EP95 Cloud Security Talks Panel: Cloud Threats and Incidents

Guests:

• Alijca Cade, Director, Financial Services, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud
• Ken Westin, Director, Security Strategy, Cybereason
• Robert Wallace, Senior Director, Mandiant, now Google Cloud

Topics:

• How are cloud environments attacked and compromised today? Is it still about the configuration mistakes?
• Do cryptominers represent a serious threat now that they are often mentioned as the most common threat in the cloud?
• Let's look at another popular threat - ransomware or, broadly, RansomOps. Based on your research, what can we say about its likely future, especially in the cloud?
• Are we getting better with detection in the cloud and are we doing it fast enough?
• Is cloud security a misnomer? Attackers are out to get into an organization, and cloud or on-premise matters less here, right? What does it say about the interdependence of security, on and off cloud?

Resources:

• LIVE @ Security Talks: The Cloud Security Podcast at Cloud Security Talks Q3 2022
• Google Cybersecurity Action Team Threat Horizons Report #4 Is Out!