If you are here looking for Cyber Security Effectiveness, we invite you to visit the feed of Mandiant’s new podcast, The Defender’s Advantage Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1762840 The new show launches this week with the same great conten

Overwhelming Abundance of Alerts

Dec 7th, 2021 17m 15s

Mandiant Regional Account Executive Maggie Wilder sums up customers’ viewpoints best – they are being expected to do more with less. While there has never been more awareness around cyber security, the rate of acceleration for threats has been

24/7 SOC Life

Nov 9th, 2021 27m 12s

The Behavior Research Team is a group unique to the work on which Mandiant Security Validation prides itself: assuring customers that they are protected. Drew Holland, Manager of Threat Research at Mandiant, joins the conversation to talk about

Augmentations for Tools and People

Oct 18th, 2021 12m 14s

Brian talks with Mandiant Advantage’s Janice Kennedy, Director of Channel Management for the Western region, to get her perspective from the partner side of security. They delve into the types of response they are seeing from the channel and ho

Secure and SaaSsy

Oct 5th, 2021 26m 6s

Mandiant Regional Account Executive Toks Jowosimi is one of the few who have witnessed the maturation and evolution of Mandiant Security Validation from the beginning, and has her own unique perspective to share on its transformation. She and B

Finding a Big Bucket of Money

Sep 21st, 2021 23m 8s

One of the most common security questions that organizations ask is how to better their security posture without exceeding their tight budget -- not an easy task. Brian and Mandiant Sr. Director of Customer Engineering Morris Hicks dig into Man

The Era of Collaboration

Sep 7th, 2021 28m 44s

The world of incident response has slowly been moving further from the “ninja-like” appraoch it's been known for. Purple team extraordinaire Evan Peña revisits the podcast to talk about changes to incident response, purple teaming, and the rece

The Days of Security Gone By

Aug 23rd, 2021 41m 21s

In our 100th episode, Brian brings on longtime friend and colleague Colby DeRodeff to talk about past projects, the surge of threat intelligence, and Mandiant Security Validation’s rapid expansion within the market.

A Very Special Episode: #99

Aug 9th, 2021 23m 57s

To commemorate the 99th episode, Brian brings on his two co-producers -- Daniel Craig and Katie Billigmeier -- to reminisce about the podcast's beginnings, how it's grown in the past three years, and each of their favorite episodes.

Weaponizing Mandates

Jul 12th, 2021 35m 5s

Devon Goforth has been with Mandiant Security Validation (formerly Verodin) since its early startup days in 2015, and had infused his background of electrical engineering, physics, and math with an interest in cyber security. He shares not only

Who You Gonna Call (In the Event of a Breach)?

Jun 28th, 2021 21m 9s

Board members are not only crucial for helping lead a company in the right direction, but nowadays they also offer crucial cyber security guidance. And those with a legal background, like FireEye’s Alexa King, provide an even more valuable pers

Security is Aspirational

Jun 21st, 2021 43m 11s

Having been a board member for technology and cyber security companies since the 90s, Matt Bigge has fine-tuned the art of being an effective board member. He and Brian discuss the evolution of a board member’s role as a company changes, adapti

Carrots Lead to the Right Outcomes

Jun 8th, 2021 43m 5s

Our focus on board members continues as Kara Nortman, Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures and a board member with several technology and cyber security companies, talks about her key responsibilities as a cloud-native specialist, the importanc

The New Old Risk

May 25th, 2021 32m 16s

The unknown factor of cyber security risk are keeping more CEOs up at night than ever before, and many of them view it as priority number one in areas of the business to address. Jay Leek brings his perspective as former Blackstone CISO, ClearS

Recognizing Board Superpowers

May 18th, 2021 34m 36s

As someone who has worked as a FireEye executive and been on a board member for several publicly traded companies, Julie Cullivan has been able to closely witness the dichotomy between the two. She chats with Brian about how board members can i

Security at the Board Level

May 11th, 2021 32m 54s

Former RSA President & CEO Art Coviello revisits the podcast to share his wisdom for CISOs and aspiring board members, and breaks down board interactions in the private and public space.