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Organizations today operate under the constant looming threat of cyber attacks. While reactive cybersecurity measures will help organizations respond to past and present threats, offensive measures are the only chance to get ahead of attackers and beat them to the punch. There is now a greater call for offensive solutions like penetration testing and red teaming to evaluate environments so security gaps can be identified and closed before a breach. Join us as we discuss how these solutions work both independently and together, as well as practical ways organizations can build or mature an offensive security strategy.  Segment Resources:  https://www.coresecurity.com/resources/videos/when-use-pen-testing-red-teaming-or-both?code=cmp-0000011540&ls=717710006&utm_source=hubspot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=cts-security-weekly  https://www.coresecurity.com/resources/guides/complete-guide-layering-offensive-security?code=cmp-0000011540&ls=717710006&utm_source=hubspot&utm_medium=email&am

Tanium has recently released a new capability called Tanium Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) to help customers identify third-party libraries associated with software packages. • What is Tanium SBOM • Why is it different and why do you need it • How to configure SBOM • How to query for the details about every software application in your environment • Where your vulnerable packages exist • Ways that Tanium can remediate vulnerabilities from OpenSSL to Struts to Log4j today as well as new supply-chain vulnerabilities in the future   No one knows what the next supply chain vulnerability is going to be, but with Tanium, you will have access to data about how your applications are affected before it happens so that when it does, you're ready to take action to remediate the issue from within the Tanium XEM platform.   Segment Resources: https://www.tanium.com/products/tanium-sbom/  https://www.tanium.com/press-releases/tanium-launches-software-bill-of-materials-for-unprecedented-visibility-to-combat-supply-chain-

Cyber insurance is a must-have, but organizations are finding that cyber insurance premiums are more costly, policies are more difficult to obtain, and policies attach more limitations and exclusions than before. We will discuss cyber insurance’s role in risk management and trends.   Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/report/q-and-a-cyber-insurance/RES178563?ref_search=3185990_1675109251447 https://www.forrester.com/report/tech-execs-guide-to-cyber-insurance/RES178564?ref_search=3185990_1675109251447 https://www.forrester.com/blogs/whos-responsible-for-cyber-insurance-policy-misrepresentations-it-depends/?ref_search=3185990_1675109251447   Insiders - employees, contractors, and partners - are responsible for almost a quarter of data breaches. Reducing insider risk requires a dedicated approach, including user monitoring. But be careful, Forrester predicts that a C-level executive will be fired for their firm’s use of employee monitoring in 2023.   Segment Resources: https://www.forrester.com/blo

What makes a good breach response? What makes a bad one? Could we objectively measure them? How would we break down and rate a company’s breach response performance?   This is the first in our 2 segment Enterprise News special! Stay tuned for segment 2!   This is the 2nd segment in our 2 segment Enterprise News special!   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   Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw303

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 that wastes most security operations teams' time, Andrew was dead set against building a startup that resembled the typical security startup. We'll discuss Andrew's unique path to market, the latest features of GreyNoise, and where the lines are drawn between malicious and benign scanning.    Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw264   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

Europe is a global driver for privacy rules and digital legislation. Which means it is also a force to be reckoned with when it comes to enforcement. With privacy and security being so intertwined, this conversation will focus on the current mindset in Europe and discuss recent regulators’ decision e.g. on Microsoft 365. Segment Resources: The International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) is the world’s largest global information privacy community. IAPP website https://iapp.org/ About membership: https://iapp.org/join/ IAPP training is a path to professional advancement and ANSI/ISO-accredited certification. Developed with leading privacy and data protection experts, our in-depth courses span legal, regulatory, governance, and operational issues. Choose the subjects and training modalities that fit your career goals. More info about all IAPP trainings: https://iapp.org/train/ For example: • IAPP Foundations of Privacy and Data Protection (Your Starting Point in Privacy Education): https://iapp.org

