Security Superfriends Episode 4: Kathy Wang, CISO at Very Good Security Posted by Rich Seiersen on September 3, 2020 Kathy Wang is a total super security hero! A three time CISO who rose from the engineering ranks, Kathy has been rocking the security space for 20 years. She is now focused hardcore on the cloud native space, having run security for GitLab for two years before joining Very Good Security. The knowledge and experience she brings will continue to shape the future of cloud native security. I hope you enjoy this installment!

Introducing Security Superfriends Videos and Podcasts! | Garrett Held, CISO of Carta Posted by Rich Seiersen on July 23, 2020 I’m excited to share our first episode of Security Superfriends! I’ll be posting videos of chats with my friends who are on the security front lines in many episodes to come. We’ll tackle topics including cloud native innovation, investing in new tech, serverless vs FaaS vs CaaS vs Kubernetes vs….and much more! Our first episode features Garrett Held. Garrett is the CISO for Carta, a fast moving cloud native company leveraging Kubernetes. I specifically met with Garrett to talk about the changes being brought about in security due to cloud native software velocities. He is uniquely qualified to talk about this having worked at the likes of Salesforce.com, Twilio and now Carta. They are all leveraging cloud native technology, and each is increasingly modern in their approach.

Security Superfriends Episode 3: Aaron Stanley, Head of Security at Twilio Posted by Rich Seiersen on August 5, 2020 As fast as fast can be! This describes the reality of software development at Twilio. Aaron Stanley, who runs security at Twilio, describes all this in this installment of Security Superfriends. Along the way, he shares why Triangle Man (pictured below) is his favorite Superhero - largely because he beats Particle Man.

Security Superfriends: Ely Kahn, AWS Posted by Rich Seiersen on July 29, 2020 Our second episode of Security Superfriends has arrived! In this episode, we learn why Wolverine is possibly the most “security” of all superheroes. Today’s episode is an interview with Ely Kahn, the principal product manager for AWS Security Hub. Ely’s path to superhero glory was not the typical hero's journey. He chronicles his adventure from the White House to a startup named after a rodent, and how that startup was eventually acquired by AWS.