SoundCloud knows music… and cybersecurity.
Late last year, the giant music streaming and sharing platform suffered a data breach that reportedly affected approximately 20 percent of its users, according to numerous media outlets. SoundCloud worked diligently with leading third-party cybersecurity experts to complete a thorough investigation into the incident. Along the way, they posted three notices on its website acknowledging the incident and communicating transparently with its community.
At RSAC Conference 2026 in San Francisco last month, the tagline was “Power Of Community”, and SoundCloud was part of it.
Amanda Glassner, Deputy Editor at Cybercrime Magazine, caught up with Sean Juroviesky, Senior Security Engineer at SoundCloud, and asked what it’s like working behind the scenes for such a (seemingly) big global company. “It’s really cool,” said Juroviesky, a CISSP. “We’re a much smaller team than most people think. We have over 300 million user accounts, but we only have about 500 staff internally.”
Why RSAC? “Community has been key to my career growth, showing up and lending a hand at events wherever I can has allowed me to meet and speak with so many Infosec stars. Those conversations often inspire my talks, helping me realize we all have unique experiences that should be shared to keep strengthening our shared pool of knowledge in the cybersecurity community.”
Jurovisesky also told us that he has a new book coming out on security for non-human identity accounts.
SoundCloud is the sound of cybersecurity, where our popular Podcast has been hosted since its launch in May 2019. According to Listen Notes, which is like Google for Podcasts, the Cybercrime Magazine Podcast, which has aired more than 6,000 episodes, is one of the top 5 percent most popular shows out of more than 3.1 million podcasts globally.
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