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Introduction

Our new show is dedicated to empowering SecOps leaders and professionals to reimagine how their teams work so they can scale their security efforts and build a team that achieves more with less.

In each episode, we’ll learn from a security leader who has found a way to free their team from tedious manual tasks and remove the barriers that are preventing them from doing high-value strategic work that truly matters.

We’ll learn from their mistakes, distill their best practices, and leave you with actionable insights that you can immediately put to work with your team.

Recent episodes

Wiz’s Yinon Costica: Using a self-serve model to better equip organizations and improve security posture

Episode 23•May 9, 2023•42 min

Wiz’s Yinon Costica: Using a self-serve model to better equip organizations and improve security posture

In this season’s finale of the Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas chats with Yinon Costica, Vice President of Product and co-founder at Wiz, the leading cloud infrastructure security platform that enables organizations to identify and remove the most pressing risks in the cloud.

BeyondTrust’s Morey Haber: The challenges for security operations teams due to identity-based risks in a remote working world

Episode 22•April 25, 2023•42 min

BeyondTrust’s Morey Haber: The challenges for security operations teams due to identity-based risks in a remote working world

In this episode of the Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas chats with Morey Haber, Chief Security Officer at BeyondTrust. BeyondTrust is a worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management (PAM), focused on addressing the most urgent cybersecurity challenges, including zero trust, ransomware, cloud security, and more.

Oracle’s Arthur Barnes: The evolution of cybersecurity & solving the challenge of hiring the right team

Episode 21•April 11, 2023•42 min

Oracle’s Arthur Barnes: The evolution of cybersecurity & solving the challenge of hiring the right team

In this episode of the Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas interviews Arthur Barnes, Senior Director of Security Operations at Oracle – the world’s largest database management company. Arthur is an experienced cybersecurity leader with 20 years of experience, having previously worked at Pearson, Dell, and M&S. He contributed to the ENISA Cloud Procurement Guidelines, which is a practical guide aimed at the procurement and governance of cloud services, and is currently completing an MBA in Business Administration and Management.

Material Security’s Ryan Noon: Building & marketing a differentiated cybersecurity solution without spreading FUD

Episode 20•March 28, 2023•36 min

Material Security’s Ryan Noon: Building & marketing a differentiated cybersecurity solution without spreading FUD

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.

Cybrize’s Diana Kelley: Why compliance is more than a checkbox exercise, and how to integrate it into your security toolkit

Episode 19•March 14, 2023•42 min

Cybrize’s Diana Kelley: Why compliance is more than a checkbox exercise, and how to integrate it into your security toolkit

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.

Lacework’s Andreas Schneider: How to adapt as a CISO and the value of security failures

Episode 18•February 28, 2023•41 min

Lacework’s Andreas Schneider: How to adapt as a CISO and the value of security failures

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.

GitHub’s Jacob DePriest: How to attract and retain more diverse security talent

Episode 17•February 14, 2023•37 min

GitHub’s Jacob DePriest: How to attract and retain more diverse security talent

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."

Expel’s Jon Hencinski: How to Reduce Risk Through Better Security Strategy

Episode 16•December 13, 2022•42 min

Expel’s Jon Hencinski: How to Reduce Risk Through Better Security Strategy

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.

Madhav Gopal: Security Operations at Fortune 30 Scale

Episode 15•December 1, 2022•30 min

Madhav Gopal: Security Operations at Fortune 30 Scale

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 operations, internal audit and security consulting teams. Madhav serves as an advisor to Save the Children US and Citadel Banking.

Pipedrive’s Kristian Kivimägi: How to Scale Security Teams While Taking Care of Your People

Episode 14•November 15, 2022•32 min

Pipedrive’s Kristian Kivimägi: How to Scale Security Teams While Taking Care of Your People

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.

