EP177 Cloud Incident Confessions: Top 5 Mistakes Leading to Breaches from Mandiant

06/17/24 • 30 min

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Most organizations you see use both cloud and on-premise environments. What are the most common challenges organizations face in securing their hybrid cloud environments?
You do IR so in your experience, what are top 5 mistakes organizations make that lead to cloud incidents?
How and why do organizations get the attack surface wrong? Are there pillars of attack surface?
We talk a lot about how IAM matters in the cloud. Is that true that AD is what gets you in many cases even for other clouds?
What is your best cloud incident preparedness advice for organizations that are new to cloud and still use on-prem as well?

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Guests:

Topics:

Most organizations you see use both cloud and on-premise environments. What are the most common challenges organizations face in securing their hybrid cloud environments?
You do IR so in your experience, what are top 5 mistakes organizations make that lead to cloud incidents?
How and why do organizations get the attack surface wrong? Are there pillars of attack surface?
We talk a lot about how IAM matters in the cloud. Is that true that AD is what gets you in many cases even for other clouds?
What is your best cloud incident preparedness advice for organizations that are new to cloud and still use on-prem as well?

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Seth Vargo, Principal Software Engineer responsible for Google's use of the public cloud, Google

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Google uses the public cloud, no way, right? Which one? Oh, yeah, I guess this is obvious: GCP, right?
Where are we like other clients of GCP? Where are we not like other cloud users?
Do we have any unique cloud security technology that we use that others may benefit from?
How does our cloud usage inform our cloud security products?
So is our cloud use profile similar to cloud natives or traditional companies?
What are some of the most interesting cloud security practices and controls that we use that are usable by others?
How do we make them work at scale?

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Threat intelligence is one of those terms that means different things to everyone–can you tell us what this term has meant in the different contexts of your career? What do you tell people who assume that “TI = lists of bad IPs”?
We heard while prepping for this show that you were involved in breaking up a human trafficking ring: tell us about that!
In Anton’s experience, a lot of cyber TI is stuck in “1. Get more TI 2. ??? 3. Profit!” How do you move past that?
One aspect of threat intelligence that’s always struck me as goofy is the idea that we can “monitor the dark web” and provide something useful. Can you change my mind on this one?
You told us your story of getting into sales, you recently did a successful rotation into the role of Product Manager,, can you tell us about what motivated you to do this and what the experience was like?
Are there other parts of your background that inform the work you’re doing and how you see yourself at Google?
How does that impact our go to market for threat intelligence, and what’re we up to when it comes to keeping the Internet and broader world safe?

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