S1:E3 - Marwan Fayed Interview (Part 1)

Our first interview of the season. The accomplished and ever so humble, Marwan Fayed, joins us today. Find him at St. Andrews or at Cloudflare. Timstamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:56 - Interview; Marwan Introduction 2:16 - Role at Cloudflare 4:25 - Community Broadband ISP 5:56 - Industry vs. Academia 7:08 - Day to Day at current role 8:56 - What does an industry lab look like? 10:45 - Security and Privacy research prioritized at Cloudflare 11:31 - What is TLS 1.3 14:26 - Research at Cloudflare 15:09 - Oblivious DNS over HTTPS (ODOH) 17:56 - More on privacy 21:51 - Where does a research idea come from 23:41 - Humility matters in research 25:37 - 2 guiding principles of research 26:11 - Marwan’s lightbulb moment 30:31 - Overlap between reserach and business 31:21 - Community Broadband ISP 33:56 - “No one gets fired for hiring IBM” 36:21 - Backhaul internet 41:06 - Biggest challenges were people, not technology 43:25 - Goodbye