Guest:

  • David Seidman, Head of Detection and Response @ Robinhood

Toipics:

  • Tell us about joining Robinhood and prioritizing focus areas for detection in your environment?
  • Tim and Anton argue a lot about what kind of detection is best - fully bespoke and homemade, or scalable off-the-shelf. First, does our framework here make sense, and second, looking at your suite of detection capabilities, how have you chosen to prioritize detection development and detection triage?
  • You're operating in AWS: there are a lot of vendors doing detection in AWS, including AWS themselves. How have you thought about choosing your detection approaches and data sources?
  • Finding people with as much cloud expertise as you can't be easy: how are you structuring your organization to succeed despite cloud detection and response talent being hard to find? What matters more: detection skills or cloud skills?

  • What has been effective in ramping up your D&R team in the cloud?

  • What are your favorite data sources for detection in the cloud?

Resources:

  • “Detection as Code? No, Detection as COOKING!”
  • “On Threat Detection Uncertainty”
  • “Radical Candor” by Kim Scott
  • “Daring Greatly” by Brene Brown
  • “Extreme Ownership” by Jocko Willink
  • “Drive” by Daniel Pink