responsible for breaches even if due to customer misconfigurations. How do you see this impacting the relationship between cloud providers and their customers? Will it lead to more collaboration or more friction? We both know the Jay Heiser 2015 classic “cloud is secure, but you not using it securely.” In your view, what does “use cloud securely” mean for various organizations today? Here is a very painful question: how to decide what cloud security should be free with cloud and what security can be paid? You dealt with cloud security for a long time, what is your #1 lesson so far on how to make the cloud more secure or use the cloud more securely? What is the best way to learn how to cloud? What is this CloudSLAW thing? Resources: EP201 Every CTO Should Be a CSTO (Or Else!) - Transformation Lessons from The Hoff The Cloud Shared Irresponsibilities Model 2002 Trustworthy computing memo Use Cloud Securely? What Does This Even Mean?! EP145 Cloud Security: Shared Responsibility, Shared Fate, Shared Faith? No Snow, No Flakes: Pondering Cloud Security Shared Responsibility, Again! Cloud Security Lab a Week (S.L.A.W) Megatrends drive cloud adoption—and improve security for all Shared fate main page Defining the Journey—the Four Cloud Adoption Patterns Celebrating 200 Episodes of Cloud Security Podcast by Google and Thanks for all the Listens!
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EP202 Beyond Tiered SOCs: Detection as Code and the Rise of Response Engineering
Guest: Amine Besson, Tech Lead on Detection Engineering, Behemoth Cyberdefence Topics: What is your best advice on detection engineering to organizations who don’t want to engineer anything in security? What is the state of art when it comes to SOC ? Who is doing well? What on Earth is a fusion center? Why classic “tiered SOCs” fall flat when dealing with modern threats? Let’s focus on a correct definition of detection as code. Can you provide yours? Detection x response engineering - is there a thing called “response engineering”? Should there be? What are your lessons learned to fuse intel, detections, and hunting ops? What is this SIEMless yet SOARful detection architecture? What’s next with OpenTIDE 2.0? Resources: Guide your SOC Leaders to More Engineering Wisdom for Detection (Part 9) and other parts linked there Hack.lu 2023: TIDeMEC : A Detection Engineering Platform Homegrown At The EC video OpenTIDE · GitLab OpenTIDE 1.0 Release blog SpectreOps blog series ‘on detection’ Does your SOC have NOC DNA? presentation Kill SOC Toil, Do SOC Eng blog (tame version) The original ASO paper (2021, still epic!) Behind the Scenes with Red Canary's Detection Engineering Team The DFIR Report – Real Intrusions by Real Attackers, The Truth Behind the Intrusion Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) | Google Cloud
Cloud Security Podcast by Google focuses on security in the cloud, delivering security from the cloud, and all things at the intersection of security and cloud. Of course, we will also cover what we are doing in Google Cloud to help keep our users' data safe and workloads secure.
We’re going to do our best to avoid security theater, and cut to the heart of real security questions and issues. Expect us to question threat models and ask if something is done for the data subject’s benefit or just for organizational benefit.
We hope you’ll join us if you’re interested in where technology overlaps with process and bumps up against organizational design. We’re hoping to attract listeners who are happy to hear conventional wisdom questioned, and who are curious about what lessons we can and can’t keep as the world moves from on-premises computing to cloud computing.
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