Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

In this episode of the SimplyPHP Unscripted Podcast, our Co-Founder, Tony Capozzi interviews our host Noah Labhart. As you know, Noah is the Co-Founder & CTO of Veryable, (an on-demand labor marketplace for manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing) along with the being the Host of the success Podcast called, Code Story. During their conversation, Noah shares his experience and best practices for companies working with technology & development.

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Credits: Season 3 of Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, YouTube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

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As the Media Equation columnist at The New York Times, Ben Smith is covering an industry going through transformation and turbulence. And as the former editor in chief of BuzzFeed News — a place I worked until this June — he lived that change while managing a newsroom of reporters who lived online in a VC funded media company. 

 

In this week’s edition of the Big Technology Podcast, I caught up with Smith for a discussion focused on how tech is changing journalism, what media companies can do to connect with people that have shut them out, and where big tech regulation may lead.

In this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Hardik Suri of the Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team about using behavior-based detection and machine learning to block attacks against Exchange servers, and why it’s so critical to patch and enable security capabilities.  

Then they speak to Dr. Karen Lavi, a Senior Data Science Lead in the Microsoft Defender Research Team, on the neuroscience of threat detection, and how her team is using AI and machine learning to predict and prevent malware attacks. 

In This Episode, You Will Learn:  

• Why Exchange servers are so vulnerable 
• The best way to defend against web shells 
• The simple things security professionals can do to protect under-protected servers 
• How neuroscience factors into threat detection 
• How to catch ‘patient zero’ in an attack 

Some Questions We Ask:  

• How are techniques for detecting and blocking attacks evolving?  
• What’s next for behavior-based blocking?  
• How does machine learning benefit security?  
• How do you build a diverse team to catch threats?  
• What’s the next innovation in security research?  

Resources:

Microsoft Security Blog 

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

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There are all kinds of powerful features baked into the Windows operating system. One of them is the Antimalware Scan Interface or AMSI. In this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Ankit Garg and Geoff McDonald of the Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team to learn how AMSI operates, and how they’re utilizing ML to stop attacks. 

Then they speak with Dr. Josh Neil, a Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft, about his unique path from music to data security, and why his team is sniffing through weak signals to detect attack patterns. 

In This Episode, You Will Learn:  

• How AMSI protects against threats 
• How machine learning makes it easier to catch attacks 
• The way security experts think about attack methodology 
• How computers can think unlike human brains to solve problems 
• The innovations coming to the world of data science 

 

Some Questions We Ask:  

• What is AMSI?  
• How do you differentiate between the benign and malicious?  
• What’s next for cloud machine learning?  
• How do define AI  
• How does music theory impact your work?  

 

Resources:

Microsoft Security Blog 

Ankit & Geoff’s blog post

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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In this episode, hosts Nic Fillingham and Natalia Godyla speak with Arie Agranonik, a Senior Data Scientist in the Microsoft Defender ATP Research team, about building models using deep learning to protect against malicious attacks. It’s complicated work, requiring huge computing power and even larger amounts of data, and it could be the future of threat protection. 

They also speak with Holly Stewart, a Principal Research Lead at Microsoft, on how building a security team with different perspectives helps to better understand and stop threats. Plus, her journey from the Peace Corps to Microsoft, and how that informs her decision-making. 

 

In This Episode, You Will Learn:  

• The difference between deep learning, machine learning and AI 
• Why it’s so difficult to program a computer to think like a human 
• How adversarial models learn from each other to prevent attacks 
• Why the best security teams are made up of those with different perspectives 
• How data science can train machines to find things humans were not thinking about 

 

Some Questions We Ask:  

• What is deep learning?
• Does a neural network mimic the way the human brain functions?
• How are behavioral observations evolving to combat sophisticated attacks? 
• How do AI and ML factor into solving complicated security problems?
• What’s next on the horizon for data science? 

 

Resources:

Microsoft Security Blog 

Arie’s blog post

View Arie Agranonik on LinkedIn

View Nic on LinkedIn 

View Natalia on 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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Dean McPherson - you guessed it... has always been interested in tech. Though unlike many of our guests, he taught himself how to code after he finished his degree program in music and philosophy. And then - he sold his way into a jr. programming job. Prior to his current venture, he spent several years doing mobile and full stack development for a couple of companies.

He has a small family - 2 little boys - and his wife is not only his partner in life, but in business as well. He loves the idea of fishing - but doesn't really go much. And, he is a well rounded musician, but most interestingly.. he plays the didgeridoo. I can only imagine this at parties.

In 2013, Dean's friend asked him to build a registration form for his business. He was baffled that he would ask for something like this, given there are solutions out there for this sort of thing. However, after searching for options - he couldn't find anything to recommend. In 2016, he and his wife set out to build something to solve this problem - something easy to use, doesn't require coding, and offers a well rounded, branded solution.

This is the creation story of Paperform.

Sponsors

Cloud Academy (https://cloudacademy.com)

Links

• https://paperform.co/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dean-mcpherson/
• https://gobrief.com/blog/interviews/dean-mcpherson-co-founder-of-paperform

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Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Google Play, Breaker, Youtube, or the podcasting app of your choice.

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Has there ever been a gaming company that brought more joy to the world than Nintendo? They were making playing cards back in 1889 and continue to find ways to be different but fun with inventions like the Switch and Labo.

Sara gives us some the scoop on Rimworld. Check out the trailer here and feel free to lend your skill to a new mod if you have ideas for how to improve it.

A Excel sheet meltdown led to critical health data about the pandemic being lost in the UK.  Rows can go to millions, but they used columns.

For those of us who need our reading glasses to see the tiny emoji people post in Slack, Paul has come to your rescue. He asked for the ability to zoom In on Twitter, the CEO of Slack co-signed, and boom, we got a new feature.

We discuss what other new Slack features might take off: stories, push-to-talk, and sneakers.

Elizabeth Clor, Chief Marketing Officer at Contegix joins the show to discuss how her organization pivoted in the midst of the pandemic, strategies for dealing with digital fatigue, and the value of customer persona research. We also explore how running marathons has positively impacted her career.

• DigitalOcean's App Platform
• 'OMG I SUCK' 
• 10 tips for better Pull Requests
• PR Emojis
• r/laravel - A few thoughts on recent events in the Laravel ecosystem
• Jetstream Discussion
• How One Guy Ruined #Hacktoberfest2020
• Hacktoberfest fails

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