Cloud Security Podcast by Google

Guest: Sandra Guo, Product Manager in Security, Google Cloud Topics: We have a really interesting problem here: if we make great investments in our use of trusted repositories, and great investments in doing code review on every change, and securing our build systems, and having reproducible builds, how do we know that all of what we did upstream is actually what gets deployed to production? What are the realistic threats that Binary Authorization handles? Are there specific organizations that are more at risk from those? What’s the Google inspiration for this work, both development and adoption?  How do we make this work in practice at a real organization that is not Google?  Where do you see organizations “getting it wrong” and where do you see organizations “getting it right”? We’ve had a lot of conversations about rolling out zero-trust for enterprise applications, how do those lessons (start small, be visible, plan plan plan) translate into deploying Binauthz into blocking mode?  Resources: “Binary Authorization for Borg: how Google verifies code provenance and implements code identity“ paper Binary Authorization for deploying trusted images DevOps & SRE at Google

Guests: Charles Carmakal, CTO at Mandiant  Taylor Lehmann, Director at Office of the CISO, Google Cloud Topics: What are the current “popular” incidents at healthcare providers that you handled? Any of them involve cloud?  Do healthcare CISOs have time for anything other than ransomware? Does insider threat matter? What can incident response teach us here? How do you think the threat actors benefit from the health data they steal?  Based on your IR experience, what are the more interesting ways in, other than phishing? Give us your IR-informed take on ransomware pay/not pay focused on healthcare, ideally?  Resources: “The key role ‘visibility’ plays in healthcare’s cybersecurity resilience” “How healthcare can strengthen its own cybersecurity resilience” “M-Trends 2022: Cyber Security Metrics, Insights and Guidance From the Frontlines” “Future of EDR: Is It Reason-able to Suggest XDR?” (ep29) “MFA fatigue attacks: Users tricked into allowing device access due to overload of push notifications”“VS21: A Playbook for Resiliency: Contain and Remediate Ransomware Before It Can Act” “FDA Announces Fix for Pacemaker Security Flaws”

Guest: Dave Herrald @ Principal Security Strategist, Google Cloud Topics: What are some tenets of good SOC training? How does this depend on the SOC model (traditional L1/L2/L3, virtual, etc)? How do you make SOC training realistic? Should training be about the toolset or should it be about the analyst’s skills? Should you primarily train for engineering skills or analysis skills? Do you need to code to succeed in a modern SOC? Are competitive events like CTFs effective for SOC training? What role does SOC training play in bringing new, perhaps under-represented people into security operations and promoting inclusivity? Resources: Chris Sanders SOC classes SANS Holiday Hack Challenges SEC450: Blue Team Fundamentals: Security Operations and Analysis SANS NetWars “Autonomic Security Operations: 10X Transformation of the Security Operations Center” paper Boss of the SOC (BOTS) Dataset 

Guests: Robert Herjavec, Founder and CEO of Herjavec Group Eric Foster, President of CYDERES  Iman Ghanizada, Global Head of Autonomic Security Operations at Google Cloud. Topics: It’s been a few months since we launched Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) and it seems like the whitepaper has been going viral in the industry. Tell us what ASO is about? How was the ASO story received by your customers? Any particular reactions? Will the ASO narrative inspire the next generation of practitioners? Where do you envision the market headed? ASO is about transforming the SOC, and that often involves culture change. How do you change the culture and deeper approaches common in security operations? What else can we do to evolve SOC faster than the threats and assets grow? Resources: This episode is based on a panel from  This Google Cloud Security Talks Q1 2022 Panel “All Organizations Should Pursue Autonomic Security Operations… A Fireside Chat with SOC Elites.” “All Organizations Should Pursue Autonomic Security Operations… A Fireside Chat with SOC Elites” on YouTube “Autonomic Security Operations: 10X Transformation of the Security Operations Center“ paper “Modernizing the U.S. Federal Government’s Approach to Cyber Threat Management with Autonomic Security Operations“  paper