If you’ve ever worked on a red or purple team, you know scaling engagements to production is an intensive, unwieldy process. Technology pitfalls may exist, but the fundamental problem is this: the process of writing, testing, deploying, and verifying the efficacy of TTPs is highly flawed and inconsistent. This conversation will focus on applying a scientific process to security testing in order to achieve production scale. Segment Resources: Prelude Build GitHub: https://github.com/preludeorg/build Prelude Docs: https://docs.prelude.org/docs Introducing Prelude Build: An Open Source IDE Purpose Built for Security Engineers: https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/introducing-prelude-build-an-ide-purpose-built-for-security-engineers A Practical Guide for Scaling Continuous Security Testing: https://www.preludesecurity.com/blog/scaled-security-testing-a-practical-guide Prelude Build: https://www.preludesecurity.com/products/build   We will discuss the migration of the security community from Twitter to Mastodon,

Security teams struggle with managing cyber risk across cloud workloads, services, resources, users, and applications. Parag will discuss the issues this presents and how Qualys’ new TotalCloud solution allows organizations to see all their cloud resources, relationships between resources, the external attack surface, and attack path mapping all delivered via one platform. Segment Resources: Qualys TotalCloud free trial: https://www.qualys.com/forms/totalcloud/ TotalCloud Video: https://vimeo.com/765771406 Blogs: https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/11/01/introducing-totalcloud-cloud-security-simplified https://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/11/01/why-is-snapshot-scanning-not-enough   This segment is sponsored by Qualys. Visit https://securityweekly.com/qualys to learn more about them!   A brief roundup of our favorite news, trends, and interviews in 2022! See what Adrian, Katherine, and Sean have to say about 2022's best interviews and news stories!   Finally, in the last Enterprise Security News o

Announcing Drata’s Series C, Milton Security announces new name, Threathunter.ai, Germany Forces a Microsoft 365 Ban Due to Privacy Concerns – Best of Privacy, New Communication Protocol “Ibex” and Extended Protocol Suite, Gepetto uses OpenAI models to provide meaning to functions decompiled by IDA Pro, Stack Overflow bans ChatGPT, French man wins compensation as judge awards him the right to refuse to be fun at work.   Let’s be honest: people can frustrate us. They don’t always do the things we’d like, and they often do some things we’d rather they didn’t. New research from the National Cybersecurity Alliance reveals insights about the public’s attitudes and beliefs about security. We’ll explore the 2022 Oh Behave! Cybersecurity Attitudes and Behaviors Report and some of the findings may surprise you! We’ll also give you practical, actionable advice on how you can better communicate to influence the behavior change you want to see. Segment Resources: https://staysafeonline.org https://staysafeonline.org/pro

Despite certain economic indicators warning that a recession is on the horizon, investment remains healthy within the security market amid thirst for cloud security, in particular. One such emerging field is data security posture management (DSPM), which aims to bridge the gap between business goals and a comprehensive security mechanism that leaves no data behind as organizations scale in the cloud.   A deep-rooted cyber security culture is crucial, and it goes as far back as the hiring process… 10 years ago, a typical hiring process consisted of working your way through a checklist, hiring individuals based solely on a CV. Today, the ‘Simon Sinek’ culture is gaining more prevalence, with employers realizing that hiring the right person, rather than the CV, can have immeasurable benefits for business. Ryan will talk about why this is particularly true within the cyber security sphere, and why business leaders should follow this particular ‘Simon Sinek’ strategy to build a successful security operation, and s

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC) allows for quick and consistent configuration and deployment of infrastructure components because it’s defined through code. It also enables repeatable deployments across environments. IaC is seeing significant attention in the cloud security space, but why now? This conversation will dig into how Infrastructure-as-code is enabling faster innovation on application development with security built in. Segment Resources: - https://www.lacework.com/solutions/infrastructure-as-code/ - https://www.lacework.com/blog/introducing-secure-automated-iac-deployments-with-terraform/  - https://info.lacework.com/cloud-threat-report.html    We catch up on 2 weeks of news, starting with 18 funding rounds and several new products! Splunk acquires Twinwave Another ASM vendor, Templarbit, gets acquired into the Cyberinsurance industry, InfoSec Layoffs continue in a big way alongside huge cuts at Facebook, Twitter, and Amazon, Microsoft sued for stealing code to train GitHub Copilot, Google sued for

