OIDC And IAP In Production: Scaling Startup Security For Deepfake Defense - Talia Smiley

In this episode of the Security Repo Podcast, Dwayne McDaniel talks with Talia Smiley, CTO of Silversight, about why her startup chose workload identity, OIDC, and IAP instead of long-lived secrets and service account keys. Talia explains how secure-by-default design, just-in-time access, and thoughtful infrastructure choices can actually be faster and more sustainable than legacy approaches, especially for growing teams. They also touch on multi-cloud considerations, deepfake defense in the enterprise, hiring signals for technical candidates, and the security advice that still holds up versus the advice that should be retired.

https://silversight.ai/

https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/cloud_threat_horizons_report_h12026.pdf

Talia Smiley is a (literal) Master of Computer Science, infrastructure in particular. Her deep experience in networking, architecture implementation, data pipelines and big data have ensured that all of Silversight's cloud deployments run peacefully while she leads the development of Silversight Shield.