Enterprise Security Weekly (Video)

In the Enterprise Security News: Wiz raises $250 million at a staggering $6 billion valuation, Gretel.ai, another privacy engineering startup, raises $50 million, Forcepoint acquires Bitglass, Yubico releases a new line of biometric security keys, Facebook releases an open source tool for analyzing mobile app code, Venture capital needs to clear its, plate, or it can't have any pudding, Maritime security has a lot of security work to do, & don't forget to stick around for the weekly squirrel!

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Seeking to capitalize on the full potential of digital transformation, organizations are turning to serverless applications to accelerate development cycles, reduce operational complexities, and improve efficiencies. But as organizations embrace serverless applications, a majority are encountering security roadblocks that impede release cycles and/or ratchet up risk. This podcast explores findings and insights from a recent serverless application security report and plots actionable recommendations on how organizations can realize the comprehensive benefits of serverless applications without sacrificing security!

Segment Resources:

Whitepaper: Contrast Scan Is Faster, More Accurate, and More Efficient - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/white-paper-modern-application-security-scanning

eBook: Pipeline-Native Static Analysis Why It Is the Future of SAST - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/ebook-static-analysis-security-testing

Solution Brief: Contrast Scan: Modern Application Security Scanning - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/hubfs/DocumentsPDF/Contrast-Scan-Modern-Application-Security-Scanning_Solution%20Brief_Final.pdf

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A big part of preparing for Security Weekly news segments is reading press releases. Most of us also get emails whenever a cybersecurity vendor sends out a press release. Too many are frivolous, full of hyperbole, or just plain unreadable. We talk about why so many press releases are like this (there are legit reasons!) and how they could be improved.

What's wrong with press releases?

1. Frivolous Press Releases

2. Unintelligible Press Releases

3. Bending the Truth

4. Excessive hyperbole; death by adjective

5. FUD

Why are they like this?

1. Feeding the SEO beast

2. Written by committee

3. Need to appear successful

4. Need to show growth/progress

5. Need to differentiate from the competition

6. "if it bleeds it leads"

Fixing Press Releases

- When should you put out a press release?

- What should go into a press release?

- How should you write a press release?

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In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Orca Security raises all the money, Privacy engineering firms hit their funding stride, McAfee and FireEye merge, but where's RSA's dance partner? Akamai acquires Guardicore, NetApp picks up CloudCheckr, SPDX becomes the ISO standard for SBOMs, & Facebook shares details on how they accidentally Thanos snapped themselves! All that, our weekly Squirrel, and more, on this episode of the Enterprise Security Weekly News!

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Once again, it is Cybersecurity awareness month and we'll be talking with Ryan Kalember about the latest threats and other activities he and Proofpoint have going on this month. When it comes to threats, some tactics aren't changing, though they're still effective. There are some notable shifts though:

- Crews using Office 365 for lateral movement

- FIN7 reborn

- A sudden interest in exploits

- Increased patience and increased focus on the individual as the key to an attack

- SMB attacks look very different from large enterprise campaigns

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Sales teams are under more pressure than ever to locate and bring in new customers. The methods they use can range from clever to questionable. While some of the more ethically questionable methods can produce results, we wonder: do vendors realize what these methods could be potentially costing them? Richard Reinders joins us today to discuss how he handles one of the toughest challenges any security leader will have to face: interacting with vendors.

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In the Enterprise Security News: Cyber insurance firm Coalition lands a $205m Series E with a $3.5bn valuation, Risk management platform Panorays nabs $42m, Jscrambler raises a $15m Series A to rewrite the rules of website security (rewrite, get it? huh?), SenseOn nabs $20m for faster, more accurate cybersecurity detection and response, LG (yes, that LG) is acquiring automotive cybersecurity startup Cybellum, We talk about the emergence of the vendor "live security status page", 386 startup post mortems, and don't forget to stick around for Adrian's curveball "Squirrel of the Week" story at the end!

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Identity Detection and Response (IDR) is a new security category that focuses on protecting credentials, privileges, cloud entitlements, and the systems that manage them across endpoints, Active Directory, and the Cloud through visibility and early detection of attacks targeting identities. Attackers consider enterprise identities as high-value targets and attempt to compromise them early in the attack to access the network and gain privileges to essential production assets. Current identity security focuses on safeguarding privileged credentials in PAM solutions or securing the authentication process with MFA and IAM solutions, but these measures leave gaps that attackers can exploit. While current security solutions like Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Extended Detection and Response (XDR), Network Detection and Response (NDR), and others provide specific functions for defending the network, they do not focus on identities. EDR focuses on preventing the initial compromise, while XDR and NDR try to detect attacks as they expand from the beachhead. Attacks targeting enterprise identities can evade detection from these security controls, but IDR solutions can bridge these detection gaps to identify such attacks. Join Joseph Salazar from Attivo Networks as he discusses the importance of IDR to modern enterprise security.

Segment Resources: https://attivonetworks.com/documentation/Attivo_Networks-Identity_Detection_Response.pdf

https://attivonetworks.com/what-is-identity-detection-and-response-idr/

https://attivonetworks.com/solutions/identity-security/

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No Man is an Island. Neither can a security program exist without interconnections and strong relationships to the rest of the business. Yet, over and over again I meet Security Leaders that thrive on designing security fiefdoms with large moats, and one bridge that they roll down only when they intend to roll out a new technology, initiative or need budget authority. There is no amount of authority or power that can provided to a CISO that makes he or she immunized against the need for communication, collaboration and diplomacy with peers, users and Senior Executives.

Segment Resources:

RevolutionCyber - www.revolutioncyber.com

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This week in the Enterprise Security News: Funders Fund Values Identity Startup Persona at $1.5 billion, Neosec Emerges from Stealth With $20.7 million in funding, F5 acquires threat stack, ForgeRock IPOs tomorrow, GitLab announces their IPO, You can now ditch your Microsoft password, Vendor Security 2.0, & more!

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