Guest: Marina Segal (LinkedIn)
Company: Tamnoon 
Show: Let’s Talk About AI

With the increasing complexity of the cloud, it is even more crucial to have effective security solutions in place. Yet, although there is automation in some of the security processes much is still manually carried out. Tamnoon’s cloud remediation solution aims to help developers streamline these processes so they can spend less time on these tasks.

In this episode of TFiR: Let’s Talk About AI, Marina Segal, CEO and Co-Founder at Tamnoon, talks about the company and how their managed offering is helping tackle cloud security challenges. She goes on to discuss the impact of generative AI in cloud security and what we can expect in the future.

Key highlights from this video interview:

• Segal gives us an insight into the backgrounds of the Tamnoon Co-Founders and their expertise in the cloud security posture management space. She talks about their focus on the problems around the remediation space in cloud security and how they founded Tamnoon to tackle these issues.
• While the concepts of security are similar between traditional IT and cloud environments, the challenges are different. Segal discusses the challenges of solving problems at scale without breaking anything that is running and changing so fast.
• Segal feels that the biggest challenge with any technology is the people in the process side, since you need to source and train the right people and you need to ensure the process is aligned with the technology that you are bringing in.
• Segal talks about who is responsible for the security, saying that each team is responsible for their part of the process, but the responsibility of the governance and the definitions of what needs to be secured and how usually lie with developers and DevOps teams. However, the key challenge is making teams collaborate.
• The complexity of cloud is not going to go away any time soon, and Segal talks about how Tamnoon is helping developers deal with cloud security by providing a managed services component while still providing the right technology to support it. She discusses how this helps developers address security issues but also takes into account how the production will be impacted by the security changes.
• Although Tamnoon is a new company, it already has paying customers and is delivering the service and technology to large deployments in the cloud. Segal goes into depth about the two areas of focus for the company over the next year: service delivery and the capabilities of their AI-powered platform.
• Segal talks about the leadership team of the company and their areas of expertise.
• Tamnoon’s services delivery model is similar to a product subscription. Segal discusses the differentiator with their platform such as the playbooks and prioritization that you get from the technology.
• Generative AI is a hot topic right now but although Segal feels that controls, innovations, and apps will need to be developed to secure generative AI, she does not see any difference compared to securing containers or other new deployment models. She gives her opinion on how generative AI can be used to jumpstart the industry.
• Segal discusses how mature she feels generative AI is, saying that it is not mature right now, which is why we need humans to oversee it. However, she feels it should mature within the next couple of years.
• The narrative that AI is going to steal everyone’s jobs is still doing the rounds but Segal shares a different view. She talks about the benefits it can lead to in the industry but she does not believe it is the end all. She discusses how humans will still be relevant but we may see new jobs or skill sets as a result of generative AI.

This summary was written by Emily Nicholls.