I once told my college advisor that I wanted to double major in computer science and jazz performance. She laughed at me. Instead, I jumped into a career in IT and played jazz - without a degree in either. Turns out, that was fine - the industry valued experience and results over academic achievement. Today's guest has two degrees, one in fine arts, one in pre-law, and that's also fine. If there's anything I've learned in InfoSec, it's the mind that matters most, less so the degrees or certs on your wall. Angela Marafino gets cybersecurity and understands what makes it tick. Using this knowledge, she has built a personal brand, network, and career in an impressively short time. She is simultaneously mentor and mentee. Today, we'll explore Angela's path into the industry as well as some of her views on challenges, like imposter syndrome. https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome https://www.itspmagazine.com/focal-point-podcast https://twitter.com/hackerbookclub1 Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-6

We're excited to give an end-of-year readout on the performance of the cybersecurity industry with Mike Privette, founder of Return on Security and author of the weekly Security, Funded newsletter. This year, this podcast has leaned heavily on the Security, Funded newsletter to prep for our news segment, as it provides a great summary of all the funding and M&A events going on each week. In this segment, we look back at 2023, statistics for the year, comparisons to 2022, interesting insights, predictions, and more! Segment Resources: Mike's blog; Return on Security: https://www.returnonsecurity.com/ Mike's newsletter; Security, Funded: https://www.returnonsecurity.com/subscribe Understanding how CyberRatings, NaaS, and SASE combine to make network security easier to buy and deploy. MEF is an industry association, providing standards, certifications, and facilitating community discussions. MEF has teamed up with CyberRatings.org to establish a certification program for SASE services, making it easier for buyers to understand what's included in SASE-related products and services. Segment Resources: https://www.mef.net/news/16-leading-technology-and-service-providers-launch-industrys-first-sase-product-and-services-certification/ This week, in the security market, we talk about next NEXT gen anti-virus, how Okta can (apparently) do no wrong, and a VC firm imploding. Then we discuss how smartphones and speakers are allegedly being used to spy on us, and the future of privacy and consumer tech products. The latest SSH vuln is much less concerning than media outlets and academic researchers would have you believe. The Citrixbleed vuln, however is about as bad as vulns can get, and has led to one of the biggest US consumer breaches in a while, with Comcast/XFinity losing all customer records. The SEC backpedals (again!) on requiring breached companies to provide details about how they got breached. And finally, we have some fun with some squirrel stories that you should absolutely check out by going to our show notes, here: https://securityweekly.com/esw344 Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-344

On this podcast, we've often struggled with whether or not to include stories and discussion on identity verification. Is identity verification cybersecurity proper, or cybersecurity adjacent as part of fraud prevention? As always, when we're unsure, we find folks to talk to and learn more. Today, we'll be learning about weak points in the identity verification chain from Rob O'Farrell. He'll also be helping us to understand what identity verification is, and why it's important to cybersecurity overall. As more and more of the world is digitized (especially the lagging healthcare industry in the US), reliable identity verification seems more important every day. Segment Resources: Living Information Security: An Integrated Approach to ISO-27001 The Foundations of Identity Verification: Trust and Its Pillars IBS Intelligence Podcasts Ep552: Is self-sovereign identity the next step in secure ID management? Are We Being Lax with Fraud? What is telemetry data and why is it important to cybersecurity? Why is it such a pain to collect, store and use? How do we improve our ability to gather and benefit from this data? Today, Tucker Callaway, the CEO of Mezmo joins us to answer all these questions and help us understand the future of the SIEM and other cybersecurity data tools. On this week's news segment, we pick up where we left off with Doug running the show last week. We discuss current early stage categories, AD canarytokens, and low hanging vulns. We talk about why cybersecurity is important, but not nearly as unique or special as some might have you think. The goal of patching faster than exploits can be used - is it a fool's errand? Also, pickleball - the country's fastest growing sport, is causing chaos across the nation. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-343

Bob Ackerman argues that, from an investment perspective, cybersecurity is like life sciences - a complex, nuanced field that is difficult field to invest in part-time. So his firm, Allegis Cyber, became one of the first to focus exclusively on investing in cyber startups. In this segment, we'll discuss one of Allegis's recent investments, SixMap, and Bob's other investment/accelerator vehicle, Data Tribe. Data Tribe sources investments from national intelligence, with examples like Dragos that came through this program. This week in the enterprise news, we explore the harsh realities of the startup world with a look at recent failures and shutdowns, investigating the factors leading to these setbacks. Meanwhile, Carbon Black makes headlines by breaking away from VMware in what seems like a divestiture within an acquisition, raising questions about the future of the company. We'll also discuss the European Space Agency's venture into cybersecurity for the space industry, revealing that even the vastness of outer space isn't immune to digital threats. Tune in for all this and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-342

While non-profit doesn't mean "no budget" when it comes to cybersecurity, a lot of smaller to mid-sized non-profits operate on a shoestring, with little to no money for cybersecurity talent or spending. This is where Sightline Security steps in. Sightline's founder and CEO, Kelley Misata joins us today to explain how her own non-profit helps other non-profits improve their cybersecurity posture. As with any category of trends, the success rate of cybercrime ebbs and flows. As Russia seems be a safe haven for cybercriminals, it seemed for a while that the war in Ukraine might disrupt this activity. It did, but only for a short while. Keith Jarvis walks us through the latest types, tactics, and trends in cybercrime. Secureworks' latest State of the Threat report reveals a disturbing dichotomy: how is it we understand our adversaries' so well, but continue to fail to stop them? In this interview, we aim to understand what needs to happen to tilt the odds a bit back in our favor. Segment Resources: Secureworks State of the Threat Report Press Release Segment description coming soon! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-341

High School students represent the very beginning of the pipeline for the Cyber industry. What are the attitudes and perspectives of these young people? How can we attract the best and brightest into our industry? Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-5

Once again, Theresa Lanowitz joins us to discuss Edge Computing, but with a twist this time, as Mani Keerthi Nagotu from SentinelOne joins us as well! As a field CISO, Mani knows all too well the struggles security leaders are going through, given the current market and threat landscape: Maybe not less budget, but more pressure to produce results and justify spending Security leaders being held personally accountable for performance Potential layoffs, and the need to achieve the same goals with less labor and tool overhead Segment Resources https://cybersecurity.att.com/insights-report This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attcybersecurity to learn more about them! We regularly cover significant breaches on this podcast, but it is rare that we have enough information about a major breach to cover in enough detail to devote an entire segment to. Today, we dive into lessons learned from the breach of Okta's customer support system that targeted some other major security vendors. This is part of a troubling trend, where the target of an attack only serves as a jumping off point to other organizations. China's 2023 attack of Microsoft is an example of this. It was easier to attack Microsoft 365, one of the world's largest business SaaS platforms, than to go after each of the 25 individual targets these Chinese actors needed access to. Traditionally, we've thought of lateral movement as something that happens within a network segment, or even within a single organization. Now, we're seeing lateral movement between SaaS platforms, between clouds, from third party vendors to customer, and even from open source project to open source adopters. In this segment, we'll cover five key lessons learned from Okta's breach, from information shared by Okta and three of its customers: 1Password, Cloudflare, and BeyondTrust. Protect Your Session Tokens Monitor for Unusual Behavior SaaS Vendors Are Common Targets Zero Trust Principles Work MFA Isn't a Binary (on or off) Control Segment Resources https://www.valencesecurity.com/resources/blogs/five-lessons-learned-from-oktas-support-site-breach Finally, in the enterprise security news, Lots of new security startups with early stage funding SentinelOne picks up Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos’s consulting firm PE firm picks up ActiveState - a company I haven’t thought about since I last downloaded ActiveState Perl 1000 years ago Microsoft announces the limited release of Security Copilot Semgrep releases a secrets scanner AGI predicted to come much sooner than you might expect NY State doubles down on cybersecurity regulations to protect its hospitals the young hackers behind Mirai, one of the biggest botnets ever Ransomware groups snitch on businesses to the SEC Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-340

Today, we discuss the state of attack surface across the Internet. We've known for decades now that putting an insecure service on the public Internet is a recipe for disaster, often within minutes. How has this knowledge changed the publicly accessible Internet? We find out when we talk to Censys's Aidan Holland today. We've reached an inflection point in security. There are a handful of organizations regularly and successfully stopping cyber attacks. Most companies haven't gotten there, however. What separates these two groups? Why does it seem like we're still failing as an industry, despite seeming to collectively have all the tools, intel, and budget we've asked for? Kelly Shortridge has studied this problem in depth. She has created tools (https://www.deciduous.app/), and written books (https://www.securitychaoseng.com/) to help the community approach security challenges in a more logical and structured way. We'll discuss what hasn't worked for infosec in the past, and what Kelly thinks might work as we go into the future. During the news today, we went deep down the rabbithole of discussing security product efficacy. Adrian still doesn't believe in enterprise browsers beyond Google Chrome, but can't deny that Talon got a pretty favorable exit considering the state of the market. We see the first major exit for cybersecurity insuretechs, and discuss a few notable funding rounds. We discuss Kelly Shortridge's essay on the origins and nature of the term "security" and what it means. Stephen Schmidt suggests 6 questions every board should ask their CISO, we explore Cyentia Labs' meta analysis of MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and Phil Venables shares some hilarious takes on infosec stereotypes.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-339

