Panther Labs Jack Naglieri: How to Make Security Operations Painless
The Future of Security OperationsShow Notes
Today on the Future of Security Operations Podcast, Thomas is joined by Jack Naglieri, CEO of Panther Labs, a cloud-native SIEM platform that alleviates the pain of traditional SIEM with detection-as-code, a robust security data lake, and huge scalability with zero-ops. Topics discussed in this episode: - The challenges Jack faced while working on security teams at organizations like Yahoo and Airbnb. - The difference between security at Yahoo and Airbnb. - The origin story of StreamAlert - the open-source tool Jack built while working at Airbnb. - How a VCs cold email eventually led to Jack founding Panther Labs and how they acquired their first customers. - How Panther is different from traditional SIEM platforms. - What you need to know about detection-as-code and security data lakes. - Why teams need to focus on security — not operations. - Lessons learned from Jack working closely with fast-growing sophisticated security teams that make up Panther’s customer base. - What security operations will look like in the future. - Why security teams must learn and embrace automation to deal with the challenges of cloud-scale security. - What features are coming next from Panther Labs. Resources mention on the episode: Jack’s podcast: Detection at Scale Jack’s blog post: From StreamAlert to Panther Jack’s keynote releasing StreamAlert: USENIX Enigma 2017 — StreamAlert: A Serverless, Real-time Intrusion Detection Engine
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