Suddenly SIEMs are all over the news! In a keynote presentation, Crowdstrike CEO George Kurtz talked about the company's "next-gen" SIEM. Meanwhile, Palo Alto, who was taken to task by some for not having an active presence on the RSAC expo floor, hits the headlines for acquiring IBM's SIEM product, just to shut it down! Meanwhile, LogRhythm and Exabeam merge, likely with the hopes of weathering the coming storm. The situation seems clear - there's no such thing as "best of breed" SIEM...

Tune in to hear 9 executive interviews from RSA Conference 2024, featuring speakers from Zscaler, Open Systems, Aryaka, OpenText, Hive Pro, Critical Start, Anomali, Cyware, and Pentera! Find individual descriptions for each interview on the show notes. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-361

It's the most boring part of incident response. Skip it at your peril, however. In this interview, we'll talk to Joe Gross about why preparing for incident response is so important. There's SO MUCH to do, we'll spend some time breaking down the different tasks you need to complete long before an incident occurs. Resources 5 Best Practices for Building a Cyber Incident Response Plan This segment is sponsored by Graylog. Visit https://securityweekly.com/graylog to learn more about them!   ...

A clear pattern with startups getting funding this week are "autonomous" products and features. Automated detection engineering Autonomously map and predict malicious infrastructure ..."helps your workforce resolve their own security issues autonomously" automated remediation automated compliance management & reporting I'll believe it when I see it. Don't get me wrong, I think we're in desperate need of more automation when it comes to patching and security decision-making. I just...

Protecting a normal enterprise environment is already difficult. What must it be like protecting a sports team? From the stadium to merch sales to protecting team strategies and even the players - securing an professional sports team and its brand is a cybersecurity challenge on a whole different level. In this interview, we'll talk to Joe McMann about how Binary Defense helps to protect the Cleveland Browns and other professional sports teams. This week, Adrian and Tyler discuss some crazy...

In the days when Mirai emerged and took down DynDNS, along with what seemed like half the Internet, DDoS was as active a topic in the headlines as it was behind the scenes (check out Andy Greenberg's amazing story on Mirai on Wired). We don't hear about DDoS attacks as much anymore. What happened? Well, they didn't go away. DDoS attacks are a more common and varied tool of cybercriminals than ever. Today, Michael Smith is going to catch us up on the state of DDoS attacks in 2024, and we'll...

NVD checked out, then they came back? Maybe? Should the xz backdoor be treated as a vulnerability? Is scan-driven vulnerability management obsolete when it comes to alerting on emerging threats? What were some of the takeaways from the first-ever VulnCon? EPSS is featured in over 100 security products, but is it properly supported by those that benefit from it? How long do defenders have from the moment a vulnerability is disclosed to patch or mitigate it before working exploits are...

Many years ago, I fielded a survey focused on the culture of cybersecurity. One of the questions asked what initially drew folks to cybersecurity as a career. The most common response was a deep sense of curiosity. Throughout my career, I noticed another major factor in folks that brought a lot of value to security teams: diversity. Diversity of people, diversity of background, and diversity of experience. I've seen auto mechanics, biologists, and finance experts bring the most interesting...

While awareness and attention towards cybersecurity are on the rise, some popular and persistent myths about cybersecurity have almost become threats themselves. API security requires a modern understanding of the threat landscape, with the context that most API providers desire to be more open and accessible to all. We will debunk the 5 worst myths about protecting your APIs. Segment Resources: API Security Basics - Everything You Need to Know Graylog API Security - Gain Visibility &...

In this interview, we talk to Rod Simmons, the VP of Product Strategy at Omada. We'll discuss the complex topic of securing identities against ever growing threats. We'll discuss challenges like unnecessary access, accounts with too many permissions, and a threat landscape that is increasingly finding success from targeting identities. Finally, we'll discuss where the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) market is going. Segment Resources: Analyst Report: The State of Identity...

Defenders spend a lot of time and money procuring and implementing security controls. At the heart of SecOps and the SOC are technologies like XDR, SIEM, and SOAR. How do we know these technologies are going to detect or prevent attacks? Wait for the annual pen test? Probably not a good idea. In this segment, we'll talk with Michael Mumcuoglu about how MITRE's ATT&CK framework can help defenders better prepare for inevitable attack TTPs they'll have knocking on their doors. Segment...

Pascal Geenens from Radware joins us to discuss the latest research findings relating to hacktivists an other actors using volumetric and other network-based attacks. We'll discuss everything from the current state of DDoS attacks to use in the military and even the impact of cyberattacks on popular culture! You can find the report Pascal mentions here, on Radware's website: https://www.radware.com/threat-analysis-report/ In this week's news segment, we discuss the lack of funding...

Check out this interview from the ESW Vault, hand picked by main host Adrian Sanabria! This segment was originally published on September 22, 2021. Chris will discuss the relevance of intelligence and threat hunting today and how they work together. He will also talk about his EASY framework for creating impactful intelligence and its relation to hunting! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/vault-esw-8

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 on crazy new products. For the first half of the show, we discuss startup funding, market...

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 cryptography is used throughout the enterprise and by which applications is critical to your overall...

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 pulling a tiny library out of NPM can cause chaos. A popular open source project changing hands...

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 their support for all major platforms, using the open source OSQuery project as their base. ...

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 voice-based authentication. How big an issue are AI-powered voice imposters? How will companies like...

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 information about their roadmap and go-to-market plan. Is it a bad idea then to build a company...

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 in 2023 and some acquisition rumors that never led to anything breach post-mortems and special...

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 anything I've learned in InfoSec, it's the mind that matters most, less so the degrees or certs...

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 segment, we look back at 2023, statistics for the year, comparisons to 2022, interesting...

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 be helping us to understand what identity verification is, and why it's important to...

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, Data Tribe. Data Tribe sources investments from national intelligence, with examples like Dragos...