18: The future of security operations, with Gabriel Gumbs, Wolf Goerlich and Nigel Houghton
"Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them." That Star Trek Spock quote is relevant in more ways than one today, because in this episode we meet Gabriel Gumbs, Chief Innovation Officer at Spirion, a company which specialises in data and security privacy. Gabe's role is to lead the charge on where data security is going next, which includes the evolution of what Gabe lovingly refers to as the 'SPOC' (aka the security and privacy operations centre).We also chat about Gabe's career trajectory, from when he was hacking portable devices at school. We also touch on how he’s been able to overcome personal fears of speaking in public.After that, we welcome Nigel Houghton from Talos and Wolf Goerlich, one of our advisory CISOs for Duo Security at Cisco, to talk about the impact COVID-19 has had and potentially will have on security operations. We also learn how Talos was able to transform itself into a entirely remote workforce, and the technical and non technical challenges that arose from that. And Wolf talks about how organizations can modernise their security defences and take the path to passwordless. To learn more about this, do have a read of Wolf's paper 'Passwordless: The Future of Authenthication'You can also check out Gabe's other podcast, 'Privacy Please' https://www.buzzsprout.com/622234