Cloud Ace
Cloud Ace is your go-to podcast for in-depth expert discussions on all topics that touch cloud security. Information security professionals can tune in for fresh perspectives on building and managing secure cloud infrastructure, platforms, and applications. The insight shared by our experts on this podcast transcends cloud, making it valuable for professionals across all fields of cyber security. Brought to you by SANS Institute, Cloud Ace podcast delivers actionable insight through interviews with some of the top minds leaving their mark in cloud security. Cloud Ace covers the full gamut of cloud topics from multi-cloud and public cloud, to containers, threat detection, cloud pen testing, DevSecOps, automation and everything in between.
Episodes
24 episodes
Nate Lee: Building a GenAI Security App for Fun (and No Profit)
Nate Lee, CISO at Tradeshift, talks about creating cloud security capabilities, working with engineering, and how he built a GenAI security question answering bot.About Nate:Nate is currently CISO at Tradeshift, a B2B Saa...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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50:38
Fred Bret-Mounet: Eating Pasta and Not Building Fort Knox
Fred Bret-Mounet, CISO at Clarify Health Solutions, reminisces about negotiating a 25% salary increase and still being drastically underpaid, eating pasta every day, and learning that security can't just be focused on building Fort Knox.
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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58:55
Steve Tran: Hacker, Magician, Police Officer, and CISO
Steve Tran, CISO at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), opens up about his personal challenges, finding his path through hacking and magic, and his passion for helping the next generation.ABOUT STEVE: Steve is t...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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50:20
Deneen DeFiore: Being a Business Focused CISO, CIO, and Board Member
Deneen DeFiore, CISO at United Airlines, talks about how she got into security, taking a new CISO role at the start of COVID, what makes a mature business oriented security program, and what CISOs need to know before considering board level opp...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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41:16
Kapil Assudani: Cloud, AI, and Reducing the Attack Surface
Kapil Assudani, CISO at Edwards Lifesciences, shares how he was one payment away from getting kicked out of his Masters program, being resilient and resourceful, building credibility, and finding ways to reduce the attack surface.Abo...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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52:13
Mike Melo: The Case for DSPM vs. CSPM
Mike Melo, CISO and head of technology at LifeLabs, talks about his approach to innovation and insights on leading cloud security tools.About Mike Melo: "Heavily focused on people and integrity-led progression, Mike ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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46:21
Jadee Hanson: Balancing CISO, CIO, and Product Leadership
Jadee Hanson, CISO and CIO at Code42, shares how even as a kid she knew cybersecurity was her calling and how that led to CISO, CIO, and product leadership responsibilities.About Jadee Hanson: As chief information securit...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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50:38
Brett Cumming: Saying Yes Led to a Career in Cybersecurity
Brett Cumming, head of security at Skechers, shares how his sister inadvertently got him into cybersecurity and how saying yes to everything laid the foundation for a career in cyber.About Brett: Brett Cumming is a transf...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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47:05
Bernard Brantley: Cutting Edge Cloud Thinking and Team Building
Bernard Brantley, CISO at Corelight, outlines his vision of modern security and cloud capabilities based on his experience at companies like Microsoft and Amazon, tying together security and business objectives.ABOUT BERNARD:...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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47:01
Rinki Sethi: From Analyst to CISO and Board Member
Rinki Sethit, CISO at BILL, discusses her journey in cybersecurity from roles at early cloud adopters like Intuit and Twitter to security vendors like Palo Alto Networks and ultimately to board roles at companies like ForgeRock.ABOUT ...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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41:20
The Cloud Ace Season 2 Trailer
Cloud Ace is back for season 2, featuring both new guests and a new host. Frank Kim, a SANS Fellow and CISO-in-Residence at YL Ventures, will sit in as host this season as a wide range of guests join him in exploring the full gamut of cloud top...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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0:46
Ashish Rajan: Developer-First Security with CASB, CIEM, CNAPP, CSPM, and CWPP
Brandon Evans and fellow cloud security podcaster Ashish Rajan, host of the Cloud Security Podcast and Principal Cloud Security Advocate for Snyk, chat about developer-first security, multicloud abstraction layers, cybersecurity conferences, an...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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53:59
Marqueze "Q" Sawyers: Fail First, Fast, and Safely in Cloud Engineering
Brandon Evans reconnects with former co-worker Marqueze “Q” Sawyers, a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Asurion, as they chat about moving fast while failing safely while developing cloud-based applications, using tools like GitHub act...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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55:03
Ahmed AbuGharbia: Upskilling your Security Teammates for Cloud and DevSecOps
Brandon Evans meets with Ahmed AbuGharbia, a Security Manager and Consultant at Sirius Computer Solutions as well as a Certified Instructor Candidate for SANS SEC540: Cloud Security and DevSecOps Automation, to discuss reskilling traditional se...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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51:48
Jabez Abraham: Creating a Cloud Security Enterprise Architecture Strategy for Global Organizations
Jabez Abraham, Senior Cyber Security Cloud Architect at Paige, meets with his former co-worker Brandon Evans to discuss how cloud native security capabilities can eliminate complexity while applying consistent security controls for organization...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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44:21
Stacy Dunn: Creative Problem Solving in Cloud Security and the Software Development Lifecycle
Stacy Dunn, CISO Dojo podcast Co-Host, OWASP Chapter Co-Leader, SANS Senior Solutions Engineer, and former engineer for Check Point and Snyk, chats with Brandon Evans about the Software Development Lifecycle in the cloud, supply-chain security ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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37:19
Joshua Makinen: Building and Breaking Secure DevOps
Brandon Evans reunites with his former co-worker, Josh, a Senior Security Architect at Snowflake, as they discuss how to build security into DevOps organizations and how he was able to identify vulnerabilities in cloud DevOps tooling....
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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42:04
Lysandra Capella: Leading Secure Cloud Transformation at Large Financial Institutions
Brandon Evans talks about building a Cloud Adoption Roadmap with Lysandra Capella, a manager at one of the largest financial institutions in the Dutch Caribbean and a SANS superstar (23 GIAC certs!)Our Guest - Lysandra Capella
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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49:53
Aaron Hutson: Breaking into Cloud Security as a SysAdmin
Aaron Hutson walks Brandon Evans through his journey from being an on-prem SysAdmin and cloud skeptic to a cloud security student, consultant, and educator who has worked on the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Secure Cloud Computing A...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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41:43
John Alves: Exploring Microsoft Azure Security Platforms and Capabilities
Brandon Evans is joined by John Alves of CyberOne, who is also an up-and-coming instructor for SANS SEC510: Public Cloud Security: AWS, Azure, and GCP, to take a deep-dive into Microsoft Azure security platforms, creating cloud security learnin...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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42:11
Panel Discussion: Cloud Identity and Access Management
This episode features a panel of three of the top Cloud Identity and Access Management experts in the world. Kat Traxler, Karl Fosaaen, and Kyler Middleton are incredibly knowledgable about how IAM works in all three cloud providers, but Kyler ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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59:13
Anton Chuvakin: Remapping Mental Models in IT, Security, and Compliance for the Cloud
Dr. Anton Chuvakin and Brandon Evans discuss why some organizations desperately try to follow the on-premises blueprint when securing the cloud, how to prevent Compliance from getting in the way of the evolution of IT Security, and what Anton i...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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49:53
Frank Kim: Navigating the Cloud Security Journey for Individual Contributors and Business Leaders
Frank Kim, the Lead for the SANS Cloud Security and Security Leadership curriculums, joins Brandon Evans to discuss how these areas intersect, the role cloud technologies and vendors play in the People, Process, and Technology Framework, why de...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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43:00
