Adversarial Podcast S4E06 – F5 Breach, AWS Outage, Risk Management vs. Security Engineering
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Adversarial Podcast S4E06 – F5 Breach, AWS Outage, Risk Management vs. Security Engineering
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00:00 Intro
00:50 AWS Outage
20:48 F5 Breach
41:06 Risk Management vs. Security Engineering
58:19 Moving the Needle Part 3
F5 Hack Blamed on China
Chinese 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 Outage
A 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 Engineering
This 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/)