SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations
Qevlar AI
7 episodes
1 week ago
Most enterprises talk about unifying IT, OT and cloud security, but very few actually pull it off. In this episode, Ahmed has invited Daniel Kästle, former Head of Cyber Defense at Mercedes-Benz, to break down what it really takes to move from three isolated security worlds to a risk-driven cyber defense capability. You’ll discover: → Why IT, OT and cloud security remain stubbornly siloed, and why the real blockers have nothing to do with tools. →A practical blueprint for building interoperab...
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Most enterprises talk about unifying IT, OT and cloud security, but very few actually pull it off. In this episode, Ahmed has invited Daniel Kästle, former Head of Cyber Defense at Mercedes-Benz, to break down what it really takes to move from three isolated security worlds to a risk-driven cyber defense capability. You’ll discover: → Why IT, OT and cloud security remain stubbornly siloed, and why the real blockers have nothing to do with tools. →A practical blueprint for building interoperab...
Most enterprises talk about unifying IT, OT and cloud security, but very few actually pull it off. In this episode, Ahmed has invited Daniel Kästle, former Head of Cyber Defense at Mercedes-Benz, to break down what it really takes to move from three isolated security worlds to a risk-driven cyber defense capability. You’ll discover: → Why IT, OT and cloud security remain stubbornly siloed, and why the real blockers have nothing to do with tools. →A practical blueprint for building interoperab...
How do you guarantee the same investigative depth and accuracy when you’re running security operations for thousands of customers and processing billions of alerts per day? In this episode, Beatrice Francon, Director of MDR Services at Atos, joins Ahmed Achchak (CEO and co-founder of Qevlar AI) to unpack how Atos scales investigative quality across diverse client environments — from critical infrastructure to finance and healthcare — without losing the human context that defines great securit...
Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3 — the hierarchy every SOC grew up with. But as AI takes over triage and investigation, does that model still make sense? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO and co-founder of Qevlar AI) talks with Rob van Os, Strategic SOC Advisor and creator of the SOC-CMM framework — one of the most widely adopted models for assessing and improving SOC maturity worldwide. Together, they unpack whether modern AI-driven operations make the tiered model obsolete, how skills-based SOCs ar...
In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & co-founder of Qevlar AI) invited Shane Shook, Venture Partner at Forgepoint Capital and longtime advisor to top security startups, to explore why false negatives (not false positives) are still the SOC’s most dangerous blind spot. Shane shares insights from 30+ years in incident response and threat detection on where organizations miss early signals, why overtuning rules makes things worse, and how AI can finally shift detection left without overwhe...
In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO & co-founder of Qevlar AI) sits down with Erik Bloch, VP of Security at illumio and former SOC leader at Salesforce and Atlassian, to explore how AI is blurring the traditional divide between MSSP and enterprise SOCs. Erik breaks down why MSSPs operate like standardized, metric-driven service products, while enterprise SOCs remain bespoke, and how autonomous AI might flip the script. You’ll discover: → Why AI fits naturally into MSSP workflows but strug...
AI promises to transform security operations but how much of that is actually happening today? In this episode, Ahmed Achchak (CEO of Qevlar AI) talks with Dr. Anton Chuvakin, Security Advisor at Office of the CISO at Google Cloud, to explore the real, measurable ways AI can improve your SOC and the hard limits many organizations overlook. You’ll discover: Where AI reliably adds value in security operations today and where it doesn’t.Why poor data, not weak models, is the biggest blocker to A...
Most “AI-powered” security tools are just brittle automation wearing a fancy badge. In this episode, Qevlar AI CEO Ahmed Achchak sits down with cybersecurity automation expert Filip Stojkovski to ask the hard questions: Why are L1/L2 workflows still broken? What separates true AI agents from glorified SOAR playbooks? And how can you actually measure whether AI is making smart decisions or just moving faster? They break down the limits of traditional automation, expose “AI SOC” vendor red flag...
SuperSOC: Conversations with the People Shaping the Future of Security Operations
Most enterprises talk about unifying IT, OT and cloud security, but very few actually pull it off. In this episode, Ahmed has invited Daniel Kästle, former Head of Cyber Defense at Mercedes-Benz, to break down what it really takes to move from three isolated security worlds to a risk-driven cyber defense capability. You’ll discover: → Why IT, OT and cloud security remain stubbornly siloed, and why the real blockers have nothing to do with tools. →A practical blueprint for building interoperab...
