Building an Incident Response Team for High-Growth Companies
Episode description
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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Questions asked:
(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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