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Each year, Forrester tracks the top systemic risks — external events that impact your firm and customers but are out of your control — facing organizations. The impacts of climate change are both short-term, in the form of severe weather, drought, and heat waves, and long-term, in the form of biodiversity loss, sea-level rise, and rising temperatures. Want to see where climate risk ranked on the list? Read The Top Systemic Risks, 2023 (https://www.forrester.com/report/the-top-systemic-risks-2023/RES179156) or listen to this segment on Business Security Weekly.   A resilient cybersecurity strategy is essential to running your business while protecting against security threats and preventing data breaches. For CISOs, partnering with a managed service security provider (MSSP) means you can be in control of your organization’s information and infrastructure security without placing a strain on internal personnel or resources which is critical in today’s uncertain economy. With an MSSP on board, CISOs are better e

St. Alban's Day, Kimsuky, WinRAR, Microsoft, fake AI, Siemens, Apple, and More on this episode of 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/swn295 

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 c

Rob "Mubix" Fuller comes on the show to talk about penetration testing, what's changed over the years? He'll also discuss "Jurassic Malware" and creating games in your BIOS.   This week in the Security News: 5-year old vulnerabilities, hijacking packages, EV charging apps that could steal stuff, do we even need software packages, selling hacking tools and ethics, I hate it when vendors fix stuff, HTTPS lock status, no pornhub for you!    Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Visit https://securityweekly.com/acm to sign up for a demo or buy our AI Hunter! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw783 

Pornhub, LobShot, TMobile, lawsuits, CISA, CERN, AI, Jason Wood, and more on this edition of 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/swn294 

Application security is messy and is getting messier. Modern application security teams are struggling to identify what's more important to fix. Cloud security and application security is getting squeezed all together. Modern vulnerability maturity needs a new approach and guidance. Vulnerability management framework and mature defect management is often overlooked as organizations tend to identify issues and stop there. The devil is usually in the details and time gets burned down in identifying who needs to solve what where. Vulnerability Management Maturity Framework has been created to address that. Segment Resources: Framework: https://phoenix.security/vulnerability-management-framework/ Books on metrics: https://phoenix.security/whitepapers-resources/data-driven-application-security-vulnerability-management-are-sla-slo-dead/ Vulnerability aggregation and prioritization https://phoenix.security/whitepapers-resources/whitepaper-vulnerability-management-in-application-cloud-security/ Shift left: https://

This week, it's time for Security Money. We recap Q1 2023 with the latest financial results, funding announcements, and layoffs. Don't miss this quarterly update. At the market close on April 28th 2023: - SW25 Index is 1,404.31, which is an increase of 40.43% (up from last Q) since inception. - NASDAQ Index is 12,226.58, which is an increase of 84.27% (up from last Q) during the same period.   CISOs face the complex challenge of protecting organizations against an expanding array of cybersecurity risks. While the role requires constant adaptation to protect against new threats, CISOs often bear the blame when defenses are breached. In this segment Kunal Anand, CTO & CISO, Imperva, discusses the evolution of the role and what aspiring professionals need to know if they want to hold the title. This segment is sponsored by Imperva. Visit https://securityweekly.com/impervarsac to learn more about them!   Today’s security products are evolving to meet the changing attack surface, each one targeting a specific

Github, FIN7, Banks, Minecraft, Google Authenticator, Qualcomm, TenCent, BlueSky, Derek Johnson talks about China and More on this episode of 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  Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn293

STM32 boards, soldering, decapping chips, RTOS development, lasers, multiple flippers and for what you ask? So I can be alerted about a device I already know is there. The Flipper Zero attracted the attention of news outlets and hackers alike as people have used it to gain access to restricted resources. Is the Flipper Zero that powerful that it needs to be banned? This is a journey of recursion and not taking “no” for an answer. Kailtyn Hendelman joins the PSW crew to discuss the Flipper Zero and using it to hack all the things. In the Security News: SSDs use AI/ML to prevent ransomware (And more buzzword bingo), zombie servers that just won't die, spectral chickens, side-channel attacks, malware-free cyberattacks!, your secret key should be a secret, hacking smart TVs with IR, getting papercuts, people still have AIX, ghosttokens, build back better SBOMs, Salsa for your software, Intel let Google hack things, and they found vulnerabilities, and flase positives on your drug test, & more! Flipper resource

