In Episode 16 of Champions of Security, Jacob Garrison interviews Michael Tayo (U.S. Bank) & Parveen Singh.

Michael is an Assistant Vice President and Principal Information Security Engineer at U.S. Bank where he is responsible for providing visionary guidance for the enhancement of cloud and application security product offerings. With over 10 years of experience as an Information Security Professional, Michael specializes in designing and deploying cutting-edge security solutions to enhance cloud security posture, prevent cyber-attacks, and mitigate risks to help organizations remain secure throughout the digital transformation.  He is a security evangelist and author with his most recent feature being Collaborative Security to Defend the Modern Threat Landscape.

Parveen is a Cloud Consultant specializing in Microsoft Azure services. He helps companies use the cloud effectively and efficiently while also keeping the security-first mindset and saving costs. He’s worked with government, software development, retail, e-learning and education organizations by helping them migrate and secure their IT infrastructure. He runs a blog at parveensingh.com and also helps IT enthusiasts find their next IT role and upskill to grow in the cloud field.

Michael, Parveen, and Jacob talk about:

↳ Deeply understanding the shared responsibility model

↳ Determining the appropriate amount of outside help

↳ Learning cloud services one step at a time

And so much more.

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In Episode 15, Jacob Garrison interviews Amanda Alvarez (Trace3) & Brook Schoenfield (Resilient Software Security & True Positives).

Amanda Alvarez is a DevSecOps Architect consultant at Trace3 with a passion for helping people learn more about software security. She is a highly-motivated practitioner who enjoys creating developer-oriented solutions with an emphasis on increasing effective feedback loops to help companies balance agility with security. Her mission is to spread awareness on scalable and sustainable software security programs so that people and their data remain protected from evolving threats. Outside of continuously learning more about cyber security, she enjoys gardening and hiking the mountains of Colorado.

Brook Schoenfield has authored six security books, taught 100’s of security architects, and 1000’s have attended his threat modelling trainings. He was the technical lead for five software security programs and 4 consulting practices. Brook is currently the CTO of Resilient Software Security and True Positives' Chief Software Security Strategist. He helps organizations and technical leaders improve their software security practices. He also teaches at the University of Montana.

Amanda, Brook, and Jacob talked about:

↳ Never trust and always verify

↳ Design for secure-by-default

↳ Security being a moving target

And so much more.

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In Episode 14 of Champions of Security, Jacob Garrison interviews Jeevan Singh (Director of Product Security at Twilio) and Abdul Wahab.

Jeevan enjoys building security culture within organizations and educating staff on security best practices. Jeevan is responsible for a wide variety of tasks including architecting security programs, driving security strategy and mentoring and growing security engineers and managers. Before life in the security space, Jeevan had a wide variety of development and leadership roles over the past 20 years.

Abdul Wahab is a Senior Tech Lead who loves growing engineering teams that are inquisitive, hungry to learn, and deliver lasting business solutions. When he's not doing that, he writes tech articles & tutorials via Medium to teach and give back to the global Software community, and bake cakes & pizzas.

They talk about:

↳ Celebrating security wins company-wide

↳ Collaborating with engineering for stakeholder support

↳ Offering the carrot before resorting to the stick

And so much more.

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