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Securing Model Context Protocol as Companies Plan to Replace Entry Roles with AI - Rahul Parwani - BSW #421 Nov 12, 2025

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As AI revolutionizes how we work, it has created a new attack surface with new technologies. One of those new technologies is Model Context Protocol (MCP). MCP has emerged as the standard for connecting AI to external tools, but its flexibility has created security challenges. How do we secure MCP?

Rahul Parwani, Head of Product, Security Solutions at Airia, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss the challenges of MCP and how to secure this new protocol. Rahul will cover how Aria's solutions help you secure your AI development by:

Centralizing Access Control
Enforcing Security Policies
Maintaining Compliance
Enabling Rapid Response

This segment is sponsored by Airia. Visit https://securityweekly.com/airia to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications segment, CISO Burnout – Epidemic, Endemic, or Simply Inevitable?, If Trust Is So Important, Why Aren’t We Measuring It?, Over one-third of companies plan to replace entry roles with AI, survey says, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-421

Miles, 10/8 time, Lost Phones, Whisper Leak, Quantum Route, AI Galore, Rob Allen... - Rob Allen - SWN #528 Nov 11, 2025

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Miles Davis, Jimmy Buffet, 10/8 time, Lost Phones, Phishing, Whisper Leak, Quantum Route Redirect, AI Galore, Rob Allen, and more on the Security Weekly News.

Segment Resources: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/how-a-ransomware-gang-encrypted-nevada-governments-systems/

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-528

Ransomware, Defaults, and Proactive Defenses - Rob Allen - ASW #356 Nov 11, 2025

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Just how bad can things get if someone clicks on a link? Rob Allen joins us again to talk about ransomware, why putting too much attention on clicking links misses the larger picture of effective defenses, and what orgs can do to prepare for an influx of holiday-infused ransomware targeting.

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This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-356

OT Security Doesn't Have to be a Struggle, Spotting Red Flags, Enterprise News - Joshua Hay, Todd Peterson - ESW #432 Nov 10, 2025

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Segment 1: OT Security Doesn’t Have to be a Struggle

OT/ICS/SCADA systems are often off limits to cybersecurity folks, and exempt from many controls. Attackers don’t care how fragile these systems are, however. For attackers aiming to disrupt operations, fragile but critical systems fit criminals’ plans nicely.

In this interview, we discuss the challenge of securing OT systems with Todd Peterson and Joshua Hay from Junto Security.

This segment is sponsored by Junto Security. Visit https://securityweekly.com/junto to learn more!

Segment 2: Topic - Spotting Red Flags in Online Posts

This week's topic segment is all about tuning your 'spidey sense' to spot myths and misconceptions online so we can avoid amplifying AI slop, scams, and other forms of Internet bunk. It was inspired by this LinkedIn post, but we've got a cybersecurity story in the news that we could have easily used for this as well (the report from MIT).

Segment 3: Weekly Enterprise News

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

Some interesting fundings
Some more interesting acquisitions
a new AI-related term has been coined: cyberslop
the latest insights from cyber insurance claims
The AI security market isn’t nearly as big as it might seem
cybercriminals are targeting trucking and logistics to steal goods
Sorry dads, science says the smarts come from mom

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-432

AI-Obfuscating Malware, China Influence Ops, and Meta’s Fraud Fortune and Jason Wood - SWN #527 Nov 07, 2025

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This week we have AI-Obfuscating Malware, China Influence Ops, and Meta’s Fraud Fortune, Jason Wood, and more on the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-527

Turning To The Darkside & AI Cyberslop - PSW #899 Nov 06, 2025

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This week:

Reversing keyboard firmware
Ghost networks
Invasion of the face changers
Ghost tapping and whole lot of FUD
AI doesn't code securely, but Aardvark can secure code
De-Googling Thermostats
Dodgy Android TV boxes can run Debian
HackRF vs. Honda
Cyberslop AI paper
Turning to the darkside
Poisoning the watering hole
Nagios vulnerabilities
VPNs are a target

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-899

Defense Against Configurations as CIOs and CISOs Show Value Through Risks and Metrics - Rob Allen - BSW #420 Nov 05, 2025

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What's the biggest attack vector for breaches besides all of the human related ones (i.e., social engineering, phishing, compromised credentials, etc.)? You might think vulnerabilities, but it's actually misconfiguration. The top breach attack vectors are stolen or compromised credentials, phishing, and misconfigurations, which often work together. So why is it so hard to properly configure your systems?

Rob Allen, Chief Product Officer at ThreatLocker, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss Defense Against Configurations and how ThreatLocker can automatically identify misconfigurations and map them to your environment’s compliance and security requirements. Rob will discuss how ThreatLocker Defense Against Configurations dashboard can:

Identify misconfigurations before they become exploited vulnerabilities
Monitor configuration compliance with major frameworks
Receive clear, actionable remediation guidance

and more!

This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!

In the leadership and communications segment, Cybersecurity management for boards: Metrics that matter, The Emotional Architecture of Leadership: Why Energy, Not Strategy, Builds Great Teams, Your Transformation Can’t Succeed Without a Talent Strategy, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-420

Rogue Negotiators, Gemini Pulled, Apple’s AI Shift, Disappearing CAPTCHAs, and More! - SWN #526 Nov 04, 2025

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Rogue Negotiators, Gemini Pulled, Apple’s AI Shift, Disappearing CAPTCHAs, and Aaran Leyland on the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-526

Researching and Remediating RCEs via GitHub Actions - Bar Kaduri, Roi Nisimi - ASW #355 Nov 04, 2025

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Pull requests are a core part of collaboration, whether in open or closed source. GitHub has documented some of the security consequences of misconfiguring how PRs can trigger actions. But what happens when repo owners don't read the docs? Bar Kaduri and Roi Nisimi walk through their experience in reading docs, finding vulns, demonstrating exploits, and working with repo owners to improve their security. Their work highlights the challenges in maintaining good security guidance, figuring out secure defaults, and how so many orgs still struggle with triaging external security reports -- something that's becoming even more challenging when orgs are being flooded with low-quality reports from LLMs.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-355

Transforming Frontline Workflows with Passwordless Access, AI costs, and the News - Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #431 Nov 03, 2025

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Segment 1: Interview with Joel Burleson-Davis

Frontline workers can’t afford to be slowed down by manual, repetitive logins, especially in mission-critical industries where both security and productivity are crucial. This segment will explore how inefficient login methods erode productivity, while workarounds like shared credentials increase risk, highlighting why passwordless authentication is emerging as a game-changer for frontline access to shared devices. Joel Burleson-Davis, Chief Technology Officer of Imprivata, will share how organizations can adopt frictionless and secure access management to improve both security and frontline efficiency at scale.

Segment Resources:

Putting Complex Passwords to Work For You

This segment is sponsored by Imprivata. Visit https://securityweekly.com/imprivata to learn more about them!

Topic Segment: The Economics of AI Agents

Vendors are finding, after integrating agents into their processes, that agentic AI can get expensive very quickly. Of course, this isn't surprising when your goal is "review all my third party contracts and fill out questionnaires for me" and the pricing is X DOLLARS for 1M TOKENS blah blah context window, max model thinking model blah blah. No one knows what the conversion is from "review my contracts" to millions of tokens, so everyone is left to just test it out and see what the bill is at the end of the month.

As we saw with Cloud when adoption started increasing in the early 2010s, we are naturally entering the era of AI cost optimization. In this segment, we'll discuss what that means, how it affects the market, and how it affects the use of AI in cybersecurity.

Jackie mentions this story from Wired in the segment: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bubble-will-burst/

News Segment

Finally, in the enterprise security news,