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In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Island raises another $115M to build a secure web browser, less than 2 months after raising $100M, Bionic raises $65M for application intelligence, Israeli startup HUB Security merges with a SPAC to go public on the NASDAQ at a $1.28B valuation, Cybersecurity now has 53 unicorns, which are the most interesting to follow? New data shows VCs pulling bac...

The uptick in cyber incidents- and in particular ransomware- offer an opportunity if not serve as a clarion call for cyber insurance industry adaptation. In short, risk transfer that meets the needs of both industry and insurers demands more effective coordination of infosec controls, more complete and continuous optics, and more robust risk modeling.   Segment Resources: - https://www.linkedin.co...

Since IT network secrets unlock access to highly privileged systems and data, securing secrets is just as critical to preventing cyberattacks as securing end-user passwords. One study found that 75% of ransomware attacks involve compromised credentials – most of the time, RDP credentials. However, secrets management is a challenge for IT teams, who must mitigate secrets sprawl, hardcoded and embed...

This week in the Enterprise News: Quincy man rescues coworker from Ukraine, Cloudflare Email Security Tools, New CISA Vulns, RSA Conference Acquired, Massive Rounds, & \Incident Reporting Signed into Law, & more!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw265

Learn how a proactive cybersecurity program can be a game changer for an organization's success through continuously assessing risk and evolving to stay ahead of threats. Join us as we discuss impactful ways to stay one step ahead with Pablo Zurro, Product Manager at Core Security, by HelpSystems.   Segment Resources: [ Guide] Taking Back Control: A Proactive Approach to Advance Your Security Matu...

The segment will cover a brief overview of the attack surface market - what it is, why it's necessary to have an additional tool along with DAST, SAST. It will also cover how Detectify's unique advantage of crowdsourcing is a true differentiator in the EASM market and how the model differs from the big Bug Bounty Platforms. It will detail on how Detectify collaborates with ethical hackers to crowd...

In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Google intends to acquire Mandiant HelpSystems to pick up Alert Logic - at least their 11th security acquisition in the past 3 years, Rumor that Abnormal Security could be our next security unicorn, Axonius raises a $200M Series E, A number of AppSec and cloud security startups raise their first big rounds, SEC requires public companies to report brea...

There's a LOT of noise in the security industry. We've catalogued over 10,000 cybersecurity products and each of the companies behind these products has a marketing team, a twitter account, a blog, and a ton of content to blast at enterprise security buyers. There's an interesting connection between GreyNoise's product, founder, and principles. While building a product that filtered out the noise...

Managing firewall rule reviews, especially for PCI-DSS, can be complex but it doesn't have to be. Hear from Jeff Styles as he talks about how you can automate this process to keep you compliant and secure.   This segment is sponsored by FireMon. Visit https://securityweekly.com/firemon to learn more about them!   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: htt...

We'll cover the cutting-edge recommendations in the US federal governments January 2022 memo on their "transition to zero trust". Then we'll talk about what the standard definition of "zero-trust" means in our industry, and why it doesn't mean "trust zero things". Finally, we'll chat about architectures that can get us closer to actually trusting zero things.   Segment Resources: Analysis of the f...

Finally, in the Enterprise Security News, BlueVoyant raises a $250M Series D to become security's newest unicorn (baby unicorn, awww), Balbix raises a $70M Series C, Scope Security announces a $20M Series A to specifically focus on monitoring and defense for healthcare, Palo Alto introduces a new product aiming to disrupt the SIEM market, Third Party Risk Management vendors come together to forge...

90% of cloud runs on Linux, but current countermeasures are focused on addressing Windows-based threats, leaving multi-cloud deployments vulnerable to attacks. So, is it any wonder that malware is propagating in multi-cloud environments under the radar?   Segment Resources: https://via.vmw.com/exposingmalware   This segment is sponsored by VMware. Visit https://securityweekly.com/vmware to learn m...

