Navigating DORA: A Guide to the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act
In this episode, host Sylvain Kalache sits down with Laura Woo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurawoo/), founder of Dora Report (https://dora.report/), to explore one of the most significant regulatory shifts in the European financial sector—DORA, the Digital Operational Resilience Act. As financial institutions face increasing cyber threats and digital disruptions, DORA aims to ensure these organizations are prepared to respond, recover, and remain resilient.
Laura shares what DORA means for financial entities and critical third-party providers, the regulation’s core pillars, and how businesses can start preparing today. Whether you’re already navigating compliance or just learning about DORA, this episode is packed with actionable insights.
3 Nov 2024
The Changing Face of Election Security
This episode explores the evolving intersection of AI-generated content and US election integrity. Joining us are experts in cybersecurity, digital behavior, and election infrastructure who will help us understand how deepfakes and misinformation campaigns are shaping public perception and the very act of voting.
We examine the impacts of declining trust and the rise of extremism and how tech companies, governments, and everyday citizens can navigate and counter these new-age threats to democracy.
Our guests are:
-Tanya Janca, aka SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling author of 'Alice and Bob Learn Application Security’ and ‘Cards Against AppSec'. Over her 28-year IT career, she has won countless awards, spoken all over the planet, and is a prolific blogger. Tanya has trained thousands of software developers and IT security professionals via her online academies and her live training programs.
-Julie Tsai is a six-time Cybersecurity Head/CISO and SecDevOps specialist who's worked at seven-person startups to Fortune 1, most recently at Roblox. She currently advises several startups, is a Board Member for Bay Area CSO Council and LP with Rain Capital. She guest teaches at Merritt College cybersecurity program and graduated from Stanford.
-Nick Judd is a digital safety researcher. He is currently a lead research engineer at the Digital Safety Research Institute at UL Research Institutes. His research interests range from information integrity to privacy and cybersecurity.
The talk is moderated by Sylvain Kalache.
00:00 Introduction
01:42 How has the rise of fakes in AI-generated content impacted the way voters see the election?
04:16 Can the fake suppress voter sentiment or create artificial grassroots movements?
10:42 What type of disinformation campaign is most likely to be used?
21:51 What can tech companies do to protect the voters from deepfakes and misinformation campaigns?
29:46 How can we help them to believe and trust in the system that's in place? So how can we do this?
33:54 How may the Georgia Supreme Court decision against the hand-counting of ballots affect public trust?
38:28 What challenges and preparations will we need for the 2028 election?
29 May 2024
APRA (American Privacy Rights Act) Explained
In this episode, Bart Farrell and Sylvain Kalache interview Patty Tehrani, Regulatory Compliance Content Producer, about the APRA (American Privacy Rights Act).
The proposed federal privacy law aims to unify the patchwork of state privacy laws in the United States. In this episode, we will discuss its enforcement mechanisms and practical steps businesses can take to prepare for this significant regulatory shift.
15 May 2024
EU AI Act Secrets Revealed
The AI Act comes as the first comprehensive regulation of AI by a major regulator. This episode explores the framework this AI act is leveraging, how it applies to businesses and technologies, how the law will be enforced, and much more.
Thank you, Joseba Laka, digital director at TECNALIA Research & Innovation, for being our guest!
8 May 2024
Intelligent Document Processing Compliance, from Stone Tablets to Digital Docs
In this episode, we dive into the world of intelligent document processing (IDP) with Jonathan Grandperrin, CEO and co-founder of @mindeeapi (https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCXcb0H4P81RqvvvFfWdszoA). As businesses increasingly rely on digital documentation, understanding and complying with data protection regulations like GDPR becomes paramount.
Jonathan shares his insights on the evolution of document processing – from ancient inscriptions on stones to today's sophisticated AI and computer vision technologies that interpret and manage digital data. He explains how IDP technology helps organizations streamline operations and ensures compliance with data security laws.
18 Mar 2024
Getting started with Platform Engineering security and compliance
In this episode, we are joined by Chris Clark, Program Manager at The Linux Foundation, and Ram Iyengar, Chief Evangelist at Cloud Foundry Foundation. They discuss the rise of platform engineering and how open-source building blocks can help organizations design secure and compliant IDPs.
14 Dec 2023
Turn data security & compliance into a business advantage
In this episode, we are joined by Evelyn de Souza, who is currently Head of Privacy and AI Governance at Oracle SaaS Cloud. We discuss how companies can turn security, privacy, and compliance into brand differentiators, enabling companies to achieve a quantifiable ROI.
The views and ideas expressed during this podcast are solely the author's and not those of any affiliated company.
3 Oct 2023
LLM and data security
In this episode, our guests are Julie Trias Co-Founder & CTO, and Elizabeth Nammour Co-Founder & CEO of Teleskope.
In this episode, we discuss how large language models impact data security for businesses.
20 Jul 2023
No US SaaS for European businesses?
In this episode, we discuss personal data exchange between Europe and the US, and a world where European companies may not be able to use American internet services.
In 2020 European canceled the Privacy Shield agreement for failing to protect European citizen's personal data. Indeed, US government agencies such as the NSA had easy access to this data.
A new agreement, the Data Privacy Framework, was implemented to address that. But companies following that framework have faced confusion and higher compliance costs while this new agreement isn't addressing the issues for which the Privacy Shield was canceled.
And because there is no way for US companies to guarantee that European citizen data won't be handed out to government institutions. It is possible that Europe will eventually deny its companies from using American internet services. The implication would be massive. How would this work?
In today's episode, we are joined by Ayedo CEO Fabian Peter, who tried to stop using US-based SaaS for his business.
Fabian is a tech founder from Germany. He runs several businesses in the space of Cloud Solutions, Software Development, and IT Infrastructure with a focus on microservice and Kubernetes architectures.
PS: this episode was recorded a few days before the new Trans-Atlantic Privacy Framework was adopted. We will record an episode to cover that.
24 May 2023
Private SaaS: a new gold standard?
The SaaS market is projected to grow from $251 billion in 2022 to $883 billion by 2029, and 50% of companies' apps are SaaS. But for many companies, using SaaS is not an option because of security standards and data regulation laws.
In this episode, we discuss the concept of Private SaaS, which separates the control plan and data plan so that companies can benefit from all the advantages of SaaS while keeping their data in-house.
This episode features Arul Jegadish Francis, OpsVerse co-founder, and Michel Tricot, Airbyte co-founder & CEO. Hosted by Bart Farrell and Sylvain Kalache.
1 Mar 2023
How data security impacts open-source projects?
Bart and Sylvain met with four industry professionals to discuss how data security impacts open-source software and compliance rules that vendors and end-users should remember.
The conversation touches on issues such as the ownership and control of open-source projects, the importance of compliance with laws and regulations, the challenges of scaling and international expansion, and the need for standardization which could take the form of an API endpoint for monitoring compliance.
Thank you to the four Defenders who attended this forum call 🙏
Jorge Turrado Ferrero, SRE, SCRM Lidi International Hub
Sal Kimmich, Director of Open Source, Al DevSecOps at EscherCloud
Ollie Cuffley-Hur, Cloud Native Security Engineer, ControlePlane
José Leandro Núñez García, Partner, Audens
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