Ink8r (in·cu·ba·tor) Podcast
by ink8r
A podcast covering socio-technical themes, concepts, and technologies that matter to the modern enterprise
Episodes
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Episode #53 - Productivity Through Self-Awareness
In this compelling episode of The Incubator Podcast, hosts Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd dive into the theme of productivity with TJ Walia, Founder and CEO of ZenTek Solutions. TJ shares his transformative journey from burnout to balance, sparked by a severe panic attack during his high-pressure...
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Episode #52 - Exploring Cybersecurity Strategies for 2025
In this episode of the Incubator Podcast, hosts Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd sit down with Daniel Hooper, a cybersecurity expert with over 25 years of experience, including a decade as a CISO. They dive into the evolving world of cybersecurity, exploring key challenges and strategies for 2025....
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Episode #51 - Securing the API Frontier with Salt Security
In this episode of the Incubator Podcast, hosts Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd sit down with Nick Rago, Vice President of Product Strategy at Salt Security, a leading firm in API security. The conversation dives into the evolution of API security, the pioneering role of Salt Security, and the...
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Episode #3 - Democratizing Telemetry Collection with Morgan McLean
In this episode, we speak with Morgan McLean, Director of Product Management for Splunk Observability Cloud, and co-founder of OpenCensus and OpenTelemetry. As a governance committee member of the OpenTelemetry project, Morgan is shaping how to democratize the collection of telemetry signals...
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Episode #50 - Building a Data Security Foundation with Bedrock Security
In this episode of the Incubator podcast, co-hosts Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd sit down with Bruno Kurtic, the CEO and co-founder of Bedrock Security, to discuss his journey in enterprise software. Bruno shares his experience building Sumo Logic, a cloud-native log analytics platform that went...
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Episode #49 - Securing SaaS: Reco’s AI-Driven End-to-End SSPM Solution
In this episode of the Incubator Podcast, hosts Darren Boyd and Satbir Sran welcome Ofer Klein, the co-founder and CEO of Reco.ai, to delve into the evolving landscape of SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM). Ofer shares his diverse background—from flying helicopters in the Israeli Air Force…
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Episode #48 - Navigating the Future of AI with Ahead
In this episode of the Incubator Podcast, co-hosts Darren Boyd and Satbir Sran welcome Ethan Rasa, an AI Sales Specialist at Ahead, to explore the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence and how enterprises can harness its potential. Key Highlights: Introducing Ahead: Discover how Ahead—a...
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Episode #47 - Exploring the future of APIs and how to secure them
In this exciting episode of The Incubator Podcast, co-hosts Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd sit down with Reza Shafii, Senior Vice President of Product at Kong Inc., to discuss the ever-evolving landscape of API management, service mesh technologies, and the future of developer platforms. A key focus...
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Episode #46 - ‘Space Container’: Creative IT Solutions, Without Limits
In this insightful episode of the Incubator podcast, hosts Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd are joined by Craig Martin, VP at Ahead and leader of the Digital Solutions Group. In this episode, Craig, a devout Grateful Dead fan, shares the transformative strategies his team uses to help organizations...
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Episode #45 - Observability Pipelines Reimagined with Observo.ai
Join us in this exciting episode of the Incubator podcast as co-hosts Darren Boyd and Satbir Sran sit down with Ricky Arora, the co-founder and COO of Observo.ai. Dive into the cutting-edge world of AI-powered observability pipelines and discover how Observo.ai is transforming the landscape of…
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Episode #44 - Operating at the Cyber Frontier with Zscaler
In this episode of the Incubator Podcast, co-hosts Satbir Sran and Darren Boyd welcome Brian Deitch, Chief Technology Evangelist at Zscaler. With an impressive 30% of Forbes Global 2000 companies as clients, Zscaler is making significant strides in connecting people to resources and enhancing...
