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Budget Planning Guide 2025: Security And Risk - Jeff Pollard - BSW #368 Oct 15, 2024

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In today’s uncertain macroeconomic environment, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary requests. Jeff Pollard, Vice-President, Principal Analyst on the Security and Risk Team at Forrester Research, joins Business Security Weekly to review Forrester's Budget Planning Guide 2025: Security And Risk. This data-driven report provides spending benchmarks, insights, and recommendations that will keep you on budget while still mitigating the most critical risks facing your organization. Jeff will cover which areas to invest, divest, and experiment, but you'll have to listen to get the details.

In the leadership and communications segment, The CEO’s Role in Setting Tone at the Top, CISOs, C-suite remain at odds over corporate cyber resilience, Warren Buffett's Secret To Success? Run It 'Like A Small Family Business,' Says One Of His CEOs, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-368

Cybercab, Golden Jackal, Mamba 2FA, Microsoft, iPhone thieves, esims, Aaran Leyland.. - SWN #421 Oct 11, 2024

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Cybercab, Golden Jackal, Mamba 2FA, Multi Microsoft, iPhone thieves, esims, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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

Community Knowledge Sharing with CyberNest - Ben Siegel, Aaron Costello - ESW #379 Oct 11, 2024

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For this interview, Ben from CyberNest joins us to talk about one of my favorite subjects: information sharing in infosec. There are so many amazing skills, tips, techniques, and intel that security professionals have to share. Sadly, a natural corporate reluctance to share information viewed as privileged and private has historically had a chilling effect on information sharing.

We'll discuss how to build such a community, how to clear the historical hurdles with information sharing, and how to monetize it without introducing bias and compromising the integrity of the information shared.

Aaron was already a skilled bug hunter and working at HackerOne as a triage analyst at the time. What he discovered can't even be described as a software bug or a vulnerability. This type of finding has probably resulted in more security incidents and breaches than any other category: the unintentional misconfiguration.

There's a lot of conversation right now about the grey space around 'shared responsibility'. In our news segment later, we'll also be discussing the difference between secure design and secure defaults. The recent incidents revolving around Snowflake customers getting compromised via credential stuffing attacks is a great example of this. Open AWS S3 buckets are probably the best known example of this problem. At what point is the service provider responsible for customer mistakes? When 80% of customers are making expensive, critical mistakes? Doesn't the service provider have a responsibility to protect its customers (even if it's from themselves)?

These are the kinds of issues that led to Aaron getting his current job as Chief of SaaS Security Research at AppOmni, and also led to him recently finding another common misconfiguration - this time in ServiceNow's products. Finally, we'll discuss the value of a good bug report, and how it can be a killer addition to your resume if you're interested in this kind of work!

Segment Resources:

Aaron's blog about the ServiceNow data exposure.
The ServiceNow blog, thanking AppOmni for its support in uncovering the issue.

In the enterprise security news,

Eon, Resolve AI, Harmonic and more raise funding
Dragos acquires Network Perception
Prevalent acquires Miratech
The latest DFIR reports
A spicy security product review
Secure by Whatever
New threats
Hot takes

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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-379

The Code of Honor: Embracing Ethics in Cybersecurity - Ed Skoudis - PSW #846 Oct 10, 2024

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"Code of Honor: Embracing Ethics in Cybersecurity" by Ed Skoudis is a book that explores the ethical challenges faced by cybersecurity professionals in today's digital landscape. The book delves into the complex moral dilemmas that arise in the field of cybersecurity, offering guidance on how to navigate these issues while maintaining integrity. The authors provide practical advice and real-world examples to help readers develop a strong ethical framework for decision-making in their cybersecurity careers.

Segment Resources:

Code of Honor: https://www.montreat.edu/cybersecurity-code/
Purchase Ed's book here: https://a.co/d/gb3yRxU

Get ready for a wild ride in this week's podcast episode, where we dive into the latest security shenanigans!

Default Credentials Gone Wild: We’ll kick things off with a look at how default credential scanners are like that friend who shows up to the party but never brings snacks. They're everywhere, but good luck finding one that actually works!
Critical Vulnerabilities in Tank Gauges: Next, we’ll discuss how automated tank gauges are now the new playground for hackers. With vulnerabilities that could lead to environmental disasters, it’s like giving a toddler a box of matches—what could possibly go wrong?
Cisco Routers: The Forgotten Gear: Cisco's small business routers are like that old car in your driveway—still running but definitely not roadworthy. We’ll explore why you should check your network before it becomes a digital junkyard.
Firmware Updates: A Love Story: Richard Hughes has dropped some juicy updates on fwupd 2.0.0, making firmware updates as easy as ordering takeout. But let’s be real, how many of us actually do it?
Stealthy Linux Malware: We’ll also uncover Perfctl, the stealthy malware that’s been creeping around Linux systems since 2021. It’s like that one relative who overstays their welcome—hard to get rid of and always looking to borrow money!
PrintNightmare Continues: And yes, the PrintNightmare saga is still haunting Windows users. It’s like a horror movie that just won’t end—grab your popcorn!
Cyber Shenanigans at Comcast and Truist: We'll wrap up with a juicy breach involving Comcast and Truist Bank that compromised data for millions. Spoiler alert: they didn’t have a great plan for cleaning up the mess.

