Tuesday May 10, 2022

urlscan’s Johannes Gilger: How Automation Can Free Up Resources and Streamline Security Investigations

In our fourth episode of the Future of Security Operations Podcast,  Thomas speaks with Johannes Gilger— CEO and founder of urlscan, a URL and website scanner that enables users to take a look at the individual resources that are requested when a site is loaded. Prior to founding urlscan, Johannes was the managed the Threat Intelligence Automation team at CrowdStrike

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • What urlscan is and how it works.
  • Why Johannes founded urlscan and why he thinks the security community is so collaborative. 
  • Johannes journey that eventually led to founding urlscan and why he decided to leave Crowdstrike to focus his attention on urlscan. 
  • How automation transforms security investigations. 
  • What urlscan users get wrong about automation. 
  • The #1 piece of advice Johannes has for security operations teams getting started with automation. 
  • Tips for customer-facing brands to reduce their attack target size. 
  • What future security challenges will look like in the years ahead and how organizations can use automation to get prepared for what’s next.

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