The Security Podcast of Silicon Valley

Join a lively discussion with Elizabeth Nammour, the Co-Founder and CEO of Teleskope, a startup focused on data security that prioritizes protection by default with AI. Lizzy previously worked with Airbnb, where she developed a passion for safeguarding PII to meet GDPR and CCPA requirements as well as other data security regulations. She also shares personal and insightful stories that inspire entrepreneurs, reflecting on how our e...

Steve Orrin, the Federal CTO at Intel, provides valuable insights into various topics, including AI, Trusted Execution Environments, Cloud Computing, Team Building, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Entrepreneurship. Steve began his career as an entrepreneur, but after Intel acquired his company, he took his career to the next level and has been with Intel for over 18 years. As the Federal CTO at Intel, he leads Intel’s efforts in the ...

Kevin Kane is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambit, Inc. dba American Binary, a startup specializing in protecting businesses against current and next-generation cyber threats. With expertise in post-quantum cryptography and high-performance network infrastructure, catch a glimpse into the future of quantum computing and its devastating impact on RSA and EC public key cryptography, potentially halting secure communications across the In...

Sergey Stelmakh engages the intriguing question of how to marry innovation (risk taking) with security (risk mitigation), how to build effective teams, and how his life led him down the path into security in engineering-driven companies, such as Head of Security Engineering at Yugabyte, Platform Security Architect at MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce), Lead Security Architect at Symphony Communications, all from his roots as in math...

Dominik Schürmann, the Co-Founder and CEO of heylogin, shares an incredible journey from childhood, and research, toward more usable security. How are usable security values different from "formal" or "provable" security? Why does it matter? How does that change where you spend your time and energy? And how can we integrate with human nature and our organic tendencies to build more secure software? These questions, and many more, g...

David Carpe, Founder of Carpe Search Partners, shares deep insights on the professional value of networking (connecting with and offering service to the people around us) in the security community. We explore how to network effectively, offer a give, and how networking differs from charity, philanthropy, and everyday friends. Davides some profoundly personal views on the supposedly Great Silent Resignation, which may surprise you. ...

David Gurle is a serial entrepreneur whose career has been a catalyst to positive change in secure collaboration and communication, from everywhere to Thomson Reuters, Skype, Microsoft, Perzo, and Symphony Communications. Today, he's the Founder and Executive Chairman of Hive, a distributed cloud computing and storage platform that disrupts the expensive, error-prone, and insecure centralized compute and storage paradigms. He share...

Benoit Chevallier-Mames shares a glimpse into his amazing career as a cryptographer, engineer, and leader at Apple and now Zama, where he's built software that has made a quiet yet serious impact on data security for billions of users. We explore the hard lessons learned at Apple and the technical grit behind Zama's approach to Machine Learning specific Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) open-source SDK. Benoit gracefully closes wi...

Join a fantastic discussion with Will Butler on how he launched his career into red teaming by hacking airport security systems as a youngster and realizing his passion for security. We deep-dive into the different types of red teams, why penetration testing adds business value, and what goes into a successful attack. We explore the different kinds of creativity needed to find vulnerabilities, why diversity is essential, specifical...