Don’t leave the door open. Modern systems are complex and require you to consider many aspects. Here are some aspects we consider critical: - APIs are the dominant software development direction/trend. Traditional/legacy ways to grant access is not fit for purpose of protecting this new way of delivering products and services. - Customers are demanding better digital experiences. To maintain a competitive edge and drive brand loyalty businesses need to provide great online experiences. - Standards (such as OAuth and OpenID Connect) are important to ensure high-security levels. Also enables scalability and helps future-proof your infrastructure. For example in the financial sector, these standards play a key role in the drive toward open banking. - A modern architecture is a zero trust architecture. In a zero trust architecture, the new perimeter hinges on identity.   Segment Resources: https://thenewstack.io/zero-trust-time-to-get-rid-of-your-vpn/ This segment is sponsored by Curity. Visit https://securitywee

Positive change is coming to cybersecurity. In this segment, John Grancarich, EVP of Strategy at Fortra, explains what it means when we say we’re tenacious in our pursuit of a stronger, simpler future for cybersecurity, and that our advanced threat research and intelligence informs everything we do. This segment is sponsored by Fortra. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fortra to learn more about them!   Gartner recently reported that the RPA software market will reach $2.9 billion by the end of 2022, up 19.5% from 2021. But, despite Airlines adopting it to help with cancellations and retail for inventory management, we’re not talking about the security risk this tech will cause. Alan Radford, Global IAM Strategist at One Identity discusses the truly devastating impact that can occur when an organization leaves its RPA program vulnerable and without any identity and access protection, why realizing that machines have identities too could save us from dangerous RPA breaches in the future, and steps companies can

For many companies, the pretenses of separation between work and home have completely disappeared. This has huge security implications for organizations, but creates some opportunities as well. How should organizations and vendors approach the new paradigm of shared devices and identities?   Economic tides are changing, making profitability and identifying efficiencies a priority for many IT teams. Reducing IT costs by modernizing and migrating identity infrastructure to the cloud is one of those projects to be considered. No more wasted time and effort on maintenance, patching, and upgrades. Join us as VP of Product Management at Ping Identity, Jason Oeltjen, will discuss cloud migration benefits, timelines, and how you can improve TCO by migrating your identity to the cloud as leadership seeks the most critical initiatives to fund. Segment Resources: https://www.pingidentity.com/en/lp/migrate-to-pings-cloud.html   This segment is sponsored by Ping. Visit https://securityweekly.com/ping to learn more about t

Cloud computing’s velocity and dynamism make it hard for security teams to monitor and protect workloads in the cloud without impeding the agility of dev teams. ExtraHop Senior Principal Data Scientist Edward Wu joins ESW to discuss practical deployment approaches and scenarios to facilitate gathering and utilizing network data in cloud environments for improved visibility, detection, and response capabilities. This segment is sponsored by ExtraHop Networks. Visit https://securityweekly.com/extrahop to learn more about them!   The cloud and SaaS were supposed to make things easier, simpler, more scalable. Arguably, they _have_ done all those things, but traditional, legacy networks linger. Migrations are messy and take time. Nearly everything is encrypted in transit by default. Today, we interview Marty Roesch, the creator of Snort and founder of SourceFire, to discuss how things have changed and what defenders can do to catch up and restore some order to the madness. We'll step through some history along the

