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

32:42 Oct 20, 2025
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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? Resources: EP60 Impersonating Service Accounts in GCP and Beyond: Cloud Security Is About IAM? EP179 Teamwork Under Stress: Expedition Behavior in Cybersecurity Incident Response EP222 From Post-IR Lessons to Proactive Security: Deconstructing Mandiant M-Trends EP177 Cloud Incident Confessions: Top 5 Mistakes Leading to Breaches from Mandiant EP158 Ghostbusters for the Cloud: Who You Gonna Call for Cloud Forensics EP98 How to Cloud IR or Why Attackers Become Cloud Native Faster?  
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