Paul's Security Weekly

Nudity, Krispy Kreme, Cleo, AIAPIs, non-human identities, North Korea, Jersey Drones, 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-437

For our second year now, Mike Privette, from Return on Security and the Security, Funded newsletter joins us to discuss the year's highlights and what's to come in the next 12 months. In some ways, it has been a return to form for funding, though some casualties of a tough market likely had to seek acquisition when they might have otherwise raised another round and stayed independent a while longer. We'll cover some stats, talk 2025 IPO market, and discuss the likelihood of (already) being in another bubble, particularly with regards to the already saturated AI security market. It won't be all financial trends though, we'll discuss some of the technical market trends, whether they're finding market fit, and how ~50ish AI SOC startups could possibly survive in such a crowded space. In this segment, we discuss two new FIDO Alliance standards focused on credential portability. Specifically, if passwordless is going to catch on, we need to minimize friction and maximize usability. In practice, this means that pas

Join us for this segment as we discuss government regulations and certifications as they apply to supply chain security and vulnerability management, and how understanding the mumbo jumbo can enable organizations to improve their cyber security. In the security news, the crew, (minus Paul) get to gather to discus hacks causing disruptions, in healthcare, donuts and vodka, router and OpenWRT hacks (and the two are not related), Salt/Volt Typhoon means no more texting and 10 year old vulnerabilities and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-854

For over 15 years, Okta has led the charge in securing digital identities through more sophisticated sign-in solutions. Our latest 2024 Secure Sign-In Trends Report offers insights into the rapidly evolving world of identity security, specifically on how organizations across industries are embracing modern, phishing-resistant methods like Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and passwordless sign-ins. In this year's report, we explore: - The surge in MFA adoption across industries, and what it means for the future of secure authentication. - Phishing-resistant authentication methods gaining traction, signaling that the passwordless future is possible. - Why a seamless user experience and strong security are no longer in opposition. - How industries compare in their adoption of modern authentication, and who's setting the pace. Segment Resources: Secure Sign-In Trends Full Report: https://www.okta.com/resources/whitepaper-the-secure-sign-in-trends-report/ Todd McKinnon Blog on the Secure Sign-In Trends Report:

Evil ISPs, Deloitte, YOLO11, Microsoft, Gift Cards, Navix, Horror, Telegram, 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-436

We do our usual end of year look back on the topics, news, and trends that caught our attention. We covered some OWASP projects, the ongoing attention and promises of generative AI, and big events from the XZ Utils backdoor to Microsoft's Recall to Crowdstrike's outage. Segment resources https://prods.ec https://owasp.org/www-project-spvs/ https://genai.owasp.org/resource/owasp-top-10-for-llm-applications-2025/ https://securitychampions.owasp.org/ https://deadliestwebattacks.com/appsec/2024/11/14/ai-and-llms-asw-topic-recap https://www.scworld.com/podcast-episode/3017-infosec-myths-mistakes-and-misconceptions-adrian-sanabria-asw-279 Curl and Python (and others) deal with bad vuln reports generated by LLMs, supply chain attack on Solana, comparing 5 genAI mistakes to OWASP's Top Ten for LLM Applications, a Rust survey, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-310

Deloitte, e-Tattoos, Web 3.0, Cp3o, Chemonics, IPv6, the Number 6, Chinese Emperors, 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-435

In this final installment of a trio of discussions with Theresa Lanowitz about Cyber Resilience, we put it all together and attempt to figure out what the road to cyber resilience looks like, and what barriers security leaders will have to tackle along the way. We'll discuss: How to identify these barriers to cyber resilience Be secure by design Align cybersecurity investments with the business Also, be sure to check out the first two installments of this series! Episode 380: Cybersecurity Success is Business Success Episode 383: Cybersecurity Budgets: The Journey from Reactive to Proactive This segment is sponsored by LevelBlue. Visit https://securityweekly.com/levelblue to learn more about them! When focused on cybersecurity through a vulnerability management lens, it's tempting to see the problem as a race between exploit development and patching speed. This is a false narrative, however. While there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities, each requiring unique exploits, the number of post-expl

The hosts discuss hacker gadgets! We'll cover what we've been hacking on lately and discuss gadgets we want to work on in the future and other gadgets we want to get our hands on. Paul has been working with some M5Stack devices, a guide can be found here: https://securitypodcaster.com/m5stack-hacking-guide/ We will cover the Clockwork PI "uConsole" (RPI CM4) - https://www.clockworkpi.com/uconsole We want the RPI Pico 2 W and the RPI CM5 (https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/) Paul upgraded one of his Flipper Zeros with Momentum Firmware (https://momentum-fw.dev/) Paul and Larry have the new Crowview Note (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/elecrow/crowview-note-empowering-your-device-as-a-laptop?ref=20bm9i) Larry's List: Cheap Yellow Display - https://github.com/witnessmenow/ESP32-Cheap-Yellow-Display KV4P HT - https://www.kv4p.com/ Lilygo T-Deck - https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck Helltec LoRa32 https://heltec.org/project/wifi-lora-32-v3/ NRF52840-DK - https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Nordic-Semicon

