Let's Talk Cloud

As the Vice President, Cloud Research at Trend Micro, I had a mandate to educate others about cloud security and enough leeway to experiment with how I went about it.

We had a fantastic communications team who were eager to try out new platforms and new approaches. With streaming and podcasting really starting to take off, we launched a new episode show, "Let's Talk Cloud".

Right out of the gate, we knew this was going to be a learning experience for us. We kept the show simple to start with. The first show was a discussion between myself and two of our technical leaders in the field, Jeff Westphal and Fernando Cardoso.

Jeff called in from an event where he was presenting and Fernando was in one of the Trend offices. It was a very scrappy setup, but it worked. The conversation flowed well and we were able to draw in a modest live audience.

For the remaining 5 episodes in the first season, we stayed within the Trend Micro family when recruiting guests. This made it a bit easier to justify the rough edges that we were still smoothing down.

By the end of the first season, we had a reasonable smooth running show that was gaining a lot of traction. The view numbers were nice, but what was more important was how often someone—a customer, a colleague, or a random stranger—would tell me how they had watched an episode and it got them thinking.

For the next season, we were a lot more ambitious in going after guests. We had high profile guests like Forrest Brazeal, Patrick Debois, and Tanya Janca.

Sadly, I moved on from Trend Micro before I was able to film another season. However, our work on this show kicked off an ongoing series for the company. Next up was Let's Talk Security hosted by Rik Ferguson and then #TrendTalksBizSec and #TrendTalksThreats.

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