In this segment, we discuss the current state of the market recovery with Hank Thomas, founder of Strategic Cyber Ventures. We've got market questions, like: What has changed in the last year? Are IPOs coming back any time soon? How large is the cybersecurity death pool? What do early and mid-sized startups need to do to survive in the current market? There is little to no organization of data within companies in 2023. We're all guilty of this at some level. The download folders and desktops on our personal machines are a mess. File servers, and cloud storage services are a mess. In Microsoft's recent data leak, AI researchers even had PC backups stored along side machine learning models for whatever reason. Data is hard to classify, organize, and monitor. By designing for convenience, we've created convenience debt that now has to be paid down. In this segment we talk to Jackie McGuire about what needs to happen to accomplish this, at the enterprise level, and at scale. Even if we can one day address the challenge of tracking and labeling data, we'll still have the challenge of addressing data integrity and resilience, which we'll also discuss if we have time! Segment Resources: https://www.darkreading.com/risk/it-s-time-to-assess-the-potential-dangers-of-an-increasingly-connected-world- Oh, the HARror! Sanitizing HAR files is not as easy as some might lead you to believe. CISA funds Cyber.org for K-12 cyber education and ORNL creates a Center for AI Security Research (CAISER). Cloudflare creates a tool out of spite, and CISA creates a tool you shouldn't use in production? Biden's EO on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI" and the Top Five Things you need to know about how GenAI is used in Security Tools. Five lessons learned form Okta's latest breach, should ransom payments be illegal, and why ransomware victims can't stop paying ransoms. We discuss the impact of the charges made against Solarwinds and its CISO by the SEC, the 2023 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Survey, and Microsoft's latest open letter on security. Finally we wrap up discussing a delicious $8M Series A for better bagels! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-338

In the age of remote and hybrid work, employees are now spending most of their time in the browser or virtual meetings, making the browser an increasingly important part of an enterprise's security strategy. According to Gartner, “By 2030, enterprise browsers will be the core platform for delivering workforce productivity and security software on managed and unmanaged devices for a seamless hybrid work experience.” Learn more about: The browser's role in a business's security strategy How an enterprise browser can support your workforce Zero Trust Architecture and how businesses can enforce context-aware access controls and add customizable data loss prevention Segment Resources: Complimentary Gartner Emerging Tech: Security – The Future of Enterprise Browsers Report Get started with Chrome Enterprise for free Learn about Google's Zero Trust solution, BeyondCorp Enterprise Customer spotlight: Check out the Google Cloud Next recording to hear how Snap is leveraging our secure enterprise browsing solution to protect their workforce How to contact us This segment was sponsored by Google Chrome Enterprise. Visit https://securityweekly.com/chromeenterprise to learn more! In this interview, we talk to Chad Cardenas about why he created The Syndicate Group, which operates very differently from the typical VC firm with LPs and a collective fund to draw from. We'll discuss how the investor/startup relationship differs, and what the advantages of this model are. This week, we discuss Island's raise, unicorn status, and what that means for both the enterprise browser market and the cybersecurity market in general. We discuss Censys and the state of the external attack surface management market, or what they're trying to call, "exposure management". We discuss the details of the Okta breach in depth, and why we're worried about the larger impact it could have on the industry and vendor trust in general. Finally, we wrap up with some fun squirrel stories.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-337

Today we interview Shane Sims, CEO of Kivu Consulting. We'll be talking about the current state of cybercrime and insights from incidents his consulting firm has recently worked. We'll discuss some of the latest stats and trends related to ransomware, as well as thoughts on future cybercrime trends. Shane will also share some stories from his time as an FBI agent, working undercover as a cybercriminal. Segment Resources: Report - Mitigating Ransomware Risk: Determining Optimal Strategies for Business One of the biggest challenges in security today is organizations' reluctance to share attack information. Perhaps legal teams are worried about liability, or maybe execs are just embarrassed about security failures. Whatever the reason, this trend makes it difficult for organizations to help each other. CrowdSec's mission is to make this process automated, anonymized, and seamless for security teams. We talk to Phillip Humeau, one of CrowdSec's founders, about what it's like to build a such an unconventional cybersecurity business - one based around crowdsourcing and open source software. This week, in the enterprise security news, AI dominates new funding rounds (I’m shocked. This is my shocked face.) The buyer’s market continues, with lots of small acquisitions SingTel sells off Trustwave at a significant loss Yubico goes public (actually, a month ago, sorry we missed it) Yubico can also now ship pre-registered security keys New cybersecurity tools for board and exec-level folks Lessons learned from recent ransomware attacks Healthcare is increasingly under attack A study on CISO tenure - longer than you might think! Don’t miss today’s squirrel stories at the end! All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-336

The world of AI is exploding, as excitement about generative AI creates a gold rush. We've already seen a huge number of new GenAI-based startups, products, and features flooding the market and we'll see a lot more emerge over the next few years. Generative AI will transform how we do business and how we interact with businesses, so right now is an excellent time to consider how to adopt AI safely. Pamela Gupta's company literally has "trust" and "AI" in the name (Trusted.ai), so we couldn't think of anyone better to come on and have this conversation with. Interview Resources: https://trusted.ai https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ai/nist.ai.100-1.pdf There's a lot of talk about AI, especially with the rise of apps like ChatGPT. Despite there being a huge amount of hype, there are legitimately practical applications for leveraging AI concepts in meaningful ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your cybersecurity program. We'll discuss a few examples and show you some ways to bring AI out of the hype and into a proper tool to empower your security and risk program. This segment is sponsored by Tenable. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/tenableisw to learn more about them! Threat actors don’t think in silos and neither should cybersecurity solutions. In this fireside chat with Uptycs’ newly appointed CRO, Mike Campfield, learn why organizations need to adopt a consolidation approach to win in cyber security, why it’s important to “shift up,” and what Mike is most excited about in his new role. This segment is sponsored by Uptycs. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/uptycsisw to learn more about them! Deidre Diamond, founder & CEO of CyberSN, talks about her efforts to address InfoSec burnout and the skills shortage impacting the industry. As long as there are profits to be made, cybercriminals will continue to monetize enterprise assets—whether they be devices, applications, data, or users. It only takes one weak or unknown asset to compromise an entire organization. Brian will discuss why enterprises need to move away from assumption-based approaches to asset data and decision making to evidence-based asset intelligence to secure their environments quickly, easily, and at scale. This segment is sponsored by Sevco Security. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/sevcoisw to learn more about them! In this ISW interview, CRA's Bill Brenner catches up with Kevin Johnson of Secure Ideas for a chat about application security. In this segment from ISW, Dakota State COO and General Counsel Stacy Kooistra talks to Bill Brenner about the university's effort create more cyber warriors. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes!  

In this segment, we'll explore some of the most useful lessons and interesting insights to come out of the last year's worth of breaches and data leaks! We'll explain why we will NOT be covering MGM in this segment. The breaches we will be covering include: - Microsoft AI Research Data Leak - Microsoft/Storm-0558 - CommutAir - Riot Games - Lastpass - CircleCI - RackSpace - Drizly (yes, this breach is older, but the full story just wrapped a year ago!) On this week's news segment, we go down a bit of a rabbit hole on data lakes and have a GREAT conversation about where security data wrangling might or might not go in the future. We also discuss Nord Security's funding and $3B valuation, try to figure out what Synqly is doing, and discuss IronNet's demise. We also find out which email solution is more secure (at least, according to insurance claim data), Google or Microsoft!  We wrap up, learning that forms of CAPTCHAs are apparently broken now, $3800 gets you a gaming PC in the shape of a sneaker, and someone has created the DevOps equivalent of dieselgate! Each employee serves as a potential gateway to their organization, and the personal information of your workforce is readily accessible and exposed on the internet, making the organization susceptible to threats. DeleteMe is the solution that locates and eliminates personal data from the open web, safeguarding your organization. This segment is sponsored by DeleteMe. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/deletemeisw to learn more about them! With all of the fancy tools, equipment, and logos most organizations are unable to understand where their data is and how it can be accessed. In the world of work from wherever and whenever orgs need a better handle on what this means.  Ridge has worked to curate a set of solutions to meet and implement this need! This segment is sponsored by Ridge IT Cyber. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/ridgeitisw to learn more about them! Why are we seeing a re-emergence of the demand for packet and flow-based forensic data in cloud environments? In this session, we’ll discuss three reasons why IT leaders still need the same if not even better visibility in the cloud than they have in their data centers.  We’ll also discuss the growing demand for Threat Exposure Management (TEM). Why does a leading analyst describe this as a transformation technology and how can you quickly visualize your environment the way the attackers do?  Segment Resources: https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/ptv/solutions/threat-exposure-management https://www.viavisolutions.com/en-us/ptv/solutions/high-fidelity-threat-forensics-remediation This segment is sponsored by VIAVI Solutions. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/viaviisw to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly

