Security Unlocked - How to Catch a Villian With Math

In this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Mike Flowers and Cole Sodja of the Microsoft Protection Team, and Justin Carroll of the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Global Engagement and Response team, about how they’re using machine learning to identify and model lateral movement attacks.

Then they speak to Dr. Anna Bertiger, Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft, on how she’s using math to catch villains and make computer networks safer.

 

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

  • What are lateral movement attacks
  • How machine learning helps address security challenges
  • Why grouping attack data can help better prevent threats
  • How math is used to help analyze attack trends
  • How AI and ML help identify patterns that can stop attacks

 

Some Questions We Ask:

  • What are the most challenging parts of identifying lateral movement attacks?
  • How does machine learning help understand how attacks would happen in the future?
  • How do attackers change techniques as security techniques change?
  • How do you use math to determine if an action is dangerous or benign?
  • What is so beautiful about math?

 

Resources:

Microsoft Security Blog

Mike, Cole & Justin’s Blog Post


Related:

Listen to: Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson

Listen to: Security Unlocked: CISO Series with Bret Arsenault 

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S3 Bonus: Brendon Beebe, foreUP

Like many folks I talk to in tech, Brendon Beebe grew up in tech. He comes from a long line of programmers, and he has been building things since his teens. In college, he felt the entrepreneurial bug - in fact, he started one venture in a homemade class wait list, that almost got him kicked out of school. Now a days, he is married with two kids, and in his free time, he manages a salt water reef tank as a hobby, and enjoys growing the different species of creatures in his 90 gallon tank. The original founding team for foreUp tried to build social media and an internal platform for golf courses... and the problem was - it wasn't taking off. So when Brendon joined the team, the decided to primarily focus on tee sheets, which golfers use to book a tee time. From that point, the product, the team and the companies success... grew.


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The Stack Overflow Podcast - The story behind Stack Overflow in Russian with Nicolas Chabanovsky

Nicolas will be the first to tell you that the version of Stack Overflow he helped to create began as a clone. It developed into a very popular site on RuNet and through persistent emails, Nic was able to find a way to make it an official part of the Stack family. 

Nic talks a bit about the unique culture of SO's Russian community and how each regional version of SO, from English to Spanish to Japanese, has developed its own etiquette and approach to moderation and Q&A. 

Nic and Sara also share some updates on their love of Jupyter Notebooks and how they make it easy to combine blogging with data analysis and presentation. 

Shout out to our life boat badge of the week, Aliaksandr Kavalenka , for answering the question: How to use DatePickerDialog in Kotlin? 

Lex Fridman Podcast - #133 – Manolis Kellis: Biology of Disease

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00:00 – Introduction
08:05 – Molecular basis for human disease
32:04 – Deadliest diseases
37:47 – Genetic component of diseases
46:38 – Genetic understanding of disease
1:02:25 – Unified theory of human disease
1:08:26 – Genome circuitry
1:33:29 – CRISPR
1:45:06 – Mitochondria
1:53:10 – Future of biology research
2:22:46 – The genetic circuitry of disease

The Stack Overflow Podcast - How should tech titans act when productizing tiny open source projects?

We break down some thoughts on this issue, which came to light after a tweet from Tim Nolet.

Later in the episode we talk about the debate raging right now around elections and technology. What role should software play and where is regulation appropriate? 

Last but not least, we consider what the next US administration might do with regards to regulating big tech. Will they lean towards a European model or continue to be more hands off? 

Shout out to our lifeboat badge winner of the week, Kin3Tix, for helping to identify good tutorials for SDL 2.0 for C (Not C++) programming.

The Government Huddle with Brian Chidester - The One with the Election Scenarios

Francis Rose, host of the “Government Matters” television show joins the show to discuss some fundamental differences between Donald Trump and Joe Biden related to government IT modernization. We also discuss how the outcome of this election could affect IT budgets at both the federal and regional government levels and why organizations have shifted from a compliance-first approach to mission-first.

Lex Fridman Podcast - #132 – George Hotz: Hacking the Simulation & Learning to Drive with Neural Nets

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07:02 – Will human civilization destroy itself?
09:49 – Where are the aliens?
14:36 – Tic Tac UFO and Bob Lazar
17:04 – Conspiracy theories
19:07 – The programming language of life
23:28 – The games that humans play
31:58 – Memory leaks in the simulation
34:29 – Theories of everything
36:14 – Ethereum startup story
44:02 – Cryptocurrency
53:28 – Self-help advice
57:08 – Comma.ai
59:02 – Comma two
1:07:50 – Tesla vs Comma.ai
1:16:53 – Driver monitoring
1:30:34 – Communicating uncertainty
1:32:22 – Tesla Dojo
1:38:50 – Tesla Autopilot big rewrite
1:45:09 – How to install the Comma Two
1:49:44 – Openpilot is Android & Autopilot is iOS
1:58:59 – Waymo
2:10:12 – Autonomous driving and society
2:12:24 – Moving
2:15:29 – Advice to Startups
2:28:32 – Programming setup
2:31:32 – Ideas that changed my life
2:39:37 – GPT-3
2:42:57 – AGI
2:47:00 – Programming languages that everyone should learn
2:53:33 – How to learn anything
2:56:05 – Book recommendations
3:04:28 – Love
3:06:17 – Psychedelics
3:08:38 – Crazy

Big Technology Podcast - Google Protest Leader Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Tech Activism and the Deep Flaws of ‘The Social Dilemma’

When I interviewed Tristan Harris about The Social Dilemma earlier this month, my mentions filled with people saying, "You should speak to the people who were critical of the social web long before the film.” One name, Meredith Whittaker, stood out. An A.I. researcher and former big tech employee, Whittaker helped lead Google’s walkout in 2018 amid a season of activism inside the company.


On this edition of the Big Technology Podcast, we spoke not only about her views on the film, but of the future of workplace activism inside tech companies in a moment where some are questioning if it belongs at all.