mnemonic security podcast

Feb 02 2025 129 ep. 35 mins 42
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The mnemonic security podcast is a place where IT Security professionals can go to obtain insight into what their peers are working with and thinking about.

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n-days

Feb 02 2025 42 mins  
In this episode of the mnemonic security podcast, Robby is joined by Dustin Childs, Head of Threat Awareness at Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). Dustin explains the ZDI’s role in purchasing and analysing vulnerabilities to provide early protection for customers and how zero days – previously unknown vulnerabilities – become "n-days" once disclosed or patched. The co

CTFs

Jan 19 2025 44 mins  
In this episode of the mnemonic security podcast, Robby is joined by Eirik Nordbø and Marius Kotlarz from Equinor, as well as Haakon Staff from mnemonic.Together, they discuss the world of Capture the Flag (CTF) competitions, exploring their origins, structure, and benefits. CTFs, as they explain, are “hacking” contests featuring challenges such as cryptography and reverse eng

Reverse Engineering

Jan 05 2025 52 mins  
To kick off 2025, Robby chats with Duncan Ogilvie, a renowned expert in Reverse Engineering (RE), the creator of x64dbg (a popular open-source x64/x32 debugger for Windows), and the mind behind 100+ other cool projects. Their conversation covers the evolving field of RE, discussing common challenges, practical techniques, and how professionals navigate the landscape. Duncan also sh

Risk Hunting

Dec 15 2024 46 mins  
In this episode of the mnemonic security podcast, Robby is joined by Tony Fergusson, CISO EMEA at Zscaler. They start with a market update on Zero Trust and discuss the challenges relating to adoption that he has observed (ever heard of the Popcorn Theory?). Fergusson then introduces the concept of risk hunting – a proactive strategy to identify and mitigate risks before they esc

CNAPP

Dec 01 2024 43 mins  
In this episode of the mnemonic security podcast, Robby is joined by Scott Piper from Wiz and Håkon Sørum from O3 Cyber to talk cloud security. They cover the evolution of cloud security products since Amazon's release of S3 and EC2 in 2006 and how the market has matured into the CNAPP we know today. They chime in on most of the buzzwords associated with CNAPP, including Cloud Se

Deviation Detection

Nov 17 2024 40 mins  
In this episode, Robby is joined by Maximilian Heinemeyer, Chief Product Officer at Darktrace.The conversation focuses on Max's perspective on detection engineering and the use of machine learning. He shares his opinion on the limitations of traditional, signature/behaviour-based detection methods and the challenges organisations face when building complex detection engineering sys

Infostealers

Nov 03 2024 36 mins  
In this new episode of the mnemonic security podcast, Robby Peralta is joined by Leonid Rozenberg, a cybersecurity expert and dark web researcher at Hudson Rock, to discuss infostealers. Rozenberg provides a brief history of infostealers, which began with Zeus in 2007, a malware initially designed to steal only banking information. Today, infostealers have evolved to capture all ty

Prioritisation & Decision Making in Critical Infrastructure Defence

Oct 13 2024 36 mins  
Joe Slowik, ATT&CK CTI Lead at MITRE, joins the latest episode of the mnemonic security podcast to share his insights on the complexities of securing critical infrastructure. With a background in cyber threat intelligence, incident response, and detection engineering, Joe discusses with Robby the challenge of defining and prioritising what's truly "critical" in a landscape wher

KraftCERT Threat Assessment 2024

Sep 29 2024 41 mins  
KraftCERT trusselvurdering 2024 | In Norwegian onlyIn this episode, Robby is joined by Espen Endal and Bjørn Tore Hellesøy from KraftCERT/InfraCERT - the Norwegian CERT for the energy and petroleum sectors. The trio discuss the Threat Assessment report recently published by KraftCERT/InfraCERT, and the unique challenges the Norwegian energy sectors are facing. They touch into top

Risk Forecast: Windy

Sep 15 2024 33 mins  
In this episode, Robby speaks with Jens Christian Vedersø, Head of Cyber Risk Management at Vestas, one of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers.Jens is a former Navy and intelligence officer and recovering regulator. Before managing cyber risk in the renewable energy sector, Jens helped develop energy sector legislation and cyber preparedness at the Danish Energy Agenc