Enterprise Security Weekly (Audio)

In this segment, featuring guest Amer Deeba, we'll explore how the SEC's new breach reporting rules will affect companies. We've got a ton of questions: What behavior has to change? What additional preparation needs to take place? How does this rule affect data security? How does it affect crisis communications? And most importantly, when is an incident "material"? This is almost a special episode...

Legacy systems are riddled with outdated and unreliable cryptographic standards. So much so that recent proprietary research found 61 percent of the traffic was unencrypted, and up to 80% of encrypted network traffic has some defeatable flaw in its encryption No longer can enterprises take their cryptography for granted, rarely evaluated or checked. Knowing when, where and what type of cryptograph...

We've seen general users targeted with phishing, financial employees targeted for BEC scams, and engineers targeted for access to infrastructure. The truly scary attacks, however, are the indirect ones that are automated. The threats that come in via software updates, or trusted connections with third parties. The software supply chain is both absolutely essential, and fragile. A single developer...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I once told my college advisor that I wanted to double major in computer science and jazz performance. She laughed at me. Instead, I jumped into a career in IT and played jazz - without a degree in either. Turns out, that was fine - the industry valued experience and results over academic achievement. Today's guest has two degrees, one in fine arts, one in pre-law, and that's also fine. If there's...

We're excited to give an end-of-year readout on the performance of the cybersecurity industry with Mike Privette, founder of Return on Security and author of the weekly Security, Funded newsletter. This year, this podcast has leaned heavily on the Security, Funded newsletter to prep for our news segment, as it provides a great summary of all the funding and M&A events going on each week. In this s...

On this podcast, we've often struggled with whether or not to include stories and discussion on identity verification. Is identity verification cybersecurity proper, or cybersecurity adjacent as part of fraud prevention? As always, when we're unsure, we find folks to talk to and learn more. Today, we'll be learning about weak points in the identity verification chain from Rob O'Farrell. He'll also...

Bob Ackerman argues that, from an investment perspective, cybersecurity is like life sciences - a complex, nuanced field that is difficult field to invest in part-time. So his firm, Allegis Cyber, became one of the first to focus exclusively on investing in cyber startups. In this segment, we'll discuss one of Allegis's recent investments, SixMap , and Bob's other investment/accelerator vehicle, D...

While non-profit doesn't mean "no budget" when it comes to cybersecurity, a lot of smaller to mid-sized non-profits operate on a shoestring, with little to no money for cybersecurity talent or spending. This is where Sightline Security steps in. Sightline's founder and CEO, Kelley Misata joins us today to explain how her own non-profit helps other non-profits improve their cybersecurity posture. A...

High School students represent the very beginning of the pipeline for the Cyber industry. What are the attitudes and perspectives of these young people? How can we attract the best and brightest into our industry? Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Follow us on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/securityweekly Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/secweekly...

Once again, Theresa Lanowitz joins us to discuss Edge Computing, but with a twist this time, as Mani Keerthi Nagotu from SentinelOne joins us as well! As a field CISO, Mani knows all too well the struggles security leaders are going through, given the current market and threat landscape: Maybe not less budget, but more pressure to produce results and justify spending Security leaders being held pe...

Today, we discuss the state of attack surface across the Internet. We've known for decades now that putting an insecure service on the public Internet is a recipe for disaster, often within minutes. How has this knowledge changed the publicly accessible Internet? We find out when we talk to Censys's Aidan Holland today. We've reached an inflection point in security. There are a handful of organiza...

In this segment, we discuss the current state of the market recovery with Hank Thomas, founder of Strategic Cyber Ventures. We've got market questions, like: What has changed in the last year? Are IPOs coming back any time soon? How large is the cybersecurity death pool? What do early and mid-sized startups need to do to survive in the current market? There is little to no organization of data wit...

In the age of remote and hybrid work, employees are now spending most of their time in the browser or virtual meetings, making the browser an increasingly important part of an enterprise's security strategy. According to Gartner, "By 2030, enterprise browsers will be the core platform for delivering workforce productivity and security software on managed and unmanaged devices for a seamless hybrid...

Today we interview Shane Sims, CEO of Kivu Consulting. We'll be talking about the current state of cybercrime and insights from incidents his consulting firm has recently worked. We'll discuss some of the latest stats and trends related to ransomware, as well as thoughts on future cybercrime trends. Shane will also share some stories from his time as an FBI agent, working undercover as a cybercrim...

The world of AI is exploding, as excitement about generative AI creates a gold rush. We've already seen a huge number of new GenAI-based startups, products, and features flooding the market and we'll see a lot more emerge over the next few years. Generative AI will transform how we do business and how we interact with businesses, so right now is an excellent time to consider how to adopt AI safely...

In this segment, we'll explore some of the most useful lessons and interesting insights to come out of the last year's worth of breaches and data leaks! We'll explain why we will NOT be covering MGM in this segment. The breaches we will be covering include: - Microsoft AI Research Data Leak - Microsoft/Storm-0558 - CommutAir - Riot Games - Lastpass - CircleCI - RackSpace - Drizly (yes, this breach...

We ALL use SaaS. It has become ubiquitous in both our personal and professional lives. Somehow, the SaaS Security market has only recently began to emerge. Today's interview with Yoni Shohet, co-founder and CEO of Valence Security, aims to understand why it has taken so long for SaaS Security products to come to market, what that market currently looks like, and what a SaaS Security product actual...

Forrester Research releases a few annual reoccurring cybersecurity reports, but one of the biggest that covers the most ground is the Security Risk Planning Guide, which was recently released for 2024. One of the report's 17 authors, and research director, Merritt Maxim, will walk us through the report's most interesting insights and highlights. This is going to be considerably interesting conside...

Discussing ways to ensure client success with MDR and discuss the ways organizations hurt MDR efficacy with overly broad global exclusions, poor deployment practices, and poor policy hygiene. This segment is sponsored by Sophos. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sophos to learn more about them! We talk to Chris Sanders today, who has been steeped in the world of SecOps and detection/response for ma...

Check out this interview from the ESW Vault, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on November 18, 2022. This segment will focus on (1) Why Did Sephora Get Fined $1.2M and Why Are They on Probation? (2) Why Data Privacy is Being Overhauled in 2023 (and How You Can Be Ready) Segment Resources: https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics-computers/privacy/i-...

Having direct visibility into your access data is crucial for two reasons: 1. Simplifying audit preparation and 2. Managing progress of your identity program to ensure peak performance. Internal auditors and compliance managers need easy access to granular data points to understand and demonstrate compliance to external agencies. Gaining access to real time data creates a great deal of autonomy fo...