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Episode #43 - Cultivating Resilience and Innovation in Cybersecurity with Mel Reyes
In this episode of the Incubator Podcast, hosts Darren Boyd and Satbir Sran welcome Mel Reyes, a distinguished figure in the tech industry known for his roles as a global CIO and CISO, founder of Digital Guardians, and an active community contributor. Mel shares his extensive experience in IT and...
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Episode #42 - Unpacking the Future of Hybrid Clouds with Dell’s PowerFlex
In this episode of the Incubator Podcast, hosts Darren Boyd and Satbir Sran delve into the transformative world of hybrid cloud with guest Steve Bisnett, Global Field CTO for PowerFlex at Dell Technologies. Steve shares insights into his extensive background in the tech industry, especially his...
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Episode #39 - Consumption Economics: A neoclassical view of cloud
In this podcast episode, we delve into the neoclassical economic view of cloud computing with Sarbjeet Johal, analyst, evangelist, and founder. The discussion begins by exploring the relevance of cloud in modern digital transformation. We then explore principles rooted in neoclassical economics,...
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Episode #40 - Anonymisation through pseudonymisation
In this podcast episode, we delve into data masking, data privacy, test data management, test environment management, the role of synthetic data, and the value of establishing a data fabric. Quite a bit of ground to cover! K2View is a leader in data fabric and Customer 360, creating a…
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Episode #38 - Practicality in Protection: Implementing an AppSec Program
In this episode of our podcast, we sit down with Jeevan Singh, a distinguished leader in the field of Application Security (AppSec), to delve into the intricate world of securing software applications. The discussion highlights the perils and challenges faced by organizations in today’s digital...
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Episode #37 - CISO Perspectives on Cybersecurity Programs, Risks, and Priorities
Join Satbir and Darren as they interview Nemi George, a seasoned Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of Pacific Dental Services, as they cover a complex tapestry of modern cybersecurity concerns. The discussion covers diverse topics including the evolving threat landscape, the rise of...
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Episode #35 - Using Aviatrix to simplify multi-cloud networking
Enterprises are not confined to the boundaries of a single cloud environment. But as many adopters have discovered, navigating multi-cloud isn't without its challenges from a networking perspective. The once-promised flexibility and scalability of the multi-cloud model are often overshadowed by...
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Episode #36 - Leveraging Deep Learning for Deep Defense
Traditional cybersecurity approaches, often retrospective in nature, race to detect and respond to threats only after they've manifested. This reactive paradigm, although necessary, leaves a window of vulnerability—a time-lapse during which systems are exposed, data is compromised, and...
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Episode #41 - Using synthetic data for ultimate privacy
Data security is heavily dependent on context, and as organizations contemplate Test Data Management (TDM) they must consider not only de-identification strategies but re-identification probabilities as well. Data privacy regulations are becoming more stringent, with some regulations having an...
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Episode #34 - A trace-based approach to runtime security
Spyderbat continuously records ALL runtime context in an environment (from Kernel to Cloud) while providing causal linkage (recording both good & bad events alike). Alerts can then be traced along the resultant causal chain that's created. Normal behaviors can then be safely ignored, allowing...
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Episode #33 - A discussion with Sounil Yu, author of the Cyber Defense Matrix
Sounil Yu is an author, cybersecurity visionary/strategist, advisor, security scientist, and leader. In his capacity of Chief Security Scientist at BoA he was in part responsible for developing and optimizing their cybersecurity portfolio. With an ever-expanding set of entrants in cybersecurity…
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Episode #32 - OSS LIbrary-Level Analysis and Least Privilege Enforcement
Oligo Security provides OSS library-level analysis and creates a profile of behavior on runtime. By evaluating what the OSS packages need from the operating system, they can detect malicious activity for each and every component in runtime. Through continuous monitoring, they can alert on...
