Panther Labs Jack Naglieri: How to Make Security Operations Painless

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

Topics discussed in this episode:

- The challenges Jack faced while working on security teams at organizations like Yahoo and Airbnb. 

- The difference between security at Yahoo and Airbnb. 

- The origin story of StreamAlert - the open-source tool Jack built while working at Airbnb. 

- How a VCs cold email eventually led to Jack founding Panther Labs and how they acquired their first customers. 

- How Panther is different from traditional SIEM platforms. 

- What you need to know about detection-as-code and security data lakes. 

- Why teams need to focus on security — not operations. 

- Lessons learned from Jack working closely with fast-growing sophisticated security teams that make up Panther’s customer base. 

- What security operations will look like in the future. 

- Why security teams must learn and embrace automation to deal with the challenges of cloud-scale security. 

- What features are coming next from Panther Labs. 

Resources mention on the episode: 

Jack’s podcast: Detection at Scale 

Jack’s blog post: From StreamAlert to Panther 

Jack’s keynote releasing StreamAlert: USENIX Enigma 2017 — StreamAlert: A Serverless, Real-time Intrusion Detection Engine