Enterprise Security Weekly (Video)

This week, in the Enterprise Security News, Hunters raises a series C to continue building XDR, Anitian raises a $55M Series B, Four new startups emerge from stealth with seed funding, BugAlert is a new tool for notifying the public of new vulnerabilities, Turns out, Crypto.com WAS hacked, but it wasn't Matt Damon's fault, Who is at fault if a hacked car kills someone?, Merck wins - it was NOT an...

If 2021 taught us anything, it's that our supply chain–especially our technical supply chain–hangs in the balance of a very fragile system. In this interview, ExtraHop's Jamie Moles examines the impact of the Log4Shell zero day and how enterprises can be assured that they're in the clear with the help of a live demo of the vulnerability in a lab environment.   This segment is sponsored by ExtraHop...

In the Enterprise Security News: 1Password plans to do some shopping with their massive Series C, Devo announces a $250M round, Permiso Security and Tromzo emerge backed by both traditional VCs and industry execs, STG spins out McAfee's MVISION XDR product as Trellix - the first of many spinouts, they say, Microsoft reminds us that, in addition to being the industry's largest security vendor, they...

An open discussion of challenges facing software and system architects in small and medium sized businesses.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw257

Modern tech stacks are becoming increasingly complex puzzles of components built in-house and sourced from third-party vendors. With DNS at the center of the infrastructure, and staging and production being sometimes just minutes apart, scanning for CVEs is not enough to stay on top of web threats. There are lots of critical things traditional app scanners won't catch, like dangling DNS records, s...

In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Pentera announces a $150m Series C - YAU (Yet Another Unicorn), Herjavec Group merges with Fishtech, Google acquires SOAR vendor SIEMplify, A European grocery store buys BAS vendor XM Cyber, Flashpoint acquires vuln intel vendor Risk Based Security, Recorded Future acquires SecurityTrails, Drama in the Israeli cybersecurity news, Security, Analyst is...

2021 was the most active year in federal cybersecurity policy. Ever. The Biden administration used executive orders, new regulations, public/private partnerships and novel law enforcement strategies to shore up federal systems and engage with industry. Meanwhile, an otherwise active year in Congress took a hit when several major pieces of legislation like incident reporting mandates and federal cy...

It's a new year and a time when we make resolutions…which often drop off by the start of February. To keep your security resolutions for 2022, today's show will be about enterprise security pitfalls and the areas corporations should focus on when planning their cybersecurity strategy for the year. Topics will include proper data hygiene; ransomware prevention and recovery techniques; challenges in...

In our final security weekly segment of the year, we're wrapping up by reminiscing about 2021's biggest, craziest, and most interesting stories. We'll chat about our favorite interviews of the year. Finally, we're sharing our hopes for 2022. What could make it better? Will it be the year we break free from ransomware? Will cyber insurance providers drop all their policyholders? All this, and crypt...

In the Enterprise Security News for this week, ZeroFox has a $1.4 billion dollar blank check, Corellium raises a $25m series A, GreyNoise makes its data free to help out Log4j sufferers, AWS suffers its third outage in a month (coincidentally hindering GreyNoise's efforts), Ditching Unicorns for Dragons, Yet another easy way to become domain admin, thanks Microsoft, New report finds that current p...

Log4j, solar winds, tesla hacks, and the wave of high profile appsec problems aren't going to go away with current approaches like SAST and SCA. Why? They are: -40 years old, with little innovation -Haven't solved the problem. In this segment, we talk about fully autonomous application security. Vetted by DARPA in the Cyber Grand Challenge, the approach is different: -Prove bugs, rather than tryin...

This week in the Enterprise News: Is the art of VC valuations a lie?, Noname Security hits unicorn status, Dazz sounds like an 80's cartoon character and is the latest to join the CSPM category with a mega Series A, LogMeIn spins out Lastpass, We'll talk about Log4Shell for a little bit, but not too much, Everyone forgot that AWS had an outage last week, at least, until they had an outage this wee...

