The Silver Bullet Security Podcast
Show 070 – An Interview with Ross Anderson
The 70th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast is our first repeat performance. Gary chats a second time with Ross Anderson, Professor of Security Engineering at the Computer Laboratory at Cambridge University and author of the book Security Engineering. Ross was a guest on episode 13 of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast and is [...]
Show 069 – An Interview with Steve Myers
On the 69th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Steve Myers, Assistant Professor of Informatics and Computing in the School of Informatics at Indiana University and a member of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity. During this show, Gary and Steve discuss the gap between “real world” computer security and “academic” computer [...]
Show 068 – An Interview with John Steven
On the 68th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary is joined in the studio by John Steven, internal CTO at Cigital. Gary and John discuss how software architecture is being pulled by financial services instead of being pushed by technology firms, why architecture risk analysis is so important (and so hard to automate), [...]
Show 067 – An Interview with Bill Pugh
On the 67th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Bill Pugh, professor at the University of Maryland College Park. Gary and Bill discuss the Marmoset and FindBugs projects, how to teach kids to code and whether coding is an innate ability or is something that can be taught. They also geek [...]
Show 066 – An Interview with Shari Lawrence Pfleeger
On the 66th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Director of Research for the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection at Dartmouth College. Gary and Shari discuss the difference between safety-critical software and security-critical software, why measuring software is hard (security notwithstanding), how to speed up tech transfer, and [...]
Show 066 - An Interview with Shari Lawrence Pfleeger [ 27:27 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (73)Show 065 – An Interview with Giovanni Vigna
On the 65th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary is joined by Giovanni Vigna, professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. They discuss DEFCON’s classic Capture the Flag contest as well as UCSB’s international version. They ponder how the notion of “build security in” might be integrated into a CTF-type contest. Gary [...]
Show 064 – An Interview with Markus Schumacher
On the 64th episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Markus Schumacher, co-founder and CEO of Virtual Forge. Gary and Markus discuss the difference between working for a large corporate and a startup, why Virtual Forge built a code scanning tool for SAP’s ABAP code, whether security people understand the notion of [...]
Show 063 – An Interview with Craig Miller
On the 63rd episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Craig Miller, principal at the MAPA Group. Gary and Craig discuss entrepreneurship, the pluses and minuses of working for start-ups and very large corporations, smart grid security, and working with NRECA. They close out the show discussing movies and books. Dr. Craig [...]
Show 062 – An Interview with Halvar Flake
On the 62nd episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary chats with Halvar Flake (a.k.a. Thomas Dullien), founder of reverse engineering consultancy, Zynamics, which was recently purchased by Google. Gary and Halvar discuss the acquisition, Zynamics’ product BinDiff, whether the “bad guys” are using code understanding tools (including decompilers) better than developers, static versus [...]
Show 061 – An Interview with Carl Landwehr
On the 61st episode of The Silver Bullet Security Podcast, Gary talks with Carl Landwehr, Director of Trustworthy Computing at the National Science Foundation and a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Systems Research within the University of Maryland. Gary and Carl discuss the most important changes in information security that have developed over [...]