Teenage Mutant Ninja Hackers, Mark Twain, TP-Link, Intel, Papercut, Rustbucket, Solarwinds, Blue Check Marks, Jason Wood, and more on this edition of 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/swn292 

Jeff Moss shares some of history of DEF CON, from CFPs to Codes of Conduct, and what makes it a hacker conference. We also discuss the role of hackers and researchers in representing users within policy discussions.   Segment links https://defcon.org  https://forum.defcon.org https://media.defcon.org https://defcon.social/about   Microsoft turns to a weather-based taxonomy, k8s shares a security audit, a GhostToken that can't be exorcised from Google accounts, BrokenSesame RCE, typos and security, generative AI and security that's more than prompt injection   Visit https://www.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/asw238 

We talk a lot about closing the skills gap, but it's harder said than done. So we thought we'd tackle the problem in our 2nd episode os Say Easy, Do Hard. Part 1 will discuss the skills needed, the requirements of the position, and the real qualifications for cybersecurity jobs. We will discuss the practical, realistic expectations of working in cybersecurity, not the hyped stereotypical positions.   After discussing the requirements for working in cybersecurity, part 2 will tackle where to find the talent. We will explore education, apprenticeships, mentorships, and training. We will also identify areas within the business that have resources with skills that are very complementary with cybersecurity that also make great recruiting areas.   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/bsw303 

Elon, Clop, EvalPhP, VMWare, Google, Fancy Bear, Routers, 3CX, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of 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/swn291 

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

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 protocol

We will talk about Supply chain security, the TPM 2.0 vulnerabilities recently discovered by a Quarkslab researcher, bugs in reference implementations, vulnerability disclosure and perhaps various other topics. Segment Resources: Vulnerabilities in the TPM2.0 reference implementation https://blog.quarkslab.com/vulnerabilities-in-the-tpm-20-reference-implementation-code.html Vulnerabilities in High Assurance Boot of NXP i.MX microprocessors https://blog.quarkslab.com/vulnerabilities-in-high-assurance-boot-of-nxp-imx-microprocessors.html Heap memory corruption in ASN.1 parsing code generated by Objective Systems Inc. ASN1C compiler for C/C++ https://github.com/programa-stic/security-advisories/blob/master/ObjSys/CVE-2016-5080/README.md   In the security news: Blizzards, Sleet, Typhoons, Sandstorms and Tsunamis, masking your car stealing tech in a Nokia phone, kill -64, Google doesn't want to fix an RCE, hijacking packages, monitoring macs, beating Roulette, lame advice from Microsoft, are post-authentication

Securing the business can often come at a cost of employee productivity, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Especially in today’s economic climate, the security team cannot be seen as a blocker to business. Aviv discusses how to find that balance in today’s episode. This segment is sponsored by Votiro. Visit https://securityweekly.com/votiro to learn more about them!   In the leadership and communications segment, Security Is a Revenue Booster, Not a Cost Center, How cybersecurity leaders can tackle the skills shortage, Engaged Employees Create Better Customer Experiences, 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/bsw302 

We talk with Ben about the rewards, hazards, and fun of bug bounty programs. Then we find out different ways to build successful and welcoming communities. A new deps.dev API for supply chain enthusiasts, hacking and modding agricultural devices, guidance from CISA on secure by design (and by default!), Glaze brings adversarial art to AI training, key transparency for WhatsApp, a new appsec myth(?), Android hacking tool list, and a Chrome extension to find web debugging behavior.   Visit https://www.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/asw237

Sisyphus and Elon, Action1, Cyber insurance, CISA, LockBit, AI, Jason Wood, and more on this edition of 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/swn290

MSMQ, CLFS, Fortinet, Spectre redux, Google Pay, BingBots, Aaran Leyland, and More on this episode of 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/swn289