Security experts often talk about prevention, detection and response. If you're constantly having to respond to incidents, you're not really serving your company or your business in the future. The goal isn't to prevent the compromise of the laptop; it's how fast you respond that matters. You always pay the samel tax - whether you like it or not... i would deftly suggest folks pay it at and you get everything for fli. It pays off with world based aces control, audit, logs to factor authentication, right? All these different things. So i think every vendor should have that as table stakes.
What does it take to shape an early-stage security project into a product that solves real problems?
Understanding your customers is a key first step. Knowing the personas who can use your product and the leverage they can get out of it, it's what ultimately brings value to security teams and even other teams that can seize their benefits.
We had a great conversation with Joren McReynolds who is the VP of Engineering, IT and Security at Panther Labs. In today's episode he shares the experiences and lessons over the course of his journey at Facebook, Airbnb, and how they shaped his knowledge on what building a great product takes.
Topics discussed:
- What led to the creation of osquery and why open source.
- What the progression was to build that as an MVP.
- Joren's approach to building the IR Team at Airbnb.
- How different Airbnb's cloud-based environment was from Facebook's.
- How Joren's past experience at Facebook influenced his work at Airbnb.
- Joren’s thought process around implementing security monitoring.
- What inspired StreamAlert.
- 3 pieces of actionable advice to security teams looking to excel in detection at scale.