Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)

When we use the phrase "talent gap" in cybersecurity, we're usually talking about adding headcount. For this interview, however, we're focusing on a gap that is evident within existing teams and practitioners - the often misunderstood soft skills gap.

Side note: I really hate the term "soft skills". How about we call them "fundamental business skills", or "invaluable career advancement skills"? Hmm, doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same.

Soft skills can impact everything, as they impose the limits of how we interact with our world. That goes for co-worker interactions, career advancements, and how we're perceived by our peers and community. It doesn't matter how brilliant you might be - without soft skills, your potential could be severely limited.

Did you know that soft skills issues contributed to the Equifax breach?

We'll also discuss how fear is related to some of the same limitations and challenges as soft skills.

Segment Resources:

• https://www.softskillstech.ca/
• Order the Book

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-401

AI Doomsday, Hot Robots, Google, palo Alto, Ivanti, CrushFTP, AI, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-465

Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at Threatlocker joins us for an interview segment on using AI in security products: What works and what's not fully baked! Then in the security news, There are more holes in your boot...loader according to Microsoft, related: Secure Boot is in danger and no one is really talking about it (still), Dear Microsoft: I don't want to send you my data, I don't grant you remote access, and I don't want to create a MS account, CrushFTP has to crush some bugs, bypassing unprivileged user namespace restrictions, FBI raids, attackers using your GPU, Find My anything, protecting GlobalProtect, the exploits will continue until things improve, your call records were not protected, good vs. bad drivers, AI is hacking AI, time traveling attacks, and a bizarre call for security researchers.

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-868

Vulnerability prioritization, the final frontier. Many say they do it, but do they really? It takes way more than vulnerability data to truly prioritize vulnerabilities.

Greg Fitzgerald, Co-Founder and CXO at Sevco Security, and Steve Lodin , Vice President, Information Security at Sallie Mae, join Business Security Weekly to dig in. We'll discuss the importance of context, including asset inventory and configuration management, in truly prioritizing vulnerabilities. But it's not that easy. We'll discuss the challenges and approaches to help solve this ever evasive topic.

This segment is sponsored by Sevco Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sevco to learn more about them!

Segment Resources: https://www.sevcosecurity.com/vulnerability-prioritization/ https://www.sevcosecurity.com/continuous-threat-exposure-management/

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

Schrodinger's Television, Lucid, Crocodilus, Wordpress, Ivanti, Oracle, Android, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-464

We take advantage of April Fools to look at some of appsec's myths, mistakes, and behaviors that lead to bad practices. It's easy to get trapped in a status quo of chasing CVEs or discussing which direction to shift security. But scrutinizing decimal points in CVSS scores or rearranging tools misses the opportunity for more strategic thinking. We satirize some worst practices in order to have a more serious discussion about a future where more software is based on secure designs.

Segment resources:

• https://bsidessf2025.sched.com/event/1x8ST/secure-designs-ux-dragons-vuln-dungeons-application-security-weekly
• https://bsidessf2025.sched.com/event/1x8TU/preparing-for-dragons-dont-sharpen-swords-set-traps-gather-supplies
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3514.html
• https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.html

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-324

In this week's enterprise security news,

1. Big funding for Island
2. Is DLP finally getting disrupted? By something that works?
3. We learn all about Model Context Protocol servers
4. Integrating SSO and SSH!
5. Do we have too many cybersecurity regulations?
6. Toxic cybersecurity workplaces
7. Napster makes a comeback
8. this week, we've got 50% less AI and 50% more co-hosts

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-400

In this interview, we feature some research from Geoff Cairns, an analyst at Forrester Research. This is a preview to the talk he'll be giving at Identiverse 2025 in a few months.

We won't have time to cover all the trends, but there are several here that I'm excited to discuss!

• Deepfake Detection Difficult
• Zero Trust Agentic AI
• Phishing resistant MFA adoption
• Identity Verification
• Machine Identity
• Decentralized Identity
• Post Quantum
• Shared Signals

Segment Resources:

• The Top Trends Shaping Identity And Access Management In 2025 - (Forrester subscription required)

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-400

A successful SIEM deployment depends on a lot more than implementing the SIEM correctly. So many other things in your environment have an impact on your chances of a successful SIEM.

• Are the right logs enabled?
• Is your EDR working correctly?
• Would you notice a sudden increase or decrease in events from critical sources?
• What can practitioners do to ensure the success of their SIEM deployment?

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

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-400

Mrtentacle, Morphing Meerkat, Tor, VMWare, Waymo, Oracle, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-463