Guest:

• Alex Pinto, Associate Director of Threat Intelligence, Verizon Business, Lead the Verizon Data Breach Report

Topics:

• How would you define “a cloud breach”? Is that a real (and different) thing?
• Are cloud breaches just a result of leaked keys and creds?
• If customers are responsible for 99% of cloud security problems, is cloud breach really about a customer being breached?
• Are misconfigurations really responsible for so many cloud security breaches? How are we still failing at configuration?
• What parts of DBIR are not total “groundhog day”?
• Something about vuln exploitation vs credential abuse in today’s breaches–what’s driving the shifts we’re seeing? DBIR
• Are we at peak ransomware? Will ransomware be here in 20 years? Will we be here in 20 years talking about it?
• How is AI changing the breach report, other than putting in hilarious footnotes about how the report is for humans to read and and is written by actual humans?

Resources:

• Video (LinkedIn, YouTube)
• Verizon DBIR 2025
• EP222 From Post-IR Lessons to Proactive Security: Deconstructing Mandiant M-Trends
• EP205 Cybersecurity Forecast 2025: Beyond the Hype and into the Reality
• EP112 Threat Horizons - How Google Does Threat Intelligence
• EP223 AI Addressable, Not AI Solvable: Reflections from RSA 2025

Guest

• Alan Braithwaite, Co-founder and CTO @ RunReveal

Topics:

• SIEM is hard, and many vendors have discovered this over the years. You need to get storage, security and integration complexity just right. You also need to be better than incumbents. How would you approach this now?
• Decoupled SIEM vs SIEM/EDR/XDR combo. These point in the opposite directions, which side do you think will win?
• In a world where data volumes are exploding, especially in cloud environments, you're building a SIEM with ClickHouse as its backend, focusing on both parsed and raw logs. What's the core advantage of this approach, and how does it address the limitations of traditional SIEMs in handling scale?
• Cribl, Bindplane and “security pipeline vendors” are all the rage. Won’t it be logical to just include this into a modern SIEM?
• You're envisioning a 'Pipeline QL' that compiles to SQL, enabling 'detection in SQL.' This sounds like a significant shift, and perhaps not to the better? (Anton is horrified, for once) How does this approach affect detection engineering?
• With Sigma HQ support out-of-the-box, and the ability to convert SPL to Sigma, you're clearly aiming for interoperability. How crucial is this approach in your vision, and how do you see it benefiting the security community?
• What is SIEM in 2025 and beyond? What’s the endgame for security telemetry data? Is this truly SIEM 3.0, 4.0 or whatever-oh?

Resources:

• EP197 SIEM (Decoupled or Not), and Security Data Lakes: A Google SecOps Perspective
• EP123 The Good, the Bad, and the Epic of Threat Detection at Scale with Panther
• EP190 Unraveling the Security Data Fabric: Need, Benefits, and Futures
• “20 Years of SIEM: Celebrating My Dubious Anniversary” blog
• “RSA 2025: AI’s Promise vs. Security’s Past — A Reality Check” blog
• tl;dr security newsletter
• Introducing a RunReveal Model Context Protocol Server!
• MCP: Building Your SecOps AI Ecosystem
• AI Runbooks for Google SecOps: Security Operations with Model Context Protocol

Guests:

• Eric Foster, CEO of Tenex.AI
• Venkata Koppaka, CTO of Tenex.AI

Topics:

• Why is your AI-powered MDR special? Why start an MDR from scratch using AI?
• So why should users bet on an “AI-native” MDR instead of an MDR that has already got its act together and is now applying AI to an existing set of practices?
• What’s the current breakdown in labor between your human SOC analysts vs your AI SOC agents? How do you expect this to evolve and how will that change your unit economics?
• What tasks are humans uniquely good at today’s SOC? How do you expect that to change in the next 5 years?
• We hear concerns about SOC AI missing things –but we know humans miss things all the time too. So how do you manage buyer concerns about the AI agents missing things?
• Let’s talk about how you’re helping customers measure your efficacy overall. What metrics should organizations prioritize when evaluating MDR?

Resources:

• Video
• EP223 AI Addressable, Not AI Solvable: Reflections from RSA 2025 (quote from Eric in the title!)
• EP10 SIEM Modernization? Is That a Thing?
• Tenex.AI blog
• “RSA 2025: AI’s Promise vs. Security’s Past — A Reality Check” blog
• The original ASO 10X SOC paper that started it all (2021)
• “Baby ASO: A Minimal Viable Transformation for Your SOC” blog
• “The Return of the Baby ASO: Why SOCs Still Suck?” blog
• "Learn Modern SOC and D&R Practices Using Autonomic Security Operations (ASO) Principles" blog