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In this episode of The Gate 15 Interview, Andy Jabbour talks with Adam Vincent. Adam Vincent is the Founder & CEO at Bricklayer AI. Bricklayer AI is the first generative AI solution that brings autonomous AI agents and human experts into a single collaborative and effective security team. Bricklayer AI’s security-trained, generative AI agents execute critical security roles, operations, and procedures, empowering organizations to enhance the scale, speed, and sophistication of their security operations, investigate incidents faster and more thoroughly, enrich and analyze threat intelligence more completely, and enforce compliance standards continuously. Additionally, Adam has a long history of delivering leadership to early-stage companies to drive the development and launch of innovative products, create strategic GTM plans to capture explosive growth, enable sales and marketing, accelerate revenues, and increase profitability. Among his notable achievements, Adam:

Bricklayer AI is the first AI cybersecurity solution that enables autonomous AI specialists to work alongside human experts, to run a smarter, faster, and more effective security operations team. With Bricklayer AI, multiple independent AIs collaborate and use AI tools to accomplish complex cybersecurity procedures, all controlled using natural language. AI Security Analysts, AI Threat Intelligence Analysts, and AI Incident Responders add speed, augment and accelerate security teams’ capabilities in order to stay ahead of today’s most sophisticated AI-enabled threats. Learn more at bricklayer.ai.

In the discussion Adam and Andy discuss:

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In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered to following topics: 

Taylor Swift Terrorism Threat:

·       Two held in Vienna over Taylor Swift concert threat

·       Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna canceled after Austrian police say foiled terrorist plot targeted shows

·       Officials say suspects in foiled plot at Taylor Swift shows hoped to kill as many people as possible

·       Taylor Swift ISIS suspects ‘hired as guards’ wanted ‘to bomb gig & mow down fans’ before terror plot foiled by US spies

·       Taylor Swift concert terror suspect, 17, began working at venue days before foiled plot, say police

·       Alleged Taylor Swift terror plot fits a worrying trend as ISIS targets teens online

·       Suspect in Taylor Swift Vienna concert plot confessed to planning suicide attack, officials say

·       Taylor Swift ISIS bombing suspect pictured holding dual knives as chilling details of terrorist plot revealed

·       After Vienna threat: Music venues as terrorist targets

·       Taylor Swift concert terror plot suspect sought to kill self and 'as many people as possible,' officials say

·       Iraqi teen held in Vienna after Taylor Swift attack plot foiled

·       Officials say suspects in foiled plot at Taylor Swift shows hoped to kill as many people as possible

Hurricanes & Severe Weather. 

·       CSU's 2024 Atlantic seasonal hurricane forecast was released on 4 April and updated on 6 August

·       NOAA: Highly active hurricane season likely to continue in the Atlantic

·       Debby finally moves out of the US, some flooding risk and power outages remain

·       NOAA: Nation hit with record heat, wildfires and Hurricane Beryl in July

Election Security & Broader Considerations

·       Microsoft: Iran Targeting 2024 US Election. 

·       Iran uses fake news sites to interfere in U.S. election, Microsoft says

·       We received internal Trump documents from ‘Robert.’ Then the campaign confirmed it was hacked

·       Trump campaign says it is victim of foreign hack after leak of Vance report

·       The Hacking of Presidential Campaigns Begins, With the Usual Fog of Motives

·       DOJ: Pakistani National with Ties to Iran Charged in Connection with Foiled Plot to Assassinate a Politician or U.S. Government Officials

o   Pakistani national with ties to Iran charged in connection to a foiled assassination plot potentially targeting Trump

·       Winchester Man Arrested for Making Threats Against Vice President

·       Virginia man charged with threatening to kill Vice President Kamala Harris

·       CAIR Welcomes Charges Against Man Who Allegedly Made Death Threats Targeting VP Harris, Previously Threatened Muslims

Quick Hits:

·       CrowdStrike: Channel File 291 Incident: Root Cause Analysis is Available. Read the findings, mitigations and technical details of the Channel File 291 incident.

