

urlscan’s Johannes Gilger: How Automation Can Free Up Resources and Streamline Security Investigations
May 10, 2022
37:29
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
Topics discussed in this episode:
- What urlscan is and how it works.
- Why Johannes founded urlscan and why he thinks the security community is so collaborative.
- Johannes journey that eventually led to founding urlscan and why he decided to leave Crowdstrike to focus his attention on urlscan.
- How automation transforms security investigations.
- What urlscan users get wrong about automation.
- The #1 piece of advice Johannes has for security operations teams getting started with automation.
- Tips for customer-facing brands to reduce their attack target size.
- What future security challenges will look like in the years ahead and how organizations can use automation to get prepared for what’s next.