Tune in for all this and more as we navigate the wild world of security news with a wink and a nudge!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-846

The Future of Zed Attack Proxy - Simon Bennetts, Ori Bendet - ASW #302 Oct 08, 2024

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Zed Attack Proxy has been a crucial web app testing tool for decades. It's also had a struggle throughout 2024 to obtain funding that would enable the tool to add more features while remaining true to its open source history. Simon Bennetts, founder of ZAP, and Ori Bendet from Checkmarx update us on that journey, share some exploration of LLM fuzzing that ZAP has been working on, and what the future looks like for this well-loved project.

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The many lessons to take away from a 24-year old flaw in glibc and the mastery in crafting an exploit in PHP, changing a fuzzer's configuration to find more flaws, fuzzing LLMs for prompt injection and jailbreaks, security hardening of baseband code, revisiting the threat models in Microsoft's Recall, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-302

AI, American Water, Broadband, Claroty, Okta, Meta, Phishing, Robocop, Josh Marpet... - SWN #420 Oct 08, 2024

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AI Fest, American Water, Broadband, Claroty, Okta, Meta, Phishing, Robocop, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News.

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

Run Your Security Program Like an Election Campaign - Kush Sharma - BSW #367 Oct 08, 2024

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Does the CISO need to act like a politician? Negotiating budgets, communicating risks, and selling your strategy across the organization does sound a little like a politician. And if that's the case, are you hiring the right campaign staff?

Kush Sharma, former CISO for CPR, City of Toronto, and Saputo, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss why you should run your security program like an election campaign. Kush will discuss the other positions you need to hire, not just the technical positions, to help you budget, communicate, and sell your strategy. A politician can't do it all by themself, so why should a CISO?

In the leadership and communications segment, PwC Urges Boards to Give CISOs a Seat at the Table, CISO Salary Surge: Fewer Job Changes, Bigger Paychecks for Experienced Cybersecurity Leaders, Fostering a cybersecurity-first culture: Key leadership insights for building resilient businesses, and more!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-367

Perfctl, Pig Butchering, Ivanti, Zimbra, BabyLockerKZ, AI gone Wild, Aaran Leyland... - SWN #419 Oct 04, 2024

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Perfctl, Warm Cookie, Pig Butchering, Ivanti, Zimbra, BabyLockerKZ, AI gone Wild, Aaran Leyland, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-419

Cybersecurity Career Paths: from touring musician to purple teaming at Meta - Neko Papez, Brian Contos, Jayson Grace - ESW #378 Oct 03, 2024

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Our latest in a series of interviews discussing cybersecurity career paths, today we talk to Jayson Grace his path into cybersecurity and his experience building red teams at national labs and purple teams at Meta. We also talk about his community impact, giving talks and building open source tools. Jayson just left Meta for an AI safety startup named Dreadnode, which we'll discuss as well.

Segment Resources:

CyberSecEval 3: Advancing the Evaluation of Cybersecurity Risks and Capabilities in Large Language Models
The [TTPForge] (https://github.com/facebookincubator/TTPForge) is a Cybersecurity Framework for developing, automating, and executing attacker Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).
ForgeArmory provides TTPs that can be used with the TTPForge
Wired, by Lily Hay Newman: Facebook's ‘Red Team X’ Hunts Bugs Beyond the Social Network's Walls
MOSE (Master Of SErvers) is a post exploitation tool for configuration management servers.
BSides SF 2024 - Beyond Quick Cash: Rethinking Bug Bounties for Greater Impact
BSides LV 2023 - [GF - Enemy Within: Leveraging Purple Teams for Advanced Threat Detection & Prevention - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MT0tNi2vvc

This week in the enterprise security news, we've got:

Torq, Tamnoon, and Defect Dojo raise funding
Checkmarx acquires ZAP
Commvault acquires Clumio
Would you believe San Francisco is NOT the most funded metro area for cybersecurity?
Auto-doxxing Smart glasses are now possible
Meta gets fined $100M for storing plaintext passwords
AI coding assistants might not be living up to expectations
Worst Practices
Dumpster fires and truth bombs

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

The way we use browsers has changed, so has the way we need to secure them. Using a secure enterprise browser to execute content away from the endpoint, inside a secure cloud browser is a dramatically more effective and cost-effective approach to protect users and secure access.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-378

Analyzing Malware at Scale - John Hammond - PSW #845 Oct 02, 2024

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This episode of Paul Security Weekly features John Hammond, a senior security researcher from Huntress, discussing malware analysis. Hammond dives into the analysis of Ocean Lotus attacks, highlighting the use of stealthy techniques like alternate data streams and DLL side-loading. The conversation also touches on the challenges of combating attackers who leverage ‘bring your own vulnerable driver’ techniques to gain kernel-level privileges. The hosts discuss the need for secure-by-default configurations and the ongoing struggle to combat attackers who exploit vulnerabilities. The episode concludes with a discussion on how to improve the security of the industry.

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Automated tank gauges are leaking more than just fuel, while CUPS is serving up a steaming hot brew of vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, Supermicro's BMC firmware is giving away root access like it's going out of style. If you thought your Kia was safe, think again - all it takes is a license plate and 30 seconds to turn your car into a hacker's joyride. China's been busy building a massive IoT botnet called Raptor Train. It's been chugging along undetected for four years. NIST has decided that your password doesn't need to be a cryptographic masterpiece anymore. No more special characters or arbitrary changes - just make it long and don't use "password123". A Texas hospital is playing a game of "hot potato" with ambulances thanks to a ransomware attack. More thoughts on known exploited vulnerabilities, firmware unpacking tools lowdown, Aruba, Bahama, come-on command injection, and kids changing the name of their school!

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-845

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