In a world where more and more people are working remotely, the concept of security needs to evolve. Gone are the days of simple, hardware-based security, and here are the days of intrinsic, system-based security.

This week, join Jon as he meets again with Vish Nandlall to dive deep on the topic of security and why you, either as an individual or a corporation, need to continue to think about limiting the “blast radius” of any possible security breach. 

What you’ll hear in this episode:

How the move to working from home has accelerated the awareness of security vulnerabilities (01:20 )

Security is not only important in the hardware layer, it’s also in the software layer (02:26 )

The shift toward box-led security (02:49 )

 What is Zero Trust? (04:03 )

Limiting the blast radius of a possible attack via the concept of “least privilege” (04:34 )

If your role is conducting data backups, should you have application access beyond data backup software? (07:20 )

Defining security in the Cloud era (08:01 )

Security maintenance is not a one-time activity (09:49 )

Understanding the balloon-like effect of securing your business (11:43 )

Security and containerization (12:40 )

How to begin evaluating what sort of security strategy you need to implement (14:34 )