Paul's Security Weekly

If you’ve ever worked on a red or purple team, you know scaling engagements to production is an intensive, unwieldy process. Technology pitfalls may exist, but the fundamental problem is this: the process of writing, testing, deploying, and verifying the efficacy of TTPs is highly flawed and inconsistent. This conversation will focus on applying a scientific process to security testing in order to achieve production scale. Segment Resources: Prelude Build GitHub: https://github.com/preludeorg/build Prelude Docs: https://docs.prelude.org/docs Introducing Prelude Build: An Open Source IDE Purpose Built for Security Engineers: https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/introducing-prelude-build-an-ide-purpose-built-for-security-engineers A Practical Guide for Scaling Continuous Security Testing: https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/scaled-security-testing-a-practical-guide Prelude Build: https://www.preludesecurity.com/products/build   We will discuss the migration of the security community from Twitter to Mastodon,

In the Security News: The Roblox prison yard, password manager problems, PyTorch gets torched with a supply chain attack, Oppenheimer cleared, Puckungfu, spice up your persistence with PHP, turning Google home into a wiretap device, Nintendo 3DS remote code execution, Linux kernel remove code execution, steaking cards in 2022 - The API way, and there is no software supply chain... and more!   This session explores software supply chain security and the details of System of Trust, a community effort to develop and validate a process for integrating evidence of the organizational, technical, and transactional trustworthiness of supply chain elements for decision makers dealing with supply chain security. This framework is defining, aligning, and addressing the specific concerns and risks that stand in the way of organizations’ trusting suppliers, supplies, and service offerings. More importantly, the framework offers a comprehensive, consistent, and repeatable methodology – for evaluating suppliers, supplies, a

How do you mature a team responsible for securing software? What are effective ways to prioritize investments? We'll discuss a set of posts on building talent, building capabilities, and what mature teams look like. Segment resources: - https://securing.dev/categories/essentials/   Metrics for building a security product, hands-on image classification attacks, a proposed PEACH framework for cloud isolation, looking back at Log4Shell, building an appsec toolbox   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/asw224

Office Space, Rest assured, your insurance may not ensure anything, Lockbit, Thrilla in Manilla, PyTorch, non-binary ddr5, Jason Wood, 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/swn264

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.   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: 1. Asset Management 2. Patch Management 3. IAM/MFA/PIM/PAM 4. EDR/MDR/XDR 5. Backup/Recovery 6. Risk Management

Security teams struggle with managing cyber risk across cloud workloads, services, resources, users, and applications. Parag will discuss the issues this presents and how Qualys’ new TotalCloud solution allows organizations to see all their cloud resources, relationships between resources, the external attack surface, and attack path mapping all delivered via one platform. Segment Resources: Qualys TotalCloud free trial: https://www.qualys.com/forms/totalcloud/ TotalCloud Video: https://vimeo.com/765771406 Blogs: https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/11/01/introducing-totalcloud-cloud-security-simplified https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/11/01/why-is-snapshot-scanning-not-enough   This segment is sponsored by Qualys. Visit https://securityweekly.com/qualys to learn more about them!   A brief roundup of our favorite news, trends, and interviews in 2022! See what Adrian, Katherine, and Sean have to say about 2022's best interviews and news stories!   Finally, in the last Enterprise Security News o

While we most likely do not believe that penetration testing is dead it continues to evolve over time. What do penetration tests look like today? Have they become more or less specialized? What is the continuing value of penetration testing? With development and IT moving so fast, how have penetration tests adapted? This discussion will dive into the details of penetration testing today and provide you with a guide to make the most of this activity.   Without question, we need more people working in cybersecurity today. Our culture has come a long way to be more open and inviting to new folks, but we still have a lot of work to do. What can you do if you want to break into the field of cybersecurity today? While there is no shortage of resources our experienced hosts will offer their thoughts, opinions, and advice on how you can become the next cybersecurity pro!   How well do you know your hacker history and trivia? See how you compare to our hosts as we tackle hacker trivia live on the air! Categories will

AI Terrors, Infragard, Microsoft, HIPAA, GitHub, NIST, 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/swn263

In the Leadership and Communications section, CISOs of the World, Unite!, 8 things to consider amid cybersecurity vendor layoffs, The Best Public Speakers Put the Audience First, and more! Barracuda just finished an email security survey. We start to dig into the results and the impact for 2023, including: - 86% of respondents in all the countries surveyed said third party email security solutions are essential to keep our Microsoft 365 environment secure - This rises to 92% for respondents in the U.S. - And to 91% for companies with between 250 and 499 employees Also: - Just under one in five (19%) of all respondents said their top email security concern with Microsoft 365 was data protection and the risk of data loss - This rises to one in four (25%) among the frontline IT managers and professionals surveyed   This segment is sponsored by Barracuda. Visit https://securityweekly.com/barracuda to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitte

Your money is gone, Chaos, Ublerleaks, Esxi, Fortinet, Cloudflare, Praetorian, Jason Wood, 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/swn262

