The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast

Join us for the final episode of Defender Fridays as Eric Capuano, creator of Defender Fridays and co-founder of Digital Defense Institute, closes out the series with a candid conversation on how he's actually building and running agentic workflows in the SOC today.

Show Notes

Join us for the final episode of Defender Fridays as Eric Capuano, creator of Defender Fridays and co-founder of Digital Defense Institute, closes out the series with a candid conversation on how he's actually building and running agentic workflows in the SOC today.

At Defender Fridays, we delve into the dynamic world of information security, exploring its defensive side with seasoned professionals from across the industry. Our aim is simple yet ambitious: to foster a collaborative space where ideas flow freely, experiences are shared, and knowledge expands.

What We'll Discuss

In this episode, Eric Capuano draws on years of SOC operations, detection engineering, and hands-on agentic workflow development to share what's actually working, what isn't, and where the industry needs to be more honest with itself.

Key Topics:

  • Why agentic workflows are the next evolution of SOAR, and what it takes to build them reliably
  • How deterministic checkpoints at every stage are essential to making LLM-driven workflows trustworthy
  • How one team increased their detection engineering output by 900x using agentic workflows running day and night
  • Why false positive tuning and detection engineering are the right place to start before tackling complex investigative workflows
  • How to think about model selection in agentic pipelines: cost, task complexity, and stakes
  • Why organizations with poor data hygiene will struggle to get value from AI regardless of how sophisticated the tooling is
  • The risks of prompt injection when feeding untrusted inputs into LLMs, and why trusted inputs should always come first
  • Why the goal is to use LLMs for as little as possible, and push everything else into deterministic steps

About Our Guest

Eric Capuano is the creator of Defender Fridays and co-founder of Digital Defense Institute. He has spent years doing SOC operations, detection engineering, threat hunting, and DFIR, and currently consults on building and deploying agentic SecOps workflows for security teams. He is also the author of the "So You Want to Be a SOC Analyst" training, which has put over 500 students through hands-on SOC workflows using LimaCharlie's free tier.

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Host: Maxime Lamothe-Brassard - Founder at LimaCharlie

Guest: Eric Capuano - Co-founder of Digital Defense Institute

What is The Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast?

An accessible but technical podcast about cybersecurity and the people who keep the internet safe. The podcast is built as a series of segments: we will be looking back at the last couple of weeks in cybersecurity news, talking to different people in the industry about areas of their expertise, we're going to break apart some of the TTPs being used by adversaries, and we will even cover a little bit of hacker history.