5 Podcast Episodes You Should Listen To

Have you listened to Symantec’s Cyber Security Brief podcast yet? If not, these 5 episodes are a good place to start.

Threat Intel
Threat Intel
3 min readMay 1, 2019

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The Symantec Cyber Security Brief podcast has been running for almost a year now, with more than 40 episodes available on our website.

However, if you don’t have time to dip in to all of them, here are five of the most interesting ones that we would recommend.

Special Report: Financial Threats

On this podcast we take an in-depth look at the financial threats cyber crime landscape. Brigid O’Gorman is joined by Symantec threat analysts Stephen Doherty and Eric Chien to discuss the threats facing both banking consumers and banks themselves. We also discuss the Lazarus group’s role in high-value attacks targeting financial institutions, and talk about the future of the financial threats landscape.

Deep Dive: Symantec Takes on Software Supply Chain Attacks

On this podcast special, Dick O’Brien is joined by Symantec product manager Arvind Rao and architect Haik Mesropian to discuss their work, and what they are doing to combat software supply chain attacks, the products they are building, and how they are hoping their efforts will help developers combat these attacks.

Special Report: What is it Really Like to Work in Cyber Security?

We take a behind-the-scenes look at life in Symantec in this podcast. Dick O’Brien chats to three Symantec engineers working in different parts of the company, and at different stages in their careers, to find out what it is really like to work as an engineer in a cyber security firm. Dick is joined by engineers Sayali Kulkarni, Conor Murray and Eric Chien to discuss the evolution of their careers in cyber security.

Interview: Neil Jenkins, Chief Analytic Officer, Cyber Threat Alliance

On this episode of the podcast, Dick O’Brien is joined by Neil Jenkins, the Chief Analytic Officer at the Cyber Threat Alliance (CTA). The CTA brings together various vendors in the cyber security community to help them better protect their customers and the public at large. Neil tells Dick about the aims of the CTA, its achievements and challenges so far, and the alliance’s plans for the future.

Interview: Martijn Grooten, Editor, Virus Bulletin

On this edition of the Cyber Security Brief podcast, Brigid O’Gorman is joined by Martijn Grooten, editor of Virus Bulletin. We discuss Martijn’s career and how he ended up in his role at Virus Bulletin, as well as the threats that need tackling on the current cyber security landscape. We also take a look at the email space, and the way threats there have developed.

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