We ALL use SaaS. It has become ubiquitous in both our personal and professional lives. Somehow, the SaaS Security market has only recently began to emerge. Today's interview with Yoni Shohet, co-founder and CEO of Valence Security, aims to understand why it has taken so long for SaaS Security products to come to market, what that market currently looks like, and what a SaaS Security product actually does. The concept of Edge computing has evolved over the years and now has a distinct role alongside public cloud. Theresa Lanowitz, from AT&T Cybersecurity, and Chris Goettl from Ivanti join us to discuss what edge computing means for the market and for cybersecurity. Specifically, we'll discuss how: Strong use cases in the market today for edge computing Security's role in edge computing, as a relative newcomer to part of the broader planning process Edge computing requires new thinking about security because of its distributed nature This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attcybersecurity to learn more about them! This week, we changed things up a bit for the news segment and Allie Mellen joins us as a surprise guest host! We discuss Cisco's Splunk acquisition and what it means for Splunk customers, and "The Blob" - Allie's term describing the negative forces responsible for much of the overhyped marketing, silly trends, and substandard products we see in the industry. Segment Resources: Allie's blog on Cisco/Splunk: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/splunk-is-good-for-cisco-but-cisco-needs-to-convince-splunk-customers-that-cisco-is-good-for-them/ Allie's blog on The Blob: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-blob-is-poisoning-the-security-industry/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-333

Forrester Research releases a few annual reoccurring cybersecurity reports, but one of the biggest that covers the most ground is the Security Risk Planning Guide, which was recently released for 2024. One of the report's 17 authors, and research director, Merritt Maxim, will walk us through the report's most interesting insights and highlights. This is going to be considerably interesting considering some of this year's trends impacting security teams: An economic downturn, resulting in layoffs and budget freezes The widespread proliferation of generative AI technology The relentless and resilient nature of cybercrime, despite some notable law enforcement wins Ongoing discussion about the role and relevance of SOCs, CISO's, as well as the security department place in today's enterprise Increased enterprise reliance on SaaS and Cloud, as vendors and service providers continue to struggle with securing their products and services If you've ever played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know that the quality of the experience depends on how prepared, experienced, and talented the Dungeon Master is. Today, we'll talk to InfoSec DM and practitioner extraordinaire Ryan Fried about some of the key elements that separate a good cybersecurity tabletop exercise from a bad one! This is literally his day job at Mandiant, and it doesn't hurt to have one of the world's largest libraries of attacker TTPs and the collective lessons learned from thousands of actual incident response experiences. This week we talk about finding, acquisitions and the state of the market. If you're interested in cybersecurity market discussion, this is the episode for you. We also discuss what makes a cybersecurity influencer. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-332

Discussing ways to ensure client success with MDR and discuss the ways organizations hurt MDR efficacy with overly broad global exclusions, poor deployment practices, and poor policy hygiene. This segment is sponsored by Sophos. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sophos to learn more about them! We talk to Chris Sanders today, who has been steeped in the world of SecOps and detection/response for many years. After many years of writing books and training folks in the cybersecurity industry, he started delving into cognitive psychology and educational effectiveness. He leverages this knowledge in the training classes he builds and delivers. Today we'll discuss why it seems like defenders are still failing, despite the security industry largely (and arguably) receiving the resources it has been requesting. In this news segment, we start off by discussing funding, acquisitions, and Ironnet's unfortunate demise. We discuss Gmail's new, extra verifications for sensitive actions and Lockheed Martin's Hoppr SBOM and software supply-chain utility kit. We get into CISA's roadmap to help secure open source software, and their offer to run free vulnerability scans for the United States' 150,000+ water utilities. Then, discussion turns back to some more negative items with Brazil's self-inflicted $11 billion dollar data leak, and the MGM/Caesar's ransomware attacks, which seem like they could have a common attacker and initial attack vector (a shared IT support company, perhaps). We also discuss Microsoft's post mortem on the Storm-0558 attack. Kelly Shortridge wants to know, "why are you logging into production hosts", someone is submitting garbage CVEs, and Mozilla finds that privacy policies from auto manufacturers are a privacy TRAIN WRECK. Finally, we wrap up discussing tools that can detect deepfake audio, as well as the likelihood that this will be the start of a game of leapfrog, as deepfakes get increasingly better over time. And we discuss Delphi's offer to create a 'digital clone' of you that could live on forever, haunting your descendants. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-331

Check out this interview from the ESW Vault, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on November 18, 2022. This segment will focus on (1) Why Did Sephora Get Fined $1.2M and Why Are They on Probation? (2) Why Data Privacy is Being Overhauled in 2023 (and How You Can Be Ready) Segment Resources: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/i-said-no-to-online-cookies-websites-tracked-me-anyway-a8480554809/  https://www.geekwire.com/2022/the-bittersweet-serendipity-that-gave-these-two-startup-leaders-a-shared-mission-in-online-privacy/ https://www.boltive.com/blog/why-having-a-consent-management-platform-is-not-enough https://www.boltive.com/blog/bracing-for-2023-privacy-laws https://ceoworld.biz/2022/07/03/three-ways-your-data-is-leaking-in-advertising-and-how-to-avoid-it/   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-4  Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly

Having direct visibility into your access data is crucial for two reasons: 1. Simplifying audit preparation and 2. Managing progress of your identity program to ensure peak performance. Internal auditors and compliance managers need easy access to granular data points to understand and demonstrate compliance to external agencies. Gaining access to real time data creates a great deal of autonomy for audit and identity teams to be able to delve deep into their identity programs and prove compliance. However, making the data available even internally can put organizations at risk for data leaks and data policy violations. Erik will outline how companies can gain access to their current identity search and dashboard data and be able to query in their preferred BI tool based on their own data privacy policies and business needs, significantly reducing risk.   This segment is sponsored by SailPoint. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sailpoint to learn more about them! There's still serious, late stage funding for compelling tech in cybersecurity, SpyCloud proves with it's $110M Series D. We discuss the SentinelOne/Wiz merger rumors. Sadly layoffs and even company failures are still occurring, thought Tyler thinks the market downturn is close to bottoming out. NordVPN spins off an AI skunkworks called NordLabs. The Browser Company has a great company vision page that's worth checking out. Two interesting LLM prompt-related tools to check out are PIPE and promptmap (both on github). Brazilian phone spyware WebDetetive (sic) gets hacked and all victim data deleted. US takes down QakBot and *removes* it from infected systems! Finally, a homing pigeon proves that birds are faster than gigabit Internet :D In this interview, Raghu discusses the specific challenges in securing the cloud and how to overcome them. He shares how to make your life easier by making security a team sport, how to gain the visibility you need across clouds, data centers, and endpoints, and how to get a return on your cloud security investments. This segment is sponsored by Illumio. Visit https://securityweekly.com/illumiobh to learn more about them! It’s no secret that the attack surface is increasing and the best defense is one that’s matched to the most relevant risks. Through proactive and reactive research, The SafeBreach Labs team helps customers discover their most critical threats and security gaps by building the industry’s most current and complete playbook of attacks. In this session, SafeBreach Director of Research Tomer Bar will share how attacks are conducted, which APT group have been the most active, and how breach and attack simulation can help teams think like an adversary and leverage recent vulnerabilities to gain accurate insights.  Segment Resources: https://www.safebreach.com/safebreach-labs/  This segment is sponsored by SafeBreach. Visit https://securityweekly.com/safebreachbh to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-330

Incredibly, the seemingly simple task of managing corporate-owned devices is still a struggle for most organizations in 2023. Maybe best MDM for Mac doesn't work with Windows, or the best MDM for Windows doesn't work with Mac. Maybe neither have Linux support. Perhaps they don't provide enough insight into the endpoint, or control over it. Whatever the case, security leaders never seem satisfied with their MDM solution and are always investigating new ones. Now, Kolide has stepped in with a unique approach to device management, combining the flexibility and industry support for OSQuery and built to integrate with IdP giant Okta. We discuss Kolide's entrance into the device management space and the current state of MDM - what's wrong with it, and how does Kolide propose to fix it? This segment is sponsored by Kolide. Visit https://securityweekly.com/kolide to learn more about them! Segment description coming soon! Record funding levels over the last two weeks top 2023 and the same time last year. We discuss Palo Alto's plans for the future, CISA's analysis of the LAPSUS$ hacking group, and the uselessness of Quantum Security pitches. Chrome adds the ability to alert users about malicious extensions. A great post from Thinkst has us talking about why vendors (and buyers) need to be careful about default behaviors and documentation. You won't want to miss the excellent squirrel story - a front end for Reddit that looks like Microsoft Outlook. During this segment, Jon will explore today’s ransomware economy players from IABS to RaaS affiliates, to money launders and now C2Ps. For the discussion, Jon will leverage Halcyon’s latest research, which demonstrates a new technique to uncover how C2Ps, like Cloudzy, are used to identify upcoming ransomware campaigns and other advanced attacks. The research revealed that Cloudzy, knowingly or not, provided services to attackers while assuming a legitimate business profile. Threat actors that leveraged Cloudzy include APT groups tied to the Chinese, Iranian, North Korean, Russian, Indian, Pakistani, and Vietnamese governments; a sanctioned Israeli spyware vendor whose tools are known to target civilians; several criminal syndicates and ransomware affiliates whose campaigns have spurred international headlines. This segment is sponsored by Halcyon. Visit https://securityweekly.com/halcyonbh to learn more about them! In this session, Snehal will discuss several real-world examples of what autonomous pentesting discovered in networks just like yours. You’ll hear more about how fast and easy it was to safely compromise some of the biggest (and smallest) networks in the world - with full domain takeover in a little more than a few hours. Learn how you can safely do the same in your own network today!  This segment is sponsored by Horizon3.ai. Visit https://securityweekly.com/horizon3aibh to learn more about them! In this Black Hat 2023 interview, CRA’s Bill Brenner and Sophos’ John Shier discuss the company’s latest research on the Royal ransomware gang. Though Royal is a notoriously closed off group that doesn’t openly solicit affiliates from underground forums, granular similarities in the forensics of the attacks suggest all three groups are sharing either affiliates or highly specific technical details of their activities.  This segment is sponsored by Sophos.  Visit https://securityweekly.com/sophosbh to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-329

