DiscoverCloud Security Podcast by GoogleEP248 Cloud IR Tabletop Wins: How to Stop Playing Security Theater and Start Practicing
EP248 Cloud IR Tabletop Wins: How to Stop Playing Security Theater and Start Practicing

EP248 Cloud IR Tabletop Wins: How to Stop Playing Security Theater and Start Practicing

Update: 2025-10-20
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Guest:

  • Jibran Ilyas, Director for Incident Response at Google Cloud

Topics:

  • What is this tabletop thing, please tell us about running a good security incident tabletop? 
  • Why are tabletops for incident response preparedness so amazingly effective yet rarely done well?
  • This is cheap/easy/useful so why do so many fail to do it? Why are tabletops seen as kind of like elite pursuit?
  • What’s your favorite Cloud-centric scenario for tabletop exercises? Ransomware? But there is little ransomware in the cloud, no?
  • What are other good cloud tabletop scenarios?

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EP248 Cloud IR Tabletop Wins: How to Stop Playing Security Theater and Start Practicing

EP248 Cloud IR Tabletop Wins: How to Stop Playing Security Theater and Start Practicing

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