The Candy Crush Guy Now Secures Oil and Gas AI

Running data security for Candy Crush during a pandemic turns out to be solid training for almost anything, and Sam Texas brought that hard earned paranoia to Collide. From flipping thrift store suits on eBay to keeping the world's biggest mobile game alive from Sweden, his road to oil and gas was anything but typical. He breaks down defense in depth, SOC2, and why locking down AI inside a company becomes its own arms race once the machines start fighting the machines.

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00:00  The Candy Crush guy comes to Houston

02:07  eBay suits, semiconductors, and a detour to Sweden

04:50  How a LinkedIn DM turned into Collide

07:13  Going all in on Claude and chasing SOC2

09:40  Security explained, Fort Knox style

12:42  What's set in stone, what's in flux