Was Akamai the Velvet Underground of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? - Abhijit Mehta - Bonus

What is the role of a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)? - Melanie Ensign - Bonus

Host Kevin Riggle interviews Melanie Ensign, former Global Head of Security, Privacy, & Engineering Communications for Uber, about what the role of a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is.  (Hint: It's not being the smartest security person in the room.) Bonus episode from https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/the-reporter-called-her-christmas-day-melanie-ensign-bug-bounty-incident-management-programs Video: https://youtu.be/e60YHYHTFUk Melanie's newsletter: https://discernibleinc.com/newsletter-signup Melanie's company: https://discernibleinc.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieensign/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/imeluny Mastodon: https://defcon.social/@Wednesday To subscribe to the video version of the podcast on YouTube, and watch other Critical Point content, check out https://youtube.com/@critical-point [https://youtube.com/@critical-point]  Credits:  Edited by sleepingsage. Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission. https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).

He Won George Hotz's Money - Andrey Petrov

Host Kevin Riggle interviews Andrey Petrov about three different incidents he was involved with: A programming mistake in high school that filled its alumni's email inboxes, a Twitter analytics site he built that got co-opted as part of a phishing scam, and how he won a bug bounty on the Ethereum blockchain rollup prototype developed by superstar hacker George Hotz. Chapters: * (00:00) - Intros/titles * (05:02) - The Alumni Email Explosion * (18:00) - The Twitter Tracker Takeover * (33:09) - The George Hotz Ethereum Rollups Bug Bounty Bonanza * (57:02) - Socials/outro Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWuqAePsquo News coverage of the Twitter Tracker Takeover: “New Twitter Scam Won't Show You Your 'Stalkers'” - NBC News https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44123467 “Beware: Twitter spam viral application on the loose” - Posilan https://www.posilan.com/2011/07/20/beware-twitter-spam-viral-application-on-the-loose/ “After a lull of a few months, new Twitter Phishing Scam phrases appear” - Just Practising https://www.justpractising.com/social-tools/twitter/after-a-lull-new-twitter-phishing-scam-phrases-appear/  Andrey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shazow Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth Web site: https://shazow.net/ To subscribe to the video version of the podcast on YouTube, and watch other Critical Point content, check out https://youtube.com/@critical-point [https://youtube.com/@critical-point]  Credits:  Edited by sleepingsage. Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission. https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).

The Reporter Called Her Christmas Day - Melanie Ensign - Bug Bounty & Incident Management

Kevin Riggle interviews Melanie Ensign (Discernible Inc.), former Global Head of Security, Privacy, & Engineering Communications for Uber, about building good bug bounty programs, incident management processes, and one especially memorable Christmas morning. Melanie's company: https://discernibleinc.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieensign/ Twitter: https://x.com/imeluny Mastodon: https://defcon.social/@Wednesday Credits:  Edited by sleepingsage. Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission. https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).

The Future Is (Literally!) Bright - How Infrastructure Works, by Deb Chachra - Climate, Energy, & the Future

Kevin Riggle interviews Deb Chachra, professor of engineering at Olin College and author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS about climate change, the housing crisis, the green/sustainable energy transition, and how we can build a better world for ourselves and everyone around us. BUY DEB'S BOOK! https://criticalpoint.tv/infrastructure Deb's Twitter: https://twitter.com/debcha Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/debcha.bsky.social Mastodon: https://saturation.social/@debcha Web site: http://debcha.org Big Dig podcast from WGBH Boston: https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big-dig Chapters: Credits:  Edited by sleepingsage. Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission. https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).

Was Akamai the Velvet Underground of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? - Abhijit Mehta - Bonus

Kevin Riggle interviews Abhijit Mehta about Akamai and its role in the history and development of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).  Bonus episode outtake from https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/he-broke-turkish-twitter-abhijit-mehta Abhijit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhijitCMehta Abhijit's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehtaabhijit/ To watch the video version of the podcast on YouTube, check out the channel page at https://youtube.com/@critical-point Credits: Transcript/captions by Melody Wisp (https://melodywisp.carrd.co/#commissions). Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission. https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez. https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright ⓒ 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC.  All Rights Reserved. Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).