Guest:

  • Mike Schiffman, Network Security “UTL”

Topics:

  • Given your impressive and interesting history, tell us a few things about yourself?
  • What are the biggest challenges facing network security today based on your experience?
  • You came to Google to work on Network Security challenges. What are some of the surprising ones you’ve uncovered here?
  • What lessons from Google's approach to network security absolutely don’t apply to others? Which ones perhaps do?
  • If you have to explain the difference between network security in the cloud and on-premise, what comes to mind first?
  • How do we balance better encryption with better network security monitoring and detection?
  • Speaking of challenges in cryptography, we’re all getting fired up about post-quantum and network security. Could you give us the maybe 5 minute teaser version of this because we have an upcoming episode dedicated to this?
  • I hear you have some interesting insight on LLMs, something to do with blueboxing or something. What is that about?

Resources:

  • Video
  • EP113 Love it or Hate it, Network Security is Coming to the Cloud
  • EP122 Firewalls in the Cloud: How to Implement Trust Boundaries for Access Control
  • “A History of Fake Things on the Internet” by WALTER J. SCHEIRER
  • Why Google now protects its internal communications from quantum threats
  • How Google is preparing for a post-quantum world
  • NIST on PQC
  • “Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit” (yes, really)