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There's a pernicious myth that developers don't care about security. In practice, they care about code quality. What developers don't care for is ambiguous requirements. Ixchel Ruiz shares her experience is discussing software designs, the challenges in prioritizing dev efforts, and how to help open source project maintainers with their issue backlog. Segment resources: https://github.com/ossf/scorecard https://www.commonhaus.org/ https://www.hackergarten.net/ Design lessons from PyPI's Quarantine capability, effective ways for appsec to approach phishing, why fishshell is moving to Rust component by component (and why that's a good thing!), what behaviors the Cyber Trust Mark might influence, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-313

We're thrilled to have Frank Duff on to discuss threat-informed defense. As one of the MITRE folks that helped create MITRE ATT&CK and ATT&CK evaluations, Frank has been working on how best to define and communicate attack language for many years now. The company he founded, Tidal Cyber is in a unique position to both leverage what MITRE has built with ATT&CK and help enterprises operationalize it. Segment Resources: Tidal Cyber website Tidal Cyber Community Edition We're a fan of hacker lore and history here at Security Weekly. In fact, Paul's Security Weekly has interviewed some of the most notable (and notorious) personalities from both the business side of the industry and the hacker community. We're very excited to share this new effort to document hacker history through in-person interviews. The series is called "Where Warlocks Stay Up Late", and is the creation of Nathan Sportsman and other folks at Praetorian. The timing is crucial, as a lot of the original hackers and tech innovators ar

Bad Cameras, Robot Dogs, Ivanti, SonicWall, Banshee, Telegram, Motorola, 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-441

DNA sequencer vulnerabilities, threat actor naming conventions, new CNAs and problems, backdoors are not secrets (again), The RP2350 is hacked!, they know where your car is, treasury department hacked, what if someone hacked license plate cameras? Tenable CEO passes away, and very awkwardly, a Nessus plugin update causes problems, who needs fact-checking anyhow (And how people steal stuff and put it on Facebook), when you are breached, make sure you tell the victims how to be more secure, Salt Typhoon - still no real details other than more people were hacked and they are using the word sanctions a lot, Bitlocker bypassed again, Siri recorded you, and Apple pays, and yes, you can't print on Tuesdays! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-856

Data is the fastest growing enterprise attack surface, and is projected to surpass 181 Zettabytes in 2025. Couple data growth with the growing demands of Artificial Intelligence, and the attack surface expands even more. How should organizations adapt their security programs to safeguard their data? Lamont Orange, Chief Information Security Officer at Cyera, joins Business Security Weekly to help you solve your biggest data security challenges. By starting with inventory and classification, data access review can help you answer your biggest data security questions, including: what data you have, where it's stored, who, or what, can access it, and which data risks exist. In the leadership and communications segment, The Business of Cybersecurity: The CISO’s Role in Alignment and Pervasive Governance, CISO Priorities for 2025: Budget Wisely, How Do I Position Myself to Influence Senior Leadership?, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securitywee

Ättestupa, Moxa, Typhoons, WordPress, Likert Scales, Algol, 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-440

All appsec teams need quality tools and all developers benefit from appsec guidance that's focused on meaningful results. Greg Anderson shares his experience in bringing the OWASP DefectDojo project to life and maintaining its value for over a decade. He reminds us that there are tons of appsec teams with low budgets and few members that need tools to help them bring useful insights to developers. Segment Resources: https://owasp.org/www-project-defectdojo/ Three-quarters of CISOs surveyed reported being "overwhelmed" by the growing number of tools and their alerts: https://www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/cisos-throwing-cash-tools-detect-breaches As many as one-fifth of all cybersecurity alerts turn out to be false positives. Among 800 IT professionals surveyed, just under half of them stated that approximately 40% of the alerts they receive are false positives: https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/97260-one-fifth-of-cybersecurity-alerts-are-false-positives 91% of organizations knowingly released v

Rob Allen and Doug talk about Endpoint security and how important it is to secure your endpoints going into the new year. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-26

Our old friend Russ Beauchemin and Doug talk about the future of AI and what it may mean when AI is smarter than us all. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-25

Check out this episode from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on January 3, 2023. With the current macro economic head winds, 2023 budgets are either frozen or are flat. Where should CISOs focus these limited budgets to maximize the most out of their security program? In this segment, we invite Jon Fredrickson, Chief Risk Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, to debate what should be in your minimum viable security program. This segment is part 2 and focuses on the minimum viable security vendors for our top 6 capabilities: Asset Management Patch Management IAM/MFA/PIM/PAM EDR/MDR/XDR Backup/Recovery Risk Management Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-bsw-16