In the Enterprise Security News, 1. Check Point buys Perimeter 81 to augment its cybersecurity 2. 2023 Layoff Tracker: SecureWorks Cuts 300 Jobs 3. Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating 4. ‘DoubleDrive’ attack turns Microsoft OneDrive into ransomware 5. NYC bans TikTok on city-owned devices   As more organizations explore edge computing, understanding the entire ecosystem is paramount for bolstering security and resiliency, especially within a critical industry like healthcare. In this segment, Theresa Lanowitz, Head of Cybersecurity Evangelism at AT&T Business, will provide a deep dive into the state of edge computing—specifically, how it is revolutionizing healthcare. She will discuss key findings from the “2023 AT&T Cybersecurity Insights™ Report: Focus on Healthcare” and provide insight into how to prepare for securing the healthcare edge ecosystem. This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attcybersecuritybh to learn more about them!     With Active Directory (AD) exploited in 9 out of 10 cyberattacks, delaying AD modernization—especially after a merger or acquisition—can compound security risks. Security is the most compelling reason to migrate to a pristine AD forest or perform an AD forest or domain consolidation, but many organizations delay such projects due to the effort and planning they require. Security Weekly talks with Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman about the keys to a smooth and secure AD modernization strategy. This segment is sponsored by Semperis. Visit https://securityweekly.com/semperisbh to learn more about them!   Security organizations are increasingly adopting data lakes and cloud services as additions or alternatives to traditional SIEMs, but face challenges like scarcity of data engineering expertise and high data ingestion and cloud compute costs. To overcome these, a new security data stack is emerging, guided by models like SecDataOps and supported by solutions like Tenzir, purpose-built for security data use cases. In this segment, we will be talking about what is driving the heavy use of data in security operations, why that is stressing traditional security operations tools and processes, and what some early-adopter organizations are doing to meet these challenges.  This segment is sponsored by Tenzir. Visit https://securityweekly.com/tenzirbh to learn more about them!   The rapid growth of APIs used to build microservices in cloud-native architecture has left many enterprises in the dark when it comes to knowing where, how many, and what types of APIs they have. With multiple teams creating their own API endpoints without shared visibility or governance, exposed APIs can become a critical threat vector for hackers to exploit. Edgio's new advanced API security capabilities give customers integrated and unparalleled protection at the edge, protecting APIs that are critical to modern businesses. Edgio delivers these services as part of its fully integrated holistic Web Application and API protection solutions giving customers the ability to respond to threats quicker. An edge-enabled holistic security platform can effectively reduce the attack surface, and improve the effectiveness of the defense while reducing the latency of critical web applications via its multi-layered defense approach. Edgio's security platform “shrinks the haystacks” so that organizations can better focus on delivering key business outcomes. This segment is sponsored by Edgio. Visit https://securityweekly.com/edgiobh to learn more about them!   Offensive security is a proactive approach that identifies weaknesses using the same exploitation techniques as threat actors. It combines vulnerability management with pen testing and red team operations to “expose and close” vulnerabilities before they are exploited. This segment is sponsored by Fortra. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortrabh to learn more about them!     Join us at Black Hat as we delve into the world of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) providers. In this podcast, we'll explore the critical factors to consider when selecting an MDR provider, uncover the common shortcomings in their services, and discuss the necessary evolution required to ensure ongoing effectiveness and enhanced value for customers. Get ready to unravel the complexities of MDR and gain insights into the future of this vital cybersecurity solution.     This segment is sponsored by Critical Start.  Visit https://securityweekly.com/criticalstartbh to learn more about them!     Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes!  Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-328

Binarly is one of only a few startups focused on highlighting security issues in firmware. The company has discovered a remarkable number of vulnerabilities in firmware in a very short time. Its' founder, Alex Matrosov, joins us to discuss insights discovered along his company's journey to convince vendors that firmware is worth securing. This week in the Enterprise News, we discuss Kubernetes attacks and CPU attacks. We also have a better idea of what valuation losses might be for security startups, thanks to the Check Point/Perimeter 81 acquisition. MITRE releases, ATLAS, an ATT&CK-style framework for machine learning models. Bloodhound's new rearchitected Community Edition is out, and Las Vegas's Sphere hasn't been hacked... yet. We discuss Ian Amit's background and what led him to want to leave the CISO life to create a startup! It's one thing for a security product to report problems to a security team. Everyone has these tools, but the problem is that someone has to analyze and triage all those findings, leading to alert fatigue and not a lot getting fixed. Gomboc is proposing to address this gap by auto-generating the fix.  https://www.blackhat.com/us-23/spotlight.html Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-327

While malware and ransomware tend to dominate cybersecurity headlines, Fortra’s research shows that nearly 99% of email threats reaching corporate inboxes utilize impersonation rather than malware. Email impersonation is a key component of credential phishing, advance fee fraud, hybrid vishing, and business email compromise schemes. Because email impersonation scams rely on social engineering rather than technology, the barrier to entry for an aspiring cybercriminal is almost non-existent. In this segment, we’ll explore strategies for defending against email impersonation. Segment Resources: [Fortra Cybersecurity Learning Resources](https://www.fortra.com/resources/cybersecurity-education?code=cmp-0000012210&ls=717710002&utm_source=cyberrisk-alliance&utm_medium=contsynd&utm_campaign=ft-brand-awareness) [2023 BEC Trends, Targets, and Changes in Techniques](https://static.fortra.com/agari/pdfs/report/fta-ag-2023-bec-trends-targets-changes-in-techniques-rp.pdf) This segment is sponsored by Fortra. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortra to learn more about them! Fareedah Shaheed, aka CyberFareedah, has dedicated herself to educating the public on online safety. Today, we'll talk about the challenges she has faced in building a training company from scratch, targeting both consumers, and private business. Her journey is interesting from multiple perspectives: as a business owner, an immigrant, becoming an influencer, and establishing herself as a cybersecurity thought leader - all within less than half a decade! This week in the Enterprise Security News: we discuss securing open source, Cyberinsurance, Hackerone Layoffs, and whether or not Sharks have noses!  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-326

The traditional concept of the CISO may literally be 'too much', according to Nathan Case. It's based on systems of control and unrealistic assumptions that don't survive contact with real life. In this conversation, we'll discuss what the top security leadership role should be, and how it differs from the current/old school concept.   The concept of Edge computing has evolved over the years and now has a distinct role alongside the public cloud. AT&T Cybersecurity just released their 12th report on this market, which explores insights from a massive, 1400 respondent survey. Theresa Lanowitz joins us to discuss the findings of the report, and the future of this market. https://cybersecurity.att.com/insights-report  This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attcybersecurity to learn more about them!   This week, we discuss the state of the market as OneTrust announces a round, one year after they laid off nearly 1000 employees. We also note that we continue to see more and more non-US cybersecurity vendor activity - France and India specifically this week. An IBM report tries to tie security spending to breach costs, but we disagree. We discuss the impact of InfoSec leaving Twitter, and the odds of whether or not the Las Vegas Sphere will get hacked during DEF CON.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-325

Today, we talk to Juliet about what's wrong with security programs today and what security leaders should be doing to fix them. We'll discuss how security programs can look rosy... until the incident hits, and the true posture of the organization is laid bare. How can CISOs still look good and maintain the org's trust under the worst of circumstances? In this interview, Jules will tell us how. Zero Trust is an imperfect concept and is often impractical to deploy comprehensively at scale, but that doesn't mean it can't do any good. In this interview, we talk with practitioner Ryan Fried about his experiences implementing Zero Trust in real life. We'll also discuss his new role at Mandiant, and why the glue that holds together people, process, and tools is so important. Finally, in the enterprise security news, Secure Code Warrior raises $50M to continue educating developers on best security practices, Jamf acquires dataJAR, IronNet’s public run ends soon, Microsoft puts pressure on other cybersecurity stocks, We discuss the Microsoft Storm breach, How to make engineers not hate you, Securely build features using AI APIs WormGPT, National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan, Cybersecurity labels Google plans to scrape everything you post for AI, & the Year of the Linux Desktop! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly  Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-324

InfoSec might have a hoarding problem, but it’s easy to understand why. It’s almost impossible to know what logs you’re doing to need, when you’re going to need them, or for what reason. SIEM vendors have taken advantage of these InfoSec data FOMO tendencies, however, and are making a killing charging a premium for storage - even when the storage in question is your own on-prem hardware. There ARE alternatives, however, but it seems most folks aren’t aware of this. In this interview with Eric Capuano, we’ll discuss both the practical and economic shortcomings of the traditional SIEM model. We’ll discuss the challenges of various SIEM use cases. Most importantly, we’ll discuss the new models actively replacing them. (No, they’re not branded as next-gen SIEMs) Tim MalcolmVetter has been alternating between blue team and red team roles for years. Moving between the two has had its advantages, giving Tim a better understanding of what works, what doesn’t and why. We’ll discuss a variety of topics, including the pros and cons of industry talent pipelines, Kerberoasting, and AI trends. 2023 Cybersecurity Conversations Report: https://eb1x.co/NWn0RHK Segment description coming soon! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-323

