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Fortra's Core Security has conducted it's fourth annual survey of cybersecurity professionals on the usage and perception of pen testing. The data collected provides visibility into the full spectrum of pen testing’s role, helping to determine how these services, tools, and skills must evolve.   Segment Resources:  https://www.fortra.com/resources/guides/2023-pen-testing-report   This segment is sponsored by Fortra's Core Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortracoresecurity to learn more about them!   Compliance with cyber security frameworks such as NIST, PCI, HIPAA, etc. have largely been driven by paper-based processes in Word and Excel. With the rise of cloud computing, containers, and ephemeral systems, paper-based processes can no longer keep up with the speed of business and compliance has become the new bottleneck to progress for highly regulated industries such as government, finance, and energy sector. This session will cover how RegScale is leading a RegOps movement to bring the principles

Imagine an illness that requires surgery a few times a month and restricts your mobility. What would that do to your career? In our chat with Billy Boatright today, we'll find out how he not only switched careers despite his illness, he found an advantage in his weaknesses: he turned them into effective social engineering skills.   In the security news, FBI seizes one of the biggest stolen credential markets, Is catching ransomware the baseline for detection and response? Potential outcomes of the US National Cybersecurity Strategy, Thieves are using headlights to steal cars, China wants to censor generative AI, Tesla sued for snooping on owners through built-in cameras, All that and more, on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly.    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 Note

Application security in the cloud is a crucial aspect of protecting data and preventing unauthorized access to applications hosted on cloud platforms. As cloud computing becomes more prevalent, ensuring the security of applications has become a top priority for organizations. This is because cloud environments present unique security challenges, such as shared resources, multi-tenancy, and a lack of physical control. Therefore, it is essential to implement security measures that are specific to cloud-based applications. Segment Resources: - https://www.youtube.com/@Infosecvandana/videos   Lessons from an old 2008 JSON.parse vuln, opening garage doors with a password, stealing cars with CAN bus injection, manipulating Twitter's recommendation algorithm, engineering through complexity, successful tabletop exercises, and the anniversary of Heartbleed.   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.fa

FTX, CISA, Apple, RPKI, Circle, NEXX, MSI, 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/swn288

Barracuda just released a report on Ransomware findings, here: https://assets.barracuda.com/assets/docs/dms/2023 -Ransomware-insights-report.pdf. Here are a few of the highlighted stats: Barracuda international survey finds 73% of organizations experienced a successful ransomware attack in 2022 — 38% were hit more than once. 42% of those hit three times or more paid the ransom to restore encrypted data — compared to 31% of victims hit just once. 69% of ransomware attacks began with an email. 27% of organizations feel underprepared to tackle ransomware.   Fleming Shi joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the findings and ways to better prepare for these attacks. In the leadership and communications segment, How to Succeed As a New Chief Information Security Officer, Lead by Example: What Army Special Forces Can Teach You About Leadership, How to Take Risks & Conquer Fears, and more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/s

Naughty Tesla, Flipper Zero, Rilide, Styx, Genesis, Sophos, Cisco, Meta, 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/swn287

The approach of cybersecurity workforce development and how someone with such technical background come to designing a degree program with non-traditional approach. What it takes to keep it going? Segment Resources: https://go.boisestate.edu/ucore https://go.boisestate.edu/gcore   In the Security News: Rorschach, QNAP and sudo, why bother signing things, why bother having a password, why bother updating firmware, smart screenshotting, TP-Link oh my, music with Grub2, byte arrays and UTF-8, what is my wifi password, Debian and systemd, opening garage doors, downgrade your firmware to be more secure, exploit databases, this is like a movie, unsolved CTFs, and Near-Ultrasound Inaudible Trojans! All that and more on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly!   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/se