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Episode #31 - Establishing Enterprise Encryption Supremacy
Primarily known as a pioneer in Confidential Computing, Fortanix has created a unified data security platform that delivers a suite of services, including multi-cloud key management, tokenization/encryption, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE), and specializes in secure enclaves. With 30+ granted…
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Episode #30 - How to build a sustainable AppSec program
Apiiro has built its Code Risk Platform to address risks inherent in material changes to application logic/code ... long before those change ship to prod. Given the imbalance in the ratio of developer to security practitioner, Apiiro's solution is crucial if we are to deliver sustainable security...
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Episode #29 - Tackling the biggest problem affecting code … dependency lifecycle management
As it turns out, managing Open Source Software (OSS) dependencies is extremely difficult. Not all vulnerabilities are in runtime and/or reachable, not all exploits focus on high/critical CVSS, there is a time delay with patches when they are made available, and Semantic Versioning (SerVer) can…
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Episode #28 - A discussion of data cloud economies and security, with Navindra Yadav
Data platforms are evolving, allowing data clouds to connect with consumers and producers of data that may be external or internal to your organization. Sharing with upstream/downstream partners in this data economy presents significant challenges to protecting data. Join us as we discuss this...
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Episode #27 - Promoting Open Standards Observability at a massive scale
Nobody understands observability at scale quite like Chronosphere co-founders Martin Mao (CEO) and Rob Skillington (CTO). While at Uber they created, and open-sourced, the M3 metrics engine, which was capable of handling billions of data points that describe the most complex environments. Then…
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Episode #26 - An Insider Threat Platform that Protects Individual Privacy
When considering an Insider Risk Management (IRM) program a confluence of events complicates effective execution, including a general increase in financial hardship due to the current economic climate, an increasingly remote corporate workforce, steady growth in the gig economy, privacy concerns...
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Episode #25 - Helping Defenders focus on exceptions by offloading day-to-day, with StrikeReady
The annual Cybersecurity Workforce Study conducted by (ISC)² modeled the existing talent shortage as 3.4 million professionals in 2022, up 26% from their 2021 study. The purchasing of a multitude of security products to offset skill gaps can fall short as operators struggle to adapt processes and...
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Episode #24 - Unifying Security Technology and Human Intelligence with Synack
Disrupting traditional security testing approaches is where Synack specializes. They have long recognized that to thwart attacks in modern adversarial campaigns requires a maximal combined talent of human and AI-powered intelligence. Through the gamification and use of crowdsourced expertise…
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Episode #23 - Cyber Defense Services Forged from the Front Lines
At its core, BlueVoyant offers MDR and managed SIEM services for Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel, though they also provide EDR services, 24/7 security monitoring, alert investigations & incident response, forensics & litigation support, attacker simulation & penetration testing, supply chain…
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Episode #22 - Operating at the nexus of Observability & Security data
Cribl provides a real-time data stream management platform for MELT data that enables organizations to gain insights and take action on data in place (right at the source), data at rest (already stored in a data lake), and eventually data in motion (transitioning an observability pipeline). Back…
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Episode #21 - Automating continuous Classifying, Modeling, & Auditing of data actions with Theom
We at Ink8r have long been advocates for calibrating protection against threat modeling exercises to properly align protection for assets. When it comes to securing production resources in the cloud this often means extending beyond Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) and including Data...
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Episode #19 - Constructing a versatile SSDLC pipeline that can simply do more
How many pipelines does my organization need? What pipeline construction patterns are most acceptable to my developers? What intelligence should I inject into the pipeline? Nick Durkin, Field CTO & VP of Field Engineering from Harness answers these and more. Join us in this episode as we unpack...
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Episode #18 - To truly understand the pervasive use of SaaS in your enterprise, turn to SSCP
Enterprises rely on dozens to hundreds of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, both sanctioned and unsanctioned, for their workloads, data, and processes. This attack surface requires SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) to protect the enterprise, but how do enterprises truly discover…
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Episode #16 - Harmonizing your AppSecOps Program
Application delivery velocity is driving a need to bolster an organization's existing software security posture. One fundamental aspect in fortifying an AppSec strategy is to leverage the API’s of existing application portfolio management solutions, code repositories, open source code scanning,...
