OCA Community Connect

Welcome back to OCA Community Connect, your source for all things related to the Open Cybersecurity Alliance. In today's episode, we have the pleasure of speaking with Vasilios Mavroeidis, a cybersecurity professor at the University of Oslo and a member of the OCA governing board. So, join us as Vasilios Mavroeidis shares his expertise and insights into the world of cybersecurity standards, offering a compelling look into the i...

Welcome back to another insightful episode of OCA Community Connect. Today, our host Roseann Guttierrez engages in a compelling conversation with Mark Mastrangeli, the cloud engagement director at Palo Alto Networks and co-chair of the OCA Project Governing Board (PGB). Mark shares his remarkable journey into the tech industry and the pivotal role he plays in advocating for collaboration and interoperability in the cybersecurity do...

Welcome to another fascinating episode of OCA Community Connect! In this installment, our host, Roseann Guttierrez, engages in an insightful conversation with Kenneth Peeples, a principal cybersecurity architect at Red Hat, to unravel the ins and outs of the cutting-edge Kestrel as a Service (KaaS) project. As Kenneth shares the nitty-gritty details of KaaS, he paints a vivid picture of a platform designed for crowd hunting and thr...

In this episode of OCA Community Connect, we delve into the world of Open XDR Architecture (OXA) with our guest, David Bizeul, the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Sequoia IO. David provides an in-depth look at OXA, its significance, and the impact it has on the cybersecurity community. He emphasizes the importance of preserving expert resources, placing technology ownership on vendors, and raising the bar against attacks...

In this episode of OCA Community Connect, we have the pleasure of welcoming Duncan Sparrell, chief cyber curmudgeon of sFractal Consulting LLC, and OASIS Board member. Duncan gives us a glimpse into the Cybersecurity Automation Sub-Project (CASP) and also shares information on the recent cybersecurity automation village event, providing highlights and detailing the scenarios that were addressed and discussed. He emphasizes the impo...

In this episode of OCA Community Connect, our host Roseann Guttierrez sits down with Xiaokui Shu, a senior research scientist from IBM and chair of the OCA technical steering committee, to delve into the world of cybersecurity and the Kestrel subproject. Xiaokui provides an insightful overview of Kestrel as a threat hunting language aimed at streamlining the process of identifying and addressing potential security threats. He share...

Jason Keirstead, a Distinguished Engineer with IBM and the CTO of Threat Management, discusses the importance of the Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA) in addressing the problem of interoperability in cybersecurity. He explains that the lack of common ways to integrate cybersecurity products has led to inefficiencies and high costs for vendors and consumers. The OCA aims to improve interoperability, reduce friction, and lower integr...

In this episode of OCA Community Connect, our guest Danny Elliott, a senior product owner for UDI and CAR integrations at IBM Security, gives us an inside look into the STIX Shifter project. He explains how this Python library facilitates data retrieval from various security products and data repositories using STIX Patterning. Once the data is found it transforms the results into STIX Observables. Danny also highlights the project...

In this podcast episode, Charles Frick, a Chief Scientist at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, discusses the Indicators of Behavior (IOB) subproject under the Open Cybersecurity Alliance. He explains the need for open standards to represent cyber adversary behaviors, aiming to share detections with longer shelf lives than current Indicators of Compromise (IOCs). Charles also emphasizes the importance of automatio...