In this segment, we discuss the current state of the market recovery with Hank Thomas, founder of Strategic Cyber Ventures.

We've got market questions, like:

• What has changed in the last year?
• Are IPOs coming back any time soon?
• How large is the cybersecurity death pool?
• What do early and mid-sized startups need to do to survive in the current market?

There is little to no organization of data within companies in 2023. We're all guilty of this at some level. The download folders and desktops on our personal machines are a mess. File servers, and cloud storage services are a mess. In Microsoft's recent data leak, AI researchers even had PC backups stored along side machine learning models for whatever reason.

Data is hard to classify, organize, and monitor. By designing for convenience, we've created convenience debt that now has to be paid down. In this segment we talk to Jackie McGuire about what needs to happen to accomplish this, at the enterprise level, and at scale.

Even if we can one day address the challenge of tracking and labeling data, we'll still have the challenge of addressing data integrity and resilience, which we'll also discuss if we have time!

Segment Resources: https://www.darkreading.com/risk/it-s-time-to-assess-the-potential-dangers-of-an-increasingly-connected-world-

Oh, the HARror! Sanitizing HAR files is not as easy as some might lead you to believe. CISA funds Cyber.org for K-12 cyber education and ORNL creates a Center for AI Security Research (CAISER). Cloudflare creates a tool out of spite, and CISA creates a tool you shouldn't use in production? Biden's EO on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI" and the Top Five Things you need to know about how GenAI is used in Security Tools.

Five lessons learned form Okta's latest breach, should ransom payments be illegal, and why ransomware victims can't stop paying ransoms. We discuss the impact of the charges made against Solarwinds and its CISO by the SEC, the 2023 ISC2 Cybersecurity Workforce Survey, and Microsoft's latest open letter on security.

Finally we wrap up discussing a delicious $8M Series A for better bagels!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-338