Security Weekly Podcast Network (Audio)

How do you prepare for a cyber incident? You train as you fight, but in what environment? William "Hutch" Hutchinson, CEO and co-founder of SimSpace, joins BSW to share cyber best practices and why testing in your operational environment not a good idea. Learn what it takes to be Cyber Ready. In the leadership and communications section, A tougher balancing act in 2024, the year of the CISO, CISOs...

Visa RB Cash AP Formula 1 Team, Veolia, FeverWarn, SystemK, Fortra, GitLab, Ring, Trickbot, Aaran Leyland, and More News on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-357

Matt Coose is the founder and CEO of cybersecurity compliance firm Qmulos, previously the director of Federal Network Security for the National Cyber Security Division of the (DHS). CISOs carry the ultimate burden and weight of compliance and reporting and are often the last buck. Says Coose, best-of-breed is better described as best-to-bleed-the-budget: it’s a bottom-up, tech-first, reactive appr...

We interview the co-founder and CTO of Fleet to understand why good, cross platform MDM/EMM has been such a challenge for so many years. Want good Windows device management? You're probably going to compromise on MacOS management. Ditto for Windows if you prioritize your Macs. Want good Linux device management? It doesn't exist. Hopefully, Fleet can change all that in 2024, as they aim to complete...

RoboJoe, Apple, VMWARE, AI Vision, Confluence, Scarcruft, Microsoft, Jason Wood, and more on this Edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-356

Where apps provide something of value, bots are sure to follow. Modern threat models need to include scenarios for bad bots that not only target user credentials, but that will also hoard inventory and increase fraud. Sandy shares her recent research as we talk about bots, API security, and what developers can do to deal with these. Segment resources https://www.forrester.com/blogs/avoid-a-bot-wat...

Inspired by my co-host, Jason Albuquerque, we get our hands dirty and discuss the challenges of hiring a CISO. How will the new SEC regulations impact the role for both organizations and individuals? In part 2, we get our hands dirty by addressing CISO hiring from the individual CISO. What should you look for in a CISO role? What questions should you be asking during the interview process? What ar...

Google, Pax, LeftOverlocals, Mint Sandstorm, DJI, Colossus, JelloRain, Aaran Leyland, and More News on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-355

The general public has varied opinions of biometric authentication, and an increasingly reluctant relationship with it, as more and more facial recognition is forced upon us (especially those of us that travel frequently). Facial recognition doesn't work for everyone, so what other options do we have? In this interview, we'll explore accessibility in identity verification and the viability of voic...

With a recent increase in government attention on K–12 cybersecurity, there is a pressing need to shed light on the challenges school districts face in implementing necessary security measures. Why? Budgeting constraints pose significant obstacles in meeting recommended cybersecurity standards. Brian Stephens of Funds For Learning will discuss: The financial constraints K–12 schools face and the c...

Atari 400, Gitlab, Sonicwall, Juniper, Ransomware stats, Ivanti, Sharepoint, Jason Wood, and more are on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-354

Smart Cars, Microsoft, Layoffs, PyTorch, Mandiant, SEC, Aaran Leyland, and More News on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-353

It's time to start thinking about CFPs and presentations for 2024! Eve shares advice on delivering technical topics so that an audience can understand the points you want to make. Then we show how developing these presentation skills for conferences helps with presentations within orgs and why these are useful skills to build for your career. Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest...

Inspired by my co-host, Jason Albuquerque, we get our hands dirty and discuss the challenges of hiring a CISO. How will the new SEC regulations impact the role for both organizations and individuals? In part 1, we discuss the challenges of hiring a CISO from the organization's perspective. Do I need a CISO? What are the responsibilities of a CISO? Who should the CISO report to? Visit https://www.s...

GenAI hype is still at peak levels, but clearly some of the hopes and dreams pinned on it will fail, while other use cases we haven't even imagined will become commonplace. Greg Notch joins us to share his thoughts on what security leaders and the general public should be more or less worried about when it comes to GenAI. Many founders and early stage startups closely guard product details and inf...

Jared would like to discuss the evolution of purple teaming. Put bluntly, he believes traditional purple team approaches don’t test enough variations of attack techniques, delivering a false sense of detection coverage. He would like to talk about: The shortcomings of red team assessments and why most purple team assessments are too limited. How the testing landscape and requirements have changed...

Jobs and Money, QNAP, NIST, Spectral Blur, Stuxnet, Swatting, Volkswagen, Jason Wood, and more on this Edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-352

We kick off the new year with a discussion of what we're looking forward to and what we're not looking forward to. Then we pick our favorite responses to "appsec in three words" and set our sights on a new theme for 2024. In the news, 23andMe shifts blame to users for poor password practices, abusing Google's OAuth2 through a MultiLogin endpoint, Rustls is memory safe and fast, AI enters OSINT, an...

Research shows that 26% of US workers currently work remotely, and there are expected to be 32.3 million American employees working remotely by 2025. To support these workers, organizations are adopting cloud solutions and migrating data to these cloud solutions. However, many businesses lack visibility into who has access to what data and when, especially in these cloud solutions. How should orga...

Jim Langevin served as a US congressman for many years and retired to become the executive director of the Institute for Cybersecurity and Emerging Technologies at Rhode Island College. Jim has been on quite a number of times and today we talk about State funded institutes and well, Cybersecurity issues. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: ht...

This is a special episode of ESW: our year-end wrapup for 2023. Want to make sure you didn't miss any big stories in 2023? This is the episode to check out! In under an hour, we'll summarize 2023, covering things like: our mindset coming into 2023 from 2022 how 2023 kicked off some special themed episodes we recorded in 2023 the state of the fragile and recovering startup market key acquisitions i...

Unleashing the Power of Crowdsourced Cybersecurity: A Conversation with Casey Ellis, Founder of Bugcrowd ️Meet Casey Ellis, the visionary entrepreneur who has redefined the landscape of cybersecurity through the groundbreaking platform he built – Bugcrowd. As the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bugcrowd, Casey Ellis has not only revolutionized the way organizations approach cybersecurity b...

I know, you thought we were going to renounce cigars, bourbon, and overeating, but wrong. This show is all about security. So, while we join the thousands who are walking off the pounds during their soon-to-be last visit to our new gym, join us as we provide you with something that (hopefully!) has a little more lasting power. This week, we get our year off to a secure start with our 2019 list of...

Robert Herjavec, CEO of Cyderes, was the keynote speaker at InfoSec World 2022, where he discussed the momentum we continue to see in the cybersecurity industry. Topics included mergers & acquisitions, Robert's outlook on the cyber market, staffing shortages, and nation state threats. Robert joins BSW to expand on his ISW keynote presentation. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the l...

HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends, Career Advice and Professional Development, Active Exploitation of Confluence CVE-2022-26134 Visit https://securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/secweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-asw-7