Check out this interview from the ESW Vault, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on August 11, 2022. Following in the footsteps of an attacker and uncovering their digital footprints, this episode will uncover an attacker’s techniques used and how they went from zero to full domain admin compromise, which resulted in a nasty ransomware incident. It will also cover general lessons learned from Ransomware Incident Response.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-3 

Securing data is hard. Business stops when data flows are hindered, stopped, sometimes even slowed. Placing controls around data traditionally leads to more friction and less productivity. Can it be a different story in the cloud? Today, we find out when we talk to Dan Benjamin about why he founded Dig and the space they're trying to fill in public cloud services. Paddy Harrington joins us from Forrester research to discuss his findings in this year's state of IoT security report. Computers have been shoved into anything and everything, both in the home and in the workplace. Paddy will share some interesting insights from the report, and we'll discuss why some of the results seem to conflict. Segment description coming soon! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-322

Check out this interview from the ESW Vault, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on September 29, 2021.   No Man is an Island. Neither can a security program exist without interconnections and strong relationships to the rest of the business. Yet, over and over again I meet Security Leaders that thrive on designing security fiefdoms with large moats, and one bridge that they roll down only when they intend to roll out a new technology, initiative or need budget authority. There is no amount of authority or power that can provided to a CISO that makes he or she immunized against the need for communication, collaboration and diplomacy with peers, users and Senior Executives.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-2 

The WAF has a relatively long history with InfoSec. A few years back, we saw the traditional architecture separated by new technologies and philosophies on the best way to detect and stop web-borne attacks. In this episode with Daniel Corbett, we'll take a deep dive into the latest on WAF capabilities, what it means to be 'next-gen' in the WAF world, and how LLM AI like ChatGPT could influence the attacks we see (and have to defend against) in the near future. Explore the rapidly-evolving landscape of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) with insights from Sophos, a pioneering MDR provider. Understand how businesses can gain superior security outcomes and better value from their investments by integrating 3rd party products natively into an adaptive ecosystem backed up by 24/7/365 threat detection, incident response and proactive threat hunting from one of the largest global providers of MDR services.  Finally in the Enterprise News segment, we discuss the user-facing security trend, bad ideas in company naming/branding, and why you might not want to be on a list of the top 200 most secure companies. We also discuss the right way to treat employees when doing layoffs, and the future for companies that probably shouldn't have received funding before the market downturn. Finally, France uses AI to discover untaxed pools! This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fastly to learn more about them! Segment Resources: http://sophos.com/mdr  https://www.sophos.com/en-us/x-ops  This segment is sponsored by Sophos. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sophos to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-321

This is the first interview in a two-part AI special! First up, we talk with Daniel Miessler, who has been following the generative AI trend very closely and is one of the most prolific writers and thought leaders on the topic. It's a massively divisive topic with the most successful product ever launched (ChatGPT). Some folks think it's overhyped, some think it's going to replace all the worst parts of the worst jobs, and others think it could be the beginning of the end for humanity. While other interviews on GenAI get deep into conversations on the future of humanity, we're going to stay closer to home on this one. It seems clear that GenAI will transform the enterprise more quickly than any other technology trend we've seen. We'll discuss what security needs to do to prepare for this shift, and why security teams should begin exploring GenAI themselves as soon as possible. Generative AI is taking the world by storm. Naturally, enterprises are looking for ways to integrate the innovative technology into their techstack, boost productivity of the knowledge workers and overall increase their ROI. The question is, how to do it without compromising data privacy and security standards of the enterprises. Segment Resources: https://zerosystems.com/ In this episode we briefly cover funding, and discuss Snyk's acquisition of Enso Security and Cisco's Armorblox buy. We discuss some new open source AI tools: privateGPT, llm, ttok, and strip-tags. We discuss the death of Meta's massive Metaverse movement and go DEEP down the rabbithole on the new Stop Silly Security Awards website. Artifact's AI rewrites clickbaity headlines and we wrap up by exploring a very entertaining Map of GitHub communities: https://anvaka.github.io/map-of-github/  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-320

Check out this interview from the ESW VAULT, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on October 21, 2021. The Record has published several interviews with cybercriminals, courtesy The Record's Russian-speaking analyst, Dmitry Smilyanets (https://therecord.media/author/dmitry-smilyanets). These interviews have included representatives from REvil, BlackMatter, and Marketo. The interviews have uncovered the gangs' motivations, targets, and tactics, and have been cited by officials, including White House Deputy National Security Advisor Anne Neuberger. We talk with Adam Janofsky, founder and Editorial Director of The Record about what it's like to start a vendor-sponsored media outlet (The Record is funded by Recorded Future), and what they've learned by interviewing the bad guys. This segment is sponsored by Devo. Visit https://securityweekly.com/devo to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-1 

On this edition of the ESW news, we're all over the place! Funding and acquisitions are a little sad right now, but AI and TikTok bans raise our spirits. The hosts are split on feelings about the new .zip gTLD, there's a new standard for scoring an "AI Influence Level" (AIL), and lessons learned from Joe Sullivan's case and other Uber breaches. Also, don't miss the new AI tool DragGAN, which enables near magical levels of ease when manipulating photos.   What's even real anymore? We might not be able to tell for long... The reality is no organization is insusceptible to a breach – and security teams, alongside the C-suite, should prepare now to make the response more seamless once a crisis does happen. Based on his experience working 1:1 with security leaders in the private and public sectors, Jon Check, executive director of Cyber Protection Solutions at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, will share the critical steps organizations must take to best prepare for a security breach. This segment is sponsored by Raytheon. Visit https://securityweekly.com/raytheonrsac to learn more about them!   While companies utilize dozens of security solutions, they continue to be compromised and are continually searching for their real cybersecurity gaps amongst the overload of vulnerability data. A primary issue security teams face is that they lack a way to continuously validate the effectiveness of the different security solutions they have in place. Automated Security Validation is revolutionizing cybersecurity by applying software validation algorithms, for what was once manual penetration testing jobs. It takes the attacker's perspective to challenge the integrity and resilience of security defenses by continuously emulating cyber attacks against them. This segment is sponsored by Pentera. Visit https://securityweekly.com/penterarsac to learn more about them!   Security teams are always on the lookout for external threats that can harm our organizations. However, an internal threat can derail productivity and lead to human error and burnout: repetitive, mundane tasks. To effectively defend against evolving threats, organizations must leverage no-code automation and free analysts to focus on higher-level projects that can improve their organization’s security posture. This segment is sponsored by Tines. Visit https://securityweekly.com/tinesrsac to learn more about them!   In today’s hyper-connected world, devices are everywhere, people are online constantly and sensitive data has moved to the cloud. Given these trends, organizations are making digital trust a strategic imperative. More than ever, companies need a unified platform, modern architecture and flexible deployment options in order to put digital trust to work. This segment is sponsored by DigiCert. Visit https://securityweekly.com/digicertrsac to learn more about them!   Bill Brenner, VP of content strategy at CyberRisk Alliance, and Cisco storyteller/team leader/editor Steve Ragan discuss the issues security professionals are sinking their teeth into at RSA Conference 2023, including: Threats organizations face amid geopolitical strife (Russia/Ukraine, China, North Korea) What SOCs need to respond to a world on fire (training for cloud-based ops, XDR) Challenges of identity and access management (zero trust, MFA, hybrid work environments) Challenges of vulnerability management (finding the most critical flaws in the cloud, key attack vectors in 2023, ransomware) This segment is sponsored by Cisco. Visit https://securityweekly.com/ciscorsac to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw319 