This week in the Enterprise News: eSentire raises $325M as it expands into services Beyond Identity raises $100M to build out MFA, Secureframe raises $56M to help folks with SOC 2 and HIPAA compliance, Nashville-based Phosphorus Cybersecurity raises $38M to secure IoT devices (curious about the name - what kind of Phosphorus? Could be dangerous!), anecdotes raises a $25M Series A to compete in the...

This discussion will provide a brief overview of the Incident Command System for Industrial Control Systems processes and describe how ICS4ICS will help companies better manage industrial cyber incidents. We will discuss how ICS4ICS will enable companies to work with government agencies and mutual aid partners when a cyber incident impacts an entire industrial sector or multiple sectors.   Segment...

Cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes - the world has gone crazy. We don't have servers anymore - we have workloads, instances, and serverless. We have CI/CD pipelines. These workloads are distributed, immutable, and ephemeral (aka 'DIE' - hi Sounil!) in many cases. Today, we chat with Jimmy Vo about what it was like, as a detection engineer, to come from a traditional banking environment and suddenly get thr...

Finally, in the Enterprise Security News, Securonix raises $1B in Vista-led round (it's like they ate a unicorn!), Salt Security becomes a Unicorn, has not been eaten (yet), Legit Security raises a totally legit $26.5M Series A, Vicarius and Calamu raise Series As ,Permit.io, KSOC, Titaniam, Canonic Security, Allure Security, and SecureThings all pick up seed funding! We look at Big Tech's cyberse...

Definitions of the word intelligence include a collection of information of military or political value as well as the ability to acquire and apply knowledge or skills. In cybersecurity, when we possess intelligence, we feed that data in our Security Operations Center (SOC) to further analyze the risk present. In this case, the risk is based on the probability of threats materializing and the impa...

0patch is a simple but powerful service that provides tiny targeted security patches to Windows computers, eliminating the most critical vulnerabilities without restarting the computer or relaunching applications. A different approach to patching allows us to both create and deploy 0day patches much quicker than original vendors can with their traditional update processes. Segment Resources: 0patc...

Finally, in the Enterprise Security News, Security automation startup Cerby raises $12M, Virtual CISO startup Cynomi raises 3.5M to help SMBs automate cybersecurity, Keeper Security acquires Glyptodon (I'm 90% certain Keeper hasn't just purchased the remains of an ancient, long-extinct armadillo), SecurityScorecard acquires LIFARS, a DFIR consulting firm, There's a rumor that Microsoft is consider...

We discuss the current state of identity challenges in the enterprise with Branden Williams.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw260

One of the key features of cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other blockchain-based technologies is the immutable ledger. Put another way, there's no clear way to implement an 'undo' button when it comes to blockchain. In more traditional situations, passwords can be reset. Financial institutions can issue a stop payment order.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show N...

Finally, in the Enterprise Security News, Island raises $100M to introduce a new Chromium-based web browser, designed for the enterprise, Plextrac rasies a $70M Series B, HackerOne raises a $49M Series E, Tenable acquires BAS vendor Cymptom, Orca swallows up RapidSec (sorry, had to), Cybereason confidentially files for IPO, KKR looks to offload Optiv, Cybersecurity startup trends of 2022, 1000 Uni...

In late 2019, Microsoft released their cloud-native SIEM, Sentinel. A lot in the world has changed since then so we'll be looking at Sentinel's progression, talking about it's features and what may make it attractive to enterprises in 2022 and beyond.   To register for Darwin's upcoming workshop with Security Weekly, please visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2393226017093033995?sourc...

Imagine having 500+ employees across the world — all working remotely. Now imagine making sure they can all do their work securely. This is exactly what Zapier's Head of Security, Attila Török does. In this chat, you'll hear from Attila regarding his experience and best practices for defending a cloud-based tech company with a remote workforce and infrastructure (including what systems to implemen...

Why is continuous security here to stay? How is Red Teaming getting automated and moving towards continuous?   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw258