EP95 Cloud Security Talks Panel: Cloud Threats and Incidents

Guests: Alijca Cade, Director, Financial Services, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud Ken Westin, Director, Security Strategy, Cybereason Robert Wallace, Senior Director, Mandiant, now Google Cloud Topics: How are cloud environments attacked and compromised today? Is it still about the configuration mistakes? Do cryptominers represent a serious threat now that they are often mentioned as the most common threat in the cloud? Let’s look at another popular threat - ransomware or, broadly, RansomOps. Based on your research, what can we say about its likely future, especially in the cloud? Are we getting better with detection in the cloud and are we doing it fast enough? Is cloud security a misnomer? Attackers are out to get into an organization, and cloud or on-premise matters less here, right? What does it say about the interdependence of security, on and off cloud? Resources: LIVE @ Security Talks: The Cloud Security Podcast at Cloud Security Talks Q3 2022 Google Cybersecurity Action Team Threat Horizons Report #4 Is Out!