Paul's Security Weekly

Zero Trust isn't a new concept, but not one easily implemented. How do organizations transform cybersecurity from a "default allow" model, where everything is permitted unless blocked, to a "default deny" model? Danny Jenkins, Co-founder and CEO at ThreatLocker, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss this approach. Deny by default means all actions are blocked by default, with only explicitly approved activities allowed. This shift enhances security, reduces vulnerabilities, and sets a new standard for protecting organizations from cyber threats. ‍ Danny will discuss how ThreatLocker not only protects your endpoints and data from zero-day malware, ransomware, and other malicious software, but provides solutions for easy onboarding, management, and eliminates the lengthy approval processes of traditional solutions. This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them! In the leadership and communications section, Bridging the Gap Between the C

QUBIT AI, Recall This, Defender, Tycoon, Slopsquatting, Feng Mengleng, Aaran Leyland, and more, on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-468

The breaches will continue until appsec improves. Janet Worthington and Sandy Carielli share their latest research on breaches from 2024, WAFs in 2025, and where secure by design fits into all this. WAFs are delivering value in a way that orgs are relying on them more for bot management and fraud detection. But adopting phishing-resistant authentication solutions like passkeys and deploying WAFs still seem peripheral to secure by design principles. We discuss what's necessary for establishing a secure environment and why so many orgs still look to tools. And with LLMs writing so much code, we continue to look for ways LLMs can help appsec in addition to all the ways LLMs keep recreating appsec problems. Resources https://www.forrester.com/blogs/breaches-and-lawsuits-and-fines-oh-my-what-we-learned-the-hard-way-from-2024/ https://www.forrester.com/blogs/wafs-are-now-the-center-of-application-protection-suites/ https://www.forrester.com/blogs/are-you-making-these-devsecops-mistakes-the-four-phases-you-need-

Default deny is an old, and very recognizable term in security. Most folks that have been in the industry for a long time will associate the concept with firewall rules. The old network firewalls, positioned between the public Internet and private data centers, however, were relatively uncomplicated and static. Most businesses had a few hundred firewall rules at most. The idea of implementing default deny principles elsewhere were attempted, but without much success. Internal networks (NAC), and endpoints (application control 1.0) were too dynamic for the default deny approach to be feasible. Vendors built solutions, and enterprises tried to implement them, but most gave up. Default deny is still an ideal approach to protecting assets and data against attacks - what it needed was a better approach. An approach that could be implemented at scale, with less overhead. This is what we’ll be talking to Threatlocker’s CEO and co-founder, Danny Jenkins, about on this episode. They seemed to have cracked the code her

Win95, Shuckworm, Ottokit, DCs, EC2, IAB, OSS, Recall, Josh Marpet, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-467

In the security news this week: You should really just patch things, the NVD backlog, Android phones with malware pre-installed, so convenient, keyloggers and a creepy pharmacist, snooping on federal workers, someone stole your browser history, NSA director fired, deputy director of NSA also fired, CrushFTP the saga continues, only steal the valid credit cards, another post that vanished from the Internet, hiding in NVRAM, protecting the Linux kernel, you down with MCP?, more EOL IoT, bypassing kernel protections, when are you ready for a pen test, red team and bug bounty, what EDR is really missing, and based on this story you should just patch everything all the time! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-869

This week, it's double AI interview Monday! In our first interview, we discuss how to balance AI opportunities vs. risk. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to revolutionize how businesses operate. But with this exciting advancement comes new challenges that cannot be ignored. For proactive security and IT leaders, how do you balance the need of security and privacy in AI with the opportunities that come with accelerating adoption? Matt Muller, Field CISO at Tines, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the unprecedented challenges facing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and approaches to mitigate AI's security and privacy risks. In this interview, we'll discuss ways to mitigate AI's security and privacy risks and strategies to help ease AI stress on security teams. Segment Resources: - https://www.tines.com/blog/cisos-report-addressing-ai-pressures/ - https://www.tines.com/blog/ai-enterprise-mitigate-security-privacy-risks/ In our second interview, we dig into the challenges of secu

DOS Lives, Web Cams Gone Wild, VSCODE, Coinblack, Oracle, P&G, Satan, Sec Gemini, Shopify, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-466

We have a top ten list entry for Insecure Design, pledges to CISA's Secure by Design principles, and tons of CVEs that fall into familiar categories of flaws. But what does it mean to have a secure design and how do we get there? There are plenty of secure practices that orgs should implement are supply chains, authentication, and the SDLC. Those practices address important areas of risk, but only indirectly influence a secure design. We look at tactics from coding styles to design councils as we search for guidance that makes software more secure. Segment resources https://owasp.org/Top10/A042021-InsecureDesign/ https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign https://kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1xBJR/keynote-rust-in-the-linux-kernel-a-new-era-for-cloud-native-performance-and-security-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-kernel-maintainer-fellow-the-linux-foundation https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/how-linux-is-built-with-greg-kroah https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/07/writin

