EP154 Mike Schiffman: from Blueboxing to LLMs via Network Security at Google

Jan 8, 2024

Guest:

• Mike Schiffman, Network Security “UTL”

Topics:

• Given your impressive and interesting history, tell us a few things about yourself?

• What are the biggest challenges facing network security today based on your experience?

• You came to Google to work on Network Security challenges. What are some of the surprising ones you’ve uncovered here?

• What lessons from Google's approach to network security absolutely don’t apply to others? Which ones perhaps do?

• If you have to explain the difference between network security in the cloud and on-premise, what comes to mind first?

• How do we balance better encryption with better network security monitoring and detection?

• Speaking of challenges in cryptography, we’re all getting fired up about post-quantum and network security. Could you give us the maybe 5 minute teaser version of this because we have an upcoming episode dedicated to this?

• I hear you have some interesting insight on LLMs, something to do with blueboxing or something. What is that about?

Resources:

• Video

• EP113 Love it or Hate it, Network Security is Coming to the Cloud

• EP122 Firewalls in the Cloud: How to Implement Trust Boundaries for Access Control

• “A History of Fake Things on the Internet” by WALTER J. SCHEIRER

• Why Google now protects its internal communications from quantum threats

• How Google is preparing for a post-quantum world

• NIST on PQC

• “Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit” (yes, really)