Protecting against Voice attacks with Vijay Balasubramaniyan of Pindrop

Protecting against Voice attacks with Vijay Balasubramaniyan of Pindrop

Vijay Balasubramaniyan is Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Pindrop. He's held various engineering and research roles with Google, Siemens, IBM Research and Intel. Vijay holds patents in VoIP security and scalability and he frequently speaks on phone fraud threats at technical conferences, including RSA, Black Hat, FS-ISAC, CCS and ICDCS. Vijay earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis was on telecommunications security. 00:00 Introduction 01:04 What is voice security? 03:26 Deep fake attacks against call centers 06:44 Protecting against voice attacks 09:09 How good is the tech? 12:15 How good are the criminals? 15:01 The challenge of humans being helpful 17:09 What size should protect against voice attacks? 21:04 Predicting the speed of the space Advertiser: https://www.alinea-partners.com/ https://supportadventure.com/MSPRadio/ Do you want the show on your podcast app or the written versions of the stories? Subscribe to the Business of Tech: https://www.businessof.tech/subscribe/ Support the show on Patreon: https://patreon.com/mspradio/ Want our stuff? Cool Merch? Wear "Why Do We Care?" - Visit https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com [https://mspradio.myspreadshop.com/] Follow us on: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mspradionews/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/mspradionews/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mspradio/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/28908079/

Vijay Balasubramaniyan is Co-Founder, CEO & CTO of Pindrop. He’s held various engineering and research roles with Google, Siemens, IBM Research and Intel.

Vijay holds patents in VoIP security and scalability and he frequently speaks on phone fraud threats at technical conferences, including RSA, Black Hat, FS-ISAC, CCS and ICDCS. Vijay earned a PhD in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. His PhD thesis was on telecommunications security.

00:00 Introduction

01:04 What is voice security?
03:26 Deep fake attacks against call centers
06:44 Protecting against voice attacks
09:09 How good is the tech?
12:15 How good are the criminals?
15:01 The challenge of humans being helpful
17:09 What size should protect against voice attacks?
21:04 Predicting the speed of the space

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