This week, we discuss fundings, acquisitions (TWO DSPM exits!), the ongoing market downturn/weirdness, and surprise - LLM-based AIs! We spend a fair amount of time talking about the importance of breach transparency - we need to be able to learn from others' failures to improve our own defenses. We also discuss the inevitable 'One App To Rule them All' that will serve as an all-knowing personal assistant. It will integrate with all our comms, calendars, and notes, which will be scary and fraught with privacy and security issues. But Tyler and Adrian still yearn for it, as their pre-frontal cortexes become increasingly dulled by scotch and beer.   Enterprises are struggling to manage and reduce their organizational attack surface, especially with a shortage of skilled staff. Find out how some security executives are tackling this challenge by automating their IT and vulnerability management. This segment is sponsored by Syxsense. Visit https://securityweekly.com/syxsensersac to learn more about them!   Cars have evolved from a physical mode of transportation to a digitized experience, bringing with it new risks and challenges in security, privacy and user experience. Putting identity at the center of the connected world solves simplicity and safety challenges, including physical safety, digital security and data privacy. Furthermore, decentralized identity plays a major role in a better, more secure seamless experience – not just for vehicles, but for society at large. This segment is sponsored by ForgeRock. Visit https://securityweekly.com/forgerockrsac to learn more about them!   There is a war on trust in the digital world, and people are caught in the crosshairs. Everywhere we look, there are identity risks with crippling repercussions for businesses, whether fake people, fake content, or insecure web links. With the rise of generative AI tools in business, threat actors are utilizing these technologies to create more sophisticated phishing emails – mimicking brands and tone or more easily translating copy into several languages making them more difficult to identify and easily connecting hackers with global audiences. Now is the time to implement solutions that empower a connected thread of trust between businesses and users – before all trust is lost. This segment is sponsored by OneSpan. Visit https://securityweekly.com/onespanrsac to learn more about them!   Semperis CEO Mickey Bresman sits down with SC Magazine to share practical steps for improving Active Directory resilience in the face of escalating cyberattacks, using real-world examples. With cybercrime costs projected to reach $8 trillion in 2023 and AD being the top target for attackers, organizations must prepare to detect, respond, and recover from AD-based attacks. Learn how InfoSec and IAM teams can operationalize the Gartner "top trending" topic of identity threat detection and response (ITDR) to ward off attackers and take back the advantage. This segment is sponsored by Semperis. Visit https://securityweekly.com/semperisrsac to learn more about them!   Today’s CISOs are laser focused on three imperatives: reducing risk; reducing operational costs, and attracting or retaining top talent. All three priorities are driven by creating a better SOC analyst experience which translates to less time to detect and respond to an attack. In this discussion, we’ll uncover how Extended Detection & Response (XDR) can drastically improve the SOC analyst experience and alleviate CISOs’ top challenges. This segment is sponsored by VMware. Visit https://securityweekly.com/vmwarecarbonblackrsac to learn more about them!   While emerging cyber threats and vulnerabilities tend to dominate headlines, criminals often exploit known vulnerabilities to gain access to critical systems and data for nefarious purposes. And with the number of vulnerabilities rising constantly, they can pose significant risk to organizations, especially if defenders don’t know which ones are critical. Learn how Expel is helping to pull back the curtain on how organizations can more effectively prioritize their most critical vulnerabilities. This segment is sponsored by Expel. Visit https://securityweekly.com/expelrsac to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw\ for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw318 

We are nearly half way through 2023, and we're seeing some new trends surface in the cyber landscape. These include generative artificial intelligence, which was everywhere at RSA Conference this year, as well as automation across security operations and the continued need for skilled expertise. Join Matt Alderman from CyberRisk Alliance and Antonio Sanchez, Principal Evangelist at Fortra, as they dive into 2023 cybersecurity trends and observations. Segment Resources: https://www.fortra.com/resources/cybersecurity-education?code=cmp-0000011812&ls=717710002&utm_source=cyberrisk-alliance&utm_medium=contsynd&utm_campaign=ft-brand-awareness https://www.fortra.com/products/bundles?code=cmp-0000011812&ls=717710002&utm_source=cyberrisk-alliance&utm_medium=contsynd&utm_campaign=ft-brand-awareness   This segment is sponsored by Fortra. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortra to learn more about them!   In the enterprise security news, A slow week for funding, but, as always, a busy week for AI news! Databricks acquires Okera, CrowdStrike, Fortinet and other cybersecurity shares rise, Merck might finally see that $1.4 billion dollar NotPetya payout, Ex-Uber CISO Joe Sullivan won’t go to jail, Google rolls out passkey support, Do Bartenders make good pen testers?, ICS using steganography to hide data, DEF CON will unleash hackers on Large Language Models, and Security’s eternal prioritization problem!   The browser is the most used application, but was never built with the needs of the enterprise in mind. The Enterprise Browser delivers a whole new level of visibility, security and governance. This conversation will explore the benefits of the Enterprise Browser and the gaps it is filling for enterprises around the world. This segment is sponsored by Island. Visit https://securityweekly.com/islandrsac to learn more about them!   Resilience and the capacity for reinvention have never been more important. In a world evolving at the speed of tech and roiled by the pandemic, enterprises that have security innovation woven into their DNA enjoy a distinct advantage. Learn more. This segment is sponsored by Sumo Logic. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sumologicrsac to learn more about them!   The increased prevalence of phishing kits sourced from black markets and chatbot AI tools like ChatGPT has seen attackers quickly develop more targeted phishing campaigns. This improved targeting has simplified the process of manipulating users into taking actions that compromise their security credentials, leaving them and their organizations vulnerable. This segment is sponsored by Zscaler. Visit https://securityweekly.com/zscalerrsac to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw317 

This week, we start with the news: 2 weeks of news to catch up on! 16 funding stories, 4 M&A stories, Cybereason prunes its valuation… a lot, First Republic Bank seized by FDIC, Ransomware is irrelevant Sun Tzu hates infosec, AI Trends, Kevin Mandia’s 7 tips for defense, & How much time should we spend automating tasks?   Christopher will delve into what lateral security/lateral movement are and identify key lateral security tools (network segmentation, micro-segmentation, advanced threat prevention systems, network sandboxes, and network traffic analysis/network detection and response). He will also touch on why automation is important when it comes to consistent security and the current threat landscape.  This segment is sponsored by VMware. Visit https://securityweekly.com/vmwarenetsecrsac to learn more about them!   AT&T Cybersecurity released its 12th annual Cybersecurity Insights Report, “Edge Ecosystem,” which highlights the dramatic shift in computing underpinned by 5G, the edge, and the convergence of networking and security. The report found that business and technology leaders are finally coming together not just to understand the new edge computing ecosystem, but to make more predictable, data-informed business decisions. Collaboration among these leaders, as well as external partners in the ecosystem, will be critical for the edge journey ahead – but more progress must be made to better leverage the edge and transform the business. This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attrsac to learn more about them!   EASM is a critical component of continuous threat exposure management and a necessary step in improving validation and vulnerability management processes. Gartner recently published a report describing the evolution of EASM and where it's headed in the market. We're excited to see the market move in this direction because, at NetSPI, we're already committed to investing in our team and technology to stay ahead of these trends. We already have a head start. This segment is sponsored by NetSpi. Visit https://securityweekly.com/netspirsac to learn more about them!   “Man plans, the Universe laughs” - unfortunately, that’s been the saying for far too long when it comes to cybersecurity. Security leaders know it's only a matter of time before their organization gets breached, but instead of being ready for it, they rely on fixing the problem after it happens. In Cisco’s newest report, the first ever Cybersecurity Readiness Index, it was found that a small minority of businesses globally (15%) consider themselves to be ready and able to defend against the expanding array of cybersecurity risks and threats of today. Organizations need to get ready and stay ready with solutions they can trust. This segment is sponsored by Cisco. Visit https://securityweekly.com/ciscorsac to learn more about them!   OpenText Cybersecurity is on a mission to simplify security by delivering smarter, innovative solutions. Geoff Bibby, the SVP of OpenText Cybersecurity Marketing & Strategy, will offer insight into the company’s purpose-built approach to create a powerhouse cybersecurity portfolio that scales to meet the security needs of large enterprises down to individual consumers.  This segment is sponsored by OpenText. Visit https://securityweekly.com/opentextrsac to learn more about them!   The continued headcount shortage facing cybersecurity teams is driving many organizations to embrace Managed Detection and Response (MDR) as a way to combat cyber threats. With this demand, dozens of MDR companies have emerged over the past two years. Critical Start’s CTO, Randy Watkins, will discuss the origin of MDR, share evaluation tips, and reveal some of the potential pitfalls. This segment is sponsored by Critical Start. Visit https://securityweekly.com/criticalstartrsac to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw316 

Quantum computing is a rapidly emerging technology that harnesses the laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems that today’s most powerful supercomputers cannot practically solve. IBM's Dr. Kayla Lee will explain how close we are to a computational quantum advantage: the point where a computational task of business or scientific relevance can be performed more efficiently, cost-effectively, or accurately using a quantum computer than with classical computations alone.  Segment Resources: What is quantum computing? https://www.ibm.com/topics/quantum-computing About IBM Quantum: https://www.ibm.com/quantum About the IBM Quantum Development Roadmap: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/roadmap Access and program a quantum computer: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/   Quantum computers are scaling rapidly. Soon, they will be powerful enough to solve previously unsolvable problems. But they come with a global challenge: fully-realized quantum computers will be able to break some of the most widely-used security protocols in the world. Dr. Vadim Lyubashevsky will discuss how quantum-safe cryptography protects against this potential future. Segment Resources: IBM Quantum Safe: https://www.ibm.com/quantum/quantum-safe IBM scientists help develop NIST’s quantum-safe standards: https://research.ibm.com/blog/nist-quantum-safe-protocols Government and industry experts recommend moving to quantum-safe cryptography: https://research.ibm.com/blog/economist-quantum-safe-replay   We're talking with Matt Johansen about his new newsletter, Vulnerable U. We'll discuss his journey from vendors to massive enterprises to less massive enterprises and what he's learned about InfoSec along the way. Like us, Matt has some strong takes on many InfoSec topics, so this conversation could go down many paths. Regardless, we're excited about the journey and the destination with this interview. Subscribe to [Vulnerable U] https://link.mail.beehiiv.com/ss/c/CygrK4bVgDWxdDLo_7X0UUe8u_TcBPAeAQlRvYdH5hN2mTxFi32BUXbh9K9a2mS8ILJXWKo4rmayv53niV3c6NrsGo7UAp6yFd9EScNQoNwURBhep7S6sIyNBsEMNJ7Z/3v8/6L9W-AB2Sx6Ts9cCBWFiYw/h9/mYsvCYdHno82QRYGHJuyaUZtu8PbgH5PWFi3mLY1CNg    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw315 

