The Security Podcast of Silicon Valley

Kevin Kane, Founder and CEO of American Binary

Kevin Kane is the Co-Founder and CEO of Ambit, Inc. dba American Binary, a startup specializing in protecting businesses against current and next-generation cyber threats. With expertise in post-quantum cryptography and high-performance network infrastructure, catch a glimpse into the future of quantum computing and its devastating impact on RSA and EC public key cryptography, potentially halting secure communications across the Internet and globalization as we know it. In this episode, Kevin shares vulnerable moments and thoughtful insights on religion, philosophy, self-improvement, psychology, and how security plays a crucial role in today's interconnected and globalized world. Don't miss out on this insightful and engaging conversation.

Sergey Stelmakh, Head of Security Engineering at Yugabyte

Sergey Stelmakh engages the intriguing question of how to marry innovation (risk taking) with security (risk mitigation), how to build effective teams, and how his life led him down the path into security in engineering-driven companies, such as Head of Security Engineering at Yugabyte, Platform Security Architect at MuleSoft (acquired by Salesforce), Lead Security Architect at Symphony Communications, all from his roots as in mathematics as Assistant Professor at Belarusian State University.

Dominik Schürmann, Co-Founder and CEO of heylogin

Dominik Schürmann, the Co-Founder and CEO of heylogin, shares an incredible journey from childhood, and research, toward more usable security. How are usable security values different from "formal" or "provable" security? Why does it matter? How does that change where you spend your time and energy? And how can we integrate with human nature and our organic tendencies to build more secure software? These questions, and many more, guide Dominik to start heylogin, as he shares his outside-the-box vision for a better and more secure future.

Rod Schultz, VP of Product at Dust Identity

Rod Schultz reflects on his childhood experiences and heroes, how he got into security, how that led him to Apple's DRM FairPlay team, Zoom's Head of Product Security and Privacy, and now DUST Identity's VP of Product.

David Carpe - How to Network, and The Myth of The Great Silent Resignation

David Carpe, Founder of Carpe Search Partners, shares deep insights on the professional value of networking (connecting with and offering service to the people around us) in the security community. We explore how to network effectively, offer a give, and how networking differs from charity, philanthropy, and everyday friends. Davides some profoundly personal views on the supposedly Great Silent Resignation, which may surprise you. We end with some gre. Youvice, you don't want to miss it.

Colin Bitterfield - Head of Security (Acting CISO) People Data Labs

Colin Bitterfield connects growth and security through standardization and proper documentation at People Data Labs. In this episode, he shares his strategies and tactics for building and maintaining a business-first security team that prioritizes people, so everyone wins.

Andrew Spangler, Head of Security and Compliance at Harness

Andrew Spangler, Head of Security and Compliance at Harness, shares some deep insight from his humble yet extensive experiences as a security professional. Join us for a light-hearted and profoundly human discussion on building trust, leading teams, interviewing strangers, overcoming security challenges, celebrating security victories, and career development in the security community.

David Gurle - Founder and Executive Chairman at Hive

David Gurle is a serial entrepreneur whose career has been a catalyst to positive change in secure collaboration and communication, from everywhere to Thomson Reuters, Skype, Microsoft, Perzo, and Symphony Communications. Today, he's the Founder and Executive Chairman of Hive, a distributed cloud computing and storage platform that disrupts the expensive, error-prone, and insecure centralized compute and storage paradigms. He shares personal stories of growing up in Beruit, Lebanon, amid a civil war, where he quickly learned the value of empathy and diversity.

Aman LaChapelle, Early Engineer at Modular AI

Aman LaChapelle shares his fresh engineering mindset on security, privacy, AI, big data, compute infrastructure, and scaling. At Modular, he's rebuilding AI infrastructure for everyone, which means that data privacy is top of mind. We end with a lively exploration of what's missing from the ecosystem, and you won't believe what it is.

David M’Raihi: CPSO at Rivian

David M'Raihi is the Chief Product Security Officer at Rivian with broad expertise in cryptography and software security. Join us (guest David M'Raihi and host Jon McLachlan) as we explore what it takes to build a security team, break RSA, or just enjoy an intentional and deliberate life.