O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Compounding security technical debt, the importance of security hygiene, and how the speed of innovation reintroduces vulnerabilities.In this episode, I talk with Dave Lewis, global security advocate at Akamai. We talk about how technical sprawl and employee churn compounds security debt, the tenacity of solvable security problems, and how the speed of innovation reintroduces vulnerabilities.Here are some highlights: How technical sprawl and employee churn compound security debt Twenty plus years ago when I started working in security, we had a defined set of things we had to deal with on a continuous basis. As our environments expand with things like cloud computing, we have taken that core set of worries and multiplied them plus, plus, plus. Things that we should have been doing well 20 years ago—like patching, asset management—have gotten far worse at this point. We have grown our security debt to unmanageable levels in a lot of cases. People who are respons