Is There a Magic in Security?

Guest:

• Phil Venables, Vice President and CISO at Google Cloud

Topics:

• Google Cybersecurity Action Team is your brainchild and it is 1 year old, what comes to mind first when we reflect on this anniversary?
• The team is primarily about helping clients with security, what did we learn doing this for a year?
• What challenges have we (Google Cybersecurity Action Team) faced in our first year?
• We released 4 Threat Horizons reports this year, what is the future for this research here?
• We often hear that in the cloud we need to move away from products towards solutions, how does that work in security?
• Your famous 8 megatrends post is several months old - any new thoughts or changes coming to this concept?
• Recently you had a very interesting blog “Crucial Questions from CISOs and Security Teams”, with a list of questions, can you share some of your thinking here?

Resources:

• Security at Google Cloud Next 2022
• Next Special - Log4j Reflections, Software Dependencies and Open Source Security
• Next Special - Improving Browser Security in the New Era of Work
• Next Special - Can We Escape Ransomware by Migrating to the Cloud?
• NEXT Special - Google Cybersecurity Action Team: What's the Story? (Next 2021 special episode)
• Modernizing SOC ... Introducing Autonomic Security Operations 
• How autonomic data security can help define cloud’s future
• Google Cloud Threat Horizons Report #1 #2 #3 #4
• 8 Megatrends drive cloud adoption—and improve security for all
• “Demystify Data Sovereignty and Sovereign Cloud Secrets at Google Cloud” (ep81)
• Crucial Questions from CISOs and Security Teams
• Google Cybersecurity Action Team