Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)

In the leadership and communications section, Why Every CISO Should Be Gunning For A Seat At The Board Table, The Innovation We Need is Strategic, Not Technical , The Best Leaders Ask the Right Questions, and more!

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Fortra is successfully reducing the unauthorized use of Cobalt Strike among cybercriminals through partnerships with Microsoft, Operation MORPHEUS, and the Pall Mall Process, among others. Since 2023 specifically, Fortra’s collaborations have resulted in an 80% drop in Cobalt Strike misuse in the wild. Additionally, the time between detecting cracked copies and mitigation has been reduced to less than one week in the United States and less than two weeks worldwide.

Segment Resources: https://www.cobaltstrike.com/blog/update-stopping-cybercriminals-from-abusing-cobalt-strike

This segment is sponsored by LevelBlue. Visit https://securityweekly.com/levelbluersac to learn more about them!

Uncover how organizations are building business confidence through cyber resilience, how alignment of cybersecurity and business goals impacts business, how collaboration creates a proactive culture, and how emerging attacks are evolving.

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WSL, Defendnot, Clippy, Crawlomatic, Take It Down, Pwn2Own, Aaran Leyland, and more on the Security Weekly News.

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In the news, Coinbase deals with bribes and insider threat, the NCSC notes the cross-cutting problem of incentivizing secure design, we cover some research that notes the multitude of definitions for secure design, and discuss the new Cybersecurity Skills Framework from the OpenSSF and Linux Foundation. Then we share two more sponsored interviews from this year's RSAC Conference.

With more types of identities, machines, and agents trying to access increasingly critical data and resources, across larger numbers of devices, organizations will be faced with managing this added complexity and identity sprawl. Now more than ever, organizations need to make sure security is not an afterthought, implementing comprehensive solutions for securing, managing, and governing both non-human and human identities across ecosystems at scale.

This segment is sponsored by Okta. Visit https://securityweekly.com/oktarsac to learn more about them!

At Mend.io, we believe that securing AI-powered applications requires more than just scanning for vulnerabilities in AI-generated code—it demands a comprehensive, enterprise-level strategy. While many AppSec vendors offer limited, point-in-time solutions focused solely on AI code, Mend.io takes a broader and more integrated approach.

Our platform is designed to secure not just the code, but the full spectrum of AI components embedded within modern applications. By leveraging existing risk management strategies, processes, and tools, we uncover the unique risks that AI introduces—without forcing organizations to reinvent their workflows. Mend.io’s solution ensures that AI security is embedded into the software development lifecycle, enabling teams to assess and mitigate risks proactively and at scale.

Unlike isolated AI security startups, Mend.io delivers a single, unified platform that secures an organization’s entire codebase—including its AI-driven elements. This approach maximizes efficiency, minimizes disruption, and empowers enterprises to embrace AI innovation with confidence and control.

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In this week's interview segment, we talk to Marshall Erwin about the state of cybersecurity, particularly when it comes to third party risk management, and whether we're ready for the next big SolarWinds or Crowdstrike incident. These big incidents have inspired executive orders, the Secure by Design initiative, and even a memo from JPMorgan Chase's CISO.

We will discuss where Marshall feels like we should be pushing harder, where we've made some progress, and what to do about incentives. How do you convince a software supplier or service provider to prioritize security over features?

This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fastly to learn more about them!

In this week's enterprise security news,

1. Agents replacing analysis is highly misunderstood
2. only one funding round
3. Orca acquires Opus to automate remediation
4. OneDrive is updating to make BYOD worse?
5. Companies are starting to regret replacing workers with AI
6. Is venture capital hanging on by a thread (made of AI)?
7. Potential disruption in the traditional vuln mgmt space!
8. MCP is already looking like a dumpster fire from a security perspective
9. malicious NPM packages
10. and, IS ALCHEMY REAL?

