Security Unlocked - A Day in the Life of a Microsoft Principal Architect

We’re formally sending out a petition to change the phrase “Jack of all trades” to “Hyrum of all trades” in honor of this episode’s guest, Hyrum Anderson. In this episode, hosts Natalia Godyla and Nic Fillingham sit down with Hyrum Anderson who, when he’s not fulfilling his duties as the Principal Architect of the Azure Trustworthy ML group, spends his time playing accordions, making cheese, and founding impressive technology conferences. He does it all!  

Rather than chatting with Hyrum about a specific capability that he’s helped to develop, or a blog post that he co-authored – because, believe us, the episode would last for hours – we decided to have a chat with him about his life, how he first got into the world of technology, and his thoughts on the current state of cyber security.  


In This Episode You Will Learn:  

  • The differences between a risk and a threat 
  • Why it’s easier to attack than defend 
  • What a Principal Architect of the Azure Trustworthy ML group does in his spare time 


Some Questions We Ask:  

  • How does Hyrum think about adversarial machine learning and protecting A.I. systems? 
  • What is it like for Hyrum to oversee both the red teaming and defensive side of operations? 
  • Why are we better at finding holes in security than we are at making sure they don’t exist in the first place? 

  

Resources:  

Hyrum Anderson’s LinkedIn

Hyrum Anderson’s Twitter

Conference on Applied Machine Learning in Information Security (CAMLIS)

Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition

Microsoft Security Blog

Nic’s LinkedIn

Natalia’s LinkedIn

  

Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

Discover and follow other Microsoft podcasts at microsoft.com/podcasts


Security Unlocked is produced by Microsoft and distributed as part of The CyberWire Network. 


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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S5 E1: Abhinav Asthana, Postman

Abhinav Asthana grew up in several small towns in the northern part of India. A couple of those towns were Basti, 150 miles from the capital. He's been a computer geek since 5th grade, when his Dad bought a pretty sophisticated pentium for the time. The small towns he lived in were not the most connected parts of the world, and as such, he experienced the impact of computers and the internet improving lives from an early age.

He enjoys reading books, and as a kid he was into fiction - reading Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, novels, Agatha Christie, etc... whatever was relevant at the at the time. Slowly, he started to drift towards popular science, design books, and non-fiction, more towards the tech sphere of the world.

In 2012, the projects Abhinav was involved in has the same point - how to work with the API's that connected the front and backends of the application. And the tools he had to use never helped him develop efficiently. He thought - what would make the better?

This is the creation story of Postman.

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Python Bytes - #238 A cloud-based file system for Python and a new GUI!

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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Information foraging: the tricks great developers use to find solutions

You can check out some more of Henley's work on his blog here. Recent pieces include: 

How much time does the average developer spend typing in their editor versus researching, exploring, and pondering? Henley believes half an hour of inputting actual code a day is realistic, despite what you've heard about the 10X developer in your area. 

African Tech Roundup - UNAJUA S2 EP1: Why would anyone launch a research insights business in Uganda? feat. Peter Kisadha

This UNAJUA podcast the first of a two-part series highlighting ecosystem insight gaps that African research startups might help to address. Presenting the series is Ugandan founder and researcher Peter Kisadha. Peter has just recently joined early-stage investment outfit Future Africa as an associate researcher. He previously worked for the mobility tech company, Eywa, and, before that, he interned at Jumia Group's classifieds arm in Uganda. He is also the co-founder of the tech innovation data and insights startup Digest Africa. In this episode, Peter offers minimum actionable responses to the question, "Why would anyone launch a research insights business in Uganda?" by outlining the significant real-world problems local research businesses might undertake to solve. HAVE YOUR SAY: Click on the UNAJUA tab at AfricanTechRoundup.com (https://www.africantechroundup.com/unajua/) and leave us a 60-second voice note with your reaction to this episode. (We will include some of your audio takes in future follow-up episodes.) PROMO: African Tech Roundup is partnering with Socialstack to launch a social token ($ATRU) on the Celo blockchain to drive community engagement. Check out the press release (https://www.africantechroundup.com/atru-token/) then tune in on Wednesday, June 16th 2021, to listen to African Tech Roundup Co-founder Andile Masuku and Socialstack Co-founder and CEO Andrew Berkowitz unpack how the $ATRU token works. SUPPORT US: Back our independent media-making efforts by becoming a Patreon (https://www.africantechroundup.com/patreon/). Image credit: Yu Gu

Lex Fridman Podcast - #191 – Daniel Schmachtenberger: Steering Civilization Away from Self-Destruction

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(34:46) – Consciousness
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(1:04:08) – Girard’s Mimetic Theory of Desire
(1:24:05) – We can never completely understand reality
(1:27:29) – Self-terminating systems
(1:37:52) – Catastrophic risk
(2:08:04) – Adding more love to the world
(2:35:29) – How to build a better world
(2:52:41) – Meaning of life
(3:00:23) – Death
(3:06:04) – The role of government in society
(3:23:29) – Exponential growth of technology
(4:09:10) – Lessons from my father
(4:14:46) – Even suffering is filled with beauty

Lex Fridman Podcast - #190 – Jordan Ellenberg: Mathematics of High-Dimensional Shapes and Geometries

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PHPUgly - 240: Old Man Coder

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