Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)

Did you miss Gartner Security & Risk Management last week in National Harbor, MD? Don't worry, Padraic O'Reilly, Founder and Chief Innovation Officer at CyberSaint, joins us to discuss the hot topics that were presented at the conference last week, including:

• Artificial Intelligence(AI)
• Continuous Threat Exposure Management(CTEM)
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Cyber Risk

Padraic will also discuss the changing role of the CISO, at least in the eyes of Gartner. Don't miss this recap.

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The recent rise in adversarial AI has made it clear: organizations must fight AI with better AI. Gone are the days of relying on legacy, antiquated endpoint detection and response offerings, or cybersecurity tools that are based on ineffective machine learning models. In this interview, Deep Instinct CIO Carl Froggett will explain why Deep Learning is the most superior form of AI, and the technology’s role in powering predictive prevention.

This segment is sponsored by Deep Instinct. Visit https://securityweekly.com/deepinstinctrsac to learn more about them!

Attackers are targeting enterprise users when they are online via attacks like spear phishing, malicious docs infected with malware/ransomware.

Today SASE/SSE’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) component is touted as the solution to this problem. These SWGs look at traffic between the enterprise users and websites and try to infer attacks.

Unfortunately, attackers are subverting these SWGs and breaking into enterprises. There is an urgent need to stop this and the solution seems to be to have a browser native security agent which can detect-mitigate attacks happening on the users browser and allow enterprises to threat hunt web attacks company wide.

Segment Resources: Why Browser Native Solutions are better than Cloud Based Proxies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cItXj1KEm45ZNklASFmcvprbPqZChcMn/view?usp=sharing

Data Sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tv3q2iTFROJPceq2b9SJtzkdHD9J6mvC/view?usp=sharing

Blog on the Many Failures of Secure Web Gateways: https://labs.sqrx.com/the-unspoken-challenges-of-secure-web-gateways-c516bc287a6d

Latest Press Release: Forbes: Critical Security Flaws Found In Email Top 4—Apple, Gmail, Outlook & Yahoo: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/04/04/critical-security-flaw-in-apple-icloud-google-gmail-microsoft-outlook-yahoo-mail-aol-mail-email/

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-353

Burning AI, Lockbit, Veeam, Club Penguin, Kali, Commando Cat, HugeGraph, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-391

"Identity security has been around forever though", you might be thinking. Allow me to clarify. Identity is the largest cybersecurity product category, but most of it is focused on identity governance, authentication, multi-factor, etc. Very little of it is focused on operational identity security. It's this trend, where we recently (within the last 2 years) started seeing the ITDR (Identity Threat Detection and Response) acronym that we'll be focused on today. Particularly:

• Why is this trend/spike occurring now?
• What was or is missing to do identity security properly?
• What does the future of securing identity look like?

And it's difficult to do better for this conversation than Will Lin. He spent the last half decade as a VC. On a daily basis, he was looking at the big picture of cybersecurity markets and trends. He discussed security challenges with CISOs and other security buyers on a regular basis, both directly and through the Security Tinkerers community he founded. All this led to a decision to quit the VC world to become a founder himself. Of all the categories he could have chosen, he chose identity security, and that's why we're happy to have him for this conversation.

Segment Resources:

• The Future of Identity AKA Identity promo video focused on the future of Identity

We start off discussing the latest round of fundings, centered largely around data security and securing LLM use. This dovetails into a discussion about marketing language and how difficult it can be for buyers to work out what the latest round of early stage startups are doing.

Next, we discuss Cloudflare and Bugcrowd's acquisitions, as well as Synopsys's divestiture of its appsec portfolio.

From here, we dive into a raft of new features across both IT and cybersecurity products, like Azure, Dashlane, LastPass, and PagerDuty. Discussing Huntress's active remediation feature triggers a conversation about this latest product trend: vendors seem to think buyers are ready for fully automated remediation actions. We're not so sure they are.

To wrap up the cybersecurity coverage, Brandon Dixon has an interesting tutorial regarding a Security Copilot use case that looks a LOT like the default phishing enrichment use case that has been used for every SOAR POC ever. To clarify, this is a great piece in that it is all practical, has no marketing fluff, and shows you how to do something useful with Security Copilot. Where it pulls up short is managing to live up to the hype we've been hearing about Security Copilot from day one.

We agree to table the discussion on Microsoft Recall until we know more about what GA of the feature will look like, and then dig into a VERY interesting squirrel story about an audio-based hacking puzzle created by a rock band.

