Security Weekly Podcast Network (Video)

This is a great interview with Adam Shostack on all things threat modeling. He's often the first name that pops into people's heads when threat modeling comes up, and has created or been involved with much of the foundational material around the subject. Adam recently released a whitepaper that focuses on and defines inherent threats.

Resources:

• Here's the Inherent Threats Whitepaper
• Adam's book, Threat Modeling: Designing for Security
• Adam's latest book, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn from Star Wars
• We mention the Okta Breach - here's my writeup on it
• We mention the CSRB report on the Microsoft/Storm breach, here's Adam's blog post on it
• And finally, Adam mentions the British Library incident report, which is here, and Adam's blog post is here

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-359

TikTok, Flowmon, Arcane Door, Brokewell, RuggedCom, Deepfakes, Non-Competes, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-381

We've talked about generative AI in a general sense on our podcast for years, but we haven't done many deep dives into specific security use cases. That ends with this interview, as we discuss how generative AI can improve SecOps with Ely Kahn. Some of the use cases are obvious, while others were a complete surprise to me. Check out this episode if you're looking for some ideas!

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

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-359

This week the crew discusses: When TVs scan your network, bad things can happen, PuTTY is vulnerable, Crush FTP, vulnerabilities that will never be fixed, CVEs are for vulnerabilities silly, you can test for easily guessable passwords too, FlipperZero can steal all your passwords, more XZ style attacks, more reasons why you shouldn't use a smart lock, and your keystrokes are showing!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-826

A clear pattern with startups getting funding this week are "autonomous" products and features.

• Automated detection engineering
• Autonomously map and predict malicious infrastructure
• ..."helps your workforce resolve their own security issues autonomously"
• automated remediation
• automated compliance management & reporting

I'll believe it when I see it. Don't get me wrong, I think we're in desperate need of more automation when it comes to patching and security decision-making. I just don't think the majority of the market has the level of confidence necessary to trust security products to automate things without a human in the loop.

The way LimaCharlie is going about it, with their new bi-directional functionality they're talking up right now, might work, as detections can be VERY specific and fine-grained.

We've already seen a round of fully automated guardrail approaches (particularly in the Cloud) fail, however. My prediction? Either what we're seeing isn't truly automated, or it will become a part of the product that no one uses - like Metasploit Pro licenses.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-359

On February 27, 2024, PCAST (President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology) sent a report to the President with recommendations to bolster the resilience and adaptability of the nation's cyber-physical infrastructure resources. Phil was part of the team that worked on the report and comes on the show to talk about what was recommended and how we implement the suggestions.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-826

CISA chimes in on the XZ Utils backdoor, PuTTY's private keys and maintaining a secure design, LeakyCLI and maintaining secure secrets in CSPs, LLMs and exploit generation, and more!

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-282

Robofly, CRUSHFTP, Github, Palo Alto, MITRE, Fancy Bear, Deepfakes, Aaran Leyland, and more, on this Edition of the Security Weekly News.

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-380

How can open source projects find a funding model that works for them? What are the implications with different sources of funding? Simon Bennetts talks about his stewardship of Zed Attack Proxy and its journey from OWASP to OpenSSF to an Open Source Fellowship with Crash Override. Mark Curphy adds how his experience with OWASP and the appsec community motivated him to create Crash Override and help projects like ZAP gain the support they deserve.

Segment resources:

• https://crashoverride.com/blog/welcome-zap-to-the-open-source-fellowship
• https://www.zaproxy.org
• https://crashoverride.com/blog/are-there-too-many-bubbles-of-similar-security-efforts

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-282

The new SEC Cyber Security Rules require organizations to be ready to report cyber incidents. But what do you actually need to do? Mike Lyborg, Chief Information Security Officer at Swimlane, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how to prepare. In this interview he'll discuss the key element of your preparation, including:

• Quantification
• Materiality
• Evidence
• Disclosure

Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-347