FreeBSD joins the ping of death list, exploiting a SQL injection through JSON manipulation, Apple's design for iCloud encryption, attacks against machine learning systems and AIs like ChatGPT   Threat modeling is an important part of a security program, but as companies grow you will choose which features you want to threat model or become a bottleneck. What if I told you, you can have your cake and eat it too. It is possible to scale your program and deliver higher quality threat models. Segment Resources: - Original blog: https://segment.com/blog/redefining-threat-modeling/ - Open Sourced slides: https://github.com/segmentio/threat-modeling-training   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/asw223

Is there still a network or has it slipped away from us entirely? What about efforts for localization because people do not trust the cloud, its providers or its reliability (ala Twitter vs. the Fediverse?). Do you still need actual hardware firewalls? What about VPNs? How long will these devices still be around as everyone goes to the cloud and SDWAN technologies? And what about identity? If you can nail identity, doesn't that set you up to be a cloud-first organization? Join us for a discussion with Sinan and the security weekly hosts as we tackle these questions! This segment is sponsored by Barracuda. Visit https://securityweekly.com/barracuda to learn more about them!   Eclypsium's research team has discovered 3 vulnerabilities in BMCs. Nate Warfield comes on the show to tell the full story! This has garnered much attention in the press: * Original research post: https://eclypsium.com/2022/12/05/supply-chain-vulnerabilities-put-server-ecosystem-at-risk/ * https://www.securityweek.com/security-flaws-ami

Ban this, Rackspace, Agrius, Antwerp, New Zealand redux, Royal, Lensa, Chat-GPT, 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/swn261

Announcing Drata’s Series C, Milton Security announces new name, Threathunter.ai, Germany Forces a Microsoft 365 Ban Due to Privacy Concerns – Best of Privacy, New Communication Protocol “Ibex” and Extended Protocol Suite, Gepetto uses OpenAI models to provide meaning to functions decompiled by IDA Pro, Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT, French man wins compensation as judge awards him the right to refuse to be fun at work.   Let’s be honest: people can frustrate us. They don’t always do the things we’d like, and they often do some things we’d rather they didn’t. New research from the National Cybersecurity Alliance reveals insights about the public’s attitudes and beliefs about security. We’ll explore the 2022 Oh Behave! Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report and some of the findings may surprise you! We’ll also give you practical, actionable advice on how you can better communicate to influence the behavior change you want to see. Segment Resources: https://staysafeonline.org https://staysafeonline.org/pro

This week Dr. Doug tells us Where baby chips come from, PhilTel, AMI, Proot, Magecart, LockBit, scattered spider, Jason Wood, 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/swn260

Android platform certs leaked, SQL injection to leaked credentials to cross-tenant access in IBM's Cloud Database, hacking cars through web-based APIs, technical and social considerations when getting into bug bounties, a brief note on memory safety in Android   Finding the balance between productivity and security is most successful when it leads to security solutions that help users rather than blames them for security failures. We'll talk about the security decisions that go into handling potentially malicious files so that users can stay calm and carry on. This segment is sponsored by Votiro. Visit https://securityweekly.com/votiro to learn more about them!   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/asw222

In the leadership and communications section, 5 top qualities you need to become a next-gen CISO, Ego Is the Enemy of Good Leadership, How To Explain Things Better, and more!   The U.S. is at an inflection point in terms of cyber threats; Critical infrastructure attacks are growing more frequent and consequential, and the White House recently called the cyber talent gap of nearly 770,000 open positions a “national security challenge.” Kelly Rozumalski, SVP at Booz Allen Hamilton leading the firm’s national cyber defense business, joins BSW to discuss why upskilling and reskilling are key to closing the cyber talent gap at the federal level and how a collective defense posture across government and private sector can enable us to better secure U.S. critical infrastructure.   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/bsw287

This week, Dr. Doug raves about: 'The Orgy of the Walking Dead' or Elon is controlling my brain, Schoolyard Bully, Redigo, DuckLogs, Dod Alphabet soup, Sirius XM, Pixel Tracking, TSA, Single Sign-on rants, 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/swn259

Despite certain economic indicators warning that a recession is on the horizon, investment remains healthy within the security market amid thirst for cloud security, in particular. One such emerging field is data security posture management (DSPM), which aims to bridge the gap between business goals and a comprehensive security mechanism that leaves no data behind as organizations scale in the cloud.   A deep-rooted cyber security culture is crucial, and it goes as far back as the hiring process… 10 years ago, a typical hiring process consisted of working your way through a checklist, hiring individuals based solely on a CV. Today, the ‘Simon Sinek’ culture is gaining more prevalence, with employers realizing that hiring the right person, rather than the CV, can have immeasurable benefits for business. Ryan will talk about why this is particularly true within the cyber security sphere, and why business leaders should follow this particular ‘Simon Sinek’ strategy to build a successful security operation, and s