This week on The Future of Security Operations podcast, Thomas is joined by Prima Virani. Prima is a security engineer who worked across industries as varied as oil and gas and Fintech before becoming Principal Security Engineer at Twilio. With over a decade of experience spanning infrastructure security engineering, incident detection and response, and forensics, she's also shared insights at countless security conferences around the world, including SecTOR Canada and Agile India.
In this episode, Prima and Thomas discuss:
- The unique challenges of working in forensics
- Her transition to detection and response and cloud security
- Building a security detection framework at Segment
- Reducing mean time to resolve through automation
- Using data to prioritize which processes should be automated
- Merging teams and technologies when Segment was acquired by Twilio
- Joining the securing platform engineering team at Twilio
- Designing a challenging and varied career in security
- The influence of mentorship on career growth
- Democratizing security through knowledge sharing
- How security will change in the next five years