A Spanner in the Works

With Sol Cates, CTO & Principal Technologist for Cloud Security at Thales Group

February 28, 2021 Andreas Spanner Season 1 Episode 15
A Spanner in the Works
With Sol Cates, CTO & Principal Technologist for Cloud Security at Thales Group
Show Notes

Hear from Sol interesting concepts like Exit to Community, his view on how to enable everyone to be the best self and why being a good guy in Cyber is way more interesting than hacking itself.

  • 00:00 Improving political systems through technology and decentralisation of trust 
  • 12:00 Security is playing the long game 
  • 13:00 CNCF, White-hat hackers and rise of the technologists 
  • 14:30 Cyber, Fixing root access and improving systems on a daily basis 
  • 15:30 Cybersecurity is straight forward - but there's a lot to it 
  • 17:40 Cyber Defense is more rewarding 
  • 20:20 Threat modelling to aid decision making and web hooks needed for global innovations 
  • 24:00 Executives need help - It's not about poking it's about investing - Successful Change Management is about great leadership 
  • 28:00 5G, IoT, Kubernetes, edge, software is eating the world - there's a lot potential to mess up & how we tackle it. 
  • 32:00 Different approaches to Security in an Hybrid-Multi-Cloud