Guest:
- Alex Pinto, Associate Director of Threat Intelligence, Verizon Business, Lead the Verizon Data Breach Report
Topics:
- How would you define “a cloud breach”? Is that a real (and different) thing?
- Are cloud breaches just a result of leaked keys and creds?
- If customers are responsible for 99% of cloud security problems, is cloud breach really about a customer being breached?
- Are misconfigurations really responsible for so many cloud security breaches? How are we still failing at configuration?
- What parts of DBIR are not total “groundhog day”?
- Something about vuln exploitation vs credential abuse in today’s breaches–what’s driving the shifts we’re seeing? DBIR
- Are we at peak ransomware? Will ransomware be here in 20 years? Will we be here in 20 years talking about it?
- How is AI changing the breach report, other than putting in hilarious footnotes about how the report is for humans to read and and is written by actual humans?
Resources:
- Video (LinkedIn, YouTube)
- Verizon DBIR 2025
- EP222 From Post-IR Lessons to Proactive Security: Deconstructing Mandiant M-Trends
- EP205 Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality
- EP112 Threat Horizons - How Google Does Threat Intelligence
- EP223 AI Addressable, Not AI Solvable: Reflections from RSA 2025
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