O'reilly Security Podcast - O'reilly Media Podcast

The O’Reilly Security Podcast: Building cathedrals, empowering the watchers, and breaking out of the security monoculture.In this episode, I talk with Brendan O’Connor, a security researcher, lawyer (but not your lawyer) and owner of security consulting firm Malice Afterthought. We discuss creating a culture that celebrates collaborative teamwork over harried heroes, how monitoring and checklists really can save lives, and breaking out of the security monoculture.Here are some highlights: From statues to cathedrals There's some point in a company where you have to move from the age of heroes, where you build statues of people and put them on plinths, to the age of cathedrals. Cathedrals are compliance-driven operations—they're enormous buildings that have tons of people with very different specialties creating them. You have your bricklayer, you have your ditch digger, you have your sidewalk builder, you have your marble person, you have the person who paints the ceiling. There are all these