The Defender's Advantage Podcast

Paul Nguyen, VP, Orchestration & Integration for FireEye discusses howorchestration levels the battlefield by leveraging FireEye's yearsof expertise battling the world's most consequential breaches.

I was fortunate to sit down with Michael Sikorski, Director, FireEyeLabs Advanced Reverse Engineering (FLARE) Team. During ourconversation we discussed the origin of the FLARE team, Michael’s book“Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to DissectingMalicious Software”, and the latest freeware tools FLOSS andFakeNet-NG.

Over the years we have seen our message of detect, respond, andcontain resonate through-out the cyber security industry. I wanted toexplore this mantra further by speaking with our Vice President,Mandiant Global Consulting â US Central & Latin America andExecutive Director, Strategic Services, Russell Teague.On this podcast we discuss how strategic services help by makingcompanies proactive in their security efforts, what the right level ofsecurity is for each organization, and the role board of directorsplay.

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia took the helm of the company in mid-June witha tall order: to understand the current challenges and arrange all ofthe components to make FireEye the best security company in theindustry.In this Eye on Security podcast, FireEye Chief Technology OfficerGrady Summers talks with Kevin about why he’s so well positioned tolead the company, including why he started Mandiant, why he scrappedhis business plan after just 30 minutes, and how his experiences withMandiant will help him move FireEye forward.

Earlier this year FireEye’s Mandiant business unit launched Red TeamOperations, which consists of two unique services designed to assessthe strength an organizations’ security program: Red Team Assessmentsand Red Teaming for Security Operations.During Black Hat USA 2016 I met up with Marshall Heilman, VicePresident, Mandiant Consulting – West and Executive Director, IR andRed Team Operations to discuss how his team determines their approachfor each engagement and what differentiates Mandiant’s Red Team fromothers.

Chris Tannery is a senior manager on the FireEye as a Service (FaaS)team. In his role he helps customers with the onboarding process.

Nicole Oppenheim is the manager of Advanced Practices for FireEye as aService (FaaS). She is responsible for reviewing our analyticalstrategy within FaaS and determining the best way forward to findadvanced attackers.

Pete Smith is a network practice lead for FaaS (FireEye as a Service).In his role as network practice lead, Pete is responsible fordesigning network services that our analysts use to defend ourcustomers from advanced attackers.

FireEye CTO of Emerging Technologies, Josh Goldfarb sat down with Sr.Director, Yogi Chandiramani and international threat intel liaison,Jens Monrad to discuss findings from the latest EMEA Regional AdvancedThreat Report.

FireEye CTO Grady Summers recently sat down with SangYun Jeong,Information Security Manager for GS Caltex to discuss his take on whatit's like to manage information security for a large oil refinercompany in Korea.Listen to the podcast and hear what the top cybersecurity risks arethat face an organization controlling and managing SCADA systems, whatprompted manufactures to become interested in protecting theirorganizations against targeted attackers, and SangYun's thoughts onwhat security vendors can do to improve.