The Security Podcast of Silicon Valley

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.

Michael Crandell, CEO at Bitwarden Inc.

Michael Crandell, CEO at Bitwarden Inc., shares his inspirational vision and deep wisdom from his journey at Bitwarden. Bitwarden drives collaboration, increases security, and boosts productivity, with the power of open source + community, as the easiest way to secure all your passwords and sensitive information.

Sergej Dechand, Co-Founder and CEO of Code Intelligence

Sergej Dechand shares his security journey from usable security research to Co-Founding Code Intelligence, where he is CEO. Code Intelligence delivers open-source static analysis-guided fuzz testing that enables developers to simplify software security testing without modifying their code.

Benoit Chevallier-Mames, Team Lead of Machine Learning at Zama

Benoit Chevallier-Mames shares a glimpse into his amazing career as a cryptographer, engineer, and leader at Apple and now Zama, where he's built software that has made a quiet yet serious impact on data security for billions of users. We explore the hard lessons learned at Apple and the technical grit behind Zama's approach to Machine Learning specific Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) open-source SDK. Benoit gracefully closes with incredible words of wisdom.

Aaron Painter, Founder and CEO of Nametag

Join me for a great conversation with Aaron Painter, the CEO of Nametag Inc, on the future of authentication and "Sign in with ID" as a more trusted alternative to passwords and device-based authentication.

Anders Eknert, Developer Advocate at Styra

Anders Eknert's journey that led him to Styra was peppered with insight and experience towards the best practices for authorization, answering the question, "What are you allowed to do?" Join us as he shows us how the wild-wild-west is slowly moving toward the history books. Email him at, anders@styra.com.

Sean Cassidy: Head of Security at Asana

Sean Cassidy, Head of Security at Asana, shares stories and lessons learned through his journey in building outstanding security teams and impactful products.

Will Butler, Red Team at Robinhood and Co-Founder of TruffleSecurity

Join a fantastic discussion with Will Butler on how he launched his career into red teaming by hacking airport security systems as a youngster and realizing his passion for security. We deep-dive into the different types of red teams, why penetration testing adds business value, and what goes into a successful attack. We explore the different kinds of creativity needed to find vulnerabilities, why diversity is essential, specifically on red teams, ethical/moral dilemmas penetration testers often face, and more.

Salesforce Security Engineer, Benjamin Schmoker Scott (He/Him/They)

Ben (he/him/they) is a software engineer specializing in computer security who has worked at startups, large tech companies, research labs, and intelligence agencies. In this episode, Ben shares how he got into security, his experiences along the way, the challenges he's faced, and how he sees the future of Threat Intelligence and Cyber Security.