
Cloud Security Podcast
Learn Cloud Security in Public Cloud the unbiased way from CyberSecurity Experts solving challenges at Cloud Scale. We can be honest because we are not owned by Cloud Service Provider like AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
We aim to make the community learn Cloud Security through community stories from small - Large organisations solving multi-cloud challenges to diving into specific topics of Cloud Security.
We LIVE STREAM interviews on Cloud Security Topics every weekend on Linkedin, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter with over 150 people watching and asking questions and interacting with the Guest.
Latest episodes

Sep 16, 2022 • 47min
SecDataOps Explained - Modern Security Stack
Data Lakes as an asset to collect and build threat actors or hiring for Data Scientists/Analyst are not typical things in Cloud Security well unless the organisation is dealing with PetaBytes of data. At a large scale company these are data problem not a security problem at that point even if the problem is in security team. In this episode with Jonathan Rau, CISO of Lightspin we spoke about his previous experience of creating and growing a SecDataOps team with Cloud Security and Ops in IHSMarkit. We spoke about what is this SecDataOps, What is Security Data Lake and if Cloud Native tools are enough for these problems.
This episode is better on video - YouTube Link
Cloud Security Meetup Amsterdam - Tech Fashion Theme - Sep,2022
Cloud Security Meetup NewYork - Tech Fashion Theme - Sep,2022
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Linkedin: Jonathan Rau
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy

Sep 12, 2022 • 56min
THIS IS MY Cloud SECURITY ARCHITECTURE - Azure Security Best Practices - Part 1
Azure Cloud Security Architecture, Azure Policies can be complex to build. In the part 1 of our This is My Cloud Security Architecture Series Episode we have Sai, a Cloud Security Architect walking us through how to start with an Azure Security Architecture on Day 0 of your Cloud Security Architect role. Part -2 of the episode will go into Day 1+ of managing and scaling what we have created in Day 0.
This episode is better on video - YouTube Link
Cloud Security Meetup NYC - Cloud Security Meetup NewYork - Tech Fashion Theme
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Sai Gunaranjan (Sai's Linkedin)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy

Sep 8, 2022 • 37min
Cloud Security Monitoring in a Modern Security Stack
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Jack Naglieri (Jack's Twitter) about what Security Monitoring can look like for a Cloud Native Company
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Jack Naglieri (Jack's Twitter)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy
Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions
(00:00) Ashish's Intro to the Episode
(02:40) https://snyk.io/csp
(02:51) Corey's professional background
(03:34) Jack's introduction
(06:15 )What is Cloud Native?
(07:41) What is a modern security stack?
(09:50) Why Cloud Native Security Monitoring?
(12:36) The current market for security monitoring
(15:45) Cloud Native monitoring for on-prem
(18:10) How to start with Cloud Native Security Monitoring?
(21:01) Security monitoring in cloud vs traditional
(22:51) Challenges with Cloud Native Security Monitoring
(25:25) How can SMBs tackle Cloud Native Security Monitoring?
(26:52) Are cloud native tools more cost effective than traditional ones?
(28:30) Heterogeneous log correlation
(30:09) What is a security data lake?
(35:25) Does the modern security team need data skills?

Sep 5, 2022 • 40min
API SECURITY BEST PRACTICES 2022
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Corey Ball (Corey's Twitter) about what does API in a modern software stack looks like and how these can be attacked and protected
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Corey Ball (Corey's Twitter)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy
Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions
(00:00) Ashish's Intro to the Episode
(02:40) https://snyk.io/csp
(02:51) Corey's professional background
(03:11) Corey's journey to be cybersecurity author
(04:36) What is API and why its important in 2022?
(06:44) Is API is the backend or frontend pf applications?
(08:36) What are people doing wrong with APIs?
(12:16) Best Practice for API Security?
(13:20) Most surprising things being seen in API Security?
(14:35) How do you find API keys?
(16:07) API gateway as a security control point
(18:25) OWASP Top 10 API Security
(20:00) Monitoring and detecting for API Security
(20:57) How to approach pentesting APIs?
(22:35) Learn about API hacking
(25:22) API Security in the Cloud
(29:05) Rest API vs GraphQL
(34:27) Pentest by consuming application documentation
(36:10) Which APIs should be public?

