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As the CISO role continues to transform from a technician to a risk manager, how do you secure emerging technologies, such as edge computing? By aligning to business objectives. In this segment, Theresa Lanowitz from AT&T Cybersecurity and Scott Stout From Cisco help us break down the challenges of the CISO and how to align security requirements to business outcomes to solve the emerging edge computing use cases. During the interview, we will tackle the Hospital at Home and Manufacturing edge computing uses cases. Tune in for this collaborative session from two of the leading cybersecurity giants. This segment is sponsored by AT&T Cybersecurity. Visit https://securityweekly.com/attcybersecurity to learn more about them! In the leadership and communications section, Cybersecurity should be a business priority for CEOs, What CISOs Should Exclude From SEC Cybersecurity Filings, Effective Communication: The Key to Workplace Success, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest epi

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 cybe

This week Dr. Doug talks: Skynet, India, North Korea, China, passwords, KeePass, Cisco, AI, expert commentary from suspected Chicken Man accomplice Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-335

Chris Rock is a Cyber Mercenary who has worked in the Middle East, US and Asia for the last 30 years working for both government and private organizations. ˇHe is the Chief Information Security Officer and co-founder of SIEMonster. Chris has presented three times at the largest hacking conference in the world, DEFCON in Las Vegas on controversial vulnerabilities. Chris is also the author of the Baby Harvest, a book based on criminals and terrorists using virtual babies and fake deaths for financing. He has also been invited to speak at TED global. In the Security News: Fried squid is tasty, but the squid proxy is vulnerable, Flipper zero and other tools can now BLE Spam more than just Apple devices, Cisco IOS vulnerability in the web interface, again, is Signal vulnerable?, WinRAR being exploit, still, Math.Random is not really all that random, get your malware samples, and my inside look into Android TV devices, malware, and the horrors of the supply chain! All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Securit

It's no surprise that OT security has fared poorly over the last 30+ years. To many appsec folks, these systems have uncommon programming languages, unfamiliar hardware, and brittle networking stacks. They also tend to have different threat scenarios. Many of these systems are designed, successfully, to maintain availability. But when a port scan can freeze or crash a device, that availability seems like it hasn't put enough consideration into adversarial environments. We chat about the common failures of OT design and discuss a few ways that systems designed today might still be secure 30 years from now. In the news, how HTTP/2's rapid reset is abused for DDoS, a look at the fix for Curl's recent high severity bug, OWASP moves to make CycloneDX a standard, Microsoft deprecates NTLM, VBScript, and old TLS -- while also introducing an AI bug bounty program. Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.

This week in the Security News Dr. Doug talks: Cisco, Juniper, AVOSLocker, NoEscape, Valve, FreedomGPT, More News and Aaran Leyland. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-334

Do we sound like a broken record? Leadership, communication, and risk management skills are key traits of the Chief Information Security Officer. But don't just take our word for it, Jason Loomis, CISO at Freshworks, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss why companies should be hiring CISOs for their leadership talent, not their technical talent. Segment Resources: Switch Five Dysfunctions of a Team Drive Extreme Ownership Simon Sinek In the leadership and communications section, Is Your Board Cyber-Ready?, Chief security officers' salary growth slowing, The Secret to Making Difficult Decisions, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw 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/bsw-324

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

This week Dr. Doug talks: Microsoft, SeroxenRAT, Smart Links, Vogons, ToddyCAT, ShellBot, Hidden servers, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-333

In our first segment: the PSW hosts drop valuable insight on how to start your own journey into reverse engineering hardware! Resources we mentioned: The Hardware Hackers Handbook is a great start Do a badge challenge: https://www.cyberark.com/resources/threat-research-blog/an-introduction-to-hardware-hacking Take some classes Do some Arduino stuff: https://www.arduino.cc/ Take free courses on electrical engineering: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-01sc-introduction-to-electrical-engineering-and-computer-science-i-spring-2011/ (And here: https://www.tinkerforge.com/en/doc/ and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSQf3iuluYo&list=PLoFdAHrZtKkhcd9k8ZcR4th8Q8PNOx7iU) Building a lab - The list: Soldering iron (and tools and parts such as Solder, Flux, Tweezer, Soldering wick, Cutter, Wire stripper) Hot air rework station (can be bundled with soldering iron) Multi-meter (and lots of associated cables) Jumper and pinout wires Breadboard USB microscope Bench power supply Specific lighting (e.g. my document ca

