Guest:
- Royal Hansen, CISO, Alphabet
Topics:
- What were you thinking before you took that “Google CISO” job?
- Google's infrastructure is vast and complex, yet also modern. How does this influence the design and implementation of your security programs compared to other organizations?
- Are there any specific challenges or advantages that arise from operating at such a massive scale?
- What has been most surprising about Google’s internal security culture that you wish you could export to the world at large?
- What have you learned about scaling teams in the Google context?
- How do you design effective metrics for your teams and programs?
- So, yes, AI. Every organization is trying to weigh the risks and benefits of generative AI–do you have advice for the world at large based on how we’ve done this here?
Resources:
- EP75 How We Scale Detection and Response at Google: Automation, Metrics, Toil
- CISA Secure by Design
- EP20 Security Operations, Reliability, and Securing Google with Heather Adkins
- EP91 “Hacking Google”, Op Aurora and Insider Threat at Google
- “Delivering Security at Scale: From Artisanal to Industrial”
- SRE book: CHapter 5: Toil Elimination
- SRS book: Security as an Emergent Property
- What are Security Invariants?
- EP185 SAIF-powered Collaboration to Secure AI: CoSAI and Why It Matters to You
- “Against the Gods - Remarkable Story of Risk” book