This week, it's time for Security Money. Of course Okta should be in the Security Weekly 25 Index, Duh! Here are all the companies that now comprise the index: SCWX Secureworks Corp PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. RBRK Rubrik Inc GEN Gen Digital Inc FTNT Fortinet Inc AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. FFIV F5 Inc ZS Zscaler Inc OSPN Onespan Inc LDOS Leidos Holdings Inc QLYS Qualys Inc VRNT Verint Systems Inc. CYBR Cyberark Software Ltd TENB Tenable Holdings Inc OKTA Okta Inc S SentinelOne Inc NET Cloudflare Inc CRWD Crowdstrike Holdings Inc NTCT NetScout Systems, Inc. VRNS Varonis Systems Inc RPD Rapid7 Inc FSLY Fastly Inc RDWR Radware Ltd ATEN A10 Networks Inc In the leadership and communications segment, Should the CISO Role Be Split?, CISO's tips for building a culture of cybersecurity, Personal Leadership and Cyber Risk — Top 3 Traits that Deliver Enterprise Level Results, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https:

ISIS, Enron, Tor, Scams, Wintermute, Zabbix, 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-434

Observability is a lot more than just sprinkling printf statements throughout a code base. Adriana Villela explains principles behind logging, traceability, and metrics and how the OpenTelemetry project helps developers gather this useful information. She also provides suggestions on starting logging from scratch, how to avoid information overload, and how engaging users about their experience with solutions like OpenTelemetry makes for better software -- a lesson that appsec teams can apply to paved roads and security guardrails. Segment Resources: https://opentelemetry.io https://cncf.io https://adri-v.medium.com/ Fuzzing barcodes and getting projects onboarded with fuzzers, using AI to guide fuzzers, using AI to combat scammers, using CWEs for something, using malicious comments to ban repos, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-309

Check out this episode from the ESW Vault, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on December 22, 2023. 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 Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-17

Check out this episode from the SWN Vault, originally published on February 13, 2019! This Secure Digital Life episode was hand-picked by main host Doug White. Well, there are a lot of terms that are around in Cyber these days. I think we could do shows every week for a while and never get through them all. From AI to Zero Day Exploits, there are a plethora of terms that everyone uses all the time but maybe you don't know them yet. So, I thought we would grab some of the more common ones and try to explain. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-21

Check out this episode from the BSW Vault, hand picked by main host Matt Alderman! This segment was originally published on Jan 24, 2023. Richard Seiersen and our guest, Doug Hubbard, are finishing the second edition of How to Measure Anything in Cybersecurity Risk. Doug is here to share the success of the first edition and preview the second edition. With more insights, the second edition will share more more research data, free tools, and new concepts like FrankenSME. If you're a risk management professional or want to learn more about risk management, don't miss this interview. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-bsw-14

This is a topic our hosts are very passionate about, and we're excited to discuss with Mariana Padilla, co-founder and CEO of Hackerverse. She wants to change how cybersecurity sales works, with a focus on making the process more transparent and ideally demonstrating a product's efficacy before buyers even need to talk to a sales team. We'll discuss why existing sales processes are broken, how VC funding impacts vendor sales/marketing, and why community-led growth is so important. Why a special segment on Microsoft Ignite announcements? There were a lot of announcements Microsoft is the largest security vendor, in terms of revenue Microsoft and its products are also the biggest and most vulnerable hacking target in the tech industry. In the enterprise security news, Bitsight, Snyk, and Silverfort announce acquisitions Tanium announces an “autonomous” endpoint security offering We find out how much a smartphone costs when it is manufactured in the US CISA’s leadership announces resignations Ransomware is go

Tesla, Druids, Salt Typhoon, North Korea, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Joshua 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-433

Black Hats & White Collars: We know criminal hacking is big business because we've spied on them! Ken comes on the show to talk about chasing and stalking criminals, even if it means sacrificing some of your own personal safety. Fast cars kill people, Apple 0-Days, memory safety, poisoning the well, babble babble and malware that tries really hard to be stealthy, Palto Alto and Fortinet have some serious new vulnerabilities, open-source isn't free, but neither is commercial software, get on the TPM bus, find URLs with stealth, stealing credentials with more Palto Alto and Fortinet, the first zoom call, and one person's trash is another person's gaming PC! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-852

This week's interview dives deep into the state of biometrics with two Forrester Research analysts! This discussion compares and contrasts regional approaches to biometrics; examine the security challenges and benefits of their implementation; and reveal how biometrics holds the keys to a range of engagement models of the future. Andras Cser dives into the technical end of things and explains how biometrics can be resilient to attack. We can't replace our fingerprints or faces, but as Andras explains, there's no need to, thanks to how biometrics actually work. Then, Enza takes us through the latest on privacy in biometrics - a concern for both consumers, and businesses tasked with complying with privacy regulations and avoiding costly fines. Finally, get a sneak peek into the upcoming Forrester Security & Risk Summit. Whether you're an industry professional or just curious about the implications of biometrics, this episode delivers insights you won't want to miss! This week, in the Application Security Ne

Google DeGoogled, Hammerbarn, Blofeld, VMWare, DeepData, SafePay, 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-432