Discuss observations and trends across the venture capital ecosystem as it pertains to cybersecurity. This will include a re-cap in how 2022 ended, what we saw in Q12023, and what we expect from an investing standpoint. Segment Resources: https://forgepointcap.com/   With over 1 billion records exposed in just the top 35 breaches, over $2.6 billion stolen in the top nine cryptocurrency breaches, and over $2.7 billion in fines levied to the top 35 violators, lessons abound for security teams. We will walk through some of the biggest trends in last year's data breaches and privacy violations, and we'll talk about what security leaders can learn from these events. Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/2022-breaches-and-fines-offer-lessons-to-security-leaders   In the Enterprise Security News, Lots of funding announcements and new companies, Private Equity acquires Maltego, Cinven acquires RSA Archer Comcast launches a security product, Zscaler has beef with Gartner, CISA releases updated Zero Trust Model, Amazon jumps into the AI LLM fray, AutoGPT stretches the imagination and potential use cases, The Ever Changing API security market, New security books just released, Zombie birds!    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw314 

Fortra's Core Security has conducted it's fourth annual survey of cybersecurity professionals on the usage and perception of pen testing. The data collected provides visibility into the full spectrum of pen testing’s role, helping to determine how these services, tools, and skills must evolve.   Segment Resources:  https://www.fortra.com/resources/guides/2023-pen-testing-report   This segment is sponsored by Fortra's Core Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortracoresecurity to learn more about them!   Compliance with cyber security frameworks such as NIST, PCI, HIPAA, etc. have largely been driven by paper-based processes in Word and Excel. With the rise of cloud computing, containers, and ephemeral systems, paper-based processes can no longer keep up with the speed of business and compliance has become the new bottleneck to progress for highly regulated industries such as government, finance, and energy sector. This session will cover how RegScale is leading a RegOps movement to bring the principles of DevOps to compliance with the world’s first real-time GRC system that enables compliance as code via NIST OSCAL. RegOps seeks to shift compliance left to make it real-time, continuous, and complete so that paperwork is always up to date, self-updating, and takes less manual resources to manage.  Segment Resources: Website – https://www.regscale.com Documentation/Learn More – https://regscale.readme.io   In this news segment, we discuss the art of branding/naming security companies, some new cars just out of stealth, 5 startups just out of Y Combinator, and Cybereason's $100M round from Softbank. We also talk new features (Semgrep's new GPT-4 use case), new newsletters, and new reports. We break down Nexx's broken vulnerability disclosure program and its broken products. We also discuss the FDA's new ability to block device certification for security reasons. Android announces rules to make it easier for consumers to delete accounts and remove data when they uninstall apps. IT and Security professionals everywhere are asked not to report breaches, but in some countries more than others. CISOs are more prone to drinking problems, and finally, for our squirrel stories, we discuss a crazy app called Newnew and new ideas in prosthetics.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw313 

Kellermann will discuss the recently published report “Cyber Bank Heist” that exposes the cybersecurity threats facing the financial sector. Security must be a top-of-mind issue amid rising geopolitical tensions, increased destructive attacks utilizing wipers and a record-breaking year of zero-day exploits. Podcast listeners will learn what financial sector security leaders from around the world revealed in a series of interviews about specific trends when it comes to notable cyberattacks, e-fraud and cyber defense. Segment Resources:  - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/cyber-bank-heists-report - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/cyber-bank-heists-report-code-patrol-podcast-contrast-security   Overall increase in government regulations. EU as well. Shift in liability from consumers to organizations.How to take advantage of safe harbor protections and reduce organizational risk and liability. NIST SSD Framework - how do you understand the security practices of the open source packages you use in your applications and ensure they are following the NIST practices (so you can take full advantage of safe harbor protections and reduce potential liability). Creating a network of open source maintainers, documenting and attesting to their security practices, is a solution. Work with the maintainers to be able to provide documentation. How to get more involved with development in open source security. What is the mechanism? Segment Resources: https://tidelift.com/government-open-source-cybersecurity-resources https://blog.tidelift.com/webinar-how-the-nist-secure-software-development-framework-impacts-open-source-software https://blog.tidelift.com/webinar-recap-what-the-new-u.s.-national-cybersecurity-strategy-means-for-open-source-software https://blog.tidelift.com/tidelift-advisory-impact-of-new-u.s.-national-cybersecurity-strategy-on-organizations-building-apps-with-open-source-software   In this week's enterprise security news, we talk about new companies and funding, trends in the deception and SaaS Security/SSPM space. We discuss Andy Ellis's "10 plagues of cloud security" and Kelly Shortridge's 69 ways to F*&$ up your deploy. We discuss rolling out Yubikeys and the pros/cons of using biometrics instead of security keys. There have been some bad takes in the media on how OpenAI uses your ChatGPT prompts, so we set the record straight there. Cybersecurity is a new requirement for K-12 students in North Dakota, and you've got to see this week's security story - a rogue tire sends a Kia Soul FLYING.* * - but no one was hurt!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw312

So much of the tech world went remote at the start of the pandemic, and many of those jobs (and engineers) show no sign of ever going back into an office. Building successful teams in this environment takes a different approach, one defined by autonomy and trust. In this segment, Nickolas Means, VP of Engineering at Sym, will share insights from more than a decade of leading distributed teams to help us all thrive in a world where distributed is the new normal.   The White House recently revealed their National Cybersecurity Strategy and its 5 pillars. Some is straightforward - some is more controversial. Josh helped with it and wrote a blog about it. Adrian read that post and asked Josh to come discuss it. So here we are. Segment Resources: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf https://claroty.com/blog/consequential-cybersecurity-brace-yourself-for-the-white-house-national-cybersecurity-strategy   In the enterprise security news, early stage startup funding stays constant, but late stage is nowhere to be found. Cisco, XM Cyber, and Mastercard make acquisitions. YouTube channels keep getting hacked. Microsoft fails to use Azure securely. Organizations are making progress on zero trust, but slowly. Finally, more discussion on AI threats, concerns, and predictions.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw311

SafeLiShare delivers tamperproof security from inside out across clouds and eliminate algorithmic complexity attacks and reverse never-ending cycles of defense using policy controlled Confidential Computing with secure enclave technology. Segment Resources: Presentation - https://1drv.ms/p/s!AqqNWej5CK8uhEoIZW5MUxMTQLJU Blog - https://safelishare.com/blog/defining-confidential-computing/ Video - https://safelishare.com/data-privacy-resources/   The ioXt Alliance is a group of manufacturers, industry alliances, labs, and government organizations, dedicated to harmonizing best security practices and establishing testable standards. Our goal is to bring security, upgradability and transparency to the market and directly into the hands of consumers. Come learn about Smart Product security and what consumers should be asking for. Segment Resources: https://www.ioxtalliance.org/   This week in the Enterprise News: Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not in the cloud, Introducing Microsoft 365 Copilot: your copilot for work, A Tweet from Daniel Feldman, A simple test, given to both GPT 3.5 and GPT 4, AI Hires a Human to Solve Captcha, Because It Couldn’t Solve It Itself, You know what's different between AI and you? Those goosebumps on your arms right now and the ice water in your veins. AI can't do that. Amazing Invention- This Drone Will Change Everything, & Cyber Startup Buzzword Bingo: 2023 Edition    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw310

The CI/CD pipeline is the backbone of the software development process, so it's critical to ensure you are meeting and exceeding the most critical security measures. Throughout this podcast, Tal Morgenstern, Co-founder and CSO of Vulcan Cyber, will break down the process of how organizations can properly secure a CI/CD pipeline into a checklist of four key steps, as well as offer a handful of tools and tactics security leadership can use to bake risk-based vulnerability management into their CI/CD pipelines. He will explain how securing your CI/CD pipelines alone is not enough to reduce the chances of cyber attacks and the importance for organizations to not only maintain security at speed and scale, but quality at speed and scale. Finally, Tal will dive into how Vulcan Cyber helps organizations to streamline security tasks in every stage of the cyber-risk management process, integrating with their existing tools for true end-to-end risk management. Segment Resources: https://vulcan.io/ https://vulcan.io/platform/ https://vulcan.io/blog/ci-cd-security-5-best-practices/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nosAxWc-4dc   Tap, tap - is this thing on? Why do defenders still struggle to detect attacks and attacker activities? Why do so many tools struggle to detect attacks? Today, we've got an expert on detection engineering to help us answer these questions. Thinkst's Canary and Canarytokens make in catching penetration testers and attackers stupidly simple. Thinkst Labs aims to push these tools even further. Casey will share some of the latest research coming out of labs, and we'll ponder why using deception for detection isn't yet a de facto best practice. Segment Resources:  https://canary.tools https://canarytokens.org https://blog.thinkst.com   Finally, in the enterprise security news, We quickly explain the SVB collapse, A few interesting fundings, Rapid7 acquires Minerva who? We’ll explain. GPT-4 - what’s new? Detect text written by an AI! Then, produce text that can’t be detected as written by an AI! The K-Shaped recovery of the cybersecurity industry, Software Security is More than Vulnerabilities, Microsoft Outlook hacks itself, Robert Downey Jr. gets into teh cyberz, & Reversing intoxication!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw309

