The Defender's Advantage Podcast

Hear from John Watters - the founder and former CEO of iSIGHT Partners(now the Cyber Threat Intelligence arm of FireEye) on his views of thecurrent state of cyber security, and what you can expect to hear fromhim at the upcoming Cyber Defense Live Summit hosted by FireEye.

We sat down with Shannon Lietz, head of DevSecOps engineers at Intuit,about the company’s philosophy regarding cloud security. In thispodcast she discusses what kinds of resources Intuit has devoted tokeeping the cloud safe, advice for companies considering moving to thecloud, and how enterprises can use the cloud while staying ahead ofattackers.She also describes Red Team Mondays, Blue Team Intelligence, and howIntuit uses fire drills to keep vendors on their toes.

More and more companies are relying on the cloud for storage andcollaboration, but what does that mean from a security and cyberstandpoint? How safe is it? Who has access? And would you know ifsomeone else was accessing your data?Patrick Heim is head of trust and security at Dropbox. He answersthese questions and more – including how Dropbox protects itscustomer’s data – in our latest podcast. He also discusses thedifference between securing a cloud platform versus securing anenterprise.

In this podcast, Grady Summers, FireEye CTO, discusses the cyberissues that organizations face, the communication roadblocks betweenthose on the ground and at the board level, what steps to take to getpast these obstacles, and the next big trends in cyber security.

Learn more about the newest members of the FireEye family from PaulNguyen, founder and CEO of Invotas and John Watters, founder, chairmanand CEO of iSIGHT Partners. Hear why they started their companies, howtheir addition to FireEye adds to our already robust product andsubscription offering, and what this all means both immediately andlong-term for our customers.

Learn more about the latest trends in cyber and what you can do toprotect your enterprise from Jurgen Kutscher, vice president ofsecurity consulting services at Mandiant, a FireEye company.

How do you weed through the noise to find the signal? In this latestpodcast, Josh Goldfarb, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer atFireEye, discusses best practices when looking for the signal withinthe noise of alert volume.According to Goldfarb, there are many ways an organization couldimprove the efficiency of its security operations workflow, but oneway in particular makes a significant difference. A better quality ofalerts means more efficiency.. In other words, our work queue defineswhat our scarce human resources work on in a given day. Given that,doesn’t it make sense to supply that work queue with the highestquality, highest fidelity alerts possible to ensure that humanresources spend their precious cycles on the highest value work? Inother words: more signal, less noise. Learn how this approach impactsinformation security and cyberwar in this latest podcast.