Alex Gounares's guest appearances

Alex Gounares

The EPAM Continuum Podcast Network

Secure Ventures with Kyle McNulty

Sarah Williams

Tom Peters

Bruce Schneier

Eric Topol

Elisabeth Rosenthal

Maurício Manhães

Mike Gorman

Alan Rusbridger

Megan Burns

David Stewart

Jessica Helfand

Amy Virshup

Noreena Hertz

Eric Cole

Ben Waber

OwlTail

Archis Gore

Alex:  17 year tenure at Microsoft including Bill Gates' Technology Advisor Has started 5 companies Angel investor Board member on several companies CEO at Polyverse  Archis:  Previously a software developer at both Microsoft and Amazon Won a computing competition in India Board member at the Center on Contemporary Art CTO at Polyverse  Polyverse:  Provide continuous protection to Linux systems from memory-based attacks through operating system controls.

Alex: <ul> <li>17 year tenure at Microsoft including Bill Gates' Technology Advisor</li> <li>Has started 5 companies</li> <li>Angel investor</li> <li>Board member on several companies</li> <li>CEO at Polyverse</li> </ul> Archis: <ul> <li>Previously a software developer at both Microsoft and Amazon</li> <li>Won a computing competition in India</li> <li>Board member at the Center on Contemporary Art</li> <li>CTO at Polyverse</li> </ul> Polyverse: <ul> <li>Provide continuous protection to Linux systems from memory-based attacks through operating system controls.</li></ul>

Polyverse: Alex Gounares and Archis Gore

Sam Rehman

Prepare yourself for an episode of *Silo Busting* with a tremendous amount of, as they say, yield. Alex Gounares, CEO of Polyverse Corporation, has returned pick up the zero-trust thread. This time around, he and Sam Rehman, our Chief Information Security Officer and SVP,  are following their way down the security supply chain. Asks Gounares: “If you don’t know where your binaries are coming from and you don’t know where the source code is and you don’t know who built it, what do you do then?” The guys chat about choosing between open source and proprietary code, building your own Linux as opposed to getting polymorphic, adding noise to the system, the *patience* of some attackers, and sophisticated back doors. It’s the insightful sound of #CybersecurityByDesign, friends, and it’s good. Trust us.  Host: Alison KotinEngineer: Kyp PilalasProducer: Ken Gordon

Prepare yourself for an episode of *Silo Busting* with a tremendous amount of, as they say, yield. Alex Gounares, CEO of Polyverse Corporation, has returned pick up the zero-trust thread. This time around, he and Sam Rehman, our Chief Information Security Officer and SVP, are following their way down the security supply chain. Asks Gounares: “If you don’t know where your binaries are coming from and you don’t know where the source code is and you don’t know who built it, what do you do then?” The guys chat about choosing between open source and proprietary code, building your own Linux as opposed to getting polymorphic, adding noise to the system, the *patience* of some attackers, and sophisticated back doors. It’s the insightful sound of #CybersecurityByDesign, friends, and it’s good. Trust us. Host: Alison Kotin Engineer: Kyp Pilalas Producer: Ken Gordon

Silo Busting 16: Alex Gounares and Sam Rehman on Zero Trust and Supply Chain

When Sun Tzu wrote: “All warfare is based on deception," he probably wasn’t thinking of the SolarWinds attack. But it seems like we might learn something about that recent event by studying his legendary text, *The Art of War.* Or so says Alex Gounares, CEO of Polyverse Corporation and our guest on  the latest #CybersecurityByDesign episode of *Silo Busting.* Sun Tzu and the military talk about using decoys, says Gounares, and "cyber attackers use decoys all the time. And it works. It fooled World War II Germany with the decoys for the Calais invasion, it fooled in Confucian times, and it fools today in 2020.” If you don’t want to be fooled, you’ll attend—carefully—to what Gounares and Sam Rehman say in this spirited conversation. Gounares—who in a previous life was Bill Gates’ technological advisor—zeroes in on the extremely topical theme of zero-trust software. Says Gounares: “Zero trust is this idea of saying: Assume the world around you is messy.” Listening to these two veterans talk about micro-segmentation, entropy, and repeatability is an educational experience you won’t want to miss. Trust us. Host: Alison KotinEngineer: Kyp PilalasProducer: Ken Gordon

When Sun Tzu wrote: “All warfare is based on deception," he probably wasn’t thinking of the SolarWinds attack. But it seems like we might learn something about that recent event by studying his legendary text, *The Art of War.* Or so says Alex Gounares, CEO of Polyverse Corporation and our guest on the latest #CybersecurityByDesign episode of *Silo Busting.* Sun Tzu and the military talk about using decoys, says Gounares, and "cyber attackers use decoys all the time. And it works. It fooled World War II Germany with the decoys for the Calais invasion, it fooled in Confucian times, and it fools today in 2020.” If you don’t want to be fooled, you’ll attend—carefully—to what Gounares and Sam Rehman say in this spirited conversation. Gounares—who in a previous life was Bill Gates’ technological advisor—zeroes in on the extremely topical theme of zero-trust software. Says Gounares: “Zero trust is this idea of saying: Assume the world around you is messy.” Listening to these two veterans talk about micro-segmentation, entropy, and repeatability is an educational experience you won’t want to miss. Trust us. Host: Alison Kotin Engineer: Kyp Pilalas Producer: Ken Gordon

Silo Busting 13: Zero-Trust Software with Alex Gounares and Sam Rehman