Kellermann will discuss the recently published report “Cyber Bank Heist” that exposes the cybersecurity threats facing the financial sector. Security must be a top-of-mind issue amid rising geopolitical tensions, increased destructive attacks utilizing wipers and a record-breaking year of zero-day exploits. Podcast listeners will learn what financial sector security leaders from around the world revealed in a series of interviews about specific trends when it comes to notable cyberattacks, e-fraud and cyber defense. Segment Resources:  - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/cyber-bank-heists-report - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/cyber-bank-heists-report-code-patrol-podcast-contrast-security   Overall increase in government regulations. EU as well. Shift in liability from consumers to organizations.How to take advantage of safe harbor protections and reduce organizational risk and liability. NIST SSD Framework - how do you understand the security practices of the open source packages you u

Following on from her successful title "Container Security", Liz has recently authored "Learning eBPF", published by O'Reilly. eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that is enabling a whole new generation of infrastructure tools for networking, observability, and security. Let's explore eBPF and understand its value for security, and how it's used to secure network connectivity in the Cilium project, and for runtime security observability and enforcement in Cilium's sub-project, Tetragon.   Segment Resources:  Download "Learning eBPF": https://isovalent.com/learning-ebpf   Buy "Learning eBPF" from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-eBPF-Programming-Observability-Networking/dp/1098135121 Code examples accompanying the book: https://github.com/lizrice/learning-ebpf= Cilium project: https://cilium.io Tetragon project: https://tetragon.cilium.io/   BingBang and Azure, Super FabriXss and Azure, reversing the 3CX trojan on macOS, highlights from Real World Crypto, fun GPT prompts, and a secure code game  

Why 300? 300 is a perfect game in bowling, a milestone few have achieved (unless you're Brendan Alderman who has done it twice before the age of 20). 300 podcast episodes is almost 7 years of recording, a milestone most podcasts haven't achieved. So we thought is was worth celebrating! Join current and former BSW hosts to get a brief history of Business Security Weekly, including:   Paul's resignation from Tenable in 2016 to expand the Security Weekly podcast Michael and Paul launching Start-up Security Weekly in 2016 The switch to Business Security Weekly in 2018 Matt's first episode (105) in 2018 as the new CEO of Security Weekly  The premier episode of Security Money (113) in 2019 Jason's first episode (101) in 2018 The sale of Security Weekly to CyberRisk Alliance in 2020 Ben's first episode (231) in 2021 The premier episode of Say Easy, Do Hard (289) in 2023   You ask, we respond. This Ask Me Anything (AMA) segment allows the audience to ask the BSW hosts anything. From leadership skills to career advi

ProtoCell Phones, KEV, Efile, 3CX, Western Digital, NATO, 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/swn286

Flappy TREX lips, WooCommerce, 3CX, Zimbra, OneNote, ChatGPT, ProPump, 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/swn285

So much of the tech world went remote at the start of the pandemic, and many of those jobs (and engineers) show no sign of ever going back into an office. Building successful teams in this environment takes a different approach, one defined by autonomy and trust. In this segment, Nickolas Means, VP of Engineering at Sym, will share insights from more than a decade of leading distributed teams to help us all thrive in a world where distributed is the new normal.   The White House recently revealed their National Cybersecurity Strategy and its 5 pillars. Some is straightforward - some is more controversial. Josh helped with it and wrote a blog about it. Adrian read that post and asked Josh to come discuss it. So here we are. Segment Resources: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Cybersecurity-Strategy-2023.pdf https://claroty.com/blog/consequential-cybersecurity-brace-yourself-for-the-white-house-national-cybersecurity-strategy   In the enterprise security news, early stage startup