Interview 1: Pluralsight

Emerging technologies like AI and deepfakes have significantly complicated the threat landscape of today. As AI becomes more integrated into our lives, everyone - not just cybersecurity professionals - needs to develop security literacy skills to keep themselves, their organizations, and their loved ones safe. Luckily, there are countermeasures to spot and identify AI and deepfake-related threats in the wild. In this segment, Pluralsight's Director of Security and IT Ops Curriculum, Bri Frost, discusses how AI has changed the cybersecurity industry, how to spot AI and deepfakes in the wild, and the skills you should know to defend against these emerging threats.

Pluralsight's AI Skills Report

This segment is sponsored by Pluralsight. Visit https://securityweekly.com/pluralsightrsac to learn the skills you need to defend against the latest cyber threats!

Interview 2: Radware

Adversaries are rewriting the cybersecurity rules. Shifts in the threat landscape are being fueled by attackers with political and ideological agendas, more sophisticated attack tools, new coalitions of hacktivists, and the democratization of AI. Radware CTO David Aviv will discuss how companies must adapt their cyber defenses and lead in an evolving era of asymmetric warfare and AI-driven attacks.

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Steganography, RICO, CMMC, End of 10, AI is coming for you, Aaran Leyland and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-477

This week in the security news:

• Android catches up to iOS with its own lockdown mode
• Just in case, there is a new CVE foundation
• Branch privilege injection attacks
• My screen is vulnerable
• The return of embedded devices to take over the world - 15 years later
• Attackers are going after MagicINFO
• Hacking Starlink
• Mitel SIP phones can be hacked
• Reversing with Hopper
• Supercharge your Ghidra with AI
• Pretending to be an anti-virus to bypass anti-virus
• macOS RCE - perfect colors
• End of life routers are a hackers dream, and how info sharing sucks
• Ransomware in your CPU
• Disable ASUS DriverHub
• Age verification and privacy concerns

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-874

In the leadership and communications section, How CISOs can talk cybersecurity so it makes sense to executives, Firms to spend more on GenAI than security in 2025, Europe leads shift from cyber security ‘headcount gap’ to skills-based hiring, and more!

Next, pre-recorded interviews from RSAC Conference 2025, including:

This segment is sponsored by Fortinet. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortinetrsac to learn more about them!

Unpacking the latest annual report from Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs. We're talking with Derek Manky, Chief Security Strategist and Global VP Threat Intelligence, Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs, to get a snapshot of the active threat landscape and trends from 2024, including a comprehensive analysis across all tactics used in cyberattacks, as outlined in the MITRE ATT&CK framework. The report reveals that threat actors are increasingly harnessing automation, commoditized tools, and AI to systematically erode the traditional advantages held by defenders.

Read the full report at https://securityweekly.com/fortinetrsac.

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In this interview, Gunter Ollmann, Chief Technology Officer at Cobalt, unpacks the findings from the State of Pentesting Report 2025, spotlighting both measurable security progress and the rising challenges introduced by generative AI (genAI). While the report shows that organizations are resolving vulnerabilities faster than ever, genAI systems stand out as a growing security blind spot: only 21% of serious genAI vulnerabilities identified during penetration testing are fixed, compared to over 75% for API flaws and 68% for cloud vulnerabilities. Nearly 32% of genAI-related findings were classified as high risk — more than double the average across other systems. And although 98% of organizations are adopting genAI-powered features, only 66% are running regular security assessments on those systems.

Segment Resources: https://www.cobalt.io/blog/key-takeaways-state-of-pentesting-report-2025 https://resource.cobalt.io/state-of-pentesting-2025?gl=1*zwbjgz*gclaw*R0NMLjE3MzcwNTU5ODMuQ2owS0NRaUEtYUs4QmhDREFSSXNBTF8tSDltRlB0X2FmSVhnQnBzSjYxOHlRZ1dhcmRMQ0lHalo3eVgxcTh1cHVnWFVwV0todHFPSDFZZ2FBb0hNRUFMd193Y0I.*gcl_au*MTc4MjQwMTAwNC4xNzQ0NjM0MTgz

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Deepfake porn, South Korea, Operation Moonlander, Chinese AI, FBI, AI use damages professional reputation, Joshua Marpet and More

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-476

Developers are relying on LLMs as coding assistants, so where are the LLM assistants for appsec? The principles behind secure code reviews don't really change based on who write the code, whether human or AI. But more code means more reasons for appsec to scale its practices and figure out how to establish trust in code, packages, and designs. Rey Bango shares his experience with secure code reviews and where developer education fits in among the adoption of LLMs.

