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AI Brain Harvest, Fortibleed, Win 10, Blacksite, Windchill, Cisco, BB-8 Sidewalk Bots, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-593

First up is Sandy Bird from Sonrai discussing how to protect our cloud infrastructure! This segment is sponsored by Sonrai Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sonrai to learn more about them! Next up in the security news: Help, I am Fortibleeding Cisco SD-WAN needs help The secret life of probe requests Help, I am Squidbleeding XSS to RCE and why CVSS isn't the full picture TVs spy on you F...

The 2026 Verizon DBIR has arrived and the results are in... Even with a substantial increase in Exploitation of Vulnerabilities, All Credential Abuse is still the top initial access vector for breaches, which means the human is still the weakest link. Why haven't security awareness training and phishing campaigns worked? Robert Siciliano, Architect of of The Strategic Human Firewall™ at ProtectNow...

Turing's Entscheidungsproblem, BODS, Struwwelpeter, EO-14409, VBScript, Pixemsmash, Cloudflare, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-592

Appsec has seen machine identities from daemons and processes to services, microservices, and cloud accounts. And now we have agents. Ev Kontsevoy talks about what it means to have engineers and agents interacting in an environment, and why a focus on actions can be more effective than roles. One of the biggest challenges in securing agents along with all of the other identities that organizations...

Interview with Ankita Gupta, CEO of Akto How to Navigate Shadow AI Risk in the enterprise This week, we discuss AI governance in the enterprise, starting with the nuts and bolts of how to discover and understand shadow AI. Following that, we dive into what security and tech leaders should do next with this information: apply guardrails? Limit vendor options? Ankita has a wealth of experience and a...

Doug and Rob Allen talk about Identity, EDR, Your Great Aunt Ida Meets some hot firefighters, and more. Segment Resources: Qilin and Warlock Ransomware Use Vulnerable Drivers to Disable 300+ EDR Tools: https://thehackernews.com/2026/04/qilin-and-warlock-ransomware-use.html This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them! Show Notes:...

In the security news this week: GPS spoofing and satellite jamming are getting way too accessible Rekeying satellites in orbit sounds terrifying Cyber extortion and whether criminals still have ethics AI helping cybersecurity research... and drug discovery Data centers eating regional power grids Nuclear, solar, natural gas, and the future of AI infrastructure What happens when GPS stops being tru...

The browser has become the primary gateway to work, data, and AI. In this episode, Arunesh Chandra, Head of Product, Microsoft Edge for Business at Microsoft Edges for Business, will discuss why security and IT teams are rethinking the role of the browser and what sets Edge for Business apart as a secure, enterprise-ready solution. Arunesh cover how built-in security, native integration with exist...

TSME, ARCH, Maine, Fable, PANOS, Doug's Grandma, Vienna Sausages, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-590

Agents and LLMs are creating and reviewing code. They're a new tool to help developers write software and they're a new abstraction layer for expressing what code should do. But if we're focused on determining whether code is secure, where do we focus our attention on ensuring a secure outcome? Matias Madou talks about the challenges of finding metrics to help answer these questions. We walk throu...

Interview with Shiva Pillay from Veeam Safe AI at Scale AI investment is exploding, yet nearly 90% of enterprise initiatives fail because the data powering AI cannot be trusted. That's the uncomfortable truth the industry is facing right now. Safe AI at scale requires more than just great models—it demands trusted, governed, and recoverable data. This segment is sponsored by Veeam. Visit https://s...

Bad Phones, Sarlaccs, Maine, Chinese Sites, Ivanti, GreatXML, Bitlocker, Peoplesoft, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-589

In the security news: Trolling Microsoft With Vulnerabilities Fable 5 loves guardrails Binwalk vulnerability EMBA and local models EDRChoker AI worms Interesting Arista vulnerability added to KEV BOD 26-04 and stakeholder specific vulnerability categorization Bring your own execution environment Homelab tips MikroTik routers as interceptors Ivanti Sentry and irony Smart TV botnets Privacy laws Sol...

AI is reshaping innovation as businesses embed it into core operations and move more processes online. This transformation is often seen as a tradeoff between innovation and data risk, but that assumption is wrong. Businesses can innovate and scale in the AI era while maintaining strong data security, ensuring protection, compliance, and control remain intact. Segment Resources: Check out these as...

Geinbot, SolarWinds, Brave, UNK_Deaddrop, durabletask, Insta, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-588

Most AppSec teams are working through more findings than their teams can validate. SAST surfaces thousands of potential issues. DAST generates alert volume that outpaces triage capacity. Somewhere in that output are the vulnerabilities that matter, the ones that are actually exploitable in production. This conversation explores why automated testing often stops short of the hardest part of the job...

In this episode, former FBI cyber leader Jason Manar joins us to unpack the state of critical infrastructure security and why small and medium-sized businesses are more connected to it than they realize. From power, telecom, healthcare, finance, and supply chains, Jason explains how hidden dependencies can turn "not our problem" into a business-stopping event. With his FBI perspective and CISO exp...

Interview with Filip Stojkovski on the State of AI in SecOps Filip joins us to talk through the 2+ year rollercoaster that Security Operations tooling has been on since AI entered the chat. We discuss the AI SecOps market, which Filip closely tracks through his SecOps Unpacked project. We also discuss how most of the market has traditionally been focused on the "middle" of the process, which is ef...

Local AI, Salesforce, Fluttershell, Aspose, http/2 bomb, Passwords, Cisco, Used Tech, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-587

This week in the security news: Security Researchers Are Threat Actors according to Microsoft Hands-free malicious firmware If you've ever typed "ls" in Windows, this is for you Cisco makes more patches, wants you to pay Ambiguous Secure Boot bypass Threat actors love network edge devices, and I have the chat logs and leaks to prove it The downside of chip sanctions Your VoIP phone is hacked Vulne...

The ultimate goal, scale a company to $100M and go IPO. Easier said than done. We've seen some make it and others that get stuck. What's he difference? Joshua Gould, CEO at thebigword, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss how to scale to $100M. From startup to platform, Joshua helps us understand the challenges and how to address them. If you're a founder looking to scale, this is an intervie...

Heraclitus Unbound, AI LLMs, SSO, TTP, NetLogon, PAN-OS, AI Cost, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-586

We dedicate an episode to catching up on appsec news with Kalyani Pawar. We see parsing problems that led to the BadHost vuln, which exposed lots of LLMs, MCPs, and agents to potential compromise. We wonder where to look for security education and practice as the camaraderie of the CTF community becomes infiltrated by LLMs. We talk about the tradeoffs in trust between using public packages vs. hav...

Interview with Evan Powell - Generative and agentic AI are improving cyberattacks faster than they're improving cyber defenses. Offensive folks have been having the most luck with AI so far, which is further eroding any advantage defenders might have had. Evan Powell joins us to share some ideas on how defenders can get some benefits from AI as well, and why open source is important with this appr...