Josh Marpet and Doug talk about how Tariffs work and how you maybe should get ready for higher prices to replace equipment in the coming years if new rounds of tariffs are imposed on foreign goods and components. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-24

Unraveling Cybersecurity Complexity: A Conversation with Haroon Meer Haroon Meer, an influential figure in the world of cybersecurity, takes center stage in this podcast interview. With a deep reservoir of knowledge and a track record of tackling complex security challenges, Haroon has established himself as a key player in the InfoSec domain. As the founder of Thinkst Applied Research, Haroon brings a wealth of practical experience to the table. Join us as we explore his professional journey, from early forays into cybersecurity to pioneering innovations that have reshaped how organizations approach security. Haroon Meer's insights go beyond the theoretical, offering a pragmatic understanding of cybersecurity issues and solutions. Dive into the intricacies of threat landscapes, security architectures, and the evolving dynamics of cyber threats as Haroon shares his perspectives on the current state of cybersecurity. With a focus on practicality and a knack for simplifying complex concepts, Haroon Meer's inter

Josh Marpet and Doug talk about Compliance and Privacy for about 30 minutes but it could have been a lot more. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-23

Check out this episode from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on January 3, 2023. With the current macro economic head winds, 2023 budgets are either frozen or are flat. Where should CISOs focus these limited budgets to maximize the most out of their security program? In this segment, we invite Jon Fredrickson, Chief Risk Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, to debate what should be in your minimum viable security program. This segment is part 1 of 2 parts and focuses on the minimum viable security capabilities. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-bsw-15

Dysentery, TP-Link, Piracy, Calendar Scams, Tencent, TikTok, 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-439

Since D3FEND was founded to fill a gap created by the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix, it has come a long way. We discuss the details of the 1.0 release of D3FEND with Peter in this episode, along with some of the new tools they've built to go along with this milestone. To use MITRE's own words to describe the gap this project fills: "it is necessary that practitioners know not only what threats a capability claims to address, but specifically how those threats are addressed from an engineering perspective, and under what circumstances the solution would work" Segment Resources: https://d3fend.mitre.org In the enterprise security news, a final few fundings before the year closes out Arctic Wolf buys Cylance from Blackberry for cheap, a sentence that feels very weird to say the quiet HTTPS revolution passkeys are REALLY catching on resilience keeps showing up in the titles of news items Apple Intelligence insults the BBC’s intelligence MITRE ATT&CK evals drama Lastpass breach drama continues All that and more,

If you've ever wondered how attackers could go after payphones that are "smart" we got you covered! Inbar has done some amazing research and is here to tell us all about it! Segment Resources: https://www.retro.unarmedsecurity.net/post/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%91%D7%A8-%D7%A9%D7%92%D7%9D-%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%A6%D7%99%D7%91%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99-%D7%94%D7%95%D7%90-%D7%98%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%97%D7%9B%D7%9D XSS is the number one threat?, fix your bugs faster, hacking VoIP systems, AI and how it may help fuzzing, hacker gift guides, new DMA attacks, hacking InTune, Rhode Island gets hacked, OpenWrt supply chain issues, we are being spied on, Germans take down botnet, Bill and Larry are speaking at Shmoocon!, and TP-Link bans. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-855

The local network is no more. Neither is the corporate firewall. Users are not only working from the office but also remotely, meaning the network we utilize has quickly become the internet, leaving devices and data vulnerable to cyber threats. But how do we monitor this new, expanded network? Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how the dissolution of the business perimeter makes network access controls essential to protect your devices and, by extension, your data. Network Access Control helps protect business assets whether employees are in the office or remote. ThreatLocker Network Control provides a direct connection between the client and server, as opposed to a VPN that goes through a central point. This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them! In the leadership and communications segment, CISOs need to consider the personal risks associated with their role, CISOs: Don’t rely sole

Vogons, Task Scams, HiatusRat, Cellebrite, Deloitte, Quantum, WordPress, 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-438

Practices around identity and managing credentials have improved greatly since the days of infosec mandating 90-day password rotations. But those improvements didn't arise from a narrow security view. Hannah Sutor talks about the importance of balancing security with usability, the importance of engaging with users when determining defaults, and setting an example for transparency in security disclosures. Segment resources https://youtu.be/ydg95R2QKwM Curl's oldest bug yet, RCPs (and more!) from AWS re:Invent, possible controls for NPM's malware proliferation, insights and next steps on protecting top 500 packages from the Census III report, the flawed design choice that made Microsoft's OTP (successfully) brute-forceable, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! 00:00 Welcome to Application Security Weekly! 01:49 Meet the Experts 03:28 What Are Non-Human Identities? 06:17 Balancing Security & Usability 08:24 MFA Challenges & Admin Security 12:09 Navigating Bre