Keeping bad guys out is always better than trying to detect breaches after they have happened. Many security vendors seem to have largely given up on that idea, however. That is, there’s a lot of focus on an ‘assume breach’ attitude nowadays, not so much on ‘assume our defenses will hold’. There are a lot of good reasons why this makes sense, reasons we have gone into at length in earlier episodes of this podcast series. But what does a prevention-first mindset look like in 2024? Listen to this episode of Techzine Talks on Tour to find out.
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To better understand a prevention-first approach, Check Point is one of the obvious vendors to chat with. It’s one of a very select group of security suppliers that still holds this position. As one of the inventors of the firewall around 30 years ago, this position makes perfect sense of course. Still, it’s quite rare nowadays to hear a company take this stance so clearly, without losing sight of the necessity of things like EDR and XDR in its platform too.
For this episode of Techzine Talks on Tour, Sander sits down with Itai Greenberg, Chief Strategy Officer at Check Point, at RSA Conference in San Francisco. They discuss in depth what it means to have a prevention-first approach. Not only from the point of view of Check Point, but also what it means for its customers. Especially in a world in which AI-driven cyber threats are on the rise and will continue to be on the rise for some time, (AI-driven) prevention is more important than ever, he states.
Besides a prevention-first approach, Itai and Sander discuss many more things. The challenge for customers of how to integrate various security solutions into one security stack is one. More collaboration between security vendors is absolutely crucial to achieve this. Another interesting discussion in this episode is the one on the risks posed by vulnerabilities in open-source and third-party software.
All in all, there are quite a few interesting nuggets of information on the security landscape as a whole, Check Point’s role in it and organizations’ approaches to cybersecurity in this episode.
About Techzine Talks on Tour
Techzine Talks on Tour is a podcast series that Coen and Sander record while attending events all over the world. A spin-off of the successful Dutch series Techzine Talks, this new English series aims to reach new audiences. The goal is to publish a fresh episode at least every two weeks. With the occasional increase in frequency around specific larger events with more recordings.
Techzine Talks on Tour covers a huge range of topics. Coen and Sander attend a total of 50 to 60 events each year. That means there’s a lot to discuss. They attend various types of events. It could be open-source affairs like KubeCon. A week later one of them shows up at a conference hosted by Cisco, IBM, Salesforce and ServiceNow, for example. With a lot of experience in many walks of IT life, Coen and Sander always manage to produce an engaging, in-depth discussion on general trends, but also on the underlying technology itself.
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Previous episodes of Techzine Talks on Tour:
- From encryption to exfiltration: how do you secure and protect your data?
- Making enterprise software smarter and more effective with AI
- The evolution of ERP with generative AI technology
- How does a white hat hacker become a cloud security leader?
- Splunk and Cisco: making sense of observability together
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We hope you like this new podcast series. If so, please let us know. If you have suggestions on how we can improve, we would like to hear those too. We’re also open to suggestions around specific topics, or specific people that want to appear in an episode of Techzine Talks on Tour. You can find both Coen and Sander on LinkedIn, or you can send an email to info@techzine.eu.