As businesses rapidly embrace SaaS and AI-powered applications at an unprecedented rate, many small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) struggle to keep up due to complex tech stacks and limited visibility into the skyrocketing app sprawl. These modern challenges demand a smarter, more streamlined approach to identity and access management. Learn how LastPass is reimagining access control through “Secure Access Experiences” - starting with the introduction of SaaS Monitoring capabilities designed to bring clarity to even the most chaotic environments. Secure Access Experiences - https://www.lastpass.com/solutions/secure-access

This segment is sponsored by LastPass. Visit https://securityweekly.com/lastpassrsac to learn more about them!

Cloud Application Detection and Response (CADR) has burst onto the scene as one of the hottest categories in security, with numerous vendors touting a variety of capabilities and making promises on how bringing detection and response to the application-level will be a game changer. In this segment, Gal Elbaz, co-founder and CTO of Oligo Security, will dive into what CADR is, who it helps, and what the future will look like for this game changing technology. Segment Resources - https://www.oligo.security/company/whyoligo

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From API keys and tokens to environment variables and credentials, secrets are foundational—and often overlooked—attack surfaces in cloud-native and distributed systems. We break down the risks tied to poor secret hygiene, discuss emerging patterns for secure secret management at scale, and shares insights on integrating secrets management into systems design.

This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fastly to learn more about them!

In this week's enterprise security news, we have:

1. Funding, mostly focused on identity security and ‘secure-by-design’
2. Palo Alto acquires one of the more mature AI security startups, Protect AI
3. LimaCharlie is first with a cybersecurity-focused MCP offering
4. Meta releases a ton of open source AI security tooling, including LlamaFirewall
5. Exploring the state of AI in the SOC
6. The first research on whether AI is replacing jobs is out
7. Some CEOs are requiring employees to be more productive with AI
8. Are prompts the new IOCs?
9. Are puppies the new booth babes?
10. We get closure on two previous stories we covered:
    1. one about an ex-Disney employee,
    2. and one about a tiny dog

CYWARE The legacy SecOps market is getting disrupted. The traditional way of ingesting large troves of data, analysis and actioning is not efficient today. Customers and the market are moving towards a more threat centric approach to effectively solve their security operations challenges.

1. CERT Water Management Case Study
2. Cybersecurity Alert Fatigue! How Threat Intelligence Can Turn Data Overload Into Actionable Insights Blog
3. Frost & Sullivan's 2024 Threat Intelligence Platform Radar Report
4. 2025 TIP Buyer’s Guide

This segment is sponsored by Cyware. Visit https://securityweekly.com/cywarersac to request a demo!

SUMOLOGIC Intelligent SecOps is more than a buzzword—it's a blueprint for modernizing security operations through real-time analytics, contextual threat intelligence, and AI-powered automation. In this segment, Sumo Logic’s Field CTO Chas Clawson explains how SOC teams can accelerate detection and response, cut through alert noise, and improve security outcomes by fusing AI-driven automation with human context and expertise. He also shares the latest security capabilities Sumo Logic announced at the RSA Conference to help organizations build and operate Intelligent SecOps.

• Press Release: Sumo Logic Unifies Security to Deliver Intelligent Security Operations
• Blog: RSAC 2025 Intelligent Security Operations
• Brief: Sumo Logic Threat Intelligence
• Chas Blog: Cloudy with a chance of breach: advanced threat hunting strategies for a hyperconnected and SaaSy world
• LinkedIn Live: Implications of AI in a modern defense strategy

This segment is sponsored by Sumo Logic. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sumologicrsac to learn more about them!

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