How do we ensure firmware integrity and security? Join hosts Nic Fillingham, and Natalia Godyla, and guest Nazmus Sakib, a Principal Lead Program Manager at Microsoft, to dive deeper and assess the complexities and the challenges that come along with securing firmware; bootstraps and all!      Megamind Bhavna Soman, a Senior Security Research Lead, joins us later in the show and we learn about her journey in optimizing AI and ML to improve efficiency in security and give the humans a break.      In This Episode, You Will Learn:     How Microsoft ensures firmware integrity and security  How firmware is making it harder for attackers Where AI and ML will take threat intelligence in the near future     Some Questions We Ask:    What is firmware?  Do we know where firmware attacks begin?  What does the threat landscape look like for firmware?  What part of ML should be automated better so that humans can shift to other tasks?     Resources     Microsoft Digital Defense Report:    https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/security-intelligence-report      Nazmus’s LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/nazmus-sakib-5aa8a6123/      Bhavna’s LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavna-soman-3004b613/    Nic’s LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicfill/      Natalia’s LinkedIn   https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliagodyla/      Microsoft Security Blog:    https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.