The interview will delve into the healthcare industry's tumultuous year in 2023, marked by 124 million breached health records across 725 hacking incidents (according to The HIPAA Journal). This interview will explore the critical role that MSSPs play in safeguarding health data and systems against potential security incidents, such as ransomware and business email compromise attacks. Jim Broome will share how to proactively prepare for an incident - including establishing a comprehensive incident response plan, outlining strategies for containment, restoration, and ongoing security operations, and how an MSSP can help.

Segment Resources: Tales from the Road Blog: An External Pen Test at a Healthcare Organization Reveals the Dangers of the Dark Web - https://www.directdefense.com/tales-from-the-road-an-external-pen-test-reveals-the-dangers-of-the-dark-web/

2023 Security Operations Threat Report: https://go.directdefense.com/2023-Security-Operations-Threat-Report

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In the dynamic landscape of cybersecurity, the urgency to eliminate passwords as a security vulnerability has never been more critical. Organizations are continuing to face a surge in the variety and complexity of cyber threats at historical rates, often fueled by compromised employee login credentials – resulting from attacks such as phishing which has been exacerbated by the rise in use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The 2023 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report underscores the staggering impact of breaches caused by stolen credentials, accounting for a staggering 74% of incidents. Christopher Harrell, Yubico’s Chief Technology Officer, shares how organizations can achieve passwordless authentication at scale with high assurance phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication (MFA) to elevate their security posture against phishing attacks while creating phishing-resistant users.

Segment Resources: https://www.yubico.com/blog/empowering-enterprise-security-at-scale-with-new-product-innovations-yubikey-5-7-and-yubico-authenticator-7/

https://www.yubico.com/press-releases/yubicos-key-product-innovations-empower-enterprise-security-and-phishing-resistant-passwordless-authentication-at-scale/

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In this podcast segment, we delve into Sophos' fifth annual State of Ransomware report, exploring significant findings and trends in the evolving ransomware landscape. We'll discuss the sharp increase in recovery costs, the strategic targeting of backups by hackers, and the evolving role of cyber insurance in ransom payments. Our discussion will provide insights into how organizations can adapt their cybersecurity measures to mitigate these heightened threats and recover more effectively from attacks.

Segment Resources: Blog: The State of Ransomware 2024 Report: https://assets.sophos.com/X24WTUEQ/at/9brgj5n44hqvgsp5f5bqcps/sophos-state-of-ransomware-2024-wp.pdf Press release: Ransomware Payments Increase 500% In the Last Year, Finds Sophos State of Ransomware Report

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-364

Josh comes on the show to discuss all things related to vulnerability tracking and scoring, including the current issues with various systems and organizations including NIST, CVE, Mitre, CVSS, NVD, and more!

Segment Resources:

• NVD blog post Josh wrote: https://anchore.com/blog/navigating-the-nvd-quagmire/
• Josh's Latest post: https://opensourcesecurity.io/2024/06/03/why-are-vulnerabilities-out-of-control-in-2024/

Josh's podcasts:

• https://opensourcesecurity.io/category/podcast/
• https://hackerhistory.com/

This week: Take on the upstream, how hard is it to patch end-of-life software, hack millions of routers, take over millions of routers, 0-days, and no responses, hack Taylor Swift wristbands, can you detect that covert channel?, and breach reports from Ticketmaster, Snowflake, Santander, and TikTok, and top it all of with C-level DNS servers dropping off the Internet!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-831

Gold Pressed Latinum, VBScript, ORBS, Rockwell, Chrome, SKY, Aaran Leyland, and More on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-389

Boyce Codd Normal Form, Azure, Roaring Kitty, Hugging Face, Okta, Linux, Oracle, Josh Marpet and more, are on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-390

Open source has been a part of the software supply chain for decades, yet many projects and their maintainers remain undersupported by the companies that consume them. The security responsibilities for project owners has increased not only in dealing with security disclosures, but in maintaining secure processes backed by strong authentication and trust.

Segment Resources:

• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/lessons-xz-utils-achieving-more-sustainable-open-source-ecosystem
• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/03/29/reported-supply-chain-compromise-affecting-xz-utils-data-compression-library-cve-2024-3094
• https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign/pledge
• https://tidelift.com/about/press-releases/tidelift-study-reveals-that-despite-increasing-demands-from-government-and-industry-60-of-maintainers-are-still-unpaid-volunteers
• https://blog.tidelift.com/paying-maintainers-the-howto

Application security posture management has quickly become a hot commodity in the world of AppSec, but questions remain around what is defined by ASPM. Vendors have cropped up from different corners of the AppSec space to help security teams make their programs more effective, improve their security postures, and connect the dots between developers and security. Apiiro is setting the diamond standard for ASPM, combining deep code analysis, runtime context, and native risk detection with a 100% open platform approach, providing more valuable prioritization and a more powerful policy engine.

