The Great Email Retention Policy Debate: When should you delete it and what should you keep?

“Not having an ego helps” and other secrets to enabling a high-growth business (while keeping it safe) with Datadog CISO Emilio Escobar

Material CEO Ryan recently sat down with Emilio Escobar, CISO of monitoring giant Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG). Emilio has been building and leading teams in Infosec for more than twenty years at major companies like Hulu and Sony. In this interview, Emilio discusses the dual role CISOs frequently must play in protecting an organization internally while accelerating its business externally. They also covered hiring security talent, the vendor/buyer relationship, security career advice, and much more.

Google Cloud Security Podcast: Beyond Phishing — Email Security Isn't Solved

Check out CEO Ryan Noon on the latest Google Cloud Security Podcast episode. Hosts Anton Chuvakin and Timothy Peacock chat with Ryan on ​​what we can do as an industry to make it easier to buy and get value out of our investments in new security tooling and tech.

Email’s evolution from messaging app to filing cabinet — and what it means for security

A version of this post appeared in Forbes.

From Hacker to CISO to Founder — a conversation with Signal Science’s Zane Lackey

Zane Lackey has had one of the broadest possible careers in Infosec, having been an elite consultant at iSec Partners, the first CISO at Etsy, and co-founder of Signal Sciences (which was acquired by Fastly last year). Material’s CEO, Ryan, recently sat down with Zane to discuss how to build out a security team, why and why not to get into the vendor business, and how to not suck as a security vendor.

Risky Biz Podcast: Email Retention Strategies with Ryan Noon

Check out CEO Ryan Noon on the latest Risky Business podcast episode (starts at 52:07). Host Patrick Gray chats with Ryan on how to think about smarter ways to keep and delete email, a question we get a lot at Material.

Risky Biz Podcast: Risk Analyses and Email Security with Ryan Noon

Check out CEO Ryan Noon’s fresh Risky Business podcast interview (starts at 42:38) with host Patrick Gray. In addition to catching up on the Kaseya ransomware attack news on the day, Ryan unpacks how Material delivers useful risk analyses in addition to complete email security.

The Next Wave Podcast: Ryan Noon

ICYMI: Check out CEO Ryan Noon on the The Next Wave Podcast. His recent conversation with hosts Brad Kirby and Laura Roman, PhD, covered topics including the fallout from the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, security implications tied to email’s use as the key to other business and personal accounts, and where the near future of email security needs to go in order to save the world’s email from hacks like SolarWinds, Hafnium, etc.

“Earn influence, don’t mandate it” — a conversation with Figma’s Devdatta Akhawe

Every now and then, a person comes along who is genuinely nice, excels in their field, and eagerly passes learnings on to the next generation of industry leaders. Figma’s Head of Security Devdatta Akhawe is that guy. Our CEO Ryan recently connected with Dev for a wide-ranging chat.