7 snips
Aug 28, 2022 • 1h 3min
BlackHat Defcon 2022 - The Cloud Security Edition
Special Episode by Shilpi and Ashish sharing their recap, highlights, big takeaways, Cloud Talks and Training from Hacker Summer Camp - Blackhat Defcon Diana Initiative BSides Vegas 2022.
Blog with links:
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy
Spotify TimeStamp
(00:00) Intro
(00:43) What is Hacker Summer Camp
(01:24) Who should attend Hacker Summer Camp
(02:00) Black Hat 2022 KeyNote Recap
(07:48) Cloud Themes at Black Hat 2022
(14:41) Buzzword Bingo at Black Hat 2022
(20:11) Black Hat 2022 Recap - CISO Perspective
(22:23) SBOM in Cloud at Black Hat 2022?
(23:31) Black Hat 2022 Recap - Cloud Perspective
(30:27) Zero Trust in Cloud at Black Hat 2022?
(33:15) Defcon 30 2022 Recap
(43:17) Defcon 30 Cloud Village Talks Recap
(45:49) Ashish reacts to 10yrs of people failing default best practice
(48:57) Defcon 30 Cloud Village Talks Recap Contd
(52:32) Cloud Talks from other Defcon 30 Villages - Red Team, Recon Village, AppSec Village
(55:11) BSides Vegas 2022 Recap
(58:26) Diana Initiative 2022
(58:58) Are things getting worse before they get better (comment below)
(1:00:24) Ashish Conclusion

Aug 21, 2022 • 60min
HOW TO Threat Model Digital Applications in Cloud
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Jeevan Singh (Jeevan's Linkedin) about Threat Modelling STRIDE Threat Modelling can be used for self service Application running in Cloud and allowing Security Teams to go on holiday without worrying about Digital Supply Chain.
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Jeevan Singh (Jeevan's Linkedin)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy
Spotify TimeStamp for Interview Questions
(00:00) Ashish's Intro to the Episode
(02:15) https://snyk.io/csp
(02:40) Jeevan's Professional Background
(04:23) What is threat modelling
(05:35) Flicking the Threat Modelling switch
(06:47) Common AppSec Mistake
(09:58) What is Threat Modelling Important?
(11:46) Tainted Flow Analysis and Threat Modelling
(13:00) Where does this fit in CI/CD?
(14:25) Security Teams going on vacation made possible
(15:34) Impact of teaching developers how to run Threat Model
(16:33) First time running Observe Phase of Threat Modelling with Developers
(17:13) Developers are better at Threat Model than Security
(19:09) Level of programming expertise for Threat Modelling
(21:32) Fixing Threats vs Finding relevant controls for the threat
(22:00) Bad example of role of Threat Modelling in Business
(23:41) Should Threat Model be done in Dev?
(24:54) Example of Threat Model for an App hosted in Cloud?
(27:27) Threat Model Skeleton for Cloud Native Apps
(30:12) Does complexity increase with multi-cloud/hybrid environments?
(32:27) What’s involved in rolling a Threat model program in an organisation?
(36:26) Who is the minimum representation in Threat modelling session?
(38:30) Advice for folks who are starting threat modelling today in their organization
(41:59) Cultural Change required for Threat Modelling
(43:19) Example of getting Management agreement
(44:58) Jeevan's 4 Stage of Threat model talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtvjJL8xcPY
(45:28) Time-boxing Threat Model Sessions
(48:21) Maintaining Quality of Risk identified during threat modeling
(50:21) Keeping developers updated on latest security vulnerabilities
(54:07) Jeevan’s Favourite Threat Model Type
(55:09) Where can people learn threat modelling?
(56:12) Fun Section

Aug 7, 2022 • 56min
HOW TO SECURE CONTAINER ENVIRONMENT FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Karthik Ramamoorthy (Karthik's Linkedin) about Container security with NIST Framework for financial services organizations.
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Karthik Ramamoorthy (Karthik's Linkedin)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy

Aug 2, 2022 • 53min
AWS ReInforce 2022 Recap & Highlights
Special Episode by Shilpi and Ashish sharing their recap, highlights, big takeaways, meh moments and in person experience from AWS ReInforce 2022.
Twitter Space with Cloud Security Community about the AWS Re:Inforce 2022 Recap & Highlights
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy

Jul 30, 2022 • 49min
Fundamentals of AWS Cloud Security Assessment
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Cassandra Young (@muteki_rtw)
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Cassandra Young (@muteki_rtw)
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy

Jul 28, 2022 • 19min
So Now You Know!
Special Episode by Shilpi and Ashish announcing the 1 year partnership with Snyk and what does this mean for the podcast community - you and also for Ashish and Shilpi. The new Architecture series we are announcing in the coming weeks and a lot more. We hope you continue to enjoy the vendor neutral content from Cloud Security Practitioners we bring to you.
Here is an Interview with Guy Podjarny (Founder of Snyk) that we did as part of the announcement!
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest : Snyk
Podcast Twitter - @CloudSecPod @CloudSecureNews
If you want to watch videos of this LIVE STREAMED episode and past episodes - Check out our other Cloud Security Social Channels:
- Cloud Security News
- Cloud Security Academy