Era of Bot Battlers & Security Focused Company Culture – ESW #381
Customer Identity is everywhere. It's powering secure experiences for billions - enabling people to check their luggage at the airport, watch their favorite Major League Soccer games, or take their favorite Peloton class. Because it’s everywhere, threat actors now see customer identity as a path to financial gain. Bots now make up nearly 50% of all internet traffic and are being used to steal sign-up bonuses or breach accounts. And cybercriminals are bypassing the login box completely, stealing authenticated session cookies at record rates. Bhawna Singh. Chief Technology Officer of Customer Identity Cloud at Okta joins host Mandy Logan, from Security Weekly, to discuss the current state of customer identity, what developers need to know about securing their applications and what Okta is doing to help developers build applications that decipher a human from a bot.
Segment Resources: https://www.okta.com/oktane/ https://www.okta.com/press-room/press-releases/okta-helps-builders-easily-implement-auth-for-genai-apps-secure-how/
Whether it’s phishing techniques, password spraying, or social engineering, security leaders today are constantly needing to see past blindspots, educate their workforces, and rethink the enterprise security checklist. Many companies, like Okta, are finding ways to incorporate security within their company culture, as every employee has a role to play in keeping a company secure. Charlotte Wylie, Deputy CSO at Okta, joins Security Weekly's Mandy Logan to discuss what security leaders are being challenged with today when it comes to securing their workforce and from experience with implementing Okta’s Secure Identity Commitment how companies can be prioritizing security within their culture to help prevent threat actors from taking advantage of the weakest link.
Segment Resources: https://www.okta.com/blog/2024/08/how-okta-fosters-a-security-culture/ https://www.okta.com/press-room/press-releases/okta-openid-foundation-tech-firms-tackle-todays-biggest-cybersecurity/
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Bhawna Singh is the CTO for Okta Customer Identity Cloud. She has 20+ years of experience successfully building and leading talented teams of engineers to transform and scale technology for a global user base. Bhawna has led multiple tech transformations, scaled systems from 0 to 100 million monthly users, led the global expansion of products, participated in multiple acquisitions, and spearheaded innovation to drive user growth and engagement, delivering multi-million dollar revenue growth.
Charlotte Wylie, SVP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at Okta, partners with Okta’s Chief Security Officer to lead Okta’s technical cybersecurity services. This includes overseeing Okta’s global engineering teams to enhance the company’s security postures and programs that support its nearly 19,000 customers. She is a seasoned security executive with extensive global experience across financial and technology industries in Australia and the United States. Charlotte has an extensive background in the delivery of security transformation programs and leading global engineering teams creating value through enhancing security posture aligned with business goals for large corporations.
Prior to Okta, Charlotte led the security engineering team at Xero, a New Zealand based SaaS startup specializing in accounting software.
Charlotte is a passionate social advocate and a proud member of the Okta pro bono management team and has led a number pro bono projects at previous organizations including Symantec and The Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
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