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EP289 Software Engineering vs. Software Craft: How Google Scalably Eliminates Classes of Vulnerabilities

3 Aug 2026 · 33 min

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How do you build the foundations for a secure Google-scale enterprise that stays secure even if an AI is writing the code and nobody has time to review it? In this episode, hosts Timothy Peacock and Anton Chuvakin sit down with Christoph Kern, Principal Security Engineer at Google, to look under the hood of "secure-by-design." They trace Google's 15-year engineering journey to fundamentally eliminate entire classes of vulnerabilities rather than just playing whack-a-mole with bugs after they are written. 🛠️ Software Engineering vs. Software Craft: Why Google ditched "be careful" programming…

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Cloud Security Podcast by Google

Anton Chuvakin · Tech & Science · English

Cloud Security Podcast by Google focuses on security in the cloud, delivering security from the cloud, and all things at the intersection of security and cloud. Of course, we will also cover what we are doing in Google Cloud to help keep our users' data safe and workloads secure. We're going to

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