The Sound Of Cybersecurity From RSAC Conference 2026

SoundCloud is aware of music… and cybersecurity.

Late final 12 months, the large music streaming and sharing platform suffered an information breach that reportedly affected roughly 20 % of its customers, in response to quite a few media shops. SoundCloud labored diligently with main third-party cybersecurity consultants to finish an intensive investigation into the incident. Alongside the best way, they posted three notices on its web site acknowledging the incident and speaking transparently with its group.

At RSAC Convention 2026 in San Francisco final month, the tagline was “Energy Of Group”, and SoundCloud was a part of it.

Amanda Glassner, Deputy Editor at Cybercrime Journal, caught up with Sean Juroviesky, Senior Safety Engineer at SoundCloud, and requested what it’s like working behind the scenes for such a (seemingly) huge international firm. “It’s actually cool,” mentioned Juroviesky, a CISSP. “We’re a a lot smaller workforce than most individuals suppose. We’ve over 300 million person accounts, however we solely have about 500 employees internally.”

Why RSAC? “Group has been key to my profession progress, exhibiting up and lending a hand at occasions wherever I can has allowed me to satisfy and converse with so many Infosec stars. These conversations typically encourage my talks, serving to me understand all of us have distinctive experiences that needs to be shared to maintain strengthening our shared pool of data within the cybersecurity group.”

Jurovisesky additionally informed us that he has a brand new ebook popping out on safety for non-human id accounts.

SoundCloud is the sound of cybersecurity, the place our widespread Podcast has been hosted since its launch in Might 2019. In response to Hear Notes, which is like Google for Podcasts, the Cybercrime Journal Podcast, which has aired greater than 6,000 episodes, is among the high 5 % hottest exhibits out of greater than 3.1 million podcasts globally.

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