The Defender's Advantage Podcast

FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia took the helm of the company in mid-June witha tall order: to understand the current challenges and arrange all ofthe components to make FireEye the best security company in theindustry.In this Eye on Security podcast, FireEye Chief Technology OfficerGrady Summers talks with Kevin about why he’s so well positioned tolead the company, including why he started Mandiant, why he scrappedhis business plan after just 30 minutes, and how his experiences withMandiant will help him move FireEye forward.

Earlier this year FireEye’s Mandiant business unit launched Red TeamOperations, which consists of two unique services designed to assessthe strength an organizations’ security program: Red Team Assessmentsand Red Teaming for Security Operations.During Black Hat USA 2016 I met up with Marshall Heilman, VicePresident, Mandiant Consulting – West and Executive Director, IR andRed Team Operations to discuss how his team determines their approachfor each engagement and what differentiates Mandiant’s Red Team fromothers.

Chris Tannery is a senior manager on the FireEye as a Service (FaaS)team. In his role he helps customers with the onboarding process.

Nicole Oppenheim is the manager of Advanced Practices for FireEye as aService (FaaS). She is responsible for reviewing our analyticalstrategy within FaaS and determining the best way forward to findadvanced attackers.

Pete Smith is a network practice lead for FaaS (FireEye as a Service).In his role as network practice lead, Pete is responsible fordesigning network services that our analysts use to defend ourcustomers from advanced attackers.

FireEye CTO of Emerging Technologies, Josh Goldfarb sat down with Sr.Director, Yogi Chandiramani and international threat intel liaison,Jens Monrad to discuss findings from the latest EMEA Regional AdvancedThreat Report.

FireEye CTO Grady Summers recently sat down with SangYun Jeong,Information Security Manager for GS Caltex to discuss his take on whatit's like to manage information security for a large oil refinercompany in Korea.Listen to the podcast and hear what the top cybersecurity risks arethat face an organization controlling and managing SCADA systems, whatprompted manufactures to become interested in protecting theirorganizations against targeted attackers, and SangYun's thoughts onwhat security vendors can do to improve.

Hear from John Watters - the founder and former CEO of iSIGHT Partners(now the Cyber Threat Intelligence arm of FireEye) on his views of thecurrent state of cyber security, and what you can expect to hear fromhim at the upcoming Cyber Defense Live Summit hosted by FireEye.

We sat down with Shannon Lietz, head of DevSecOps engineers at Intuit,about the company’s philosophy regarding cloud security. In thispodcast she discusses what kinds of resources Intuit has devoted tokeeping the cloud safe, advice for companies considering moving to thecloud, and how enterprises can use the cloud while staying ahead ofattackers.She also describes Red Team Mondays, Blue Team Intelligence, and howIntuit uses fire drills to keep vendors on their toes.

More and more companies are relying on the cloud for storage andcollaboration, but what does that mean from a security and cyberstandpoint? How safe is it? Who has access? And would you know ifsomeone else was accessing your data?Patrick Heim is head of trust and security at Dropbox. He answersthese questions and more – including how Dropbox protects itscustomer’s data – in our latest podcast. He also discusses thedifference between securing a cloud platform versus securing anenterprise.