How to get into reversing embedded firmware? Can the planet really be hacked? We'll go over a couple of fun exploitation examples, see what mistakes were made and maybe what could have been done better to make these devices tougher to break into.   Segment Resources: Voip phone hacking: Blog: https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/avaya-deskphone-decade-old-vulnerability-found-in-phones-firmware/ Def Con presentation (intro to hardware hacking): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuCbr2588-w&ab_channel=DEFCONConference Medical Research: BBraun infusion pump: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6agtnfPjd64&ab_channel=hardwear.io Medical devices under attack: https://www.rsaconference.com/USA/agenda/session/Code%20Blue%20Medical%20Devices%20Under%20Attack Hacking DrayTek routers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD8HfjdDeuM&ab_channel=Hexacon Philippe's public work: https://github.com/philippelaulheret/talks_blogs_and_fun   In the Security News: Turning traffic lights green with the flipp

With the increased interest and use of AI such as GTP 3/4, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and internal modeling, there comes an array of use cases and examples for increased efficiency, but also inherent security risks that organizations should consider. In this talk, Invicti’s CTO & Head of Security Research Frank Catucci discusses potential use cases and talks through real-life examples of using AI in production environments. Frank delves into benefits, as well as security implications, touching on a number of security aspects to consider, including security from the supply chain perspective, SBOMs, licensing, as well as risk mitigation, and risk assessment. Frank also covers some of the types of attacks that might happen as a result of utilizing AI-generated code, like intellectual property leaking via a prompt injection attack, data poisoning, etc. And lastly, Frank shares the Invicti security team's real-life experience of utilizing AI, including early successes and failures.   Segment Resources: On-deman

Twitter, Tax Scams, Microsoft, Executive Orders, Pwn2Own, French Bans, 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/swn284

We often see security as a thing that has definitive check boxes, end states and deliverables. Audits "end" and then start again, but if you are looking at security as a noun -- as in, a thing that gets done, you are falling short. Security must be a verb. You DO security, you do not HAVE security. Security weaves through every layer and goes beyond the IT assets or codebase. This includes: Guerrilla marketing of gaining end-user buy-in for initiatives Iterative tuning of your data sources Active engagement with real-time feedback from the user base and technical teams Threat- and risk-informed decisions need to be capable of adapting when things get turned upside down. You need to create a culture and the associated processes to look at security like you do. Security teams and roadmaps are designed to look (often myopically) at specific "deliverables" and not so much at the vital signs of the security ecosystem in any given moment (and what that looks like OVER TIME, not at a moment IN time). This segment is

SafeLiShare delivers tamperproof security from inside out across clouds and eliminate algorithmic complexity attacks and reverse never-ending cycles of defense using policy controlled Confidential Computing with secure enclave technology. Segment Resources: Presentation - https://1drv.ms/p/s!AqqNWej5CK8uhEoIZW5MUxMTQLJU Blog - https://safelishare.com/blog/defining-confidential-computing/ Video - https://safelishare.com/data-privacy-resources/   The ioXt Alliance is a group of manufacturers, industry alliances, labs, and government organizations, dedicated to harmonizing best security practices and establishing testable standards. Our goal is to bring security, upgradability and transparency to the market and directly into the hands of consumers. Come learn about Smart Product security and what consumers should be asking for. Segment Resources: https://www.ioxtalliance.org/   This week in the Enterprise News: Dope Security nabs $16M led by GV to build out secure web gateways designed to work on endpoints, not

This week Dr. Doug talks: TikTok, Github, CISA and More CISA, Netgear, Do Kwon 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/swn283

We sit down with Nico Waisman to discuss vulnerability research and other security-related topics!   In the Security News: Windows MSI tomfoolery, curl turns 8...point owe, who doesn't need a 7" laptop, glitching the ESP, your image really isn't redacted or cropped, brute forcing pins, SSRF and Lightsail, reversing D-Link firmware for the win, ICMP RCE OMG (but not really), update your Pixel and Samsung, hacking ATMs in 2023, breaking down Fortinet vulnerabilities, Jamming with an Arduino, it 315 Mega hurts, analyzing trojans in your chips, and the 4, er 1, er 3, okay well how to suck at math and the 4 Cs of Cybersecurity! All that, and more, on this episode of Paul’s Security Weekly!   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/psw777