Finally, in the enterprise security news: Don’t worry! IT and Security funding is OK and we have the proof in the form of 16 funding announcements, Private Equity firms are taking advantage of the dip in valuations to make a few acquisitions: KnowBe4 and ForgeRock Legal Drama! We’ll discuss the Joe Sullivan case, the Splunk/Cribl battle, Crypto Drama! Another week, another Crypto exchange losing half a billion, new insights on breaches and ransomware in two new reports from Cyentia Labs, Cybersecurity leaders have a hard time keeping companies secure, and Cyber Nutrition labels!   Fast-paced business initiatives require applications and workloads to migrate to the cloud. While the data remains the same, there are significant differences between securing on-premises and cloud environments. In this discussion, Dan Neault shares what organizations need to know about securing data in the cloud and how to migrate to the cloud without compromising on security. This segment is sponsored by Imperva. Visit https://sec

Every year, management needs to figure out what initiatives will be prioritized for the upcoming year. This simple, free method uses a quantitative approach based on CIS controls with input from the front-line analysts and engineers. The outcome is an engaging team discussion and clear plan for what the team should prioritize. Segment Resources: https://www.cisecurity.org/controls   It’s CyberSecurity Awareness Month and this year’s theme, set by CISA, is See Yourself in Cyber. We’re going to take some liberties in the interpretation of this to talk about the lines blurring between personal and work accounts and devices. We’ll also discuss MFA risks - what types of MFA are safe to use, and which aren’t in 2022? This segment is sponsored by Tanium. Visit https://securityweekly.com/tanium to learn more about them!   Finally, in the enterprise security news, Cloudflare has 1.25 billion incentives to draw customers away from AWS, NetSPI raises $410M for pen testing? Tines extends their Series B an extra $55M, Det

Cybersecurity is now battling a human problem just as much, if not more, than a technical one. According to Verizon’s 2021 Data Breach Security Report, 85% of successful cyberattacks now involve a human element. Combine that with the fact that even the very best technology can only thwart about 93% of attacks and that leaves a large hole in an organization’s basic security hygiene. This has led to a growing demand for ongoing educational programs that rely on behavioral science to measure and manage cybersecurity risk as a distinctly different solution from generic, one-size-fits-all training programs.   In the enterprise security news, SentinelOne and Crowdstrike reinvest in the security market, Malwarebytes raises $100M, Ox Security raises a $34M Seed round??? Jamf acquires ZecOps, New startups looking to improve Code Reviews…Outsource questionnaires…provide consumer privacy awareness…Federal security funding for state and local governments, New software supply chain attacks, Microsoft Windows slaps your ha

This week, Jonathan Roizin from Flow Security joins to discuss what this new security category is all about and how it differs from the OG, false positive heavy DLP we'd all rather forget! Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) is not your dad's DLP. This new category has emerged to tackle one of the toughest areas of security: protecting data. Then, Based on what we know so far (which is limited and could change), the Uber breach appears to be a classic example of how penetration testers and criminals alike break into large organizations. In this segment, we'll discuss how the attack happened. We'll go over the controls that failed, why they failed, and what Uber could have done to prevent or detect this attack. Then, in the Enterprise Security News, Fortanix raises a $90 series C for data security, Cyrebro raises a $40M series C for MSSP SOC solutions, Dig Security raises a $34M series A (yes, this is a repeat from last week, but we didn’t get a chance to talk about it), Internet 2.0 gets funded??? (probab

Enterprise browsers are a new addition into the endpoint security market. Combining enhanced features not in the existing browsers, with centralized reporting and controls, they're promising to bring a better experience to the users and a more secure delivery of applications to the companies who use them. What's real, what's "vision", and what makes them different than all the other solutions that promise to "secure the browsing experience".   In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Funding rounds are back!, Bitwarden rasies $100M for password management Cymulate raises $70M, and a ton more Series A, Series B, and Seed announcements from vendors just coming out of stealth, Ethereum’s merge completes and moves to proof of stake, Some updates on the Twitterpocalypse, The latest in annoying buzzword innovation, and some Cyber Insurance trends that I promise are interesting!   Attackers have been targeting Active Directory for years and more recently set their sights on Azure AD & Microsoft Office 365.