CISO Challenges in Cloud Security - Caleb Sima, VP - Security at Databricks

CISO Challenges in Cloud Security - Caleb Sima, VP - Security at Databricks

In this episode of the Virtual Coffee with Ashish edition, we spoke with Caleb Sima, VP - Security, Databricks

In this episode, Caleb & Ashish spoke about

  • What was your path into CyberSecurity?
  • Bulletin Board vs IRC
  • What is Cloud Security?
  • Are security challenges harder or difficult between Enterprise vs Cloud built companies?
  • What are the challenges for migrating from on-premise to cloud?
  • What are your thoughts on IAM, Roles & VPCs?
  • How many different tools did you need for visibility of vulnerabilities when moving to cloud?
  • Should organisation’s look at Cloud Service Providers outside of Azure, AWS, GCP e.g Digital Ocean, OpenShift.
  • How important is security culture and how do you see it be part of the success of an organisation?
  • Has the view point changed since the last time you wrote the Do’s,Don’t & Myths of Startups
  • Do you feel industry is adopting preferring more managed security services vs self customization
  • For someone who is starting into CyberSecurity and would like to get to your role, what kind of skill set should they be focussing on?
  • What about people with experience trying to get to a leadership role?

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