Listen "Adversarial Podcast S4E06 – F5 Breach, AWS Outage, Risk Management vs. Security Engineering"
Episode Synopsis
00:00 Intro 00:50 AWS Outage 20:48 F5 Breach 41:06 Risk Management vs. Security Engineering 58:19 Moving the Needle Part 3F5 Hack Blamed on ChinaChinese state-backed hackers allegedly breached U.S. cybersecurity firm F5, gaining year-long access to its systems and BIG-IP source code, prompting security fears and causing the company to warn of revenue impacts and falling shares.AWS OutageA race condition in Amazon DynamoDB’s DNS management system caused widespread outages across the US-EAST-1 region on October 19–20, 2025, disrupting DynamoDB, EC2, NLB, and multiple dependent AWS services until recovery was completed the next afternoon.The CISO Dilemma: Risk Management vs. Security EngineeringThis post argues that quantitative risk management (QRM) in cybersecurity is a deceptive comfort mechanism that lets executives rationalize insecurity, urging CISOs to reject financialized “risk buy-downs” and instead demand true security engineering and systemic architectural integrity.Hosts:Jerry Perullo (Founder, https://adversarial.com/)Sounil Yu (Founder, https://www.knostic.ai/)Mario Duarte (Founder, stealth startup)Producer: Tillson Galloway (Founder, http://githoundexplore.com/)
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