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Apr 24, 2018 • 17min

The Future is Bright for FireEye Email Security

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers discussed email security with Ken Bagnall,VP of the FireEye Email Security side of the business. Ken came toFireEye following its 2017 acquisition of The Email Laundry, where hewas a founder and CEO.<br><br>During their chat, Ken and Grady discussed a wide variety of topics,including Ken's history in the industry and how he got into emailsecurity, how the merging of The Email Laundry with FireEye was theperfect fit, up-and-coming email threats such as malware-less attacksand imposter-based attacks, and what FireEye is doing to stay ahead ofthese threats and ensure customers remain protected.<br><br>Check out the podcast, and learn more about how FireEye Email Securitycan help defend against today's most widely used - and lesser known -email attacks.
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Jan 8, 2018 • 31min

Cyber Threats and the Manufacturing Industry

Chris Porter, chief intelligence strategist at FireEye had theopportunity to speak with Parnian Najafi Borazjani, senior cybersecurity analyst at FireEye, and Michael Rastigue, vice president,cyber risk practice growth leader for the central zone at Marsh, oncyber threats to the manufacturing industry.Listen to the podcast to learn about today's threats, including whothe bad actors are, what assets are they going after, and what aresome possible motivators for bad actors to target the industry.Additionally, Parnian and Michael discussed common exploit routes, andimprovement in risk mitigation and transfer options.
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Dec 4, 2017 • 15min

Looking Ahead at 2018 w/ FireEye CTO for Cloud Martin Holste

Chris Porter, chief intelligence strategist at FireEye had theopportunity to speak with Parnian Najafi Borazjani, senior cybersecurity analyst at FireEye, and Michael Rastigue, vice president,cyber risk practice growth leader for the central zone at Marsh, oncyber threats to the manufacturing industry.Listen to the podcast to learn about today's threats, including whothe bad actors are, what assets are they going after, and what aresome possible motivators for bad actors to target the industry.Additionally, Parnian and Michael discussed common exploit routes, andimprovement in risk mitigation and transfer options.
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Nov 29, 2017 • 16min

Looking Ahead at 2018 with FireEye CSO Steve Booth

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers spoke about cyber security in 2018 withFireEye CSO, Steve Booth. They touched on various topics, includingthe threat landscape, threat actor techniques, nation-state activity,and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).Check-out the podcast to hear more about what the new year has instore, and also learn a little bit about what organizations should bedoing to stay ahead of these threats – everything from basic upkeep tomanaging priorities.
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Nov 1, 2017 • 7min

Focusing on the Analyst with Helix

Grady Summers, CTO, FireEye recently sat down to speak about FireEyeHelix with Paul Nguyen, Vice President and General Manager for Helixat FireEye. During their conversation, Paul reiterated a key focus ofHelix, which is to the help analysts be more effective at their jobs.Check out the podcast to hear all about the latest release (Helix1.2), how FireEye is able to pivot data from the consul throughorchestration, and more.
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Oct 10, 2017 • 33min

Cyber Threats and The Utilities Sector

Chris Porter, chief intelligence strategist at FireEye recently satdown with Jeffrey Ashcraft, senior analyst at FireEye, and MatthewMcCabe, senior vice president and advisory specialist at Marsh, todiscuss cyber threats to the utilities sector and how much of what yousee hackers do in the movies really happens when utilities arebreached in the real world?Listen to our podcast to find out what the difference between anespionage attempt and preparation for an attack is, the importance ofterms and conditions in cyber insurance, and how to best distinguishbetween an attack and an intrusion to your organization.
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Jul 17, 2017 • 13min

FireEye Govt Email Threat Prevention Receives FedRAMP

Given recent high-profile incidents, cyber security has quickly risento the top of the priority list for many organizations, includinggovernments. As with many organizations these days, governmentinformation technology and security is migrating to the cloud. Asgovernment and public education entities migrate to Office 365, GoogleMail or other solutions for their primary email management service,theyâre also looking for email security that delivers advancedthreat protection, and this requires a service that is FedRAMPauthorized. FireEye CTO Grady Summers spoke with FireEye Global GovtCTO, Tony Cole and Risk Management Lead, Stacey Ziegler on how FireEyewill support the government as it moves to the cloud.
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Jun 15, 2017 • 26min

One Year In Review with Kevin Mandia

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers interviewed Kevin Mandia in the summer of2016 to discuss his goals as FireEye's newest CEO. One year later hehas caught-up with Kevin to discuss his âOne Teamâ philosophy, thesuccessful launch of Helix, and his love of overcoming challenges.
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Apr 5, 2017 • 11min

Threat Intelligence in the Current Threat Landscape

FireEye CTO, Grady Summers caught-up with John Miller, manager ofthreat intelligence to discuss his thoughts on the current threatlandscape.John touched on preventative steps organizations can put in place,popular attack methods and trends he’s observed from the front linesof our cyber investigations.
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Mar 14, 2017 • 12min

The State of Security in the Healthcare Sector

Matt Snyder, chief information security officer for the Penn StateMilton S. Hershey Medical Center joins Grady Summers, FireEye chieftechnology officer, for a thought-provoking discussion spanning abroad range of security-related topics. Organizations in thehealthcare sector are experiencing exponentially increasing levels oftargeted attacks from organized crime and nation states: Matt shareshis approach to creating a holistic strategy to protect his complexenvironment.

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