
Episode 25 - Let's Talk About Zero Trust
11/11/20 • 45 min
In this episode I talk about the concept of 'Zero Trust' with Patrick Tyler. Patrick is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Okta.
Talking Points:
- What is Zero Trust and why should you care?
- What did organizations have to do right away when it comes to Zero Trust?
- Why Zero Trust is important for 'non-traditional' cloud industries like manufacturing to do it?
- While VPN is a powerful tool, it isn't the 'End All Be All' for security.
- What did organizations have to do right away?
This episode is sponsored by Okta. Okta is a Workforce and Customer identity company that is based out of California. Proceeds from this sponsorship will be going towards prizes for the holiday fundraiser event.
In this episode I talk about the concept of 'Zero Trust' with Patrick Tyler. Patrick is a Senior Solutions Engineer for Okta.
Talking Points:
- What is Zero Trust and why should you care?
- What did organizations have to do right away when it comes to Zero Trust?
- Why Zero Trust is important for 'non-traditional' cloud industries like manufacturing to do it?
- While VPN is a powerful tool, it isn't the 'End All Be All' for security.
- What did organizations have to do right away?
This episode is sponsored by Okta. Okta is a Workforce and Customer identity company that is based out of California. Proceeds from this sponsorship will be going towards prizes for the holiday fundraiser event.
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Episode 24 - Why Physical Network Security Still Matters
In this episode I talked with Steve Barnes about physical network security. Steve is an Enterprise Systems Engineer for Fortinet.
Talking Points:
- Why does physical network security still matter in the age of SASE?
- What is the biggest difference between 'Next Gen' and 'Stateful' firewalls?
- Does content awareness (SSL inspection) really help with visibility and protection?
- Even SASE needs something to connect to
- Why is SD-WAN important in the age of Digital Transformation?
- Ransomware Protection with Default Deny
This episode is sponsored by Fortinet. Fortinet is On-Prem and Cloud Security company based out of Sunnyvale, California.
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Episode 26 - Let's Talk Amazon Web Services Security
In this special Veteran's Day episode I talk with LinkedIn Top Voices of 2020 honoree, AJ Yawn, about Amazon Web Services security. AJ is a US Army veteran and also the Co-Founder and CEO of a brand new company called ByteChek.
AJ walks us through his five quick tips for AWS security for small businesses.
- Protect Your Root Account
- Identity Access Management (IAM) Report
- Download Trusted Advisor Report
- Enable AWS Cloud Trail Across All Regions
- Automate Something Using Cloud Trail
We also had a chance to talk about the ever elusive thing called the Shared Responsibility Model.
Finally stick around until the end were we took a few minutes and touched based on the state of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the end of 2020.
As an added bonus here is a link to AJ's article that we talked about in the podcast.
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