You know SBOMs can help you keep track of your software assets and therefore, their vulnerabilities. Despite even the White House pressing the issue, many vendors aren't forthcoming with SBOMs, and you can't afford to wait. With Tanium's Roland Diaz, we'll discuss the most important considerations when generating your own SBOMs (which is now something their product can also do!). This segment is sponsored by Tanium. Visit https://securityweekly.com/tanium to learn more!   Looking at topics around go-to-market strategy and product management, including: how building products is unique in cybersecurity compared to other industries, what is product-led growth and what shape it takes in security, and how to do it right. Touching on the broader and adjacent topics of writing, supporting cybersecurity startups, investing, and the like. Segment Resources: Venture in Security blog: https://ventureinsecurity.net/ Venture in Security Angel Syndicate: https://www.visangels.com/ Building Cyber Collective: https://ventureinsecurity.net/p/buildingcyber Top Venture in Security Articles: https://ventureinsecurity.net/p/top-posts   Finally, in the enterprise security news, A light week in funding, after last week’s mega raises from Wiz and Sandbox AQ HP acquires some Zero Trust and CASB with Axis Security InfoSec-themed Table Top gaming is really catching on The White House’s updated cybersecurity strategy is more of an update than a game changer I go a bit nuts with AI news and essays, but a lot of it is really worth your time, I promise Doing evil things with chrome extensions Women in cybersecurity Letting strangers call you, on purpose All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw308

The MSP space has undergone a lot of changes in the past few decades, with the emphasis on security increasing dramatically in the last 5-10 years. We discuss how ConnectWise, which builds and sells solutions to MSPs, has tackled this challenge. We'll be asking questions both from Raffael's point-of-view, selling to MSPs, but also from the customer point-of-view - small to medium businesses with a need to outsource IT and security functions.   Today, we talk to Jim Routh - a retired CISO who survived the job for over 20 years! He'll be sharing some wisdom with us, like how analytics and data science can help detect malicious insiders. Also, more generally, Jim will help us understand how data-science-backed tooling can help move the security market forward and help security teams and programs mature.   Segment Resources:  https://www.reveal.security/resources/whitepapers/   This week in the Enterprise News: Deepwatch Announces $180 Million in Investments, VulnCheck Raises $3.2 Million to Solve Prioritization Challenge for Enterprise, Government and Cybersecurity Solution Providers, Zscaler to Acquire Israeli Startup Canonic Security, Palo Alto Q2 Fiscal Year 2023 Earnings Call, Tech’s hottest new job: AI whisperer. No coding required, How data breaches affect stock market share prices, & Kenyan Innovator Creates Smart Gloves That Translate Sign Language Into Audible Speech!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw307

It's another holiday week, so enjoy this episode from the ESW archives!   The cloud and SaaS were supposed to make things easier, simpler, more scalable. Arguably, they _have_ done all those things, but traditional, legacy networks linger. Migrations are messy and take time. Nearly everything is encrypted in transit by default. Today, we interview Marty Roesch, the creator of Snort and founder of SourceFire, to discuss how things have changed and what defenders can do to catch up and restore some order to the madness. We'll step through some history along the way - listeners might be surprised at how much our current situation mirrors the reasons behind why Marty created Snort in the first place.

Organizations today operate under the constant looming threat of cyber attacks. While reactive cybersecurity measures will help organizations respond to past and present threats, offensive measures are the only chance to get ahead of attackers and beat them to the punch. There is now a greater call for offensive solutions like penetration testing and red teaming to evaluate environments so security gaps can be identified and closed before a breach. Join us as we discuss how these solutions work both independently and together, as well as practical ways organizations can build or mature an offensive security strategy.  Segment Resources:  https://www.coresecurity.com/resources/videos/when-use-pen-testing-red-teaming-or-both?code=cmp-0000011540&ls=717710006&utm_source=hubspot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cts-security-weekly  https://www.coresecurity.com/resources/guides/complete-guide-layering-offensive-security?code=cmp-0000011540&ls=717710006&utm_source=hubspot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cts-security-weekly  https://www.coresecurity.com/resources/datasheets/offensive-security-advanced-bundle?code=cmp-0000011540&ls=717710006&utm_source=hubspot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cts-security-weekly   This segment is sponsored by Fortra. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortra to learn more about them!   The memoir of world-renowned hacker Cris Thomas “Space Rogue: How the Hackers Known as L0pht Changed the World” is available for pre-order now. The new book, to be released on February 16, 2023, will cover the influential hacking group L0pht Heavy Industries, the hacker underground of the 1990s, the L0pht’s rise to prominence, their testimony in front of the US Senate, their claim of being able to “take down the Internet”, and how their legacy continues to shape the security of the online world today. Segment Resources: https://securityweekly.com/spacerogue  http://www.spacerogue.net   Inka talks about harnessing Behavioural Science (BS) to influence people’s cyber security behaviours. Focusing on psychology theories (e.g. Behaviour change wheel) she explores some of our barriers (and motivations) to cybersecurity. What are our FMEs ('frequently made excuses') to taking protective action online and how organisations' could create a supportive security culture. Segment Resources: Lead researcher for RISCS / UK Home Office funded research project: Cyber Security Quirks: Personalised Interventions for Human Cyber Resilience https://www.riscs.org.uk/project/cyber-security-quirks-personalised-interventions-for-human-cyber-resilience/ Inka will be presenting this research at the Impact Conference on 2.3.2023 https://www.theimpactconference.com/ Lead researcher/author of the Annual Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviours Report (2021 and 2022) https://www.cybsafe.com/whitepapers/cybersecurity-attitudes-and-behaviors-report/ SebDB (most comprehensive cyber security behaviour database) https://www.cybsafe.com/research/security-behaviour-database/ Personality and digital footprints whitepapers: https://www.cybsafe.com/whitepapers/personality-and-digital-footprints/ How to measure security behaviour https://www.cybsafe.com/e-books/how-to-measure-behavior-long-read/      Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw306

Tanium has recently released a new capability called Tanium Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to help customers identify third-party libraries associated with software packages. • What is Tanium SBOM • Why is it different and why do you need it • How to configure SBOM • How to query for the details about every software application in your environment • Where your vulnerable packages exist • Ways that Tanium can remediate vulnerabilities from OpenSSL to Struts to Log4j today as well as new supply-chain vulnerabilities in the future   No one knows what the next supply chain vulnerability is going to be, but with Tanium, you will have access to data about how your applications are affected before it happens so that when it does, you're ready to take action to remediate the issue from within the Tanium XEM platform.   Segment Resources: https://www.tanium.com/products/tanium-sbom/  https://www.tanium.com/press-releases/tanium-launches-software-bill-of-materials-for-unprecedented-visibility-to-combat-supply-chain-threats/  https://www.tanium.com/blog/software-bill-of-materials-openssl/   This segment is sponsored by Tanium. Visit https://securityweekly.com/tanium to learn more about them!   Syxsense and Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) recently teamed up to publish a survey around the current state of Zero Trust within enterprises as well as where it’s going. This interview will discuss the key findings and insights into the challenges many organizations face around Zero Trust, as well as endpoint security and network access. Segment Resources: https://www.syxsense.com/advancing-zero-trust-priorities   In the Enterprise News: Whether you want insurtechs or not, they’re here and you’re getting them! Don't worry - we’ll explain what insurtechs are. Two potential deals to take security companies private: Sumo Logic and Rapid 7! Looks like 32 year old security company Cyren is shutting down, hoping for an asset sale. They've already laid off all their employees. Big drama: a firm shorts Darktrace and releases a scathing report. We've got yet more more layoffs this week, but don't fret - the NSA is hiring!  For our squirrel stories, we'll be deciding between three stories: codebreakers solve 500 year old ciphers, the real cost of meetings visualized, and sushi terrorists! All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw305

Cyber insurance is a must-have, but organizations are finding that cyber insurance premiums are more costly, policies are more difficult to obtain, and policies attach more limitations and exclusions than before. We will discuss cyber insurance’s role in risk management and trends.   Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/report/q-and-a-cyber-insurance/RES178563?ref_search=3185990_1675109251447 https://www.forrester.com/report/tech-execs-guide-to-cyber-insurance/RES178564?ref_search=3185990_1675109251447 https://www.forrester.com/blogs/whos-responsible-for-cyber-insurance-policy-misrepresentations-it-depends/?ref_search=3185990_1675109251447   Insiders - employees, contractors, and partners - are responsible for almost a quarter of data breaches. Reducing insider risk requires a dedicated approach, including user monitoring. But be careful, Forrester predicts that a C-level executive will be fired for their firm’s use of employee monitoring in 2023.   Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/predictions-2023-security/?ref_search=3092262_1675290315432 https://www.forrester.com/blogs/apply-critical-thinking-and-culture-to-reduce-insider-risk/ https://www.forrester.com/blogs/practice-empathy-to-reduce-insider-risk/ https://www.forrester.com/blogs/pandemic-fallout-creates-perfect-conditions-for-insider-threat/     In the Enterprise News: There's lots of executive shuffling going on! Saviynt gets a new CEO and $205M in funding, Forescout appoints its 4th CEO in as many years, and Mudge finds a place at Rapid 7. We've got some interesting trends, like more focus on securing small businesses, and more cybersecurity startups pairing technology with cyber insurance. It seems like only yesterday, we were shocked to hear that Microsoft was running a $10B security business, but Microsoft has apparently now grown security revenue to $20 BILLION DOLLARS. Also, Tyler explains what Herman Miller chairs have to do with spotting market trends, we note the 20 year anniversary of SQL Slammer, and discuss why consumers don’t want smart appliances shoved down their throats!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw304