In this podcast I’m joined by Larry Link & Shreyans Mehta from Cequence, a silicon valley startup who is applying real-time network analysis, machine learning, threat intelligence, and behavioral analytics to accurately detect and mitigate bot attacks without affecting legitimate user traffic.

During RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco, Sean Martin stops by the Edgescan booth to chat with the company’s co-founders, Eoin Keary, and Rahim Jina. The conversation was driven mainly by their latest vulnerability stats report which was just released.

Once upon a time, security for computers was a physical key to access the machine in the room. Soon, however, we had to authenticate the user to access what was on the machine, not just the machine itself, so we started with passwords. This wasn’t much of an issue until computers got connected to the Internet and we needed to manage multiple accounts to access multiple things.

Imagine if you were told that your organization must demonstrably adopt a cybersecurity framework and show compliance in order to secure new business or, perhaps more frustratingly, retain a contract you’ve already won. Scary stuff.

Imagine leveraging the infrastructure you already have to protect you from unknown threats. Sound far-fetched? Perhaps, but Juniper Networks’ Samantha Madrid makes a compelling case for how this can be accomplished.

Only 3% of security attacks leverage technical weakness, while the remaining 97% are driven by exploiting people. Lucy Security enables organizations to take on the role of an attacker and uncover existing gaps in both technical infrastructure and staff knowledge and eliminate them through a comprehensive e-learning program. Employee responses to daily hazards like phishing are both monitored, as well as taught so that employees more accurately recognize threats and respond appropriately.

Today’s topic looks at the life of a hacker and the challenges they face from both a liability and legal perspective. We also look at how organizations deal with the research activities they encounter from both cybercriminals and ethical hackers alike.

It is an exciting time to be alive with so many incredible scientific and technological advancements in every area of our lives, with states interacting together and cultures mixing in a global boundary-less cyberspace.

It is also a dangerous time to be alive in this new technological era where cybersecurity issues encompass every area of our lives and affect geopolitical dynamics, and the way societies evolve.

Geeta and Pieter also walk us through some of the trends they are seeing in the market, how they are building a solution to support those trends, and how their culture, solution development process, and customer interaction model — on a global level — are designed to establish trust and ensure that a simple, common mission is achieved. This is accomplished by bringing their employees together through the art of Danish hygge and by bringing their customers into the mix through communications, support, and technology.

The concept of trust has been one of the core pillars in any information security program; it remains — perhaps becomes even more relevant — when we cross over from IT to OT and from IT to IoT to IIoT.

In today’s Unusual Gathering, we discuss the idea that trust is paramount in this new world we live in. But how do you establish trust and what does trust even look like? What are the systems and devices? Who is in the ecosystem? And what are you allowing them to do with your data?