Secure Communications in Embedded Systems with Ismael Valenzuela and John Wall

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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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BlackBerry is a Canadian company known for its pivotal role in the smartphone market during the 2000s. Today, BlackBerry has adopted a major focus on cybersecurity. John Wall is the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Products, Engineering and Services at QNX, which is a division of BlackBerry. Ismael Valenzuela is the former Vice President

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0:00.0	BlackBerry is a Canadian company known for its pivotal role in the smartphone market during the 2000s.
0:06.0	Today, BlackBerry has adopted a major focus on cybersecurity.
0:10.2	John Wall is the SVP and head of BlackBerry QNX, overseeing engineering, product, and operations.
0:17.5	Ismao Valenzuela is the vice president of threat research and intelligence at Blackberry,
0:22.2	where he leads threat research, intelligence, and defensive innovation. John and Ismail joined the
0:27.2	podcast to talk about cybersecurity at Blackberry, including secure communications and embedded systems.
0:33.4	Gregor Vand is a security focused technologist and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass.
0:39.4	Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and general software engineering companies.
0:45.9	He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.
1:09.2	Hi, John and Ishmael. Welcome to Software Engineering Daily.
1:11.2	Hello. Thank you, Gregor, for having us.
1:12.3	Yeah, great to be here.
1:15.5	Great to have you both here, both from Blackberry,
1:20.4	which is a company that I'm sure our listener base definitely know of,
1:27.0	but I also suspect that quite a few listeners maybe don't know of it beyond the handset business.
1:29.8	And I'm sure many had handsets back in the day,
1:35.5	like myself, a product that I loved dearly. And, you know, today we're not here to sort of rehash the history of BlackBerry. You know, there's, I read the book, losing the signal. It's a very good book.
1:40.3	If the history lesson is what someone wants to dive into and you know they inspired a film as
1:45.2	well so that's where we'll kind of leave that today we're going to be speaking about the Q&X platform
1:50.5	and we're also going to be speaking about threat intelligence and cybersecurity at Blackberry
1:55.2	which is a huge part of the company offering today we're going to start with you John you have quite a deep history with the Q&X side of the company offering today. We're going to start with you, John. You have quite a deep history with the Q&X side of the business.
2:04.8	I love to just get a bit of a history actually on you first.
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