
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 12, 2021 • 45min
Cloud Security Careers: From Executive Assistant to Head of Security
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Lisa Hall (@Lisa_H_), the Head of Security, PagerDuty(@PagerDuty).
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Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Lisa Hall (@Lisa_H_)
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Sep 8, 2021 • 2min
IBM Launches Servers for Hybrid Cloud, Microsoft and Verizon bring 5G Edge Cloud Computing - Cloud Security News
Cloud Security News this week - 8 September 2021
Verizon, a multinational telecommunications giant and Microsoft have teamed up to bring on-prem, private 5G edge cloud computing to business. Their offer is a cloud platform that puts compute and storage services at the edge of the network at the customer premises. This has the potential to offer lower lag time and high bandwidth for demanding applications such as virtual and augmented reality and machine learning.
In Australia, as part of Macquarie bank path to be 100% cloud for IT infrastructure by 2022, they are embedding a 'secure by design' ethos. Secure by design is an approach to software engineering that is about creating code that is foundationally secure. Read more about Macquarie Bank Cloud Strategy here + here
The FBI sent out a notice warning companies in the food and agriculture sector to watch out for ransomware attacks aiming to disrupt supply chains.. Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems. Acces the full document on our website www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv - FBI Document here
Lenovo has launched Global Everything-as-a-Service Strategy, bringing all of its as-a-Service offerings under one umbrella that makes everything from the pocket to the cloud available via a single contract framework. Read more about it here
IBM has launched new generation of IBM Power servers for frictionless, scalable hybrid cloud. The new IBM Power10 processors are designed specifically for hybrid cloud environments. In a statement IBM has stated that the servers come with security enhancements and Red Hat hybrid cloud capabilities. The servers are meant to respond faster to business demands, protect data from core to cloud, streamline insights and automation and maximize availability and reliability.

Sep 5, 2021 • 47min
Cloud Security Careers: Skills Required for an Associate Cloud Security Engineer
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Zinet Kemal (Linkedin - Zinet-Kemal) is an Associate Cloud Security Engineer at Best Buy (@BestBuy)
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Linkedin: Zinet Kemal (Linkedin - Zinet-Kemal)
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Sep 1, 2021 • 2min
Is your Microsoft Azure Cosmos Database Keys Secure? - Cloud Security News
Cloud Security News this week - 1 Sep, 2021
Last Thursday, on the 26th of August 2021 - Microsoft warned thousands of its cloud computing customers, including some of the world's largest companies. that hackers could have the ability to read, change or even delete their main databases. This is due to a vulnerability in the Jupyter Notebook Feature in Microsoft Azure's flagship Cosmos database. Microsoft cannot change those keys by itself, it emailed the customers Thursday telling them to create new ones.
AWS has announced the release of AWS Backup Audit Manager a new feature that allows you to audit and report on the compliance of your data protection policies. AWS claims that it provides built-in compliance controls and allows you to customize those controls to define your data protection policies.
Google Cloud has recently released on demand vulnerability scanning. Google claims that this will allow checking for vulnerabilities earlier in development. This new feature checks for vulnerabilities both in locally stored container images and images stored within GCP registries.
A $2000 bug bounty has been claimed by researcher Robert Heaton, who was able to find a vulnerability in Bumble, a dating app which has more than 100 million users worldwide.
By learning how Bumble's application programming interface (API) works the researchers found a way to pinpoint users' exact location, bypassing the safeguards in the app designed to prevent this.
Lacework, a data driven security platform has released their quarterly cloud threat report. The report stated that Last year alone, cybercrime and ransomware attacks cost companies $4 billion in damages. They identified a rising demand for access to cloud accounts along with continued increases in scanning and probing of storage buckets, databases, orchestration systems, and interactive logins.
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Aug 29, 2021 • 5min
Cloud Hacking eSports | Ultimate Hacking Championship
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Igor Rincon (@igor.rincon) creator of Ultimate Hacking Championship (@HackingEsports) & one of the host of UHC - Magno Logan (@magnologan).
Link to Magno's Kubernetes Security Challenge walkthrough
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Twitter: Igor Rincon (@igor.rincon), Magno Logan (@magnologan)
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Aug 26, 2021 • 52min
Network Security in a Cloud Native World
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Karthik Prabhakar (@worldhopper) is an Advisor to AccuKnox (@AccuKnox).
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Linkedin: Karthik Prabhakar (@worldhopper)
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Aug 25, 2021 • 2min
AWS Re:inforce goes Virtual - Cloud Security News
Cloud Security News this week - 25 Aug, 2021
AWS is launching a new partner competency for managed security service providers (MSSPs) which will make their cloud software solutions and services available in the AWS Marketplace. AWS are coining this an industry first + designed to help partners differentiate themselves in a crowded security market
Default Permissions on Microsoft Power Apps, a cloud-hosted suite of services that allows organizations to create business intelligence applications has exposed 38 million records. This was discovered by an upguard analyst that Open data protocol API is enabled by default
AWS Cancelled re:Inforce Security Conference In Houston Due To COVID-19 and held, A scaled-down, free version of the event was held virtually on Aug. 24
Microsoft has protested a $10B NSA Cloud Contract Awarded To AWS.
A google cloud news a bit closer to home, Google's newest cloud region, in Melbourne, Australia, which launched just a month ago on 25 July. went down for 1 hour and 30 minutes due to 'transient voltage' issues that rebooted network hardware.
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Aug 22, 2021 • 52min
THINKING OF MOVING A MONOLITH TO CLOUD NATIVE?
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with John Kinsella (@johnlkinsella) is a Cloud Native Contributor, co-host of Security Weekly and CTO of CySense.
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Linkedin: John Kinsella (@johnlkinsella)
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Aug 15, 2021 • 40min
DO WE NEED LOGGING? - Building Observability Platform for Scale - Atlassian
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Colby Funnel (Linkedin - @Colby) is a Development Manager at Atlassian(@Atlassian).
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Linkedin: Colby Funnel (Linkedin - @Colby)
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Aug 8, 2021 • 49min
What is a SECURITY DATA LAKE?
In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Omer Singer (Linkedin-Omer Singer) is the Head of Cyber Security Strategy at Snowflake - The Data Cloud (@SnowflakeDB).
Episode ShowNotes, Links and Transcript on Cloud Security Podcast: www.cloudsecuritypodcast.tv
Host Twitter: Ashish Rajan (@hashishrajan)
Guest Linkedin: Omer Singer (Linkedin-Omer Singer)
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