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Cloud Security Podcast by Google

Hosted by Anton Chuvakin & Timothy Peacock

293 episodes of Google's cloud, SOC, and SIEM thinking, with Mandiant breach lessons. Ended August 2026; the archive holds up.

Interview Completed series 30–60 min· ~295 episodes· Started 2021
Level
Practitioner, assumes you work in or study security
Status
Ended, last episode
Who's behind it
Vendor-run, Google Cloud sourceHosted by Google Cloud staff; feed copyright is Google Cloud.
Last verified
Transcripts for some episodes

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Editorial take

A finished show with one of the best archives in the category. Anton Chuvakin, the former Gartner analyst who coined EDR, and Timothy Peacock ran 293 weekly episodes from 2021 to August 2026, almost all 25 to 35 minutes. The strength is opinionated, skeptical questioning: Anton pokes at SIEM hype, AI SOC claims, and shared responsibility with the same energy he brings to his blog. Mandiant episodes on real cloud breach mistakes are the standout. It is a Google Cloud production, so Google guests and products appear often, though the conversations stay vendor-neutral more than most. With no new episodes coming, treat it as a library: start with the SOC, detection, and cloud incident episodes.

Last hand-checked 2026-09-30, Ended: final episode, EP293 Farewell (for now?), published 2026-08-31.

Listen if you …

  • run or are building a SOC and want sharp takes on SIEM, detection engineering, and AI in the SOC
  • want Mandiant lessons from real cloud breaches in 30-minute doses
  • like hosts who question the guest rather than nod along

Skip if you …

  • you want a live show, the final episode aired 2026-08-31
  • you want hands-on technical walkthroughs, episodes are strategy and opinion

Start with these 3 episodes

  1. 01

    EP193 Inherited a Cloud? Now What? How Do I Secure It?

    · 31 min · Beginner

    The most common real-world starting point, security arriving after the cloud is built, answered step by step.

  2. 02

    EP177 Cloud Incident Confessions: Top 5 Mistakes Leading to Breaches from Mandiant

    · 30 min · Practitioner

    Mandiant responders list the cloud mistakes they keep seeing in breaches, which is the show at its most useful.

  3. 03

    EP153 Kevin Mandia on Cloud Breaches: New Threat Actors, Old Mistakes, and Lessons for All

    · 29 min · Practitioner

    Mandiant's founder on what changed in cloud breaches and what did not, in under 30 minutes.

About the show

Cloud Security Podcast by Google was produced by Google Cloud and hosted by Anton Chuvakin and Timothy Peacock of Google Cloud's security team. It launched in February 2021 and ran weekly until episode 293, a farewell episode published on 2026-08-31.

Each episode is a 25 to 35 minute interview with one or two guests, often from Google, Mandiant, or customer security teams, structured around a published list of questions. Topics span cloud security, SIEM and SOC operations, detection engineering, threat intelligence, and AI security. Recent episode pages on Google's site include transcripts.

Notable guests

  • Kevin Mandia
  • Bruce Schneier
  • Phil Venables
  • Royal Hansen
  • Allie Mellen
  • Rich Mogull
  • Gary McGraw
  • Kelly Shortridge
  • Jon Oltsik
  • Dan Lorenc

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