Can AI help critical infrastructure, the state of the cyber market, and weekly news - Mike Privette, Kara Sprague - ESW #451
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Release Date: 03/23/2026
Why Proactive Security Is Far Better Than Patching - Erik Nost - ASW #375
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So much of appsec’s efforts can be consumed by vuln management and a race to patch security flaws. But that’s more a symptom of the ease of scanning and the volume of CVEs. Erik Nost walks through the principles behind proactive security, why the concept sounds familiar to secure by design, and why organizations still struggle with creating effective practices for visibility. Resources Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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Can AI help critical infrastructure, the state of the cyber market, and weekly news - Mike Privette, Kara Sprague - ESW #451
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Interview with Kara Sprague - The AI Fix for Infrastructure’s Oldest Security Risks. Critical infrastructure, often built on decades-old systems and legacy code, remains vulnerable to cyberattacks. From pipelines and energy grids to transportation networks, we break down where critical infrastructure is vulnerable and how AI could potentially help strengthen defenses. Interview with Mike Privette - The State of the Cybersecurity Market Here at ESW, we use Mike Privette's Security, Funded newsletter to prepare for every news segment. His covers the latest fundings, acquisitions, public...
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Ahab and Peewee Herman, Zoom, Vibe Hacking, SharePoint, Meta, AgeID, Josh Marpet - SWN #565
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Macbeth, Ahab, Peewee Herman, Microsoft, Zoom, Vibe Hacking, SharePoint, Meta, AgeID, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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Hacking IP KVMs & Reversing with Radare2 - Sergi Àlvarez - PSW #918
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In this episode, we sit down with the Radare community leader, Pancake, the creator of the Radare2 reverse engineering framework. Whether you’ve never heard of Radare, already use it daily, or are thinking about contributing to its development, this conversation will demystify what makes Radare unique, why thousands of engineers rely on it, and how you can step into the community. This segment is sponsored by NowSecure. Discover how AI-powered mobile app security testing finds hidden vulns and leaks at . In the security news: The US national cyber strategy in the category of dumb laws and...
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Language of the Board as CISO-Board Time Falls Short and CISOs Struggle with Risk - Ben Wilcox - BSW #439
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Security metrics often fail because they measure activity rather than actual risk, often failing to connect with business impact, making them difficult to explain to boards and executives. How do you build efffective metrics that are actionable, contextual, and valuable? Ben Wilcox, CTO & CISO at ProArch, joins Business Security Weekly to help us speak the language of the board. Ben will cover how to develop measurable, strategic, and AI-ready security metrics. In the leadership and communications segment, Only 30 minutes per quarter on cyber risk: Why CISO-board conversations are falling...
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AI Spicy Mode, Steam, Glassworm, Samsung, Stryker, Waymo, Cole Porter, and More - SWN #564
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AI Spicy Mode, Steam, Glassworm, Samsung, Stryker, Waymo, Cole Porter, and More on the Security Weekly News. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
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Creating Better Security Guidance and Code with LLMs - Mark Curphey - ASW #374
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What happens when secure coding guidance goes stale? What happens LLMs write code from scratch? Mark Curphy walks us through his experience updating documentation for writing secure code in Go and recreating one of his own startups. One of the themes of this conversation is how important documentation is, whether it's intended for humans or for prompts to LLMs. Importantly, LLMs don't innovate on their own -- they rely on the data they're trained on. And that means there should be good authoritative sources for what secure code looks like. It also means that instructions to LLMs need to be...
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AI Governance, new book (Code War) from Allie Mellen, and the weekly news! - Jeremy Snyder, Allie Mellen - ESW #450
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Interview with Jeremy Snyder from FireTail about AI Governance Death by a thousand cuts: the AI shadow IT problem I think the best description of the AI governance problem during this interview was the title of the award-winning movie, Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Generative AI has been disrupting businesses, products, and vendor risk management for a few years now. FireTail is one of the companies trying to address this problem for enterprises, so we check in with Jeremy Snyder to see how things are going. Segment 1 Resources: Interview with Allie Mellen about her new book, Code...
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Exposed: Bank Leak, Copilot Zero-Click, AI Agent Hijacks, Stryker Wipe & Josh Marpet - SWN #563
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This episode is all about trust getting abused at scale. We start with Chinese-nexus operators pivoting fast onto Qatar using conflict lures and familiar tradecraft. Then we hit banking, because they deserve it: Lloyds, Halifax, and Bank of Scotland customers seeing other people’s transactions in-app, a straight confidentiality failure, not “someone hacked my phone”. From there it’s the Middle East conflict exposing what “cloud resilience” really means when the problem isn’t cyber, it’s physical disruption and dependency chains. Then Meta’s takedown of 150,000 scam-linked...
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Vulnerability Mis-Management - PSW #917
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In the security news this week: The XZ backdoor documentary Zero days - the clock isn't ticking Vulnerability Mis-Management Reversing traffic light controllers Reversing with Claude Don't curl to bash! Reading CVEs makes my head hurt Dumping browser secrets I open-sourced a new(ish) tool D-LINK exploits There is no password I control the building When old vulnerabilities become new Tile is for stalkers Hacking AI Iran War: What cybersecurity needs to know National cyber strategy Coruna I got phished and I want a refund Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes:
info_outlineInterview with Kara Sprague - The AI Fix for Infrastructure’s Oldest Security Risks.
Critical infrastructure, often built on decades-old systems and legacy code, remains vulnerable to cyberattacks. From pipelines and energy grids to transportation networks, we break down where critical infrastructure is vulnerable and how AI could potentially help strengthen defenses.
Interview with Mike Privette - The State of the Cybersecurity Market
Here at ESW, we use Mike Privette's Security, Funded newsletter to prepare for every news segment. His newsletter covers the latest fundings, acquisitions, public market performance, layoffs, and other pertinent market details every week. We particularly enjoy the weekly Vibe Check.
In this interview, he joins us for the third year in a row, to discuss the most interesting insights from his annual State of Market Report.
Post recording Adrian here: Whooooo, so this conversation was SO good, I decided to punt the news segment in favor of a part 2 with Mike, so enjoy!
Also, though I punted the news segment, I did collect these stories and annotated them, so I think there's still some value in leaving them in the show notes. Scroll down for the links and my comments on each of these!
Weekly Enterprise News
Finally, in the enterprise security news,
- funding announcements seem to be ramping up before RSA
- Should security architects be shifting right?
- How McKinsley’s AI platform got hacked… by AI
- Amazon is having a bad time with AI lately
- Europe announces a Google Workspace/Microsoft 365 replacement
- Robot dogs are apparently guarding datacenters now
- Some much needed security humor in our squirrel stories before we all fly to San Francisco and lose our minds for a week
All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-451