Guest: Etienne De Burgh, Senior Security and Compliance Specialist, Office of the CISO @ Google Cloud Topics: Why is API security hot now? What happened that made it a priority for many?  Is API security different from application security? Doesn't the first "A" in API  stand for application?  What are the real threats to exposed APIs? APIs are designed for automated use, so how do you tell automated use from automated abuse / attack? What are the biggest challenges that companies are having with API security? What are the components of API security? Is there a “secure by default API”? API threat detection? Just like cloud in general, API misconfigurations seem to be leading to security problems, are APIs hard to configure securely for most organizations? Resources: Google Cloud Security Summit  - come see us on May 17, 2022 “Securing web applications and APIs anywhere” (at our Security Summit) OWASP Top 10 for API Security “Best practices for securing your applications and APIs using Apigee”

No guests - just Anton and Tim Topics: Why cloud security? What do we really think about our podcast name and topic, cloud security? Can you once again explain security for the cloud, in the cloud, from the cloud? What is one thing that we learned from doing a podcast? Favorite cloud security trend that we encountered on the podcast?  What did we learn about security from organization's migrating to the cloud? What are our favorite reading materials related to cloud security? What are our favorite tips from the guests on securing the cloud? Resources: “The Age of AI And Our Human Future” book “Practical Guide to Cloud Migration – Google - Site Reliability Engineering” (book, free) and other SRE books “Cloud Security podcast by Google turns 46 - Reflections and lessons!” “Cloud Security Podcast by Google — Popular Episodes by Topic” Our video trailer

Guest:  Dylan Ayrey, cofounder of Truffle Security Topics: Could you explain briefly why identity is so important in the cloud? A skeptic on cloud security once told us that “in the cloud, we are one identity mistake from a breach.” Is this true? For listeners who aren’t familiar with GCP, could you give us the 30 second story on “what is a service account.” How is it different from a regular IAM account? What are service account impersonations? How can I see if my service accounts can be impersonated? How do I detect it? How can I better secure my organization from impersonation attacks? Resources: Truffle Security blog “GCP Lateral Movement And Privileged Escalation Spill Over And Updates From Google” by Dylan Ayrey “Tutorial on privilege escalation and post exploitation tactics in Google Cloud Platform environments”  blog  “Kat Traxler - Taste the IAM” blogs

Guest:  Sharon Goldberg, CEO and cofounder of BastionZero and a professor at Boston University Topics: What is your favorite definition of zero trust? You had posted a blog analyzing the whitehouse ZT a memo on the federal government’s transition to “zero trust”,  what caught your eye about the Zero Trust memo and why did you decide to write about it? What’s behind the federal government’s recommendations to deprecate VPNs and recommend users “authenticate to applications, not networks”? What do these recommendations mean for cloud security, today and in the future? What do you think would be the hardest things to implement in real US Federal IT environments? Are there other recommendations in the memo to think about as organizations design zero trust strategies for their infrastructure?  What are some of the challenges of implementing zero trust in general? Resources: "Zero Trust: Fast Forward from 2010 to 2021" (ep8) “Moving the U.S. Government Toward Zero Trust Cybersecurity Principles” “I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to”  “F12 isn’t hacking: Missouri governor threatens to prosecute local journalist for finding exposed state data”

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Guests:  Alexi Wiemer,  Senior Manager at Deloitte Cyber Detection and Response Practice Dan Lauritzen,  Senior Manager at Deloitte Cloud Security Practice. Topics: What is your key learning about the state of SOC today? What one SOC trend are you hearing the most or most interested in?  What is your best advice to SOCs that are permanently and woefully understaffed?  Many SOC analysts are drowning in manual work, and it is easy to give advice that “they   need to automate.” What does this actually entail, in real life? What is, in your view, the most critical technology for a modern SOC? Is it SIEM? Is it SOAR? Is it EDR?  What is the best advice for a SOC that was handed cloud on a platter and was told to monitor it for threats? Occasionally, we hear that “SOC is dead.” What is your response to such dire SOCless predictions?  Resources: “New Paper: “Future Of The SOC: Process Consistency and Creativity: a Delicate Balance” (Paper 3 of 4)” “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: Forces shaping modern security operations”” “New Paper: “Future of the SOC: SOC People — Skills, Not Tiers”” “New Paper: “Autonomic Security Operations — 10X Transformation of the Security Operations Center”” “A SOC Tried To Detect Threats in the Cloud … You Won’t Believe What Happened Next” “Why Your Security Data Lake Project Will FAIL!”