Sources and Sinks

Sources and Sinks

A technology focused podcast - Talks about the business, people, technology, products, culture of silicon valley - with a security twist.

Episodes

April 26, 2022 26 mins

Earlier this year, Okta, a major identity provider, reported that it was breached. What happened during the Okta compromise? Today on sources and sinks, Vickie Li chats with Tarun of Banyan security, to talk about what went down during the Okta breach, and how organizations can protect themselves from similar situations.

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Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft, interviews Shinesa Cambric about her research in identity and access management at Microsoft. Listen on to learn about the identity management challenges we face today, how we can balance security and privacy, and where she thinks the future of identity management is going.

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Jasmine Jackson is an experienced cybersecurity professional who got her start through self-teaching. So listen on for her advice on breaking the entry-level barrier in infosec and how she learned using CTFs and write-ups.


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Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft, interviews Vandana Verma, Chair of the OWASP Global Board of Directors about how she grew her career in infosec. How did she get from infosec newbie to the leader of OWASP and the keynote speaker at multiple conferences? And how did she overcome the fear of public speaking and networking in tech? Listen on to hear her story! 


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Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft, interviews Chloé Messdaghi about her work in ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) consulting in the cybersecurity industry. What are the biggest social challenges facing our industry? How can we take the steps to increase diversity and reduce the environmental impact of infosec? Listen on to find out! 


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Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft, sit down with Ben Sadeghipour, or NahamSec, about his experience being a content creator in the infosec space, what it’s like to livestream his hacking, and how to stay motivated and deal with imposter syndrome in the public spotlight. 

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September 20, 2021 34 mins

Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft, interviews Magno Logan about his experience as the founder of an OWASP Chapter and seasoned conference organizer, about how he started the OWASP chapter, and what goes on behind the scenes during Infosec events. 

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August 26, 2021 28 mins

Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft interviews car hacker and IoT security expert Aaron Guzman about his experience hacking Subaru cars, and how we can improve IoT security through regulation, policies, and education.

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"Vickie Li, developer evangelist at ShiftLeft talks to Cassie Clark, a security awareness training expert, about why security awareness training is needed, how to make security training appealing, and how to curb social engineering attacks."

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Vickie Li ,  developer evangelist with ShiftLeft in a conversation with Alok Shukla, VP (Products) at ShiftLeft, on what is benchmarking of code analysis tools and how did ShiftLeft achieved  Industry's best code analysis scores.

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Vickie Li ,  developer evangelist with ShiftLeft in a conversation with Gyan Chaudhary, CEO of Kontra and a partner with ShiftLeft on a new type of developer education.

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In this Episode of Sources and Sinks, Vickie Li hosts Alok Shukla (VP of Products) at ShiftLeft.  Alok talks about ShiftLeft's new code analysis platform called ShiftLeft CORE.

Alok also talks about "Attacker Reachability" - an innovation from ShiftLeft that drives software composition analysis component of ShiftLeft platform. 

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Who is getting into cybersecurity and how people are getting into cybersecurity has changed a lot in the past few decades. As more and more people start seeing cybersecurity as a career option, how do we educate a new generation of hackers and cybersecurity professionals to keep our Internet safe? 

IIn this episode of Sources and Sinks, Vickie Li talks to Fabian Faessler, also known professionally as  LiveOverFlow.  Fabian is a cybe...

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March 30, 2021 22 mins

The cybersecurity field has traditionally focused on defending against external threats. But over the past few years, we have really seen an increasing awareness of the threat posed by people inside the organization. We call these threats, “insider threats”. Insider threats are security threats caused by disgruntled employees who intend to harm the organization or negligent employees who put the security of the organization at risk...

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March 2, 2021 28 mins

Vickie Li  talks to Saif Bhatti about his Rhino Conservation efforts in African Savannah. Saif is a technologist who is using  technology as part of his firm Renoster Systems to become an industry leader in conservation security systems.

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A conversation with Rishi Bhargava - Co-founder of Demisto and now VP of Strategy at Palo Alto Networks 

Rishi talks about his learnings on implementing Inbound and content marketing at Demisto in a highly successful manner. He talks about the mechanics of his strategy, his learnings, things he did right, things he avoided and finally things he will not do in next startup.

Demisto was able to make a revenue of 1 M...

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A conversation with world's only Michelin 2 Star Indian Chef - Srijith Gopinathan.

Srijith is Executive Chef at Taj Campton in San Francisco and is co-owner of a new California Indian restaurant - Ettan in downtown Palo Alto in broader San Francisco Bay Area.

In an engaging chat, Srijith answer many questions including

  1. What does it mean by Cal Indian Cuisine?
  2. Comparing Indian cuisine vs French Cuisine
  3. Indian...
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Alok Shukla in a conversation with Adarsh Natarajan, CEO of Aindra Systems.

Aindra is a AI powered medical device startup based out of India. Adarsh's original background was of Software Engineer who after his management education decided to turn into this heavily specialized field of medicine. 

Aindra's first offering is an AI powered portable device to facilitate early diagnosis of Cervical Cancer
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August 12, 2020 45 mins

Jonathan Rothwell - Principal Economist at Gallup - in a conversation with Alok Shukla to discuss some major findings of his book - "A Republic of Equals: A Manifesto for a Just Society"

PS:- This is a long interview format.

We discuss the surprising composition of 1% and how non-competitive sectors like medical professionals, dentists, lawyers etc have been able to corner a large portion of 1% economic ...

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Vincent Weafer, SVP Security Engineering at Capital One in a conversation with Alok Shukla, VP Product Management at ShiftLeft and host of this podcast.

Vincent and Alok converse on a range of topics - security engineering and #shiftleft of security, security quality automation, machine learning success/failures, Vincent's predictions and his asks from new security startups.

Vincent in his current role at Cap...

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