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Episode #15 - Reimagining Observability and making it viable
We heard a great quote at RESOLVE'22 this year which said, "customers pay for up time and companies pay for downtime". A rather adroit quote, and one that truly captures the Sisyphean challenge of ensuring applications are performant in the way we expect. When it comes to the Herculean task (wow…
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Episode #13 - Running MELT through analytics at the edge
There is always tremendous value in decreasing latency in any decision-making process, particularly when we are dealing with stream processing in support of system and application observability. By running Metrics, Events, Logs, and Trace (MELT) data through an analytics algorithm at time of...
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Episode #14 - Enabling Collaborative IaC with specialized CICD
Many, if not most, organizations operate as polyglots - polyglot environments, polyglot programming languages, polyglot persistence, and so on. Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) automation is no exception to this complexity with organizations often supporting polyglot IaC CICD tooling. Teams introduce...
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Episode #17 - An Observability breakout session from Resolve '22, with the Ink8r Team
Satbir and Darren were interviewed in a breakout session at Resolve '22, a BigPanda-organized community event. It was a wonderful opportunity for the Ink8r team to share thoughts on the domain of Observability, as directed by Aaron Johnson (BigPanda SE). Join us in this episode as we cover topics...
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Episode #10 - Cloud-native security with a rules-optional intelligence platform
Lacework has a patented platform, Polygraph Data Platform, which ingests data, analyzes behavior, and detects anomalies across an organization’s multi-cloud environment. Lacework continuously monitors user, app, process, and network behavior, as well as continuously evaluating vulnerabilities and...
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Episode #12 - Using AI to baseline good behavior to block malicious email
Social engineering attacks such as Business Email Compromise (BEC), supply chain fraud, executive impersonation, and ransomware, are complex vectors that readily evade solutions that rely on conventional threat intelligence and known bad indicators. Modern attacks frequently bypass secure email...
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Episode #11 - Building data security into DevOps infrastructure
In the modern enterprise data spans multiple cloud providers, regions, databases, object stores, and data lakes. Users, developers, supply-chain vendors, and contractors all access data via multiple roles and applications. In a truly dynamic environment where developers instantiate instances,...
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Episode #8 - Build trust in your software with the leader in AppSec
Synopsys is a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Application Security Testing (AST) for the 6th straight year. Their portfolio is among the most comprehensive in the market, supplementing the foundational aspects of AST with an acquired portfolio of award-winning products including SAST…
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Episode #7 - Protecting API business logic & vulnerabilities with Cequence Security
Cequence Security understands API attack surfaces, protecting upwards of 6 billion API transactions on any given day. In this podcast episode, we speak with Vince Bryant, Senior Director of Business Development of Cequence Security. In an age characterized by velocity in execution, Cequence will…
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Episode #6 - Moving Beyond Observability with Aaron Johnson
As we begin emitting more signals from more endpoints in servitude of more complex transactions, it becomes clear that being observable isn't enough. Join us as we talk with Aaron Johnson (AJ), BigPanda as we explore the nature of correlation as a key component to ensuring services perform as...
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Episode #5 - At the intersection of Observability and Security
It’s in their DNA - sysdig (lower case ’s’) started as an open source troubleshooting tool, and the company has maintained that commitment to community. They donated Falco to CNCF as an incubating project with contributors that include AWS, Google, Microsoft, Cisco, and VMware, they leverage...
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Episode #4 - Why Proactive API Security is Today's Imperative
APIs have become the largest abuse vector with even the most sophisticated development organizations falling prey to exposure. This episode of the podcast discusses the landscape and where organizations can begin securing their interfaces with Matt Tesauro, Distinguished Engineer at Noname…
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