EP175 Meet Crystal Lister: From Public Sector to Google Cloud Security and Threat Horizons

Guest: Crystal Lister, Technical Program Manager, Google Cloud Security Topics: Your background can be sheepishly called "public sector", what's your experience been transitioning from public to private? How did you end up here doing what you are doing? We imagine you learned a lot from what you just described – how's that impacted your work at Google? How have you seen risk management practices and outcomes differ? You now lead Google Threat Horizons reports, do you have a vision for this? How does your past work inform it? Given the prevalence of ransomware attacks, many organizations are focused on external threats. In your experience, does the risk of insider threats still hold significant weight? What type of company needs a dedicated and separate insider threat program? Resources: Video on YouTube Google Cybersecurity Action Team Threat Horizons Report #9 Is Out! Google Cybersecurity Action Team site for previous Threat Horizons Reports EP112 Threat Horizons - How Google Does Threat Intelligence Psychology of Intelligence Analysis by Richards J. Heuer The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman  Visualizing Google Cloud: 101 Illustrated References for Cloud Engineers and Architects