Redis’ Andrew DiMichele: How to Build Engaged SecOps Teams That Stay Ahead of Attackers

Episode 13•November 1, 2022•23 min

Redis’ Andrew DiMichele: How to Build Engaged SecOps Teams That Stay Ahead of Attackers

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.

Citrix’s Corey Hill: How to Make Mental Health a Priority For Your Security Operations Team

Episode 12•October 14, 2022•31 min

Citrix’s Corey Hill: How to Make Mental Health a Priority For Your Security Operations Team

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 Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, Threat Monitoring, SOAR Automation, and Incident Response (both CSIRT) services at Citrix.

TripAction’s Aaron Cooper: Why Understanding Broader Company Culture Is Critical to a Security Operation Team’s Success

Episode 11•October 4, 2022•33 min

TripAction’s Aaron Cooper: Why Understanding Broader Company Culture Is Critical to a Security Operation Team’s Success

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, SOX, and PCI compliance.

Jay Thoden Van Velzen: How to Prepare Your Security Operations For a Multi-Cloud Future

Episode 10•August 1, 2022•37 min

Jay Thoden Van Velzen: How to Prepare Your Security Operations For a Multi-Cloud Future

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.

Toast’s Rebecca Blair: Lessons From Building a Security Operations Team From Scratch

Episode 9•July 18, 2022•32 min

Toast’s Rebecca Blair: Lessons From Building a Security Operations Team From Scratch

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 their security operations center. On this episode, she shares lessons learned as she scaled the team along with her insights on what’s in store for the future of security operations.

Jason Barnes: How to Use Automation to Remove Tedious Tasks, Mitigate Risk, and Prioritize the Adoption of New Capabilities

Episode 8•July 4, 2022•27 min

Jason Barnes: How to Use Automation to Remove Tedious Tasks, Mitigate Risk, and Prioritize the Adoption of New Capabilities

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.

Panther Labs Jack Naglieri: How to Make Security Operations Painless

Episode 7•June 21, 2022•38 min

Panther Labs Jack Naglieri: How to Make Security Operations Painless

Today on the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas is joined byJack 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.

Niall Heffernan: How to Empower Your Security Operations Team to Focus on Higher Value Strategic Work

Episode 6•June 6, 2022•35 min

Niall Heffernan: How to Empower Your Security Operations Team to Focus on Higher Value Strategic Work

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.

KnowBe4’s Dylan White: How to Use Automation to Remove Mundane Manual Security Tasks and Make Your Team 5x More Effective

Episode 5•May 22, 2022•33 min

KnowBe4’s Dylan White: How to Use Automation to Remove Mundane Manual Security Tasks and Make Your Team 5x More Effective

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.

urlscan’s Johannes Gilger: How Automation Can Free Up Resources and Streamline Security Investigations

Episode 4•May 10, 2022•37 min

urlscan’s Johannes Gilger: How Automation Can Free Up Resources and Streamline Security Investigations

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

LimaCharlie’s Maxime Lamothe-Brassard: Rethinking How Cybersecurity Tools Are Sold — Less Snakeoil, More Focus on Capabilities

Episode 3•April 25, 2022•30 min

LimaCharlie’s Maxime Lamothe-Brassard: Rethinking How Cybersecurity Tools Are Sold — Less Snakeoil, More Focus on Capabilities

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.

Elastic’s James Spiteri: Why SecOps Teams Need to Focus on Small Incremental Wins and Not Try to Boil the Ocean

Episode 2•April 11, 2022•39 min

Elastic’s James Spiteri: Why SecOps Teams Need to Focus on Small Incremental Wins and Not Try to Boil the Ocean

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.

MongoDB’s Lena Smart: How to address burnout in SOC teams

Episode 1•March 28, 2022•38 min

MongoDB’s Lena Smart: How to address burnout in SOC teams

In our first episode, we are joined by Lena Smart, CISO of MongoDB, an inspiring leader who enjoys building teams and models from scratch, not losing sight of one of the most pressing topics of our time: burnout.

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