O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Focusing on defense, making security better for everyone, and how it takes a village.In this episode, I talk with Allison Miller, product manager for secure browsing at Google and my co-host of the O’Reilly Security conference, which is returning to New York City this fall. We discuss the importance of having an event focused solely on defense, what we’re looking forward to this year, and some notable ideas and topics from the call for proposals.Here are some highlights: Focusing on defense When we created O’Reilly Security conference we took a risk because we said, "We're going to focus on the defenders, the folks who are protecting the users and the systems." I heard from others over and over again, "How are you going to make a whole agenda out of that?" because it's usually one track at a major security event, or a handful of talks on authentication or SIM technology. At some security events, someone who works on the defense side can feel a little