Episode #261. The Hacker Is Already Inside the Device, with Joe Gullo, commercial sales leader at Red Balloon Security
Episode Description
No patient should have to postpone treatment because someone attacked a medical device.
In this episode, Joe Gullo, commercial sales leader at Red Balloon Security, explains how embedded runtime defense keeps that scenario off the table. He walks through Symbiote, the lightweight code Red Balloon embeds into the firmware binary itself, where it watches memory and running tasks, flags tampering, and blocks processes that should never start. He traces an unusual road into security that began on a Ford manufacturing floor and ran through LED lighting before cybersecurity, and he names the riskiest thing he has done: walking away from a steady engineering job with a toddler at home and a second daughter on the way. He also makes a contrarian call on AI, predicting companies will rehire the people they cut.
Tune in to hear why a company sitting on 150 billion protected runtime hours still argues the decisive variable is people!
Resources:
Connect with and follow Joe Gullo on LinkedIn.
Follow Red Balloon Security, Inc. on LinkedIn and discover their website!
For more information and ways to increase risk awareness and safety, visit us at www.censinet.com.
Music by David Cosgrove an accomplished composer, musician, producer, and engineer. Listen to his latest project Del Piombo.



























