• Barracuda's Adam Khan on AI-driven XDR and plugging the cybersecurity skills gap

  • Apr 9 2024
  • Length: 37 mins
  • Podcast

Barracuda's Adam Khan on AI-driven XDR and plugging the cybersecurity skills gap

  • Summary

  • In this week’s episode of The Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas is joined by Adam Khan. Adam is a cybersecurity and technology leader with over 25 years of experience working at Fortune 500 companies. He has a proven track record of building and managing global security teams, leading engineering, infrastructure, application, and product, and is currently VP of Global Security Operations at Barracuda.

    Adam and Thomas discuss:

    - Building discipline and resilience by working on SRE teams

    - How a well-known DDoS attack changed his career path

    - Using automation to reduce alert fatigue

    - Strategies for plugging the security skills gap

    - The potential of AI-driven XDR

    - How cyber attacks are evolving in the age of AI

    - Lessons learned from researching the history of cybersecurity

    - Empowering teams to do their best work

    - Creating a culture of continuous learning

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    Where to find Adam Khan:

    Adam's website: https://www.adamkhancyber.com/

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamkhan-cyber/

    Barracuda: https://www.barracudamsp.com/ and sales@barracudamsp.com

    Where to find Thomas Kinsella:

    Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/thomasksec

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-kinsella/

    Tines: https://www.tines.com/

    Resources mentioned:

    2023 Global Cyber Threat Report by Adam Khan: https://www.adamkhancyber.com/post/2023-global-cyber-threat-report

    Adam's five-part cybersecurity history series on smartermsp.com: https://smartermsp.com/author/akhan/

    DarkReading: https://www.darkreading.com/

    BleepingComputer: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/

    In this episode:

    [02:10] Switching from site reliability engineering (SRE) to SecOps

    [03:40] How the DDoS attack on Amazon, eBay and Priceline in 2008 piqued his interest in security

    [04:37] Building discipline and resilience by working on SRE teams

    [09:05] Navigating Barracuda's acquisition of SKOUT

    [10:22] How growing companies can benefit from a external XDR platform

    [11:50] Prioritizing the alerts that matter most to customers

    [13:03] Using automation to enrich threat intelligence and root out false positives

    [14:50] The potential of AI-driven XDR

    [16:40] How cyber attacks have evolved as adversaries use AI tools like FraudGPT and WormGPT

    [19:30] Adam's three key takeaways from researching the history of cybersecurity

    [23:20] Strategies for tackling the talent shortage

    [25:15] Empowering teams to do their best work

    [28:10] How Adam stay on top of the latest security trends

    [31:35] The importance of making mistakes

    [32:20] Promoting a culture of blameless incident reviews

    [34:40] Predictions for the future

    [35:50] Connect with Adam

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