What if all these recommendations to shift left were more about shifting focus? It's all too easy to become preoccupied with vulns, whether figuring out how to find them earlier in the SDLC or spending time fixing them within specific number of days. Successful DevSecOps approaches can be so much more than just vulns and so much more than just tools. Sure, tools are useful for identifying known vulns in dependencies and new vulns in code, but teams that emphasize people and culture will find it easier to shift their attention to the security of their product and creating secure designs. In the news, anticipating Curl's upcoming patch for a high severity flaw, the Looney Tunables flaw in Glibc, ShellTorch flaw hits PyTorch and lots of AI, lessons from some X.Org security patches, and more! Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw 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/asw-258

This week Aaran Leyland rants: about Google, 23andMe, Facebook, GitHub's Secret Scanning, MGM Resorts, Grindr, More News, and is joined by the notorious Jason Wood on the Security Weekly News! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-332

CEOs and boards struggle with their digital transformation process. Does their operations hinder or align with business initiatives? Has their security operations scaled to meet the data and digital demands to protect against business risk? In today’s episode, we’re talking to Chris Morales, CISO at Netenrich, who’ll provide compelling insights towards security transformation. Security organizations all face similar security challenges of too much data, siloed teams, underperforming legacy tools, and time-consuming and laborious threat investigation work. We’ll discuss the approach enterprises need to consider in advancing their security maturity. It’s one that’s data-driven, adaptive, and predictive. In the leadership and communications section, The Data Your Board Actually Wants to Hear About When Valuing Cybersecurity Investments, Cybersecurity is a CFO issue, Must-know insights when navigating the CISO career path, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us o

This week Dr. Doug talks: Feet, Google, Apple, Predator vs. Lemurs, r77, Qualcomm, qakbot, deepfakes, More News and with the exotic Aaran Leyland! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-331

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

Anuj joins us to discuss recent trends in malware. What are the malware authors up to lately? What are the latest techniques for reverse engineering malware? Learn about the latest tools and techniques from Anuj! Anuj is a Principal Threat Researcher at Blackberry, where he performs malware research and reverse engineering. He has more than 15 years of experience in malware analysis and incident response. Anuj also brings his problem-solving abilities to his position as a SANS Certified Instructor and author, which gives him the opportunity to impart his deep technical knowledge and practical skills to students. Segment Resources: https://www.youtube.com/@sonianuj In the Security News: No Flipper Zero for you!, your glibc is hanging out and other Looney Tunables, and it vulnerable, for no reasons, other than the obvious ones, a Russian firm will pay $20m for Android or iPhone 0days, you do what you do and other Exim vulnerability stories, yet another way to become root on Linux, if you ever wanted to read the

Communication is a skill that doesn't appear on top 10 lists, rarely appears as a conference topic, and doesn't appear enough on job requirements. Yet communication is one of the critical ways that security teams influence developers, convey risk, and share knowledge with others. Even our own Security Weekly site falls a little short with only a podcast category for "Training" instead of more options around communication and collaboration. Lina shares her experience presenting to executives and boards in high-stress situations, as well as training incident responders on real-world scenarios. Segment resources https://training.xintra.org https://www.scmagazine.com/podcast-episode/2839-pointers-and-perils-for-presentations-josh-goldberg-asw-251 In the news segment, attackers impersonate Dependabot commits, an alg of "none" plagues a JWT, CISA calls for hardware bills of materials, OpenSSF lists its critical projects, Exim (finally! maybe?) has some patches, bug bounties and open source projects, and more! Vis

This week Dr. Doug talks: Minority Report, NSA, WS_FTP, Exim, Sextortion, BunnyLoader, CISA, More News, and is joined by the illustrious Jason Wood! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn 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/swn-330

As we move more infrastructure into the cloud, the traditional concepts of risk start to change. It's no longer just about networks and servers, but also needs to address identities and not just human identities. Cloud infrastructure introduces additional identity types that need to be addressed as part of your risk management program. Eric Kedrosky, CISO at Sonrai Security, joins us to discuss how to think differently about risk in the cloud. In the leadership and communications section, The CISO Carousel and its Effect on Enterprise Cybersecurity, CISOs are struggling to get cybersecurity budgets, Respectfully, I Disagree, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw 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/bsw-322

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://secur