Aligning Security Objectives, Ditch the Ego, Lead for Real and Succeed - BSW #406
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Release Date: 07/30/2025
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Segment 1 - Interview with Jeff Pollard For this episode’s interview, we’re talking to Forrester analyst Jeff Pollard. I’m pulling this segment’s description directly from the report’s executive summary, which I think says it best: As AI agents and agentic AI are introduced to the enterprise, they present new challenges for CISOs. Traditional cybersecurity architectures were designed for organizations built around people. Agentic AI destroys that notion. In the near future, organizations will build for goal-oriented, ephemeral, scalable, dynamic agents where unpredictable emergent...
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Diella, Texas, Movie Rip Offs, WAF, AdaptixC2, Nano11, and More, on this edition of the Security Weekly News. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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This week: Americans Can't Hack It Copy and paste to get malware Pixel 5 web servers - because you can How they got in and why security is hard Vulnerability management is failing - is it dead yet? Exploiting hacker tools Bluetooth spending spree! How to defend your car IoT security solutions and other such lies Exploiting IBM i (formerly AS/400) Vibe coding vulnerabilities Plex is hacked again Bill's emoji ICE spies on phones Hackers be hackin' FreePBX Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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With volatility now the norm, security and risk leaders need practical guidance on managing existing spending and new budgetary necessities. Where should they look? Jess Burn, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss Forrester's Budget Planning Guide 2026: Security And Risk. This data-and-insights-driven report provides spending benchmarks and recommendations that will help you budget for an unpredictable near term while enabling the business and mitigating the most critical risks facing your organization. If you're preparing your 2026 budgets, don't...
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AI Hellhounds, Anthropic, iCloud, NPM, gitforked, notdoor, TOR, Signal, WhatsApp, Josh Marpet, and more on the Security Weekly News. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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Up first, the ASW news of the week. At Black Hat 2025, Doug White interviews Ted Shorter, CTO of Keyfactor, about the quantum revolution already knocking on cybersecurity’s door. They discuss the terrifying reality of quantum computing’s power to break RSA and ECC encryption—the very foundations of modern digital life. With 2030 set as the deadline for transitioning away from legacy crypto, organizations face a race against time. Ted breaks down what "full crypto visibility" really means, why it’s crucial to map your cryptographic assets now, and how legacy tech—from robotic sawmills...
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Doug White sits down with Theresa Lanowitz, Chief Evangelist at LevelBlue, for a powerful and timely conversation about one of cybersecurity’s most pressing threats: the software supply chain. Theresa shares fresh insights from LevelBlue’s global research involving 1,500 cybersecurity professionals across 16 countries. Together, they unpack the real-world risks of software acquisition in the API economy, the explosive growth of AI-generated code, and the rise of “vibe coding”—and how these trends are silently expanding the attack surface for organizations everywhere. Visit to...
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Josh Marpet and Doug White talk about AI Ethics, Issues, and Compliance. AI Trolley problems, Rhode Island Drivers, and Post Conventionalism. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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In the secure news: Automakers respond to Flipper Zero attacks More on the unconfirmed Elastic EDR 0-Day When Secure Boot does its job too well Crazy authenitcation bypass Hacker ultimatums AI Slop Impatient hackers Linux ISOs are malware Attackers love drivers Hacking Amazon's Eero, the hard way Exploits will continue until security improves The Salesloft breach TP-Link Zero Days US DoD using Russian software? The Lasagna DoS attack Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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The cybersecurity industry is undergoing a consolidation wave that is moving far faster than many realize. This isn’t at all about CISOs wanting fewer tools as much as some would like to think - the changes are happening at the macro level. Ross Haleliuk joins BSW to present the most comprehensive illustration ever made of how our industry has consolidated over the past 20 years, showing how 200 companies turned into just 11. Then we cover our quarterly Security Money segment. The markets are on a high, but the Security Weekly 25 index dips. What's up? We'll dig into the latest earnings and...
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