Episode 18: TRISS Highlights, Cloud Chaos & SaaS Lessons Learned

In Episode 18 of the Distilled Security Podcast, Justin Leapline, Joe Wynn, and Rick Yokum recap their time at TRISS, share lessons on storytelling and women in tech, and break down the recent AWS us-east-1 DNS/DynamoDB outage, the Microsoft Front Door global disruption, and the F5 BIG-IP incident.

🔍 We discuss:

- TRISS highlights: panels, community & storytelling

- “Breaking the glass ceiling” and unintentional bias in meetings

- AWS & Microsoft outages: risk, resilience & when multicloud matters

- F5 BIG-IP incident and supply chain risk

- Launching a GRC SaaS: episki’s journey, lessons & tradeoffs

🥃 Spirit of the episode

Penelope Bourbon – Project X (sherry cask finish)

⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 – 🥃 Intro & TRISS Recap — Highlights from TRISS: panels, community, and a keynote with Edward Norton

02:40 – 📖 The Power of Storytelling — Why empathy and narrative matter in cybersecurity leadership