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

Bots accounted for nearly half of all internet traffic in 2023, with bad bot traffic rising for a fifth consecutive year. Malicious bot activity is a significant risk for businesses as it can result in account compromise, higher infrastructure and support costs, customer churn, and more. Tune in to learn about the security risks of these automated threats and what trends Imperva has monitored.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-287

Since the 1995 publication of Daniel Goleman’s international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, a global movement has developed to bring “EQ” into practice in businesses, schools, and communities around the globe. But what is its impact on Cybersecurity?

In this interview, we welcome Jessica Hoffman, Deputy CISO for the City of Philadelphia, to discuss how Emotional Intelligence can be applied by CyberSecurity leadership to create a better culture and better leaders. Jessica will discuss the five skills that encompass Emotional Intelligence, including:

• Self Awareness
• Self Regulation
• Motivation
• Empathy
• Social Skills

and examples of how to use them. If you want to be a better cyber leader, then don't miss this episode.

Semperis CISO Jim Doggett shares insights into the evolving role of the CISO. The daily onslaught of cyberattacks not only increases business risk, but also puts a company’s most important data at risk – data on the company, its employees, customers, and partners. Now, more than ever, the CISO is being asked to understand the business of cyber without being given much time to implement plans for protecting an organization’s infrastructure. There is a balance needed between being a technical and business leader, and Jim can share stories from his successful career to enlighten listeners.

Segment Resources:

Read: https://www.semperis.com/blog/5-itdr-steps-for-cisos/

Watch: https://www.semperis.com/resources/the-key-to-cyber-resilience-identity-system-defense/

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With new industry regulations, like the SEC’s Cybersecurity Disclosure Rules, there is an increasing demand on CISOs and security leaders to be able to quantify, communicate, and demonstrate how their cybersecurity programs and strategies are impacting the business. In this interview, Sivan Tehila, CEO and Founder of Onyxia Cyber, will discuss new advances in Cybersecurity Management and how CISOs and security leaders can harness the power of data intelligence, automation, and AI to proactively improve risk management, ensure organizational compliance, and align their security initiatives with business goals.

Segment Resources: https://rsac.vporoom.com/2024-04-30-Onyxia-Introduces-AI-to-Cybersecurity-Management-Platform-to-Power-Predictive-Security-Program-Management

https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/06/21/three-ways-to-best-communicate-the-value-of-your-security-program-to-business-stakeholders/?sh=18f0f6892e6f

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-352

In this interview, join Swimlane Chief Information Security Officer, Mike Lyborg, and host Akira Brand as we discuss the value of cybersecurity marketplaces from a CISO perspective. Through insightful discussions, unpack the connection between outcomes-driven solutions and tangible business KPIs.

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

The past two years have witnessed an unprecedented surge in the adoption of generative artificial intelligence (AI) across various industries. And while this presents new efficiencies, with these benefits come significant security concerns. The widespread integration of AI applications increases the risk of data breaches and intellectual property theft, while also expanding organizations' vulnerability to malicious data injection and other AI-driven cyberattacks. During this interview Jim will explore why it’s imperative to implement robust security measures to mitigate these evolving risks effectively, and how working alongside an MSSP can benefit your overall security posture.

Segment Resources: https://go.directdefense.com/2023-Security-Operations-Threat-Report

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In recent years, ransomware attacks have undergone a transformative evolution, shifting from indiscriminate, mass-distributed assaults to highly targeted, sophisticated campaigns. Kris Lahiri is able to discuss the dynamic landscape of ransomware and dive into the techniques he has seen cybercriminals employ, the motivations behind these attacks, and the escalating impact on individuals, businesses, and critical infrastructure.

Segment Resources: https://www.egnyte.com/solutions/ransomware-detection https://www.egnyte.com/guides/governance/ransomware

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

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-11

Check out this episode from the Secure Digital Life Vault, hand picked by main host Doug White! This segment was originally published on June 14, 2017.

Doug and Russ talk about different types of backups, how they work and out-of-band strategies.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-swn-14