Building an Incident Response Team for High-Growth Companies

Building an Incident Response Team for High-Growth Companies

In this episode, we sit down with Santiago, a Senior Security Engineer at Canva, to talk about the complexities of building and managing an incident response team, especially in high-growth companies. Santiago shares his experience transitioning from penetration testing to incident response and highlights the unique challenges that come with protecting a rapidly expanding organization.

We explore the differences between incident response in high-growth versus established companies, the importance of having the right personnel, and the critical skills needed for effective incident response.


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(00:00) Introduction

(01:58) A word from our sponsor - SentinelOne

(02:48) A bit about Santiago

(03:18) What is Incident Response?

(04:06) How IR differs in different organisations?

(04:48) Red Team vs Incident Response Team

(06:17) Challenges for Incident Response in Cloud

(07:16) Incident Response in a High Growth Company

(07:56) Skillsets required for high growth

(09:14) Cloud vs On Prem Incident Response

(10:03) Building Incident Response in High Growth Company

(11:39) Responding to incidents that are not high risk

(14:41) Transition from pentesting to incident responder

(17:20) Endpoint vulnerability management at scale

(25:32) The Fun Section


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Endpoint Vulnerability Management at Scale

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