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Anna Belak

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Guest:   Dr Anna Belak, Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, former Gartner analyst  Questions:  Analysts (and vendors) coined a log of “C-something acronyms” for cloud security, and two of the people on this episode were directly involved in some of them. What do you make of all the cloud security acronym proliferation? What is CSPM? What gets better when you deploy it? What is CWPP? Does anything get better when you deploy it? What is CNAPP? What gets better when you deploy it? What is CIEM, Anton’s least fave acronym? Now, what about CDR?   Resources:  Gartner acronym glossary  “Container Security: The Past or The Future?” (ep54, with Anna as well)  “Automate and/or Die?” (ep3)  “Impersonating Service Accounts in GCP and Beyond: Cloud Security Is About IAM?” (ep60)  “Powering Secure SaaS … But Not with CASB? Cloud Detection and Response?” (ep76)  “Does the World Need Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)?”  “Announcing Virtual Machine Threat Detection now generally available to Cloud customers”  Sysdig Threat Report Blog  2022 Sysdig Cloud-Native Threat Report   Anatomy of Cloud Attacks 

Guest:  <ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aabelak/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr Anna Belak</a>, Director of Thought Leadership at <a href="https://sysdig.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sysdig</a>, former <a href="https://www.gartner.com/analyst/54703" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gartner analyst</a></li> </ul> Questions: <ul> <li>Analysts (and vendors) coined a log of “C-something acronyms” for cloud security, and two of the people on this episode were directly involved in some of them. What do you make of all the cloud security acronym proliferation?</li> <li>What is CSPM? What gets better when you deploy it?</li> <li>What is CWPP? Does anything get better when you deploy it?</li> <li>What is CNAPP? What gets better when you deploy it?</li> <li>What is CIEM, Anton’s least fave acronym?</li> <li>Now, what about CDR? </li> </ul> Resources: <ul> <li><a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/glossary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gartner acronym glossary</a></li> <li><a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/ep54-container-security-the-past-or-the-future/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Container Security: The Past or The Future?”</a> (ep54, with Anna as well)</li> <li><a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/automate-andor-die-focuses-on-automated-remediation-or-is-it-response-in-the-cloud/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Automate and/or Die?”</a> (ep3)</li> <li><a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/ep60-impersonating-service-accounts-in-gcp-and-beyond-cloud-security-is-about-iam/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Impersonating Service Accounts in GCP and Beyond: Cloud Security Is About IAM?”</a> (ep60)</li> <li><a href="https://cloud.withgoogle.com/cloudsecurity/podcast/ep76-powering-secure-saas-but-not-with-casb-cloud-detection-and-response/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Powering Secure SaaS … But Not with CASB? Cloud Detection and Response?”</a> (ep76)</li> <li><a href="https://medium.com/anton-on-security/does-the-world-need-cloud-detection-and-response-cdr-ea184e6df9f3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Does the World Need Cloud Detection and Response (CDR)?”</a></li> <li><a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-virtual-machine-threat-detection-to-block-critical-threats" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> “Announcing Virtual Machine Threat Detection now generally available to Cloud customers”</a></li> <li><a href="https://sysdig.com/blog/2022-sysdig-cloud-native-threat-report" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Sysdig Threat Report Blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://sysdig.com/wp-content/uploads/2022-cloud-native-threat-report.pdf" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> 2022 Sysdig Cloud-Native Threat Report </a></li> <li><a href="https://dig.sysdig.com/c/pf-anatomy-of-cloud-attacks?x=lNxpdq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Anatomy of Cloud Attacks</a></li> </ul>

EP94 Meet Cloud Security Acronyms with Anna Belak

Career Notes

Anna Belak, Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, shares her story from physics to cyber. Anna explains how she went into college with the thinking of getting a physics degree and then for her PhD decided to switch to material science and engineering. Both were not something she enjoyed and ultimately decided to go into cyber. She shares some advice on how you should never limit yourself to your degree, as well as always learning new skills and honing in on skills you already have. She say's by doing these things it will make you into a unicorn, meaning if you are good at one thing and teach yourself to be good at something else, you will become that much more valuable. Anna hopes she makes an impact with the people she works with, she hopes they will want to work with her even long after she leaves a company. We thank Anna for sharing her story.

Anna Belak, Director of Thought Leadership at Sysdig, shares her story from physics to cyber. Anna explains how she went into college with the thinking of getting a physics degree and then for her PhD decided to switch to material science and engineering. Both were not something she enjoyed and ultimately decided to go into cyber. She shares some advice on how you should never limit yourself to your degree, as well as always learning new skills and honing in on skills you already have. She say's by doing these things it will make you into a unicorn, meaning if you are good at one thing and teach yourself to be good at something else, you will become that much more valuable. Anna hopes she makes an impact with the people she works with, she hopes they will want to work with her even long after she leaves a company. We thank Anna for sharing her story.