·       Ransomware & Data Breaches: 

o   Ransomware in 2024: More Attacks, More Leaks, and Increased Sophistication.

o   Rapid7: Rapid7’s Ransomware Radar Report Shows Threat Actors are Evolving …Fast.

·       Royal Ransomware Actors Rebrand as “BlackSuit,” FBI and CISA Release Update to Advisory

·       Justice Department Disrupts North Korean Remote IT Worker Fraud Schemes Through Charges and Arrest of Nashville Facilitator

·       Research Report: Internet-Connected Industrial Control Systems (Part One)

·       White House working on cyber insurance policy proposal for ‘catastrophic’ incidents

·       Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers

·       On the Adoption of the UN Convention Against Cybercrime

·       DOJ: Assault of Congregants Outside a Washington D.C. Synagogue Charged as a Federal Hate Crime

·       U.S.: SEC ends probe into MOVEit attacks impacting 95 million people

·       Critical Infrastructure: Rewards for Justice: CyberAv3ngers.

·       White House cyber czar touts regulatory harmonization bill advancing through Congress

In the latest episode of Nerd Out, Dave and Alec looked at some recent security concerns related to venues including the cancellation of Taylor Swift concerts in Austria, and sabotage surround the Olympics. Then they moved to the 2/3 of the year awards - congratulations to our winners!

Then the nerds go all in on the season and the finale's of the Acolyte and House of the Dragon.

Some of the references from the above topics include:

T Swift Plot

French Infrastructure Attacks

In this week's Security Sprint, Dave covered the following topics:

Warm Start. Sheriff's Office hosts summit focusing on safety at houses of worship

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In this episode of Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series, Andy Jabbour talks with Ross Girouard, Assistant General Manager, Credit Union of Texas Event Center, an over 6,000 fixed-seat multi-purpose indoor arena located in Allen, Texas, north of Dallas, and Michael McDermott, City of Allen, Texas.

‘If you have a busy IT guy during the event, you’ve got a problem…’-Michael‘Cybersecurity has to be part of your everyday team’-RossIn the discussion we address:

In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics.

North Korea Cyber Threats to U.S. Businesses:

CISA: Resources for Onboarding and Employment Screening Fact Sheet. Resource Materials: Resources for Onboarding and Employment Screening Fact Sheet

Physical Incidents:

Quick Hits

Olympics: 

CrowdStrike: Remediation And Guidance Hub:
Falcon Content Update For Windows Hosts,  

Donald Trump Assassination Attempt: Takeaways from FBI testimony: Trump shooter searched details of JFK assassination and flew drone near rally site

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In this episode of The Gate 15 Interview, Andy Jabbour talks with Reason Magazine’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Jessica Dickinson Goodman in part two of our two-part series on encryption. Jessica and Gate 15 are members of the Global Encryption Coalition.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Senior Editor, Reason; President, Feminists for Liberty. Elizabeth Nolan Brown is a senior editor at Reason and the author of Reason’s biweekly Sex & Tech newsletter, which covers issues surrounding sex, technology, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture. She is also co-founder of the libertarian feminist group Feminists for Liberty, and a professional affiliate of the journalism program at the University of Cincinnati. Brown has covered a broad range of political and cultural topics since starting at Reason in 2014, with special emphasis on the politics, policy, and legal issues surrounding sex, speech, tech, justice, reproductive freedom, and women’s rights. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, with her husband, sons, and two cats. Andy is a big fan of her cat and family pictures. Read here complete bio at Reason.

Jessica Dickinson Goodman. Jessica Dickinson Goodman is the current chair of the Chapter Seeding Committee of the San Francisco Bay Area ISOC Chapter and past-President, serving in that role for three years. As Board President, encryption protection and education played a major role in her agenda. She ran a monthly tactical tech support webinar series for community members in how to use encryption tools to protect personal privacy in a post-Dobbs world, wrote and published Encryption for Babies, is featured on the front page of the Global Encryption Coalition’s YouTube channel talking about encryption.

In the discussion Liz, Jessica, and Andy discuss:

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