When we use the phrase "talent gap" in cybersecurity, we're usually talking about adding headcount. For this interview, however, we're focusing on a gap that is evident within existing teams and practitioners - the often misunderstood soft skills gap. Side note: I really hate the term "soft skills". How about we call them "fundamental business skills", or "invaluable career advancement skills"? Hmm, doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same. Soft skills can impact everything, as they impose the limits of how we interact with our world. That goes for co-worker interactions, career advancements, and how we're perceived by our peers and community. It doesn't matter how brilliant you might be - without soft skills, your potential could be severely limited. Did you know that soft skills issues contributed to the Equifax breach? We'll also discuss how fear is related to some of the same limitations and challenges as soft skills. Segment Resources: https://www.softskillstech.ca/ Order the Book You might know the

AI Doomsday, Hot Robots, Google, palo Alto, Ivanti, CrushFTP, AI, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-465

Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at Threatlocker joins us for an interview segment on using AI in security products: What works and what's not fully baked! Then in the security news, There are more holes in your boot...loader according to Microsoft, related: Secure Boot is in danger and no one is really talking about it (still), Dear Microsoft: I don't want to send you my data, I don't grant you remote access, and I don't want to create a MS account, CrushFTP has to crush some bugs, bypassing unprivileged user namespace restrictions, FBI raids, attackers using your GPU, Find My anything, protecting GlobalProtect, the exploits will continue until things improve, your call records were not protected, good vs. bad drivers, AI is hacking AI, time traveling attacks, and a bizarre call for security researchers. This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https:

Vulnerability prioritization, the final frontier. Many say they do it, but do they really? It takes way more than vulnerability data to truly prioritize vulnerabilities. Greg Fitzgerald, Co-Founder and CXO at Sevco Security, and Steve Lodin , Vice President, Information Security at Sallie Mae, join Business Security Weekly to dig in. We'll discuss the importance of context, including asset inventory and configuration management, in truly prioritizing vulnerabilities. But it's not that easy. We'll discuss the challenges and approaches to help solve this ever evasive topic. This segment is sponsored by Sevco Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sevco to learn more about them! Segment Resources: https://www.sevcosecurity.com/vulnerability-prioritization/ https://www.sevcosecurity.com/continuous-threat-exposure-management/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-389

Schrodinger's Television, Lucid, Crocodilus, Wordpress, Ivanti, Oracle, Android, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-464

We take advantage of April Fools to look at some of appsec's myths, mistakes, and behaviors that lead to bad practices. It's easy to get trapped in a status quo of chasing CVEs or discussing which direction to shift security. But scrutinizing decimal points in CVSS scores or rearranging tools misses the opportunity for more strategic thinking. We satirize some worst practices in order to have a more serious discussion about a future where more software is based on secure designs. Segment resources: https://bsidessf2025.sched.com/event/1x8ST/secure-designs-ux-dragons-vuln-dungeons-application-security-weekly https://bsidessf2025.sched.com/event/1x8TU/preparing-for-dragons-dont-sharpen-swords-set-traps-gather-supplies https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514.html https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.html Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-324

A successful SIEM deployment depends on a lot more than implementing the SIEM correctly. So many other things in your environment have an impact on your chances of a successful SIEM. Are the right logs enabled? Is your EDR working correctly? Would you notice a sudden increase or decrease in events from critical sources? What can practitioners do to ensure the success of their SIEM deployment? This segment is sponsored by Graylog. Visit https://securityweekly.com/graylog to learn more about them! In this interview, we feature some research from Geoff Cairns, an analyst at Forrester Research. This is a preview to the talk he'll be giving at Identiverse 2025 in a few months. We won't have time to cover all the trends, but there are several here that I'm excited to discuss! Deepfake Detection Difficult Zero Trust Agentic AI Phishing resistant MFA adoption Identity Verification Machine Identity Decentralized Identity Post Quantum Shared Signals Segment Resources: The Top Trends Shaping Identity And Access Ma

Mrtentacle, Morphing Meerkat, Tor, VMWare, Waymo, Oracle, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-463

How do we handle scope creep for vulnerabilities?, find the bugs before it hits the real world, risk or hype vulnerabilities, RTL-SDR in a browser, using AI to hack AI and protect AI, 73 vulnerabilities of which 0 patches have been issued, Spinning Cats, bypassing WDAC with Teams and JavaScript, Rust will solve all the security problems, did you hear some Signal chats were leaked?, ingress nginx, robot dogs, what happens to your 23andme data?, Oracle's cloud was hacked, despite what Oracle PR says, inside the SCIF, and cvemap to the rescue. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-867

Cybersecurity teams were under increasing strain in 2024. To alleviate this burden, 2025 will see greater reliance on automation to streamline workflows, enhance threat detection, and accelerate incident response. But some of these investments may come with risks. Greg Sullivan, Founding Partner at CIOSO Global, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how the pace of investment will require better risk management. Greg will cover topics, including: The seismic C-level shift in interest will require a top-down approach to cybersecurity. The focus will shift from external cybersecurity solutions to building in-house resilience. The critical criteria needed to drive more refined defenses, smarter resource allocation, and wiser cybersecurity investments. In the leadership and communications segment, Boards Challenged to Embrace Cybersecurity Oversight, Why Cybersecurity Needs More Business-Minded Leaders, How to Build a Cybersecurity Resume that Gets You Hired, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/b

Curdled Miscreant, VanHelsing, MFA, Room 237, MFA, Velora, 23nMe, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-462