Like our interview with Allie Mellen last week (episode 253, check it out also), we have another analyst roundtable here (all ESW hosts are former analysts), discussing one of the hottest new cybersecurity categories - XDR. This discussion will touch on why the only thing about XDR that was a surprise was maybe the name - we all saw this coming, partly due to the failure of other, less effective p...

Not all security is complicated--many aspects boil down to noticing that something is off. Attentive and curious employees are an overlooked safety mechanism, as is handling problems in a constructive way.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw254

Finally, in the enterprise security news: At least a dozen cybersecurity companies announced raises totaling more than $900m - just in the past week!, Permira proposes to take Mimecast private for $5.8bn, The leader of a Swiss tech company is accused of selling access to text message data for surveillance, A former Ubiquiti developer was behind the big breach announced earlier this year - he unsuc...

Riverbed's Network Security Solutions provide the full-fidelity network visibility organizations need to see everything. The rise of cloud and user mobility has increased the complexity and the reach of modern networks, expanding the risk perimeter for cyber-attacks. Riverbed enables organizations to address performance, visibility, and security holistically so they can overcome complexity and ful...

XDR is the buzzword practitioners can't seem to escape. Or is it? Allie Mellen, Forrester Analyst, will cover her research on what XDR is and what it isn't to help practitioners understand what it really means for them.   Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/announcing-the-first-and-only-evaluative-research-on-xdr-the-forrester-new-wave-extended-detection-and-response-providers-q4-20...

This week in the enterprise security news: ReliaQuest crests a $1bn valuation, CyCognito raises a $100m Series C, AWS enhances cloud vulnerability management, StrongDM automates access to infrastructure, Can we trust AI written code?, Killing the SOC - is the SOC dead?, Comparing secure messaging apps, The best cities for cybersecurity professionals, and Don't miss today's Squirrel Story - it's a...

Passwordless is everywhere these days, but like most new security markets, it's shrouded in confusion. There are already dozens of vendors promising to kill the password, but they don't all seem to be coming at the challenge the same way. In this "First Look" segment, our goal is to define Passwordless, discuss some of the companies doing it, and how they're doing it. We'll even go through a few l...

In this interview, we discuss defenders sharing information, how Edna deals with Azure's supply chain challenges, ransomware trends, and some future predictions. Edna has been in security as long as most other folks we interview, but was a lawyer for 20 years before that! She's smart, dangerous, and has some great takes we can't wait to dive into.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all...

This week in the Enterprise Security News: NDR startup Netography raises a $45m Series A with Martin Roesch at the helm! Data Security startup Laminar comes out of stealth with a $32m Series A Threat Intel divestment SnapAttack spins out of Booz Allen Cloud Security startup Lacework raises $1.3bn in a single round, Lacework acquires Soluble, You can make some cash if you're willing to delete the N...

Jeffrey joins us today to guide us through the rapidly changing world of Cyber Insurance! We solicited some questions from our audience and look forward to picking his brain in this segment.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw251

Ransomware: the problem that everyone is talking about, yet somehow continues to get worse with each passing year. In 2021, the cost of ransomware to global businesses is estimated to reach a whopping $20B. The problem has reached such a critical mass that it can no longer be cast away as some unknowable IT problem––everyone from cyber insurance providers to the federal government have taken note....

In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Drata reaches unicorn status in record time with a $100m Series B, SCYTHE announces a $10m Series A, McAfee Consumer business acquired for $14b, WPScan acquired by Automattic (the company behind WordPress), QOMPLX SPAC is called off, HashiCorp IPO is not called off, open source CSPM and firmware emulation tools, Ghost kitchens and more.   Visit https:...

Risk based security programs are all the rage, from managers looking to "trim" the security budget to regulatory bodies looking for excuses to fine your company. Nick is a security pro who has seen it all -- programs done well, programs done poorly, and implemented one or two of them himself, and would love to share the lessons learned from those experiences.   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com...