Enterprise Security Weekly (Audio)

News, analysis, and insights into enterprise security. We put security vendors under the microscope, and explore the latest trends that can help defenders succeed. Hosted by Adrian Sanabria. Co hosts: Katie Teitler-Santullo, Ayman Elsawah, Jason Wood, Jackie McGuire.

The enterprise security news, more secure by removing credentials, & RSAC interviews - Marty Momdjian, Amit Saha, Dr. Tina Srivastava - ESW #410 06/09/2025

The enterprise security news, more secure by removing credentials, & RSAC interviews - Marty Momdjian, Amit Saha, Dr. Tina Srivastava - ESW #410 Segment 1 - Enterprise Security News, Live at IDV This week, in the enterprise security news, Acquisitions potential IPOs Terminator Salvation in real life First $1B one-employee business? Mikko puts in his notice Pitch Black in real life, and more! Segment 2 - Interview with Dr. Tina Srivastava The #1 cause of data breaches is stolen credentials. What if we didn’t store credentials anymore? We explore Badge’s innovative approach—which enables users to generate a private key on the fly instead of storing credentials—to enhance security, solve key use cases such as shared devices, and deliver measurable ROI. Additionally, we'll uncover the unavoidable recovery flow challenges, where users must rely on a pre-enrolled recovery device or fallback passwords, and discuss what this means for enterprise security and cost savings. By shifting the paradigm toward ephemeral key generation, Badge eliminates stored credentials, optimizes enterprise cost savings, and future-proofs authentication. Segment Resources: Segment 3 - Interviews from RSAC 2025 Executive Interview with Saviynt Evolving compliance needs, overflowing tech stacks, and the ever-increasing number of types of enterprise identities — not to mention the complications resulting from business use of AI — means traditional identity platforms can't keep up with the needs of today's enterprises. Organizations need something smarter: converged, cloud-native and future-ready identity security that scales with enterprises as they grow, addressing their cybersecurity challenges today and in the future. Join us in this episode as we break down the shortcomings of legacy IAM and uncover how an intelligent, identity-centric approach sets enterprises on the path to success. Segment Resources: Learn more about Identity Cloud This segment is sponsored by Saviynt! To learn more or get a free demo, please visit Executive Interview with Ready1 Semperis has launched Ready1, a first-of-its-kind enterprise resilience platform designed to bring structure, speed, and coordination to cyber crisis management. The release of Ready1 coincides with Semperis’ new global study, The State of Enterprise Cyber Crisis Readiness, which highlights a dangerous gap between perceived readiness and real-world response capabilities. This segment is sponsored by Ready1, powered by Semperis. Visit to learn more about them! Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36897270

Building Cyber Resilience: AI Threats, Mid-Market Risks & Ransomware Trends - Karl Van den Bergh, Tony Anscombe, Eyal Benishti, Nick Carroll, Chad Alessi, Chris Peluso - ESW #409 06/02/2025

Building Cyber Resilience: AI Threats, Mid-Market Risks & Ransomware Trends - Karl Van den Bergh, Tony Anscombe, Eyal Benishti, Nick Carroll, Chad Alessi, Chris Peluso - ESW #409 Segment 1 CTG Interview Middle market companies face unique challenges in the ever-evolving cyber environment. Developing a comprehensive cybersecurity approach is a business imperative for middle market companies, and Chad Alessi will discuss the threat landscape, what’s keeping IT decision-makers awkward at night, and the best approach to creating a proactive security measure. This segment is sponsored by CTG. Visit to learn more about them! Nightwing Interview Nightwing divested from Raytheon in April 2024 and is entering another year of redefining national security. Amid emerging threats and shifting industry regulations and compliance frameworks, traditional security measures are no longer cutting it. As Cyber Incident Response Manager at Nightwing, Nick Carroll discusses how organizations can continue to build cyber resiliency and stay one step ahead in today’s threat landscape. This segment is sponsored by Nightwing. Visit to learn more about them! Segment 2 Libraesva Interview Generative AI is having a transformative effect across almost every industry, but arguably the area it has had the most significant impact is cybercrime. Discriminative AI can now learn to recognize what constitutes normal communication patterns, so anything out of the ordinary can be flagged. AI is also enabling human security analysts to automate the triage of reported emails, to rapidly identify false positives and keep up with emerging cybercriminal tactics. Finally, specialized Small Language Models (SLMs) using neural networks are able to analyze and comprehend the semantic intent of the message. This segment is sponsored by Libraesva. Visit to learn more about them! IRONSCALES Interview Phishing has evolved—fast. What started as basic email scams has transformed into AI-powered cyber deception. Phishing 1.0: Early phishing relied on spam emails, fake banking alerts, and malware links to trick users into clicking Phishing 2.0: Attackers got smarter—instead of mass emails, they started impersonating real people Phishing 3.0: Now, cybercriminals are using AI to generate fake but highly convincing voices, videos, and images IRONSCALES discusses the current gaps in SEG technology and will showcase industry-first innovations for protection against deepfakes. This segment is sponsored by IRONSCALES. Visit to learn more about them! Segment 3 Illumio Interview In the post-breach world, speed and clarity are essential for effective cybersecurity. Security teams are inundated with vast amounts of data, much of which is not actionable. To combat cyber threats—and level the playing field—defenders need precise intelligence to identify attacks, dynamically quarantine threats, and prevent cyber disasters, highlighting the power of the security graph. Segment Resources: More information about This segment is sponsored by Illumio. Visit for information on Illumio Insights or to sign up for a private preview! ESET Interview The ransomware landscape is rapidly changing. ESET global research team has been closely following ransomware gang disruptions, new players and how the RaaS business model continues to evolve. In this segment, Tony Anscombe will take a look into recent research, hacks and attacks, and explore how the industry and businesses are responding to combat financial risk and mitigate threats. Segment Resources: This segment is sponsored by ESET. Visit to learn more about them! Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36791695

Reality check on SOC AI; Enterprise News; runZero and Imprivata RSAC interviews - Erik Bloch, HD Moore, Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #408 05/26/2025

Reality check on SOC AI; Enterprise News; runZero and Imprivata RSAC interviews - Erik Bloch, HD Moore, Joel Burleson-Davis - ESW #408 Segment 1: Erik Bloch Interview The math on SOC AI just isn't adding up. It's not easy to do the math, either, as each SOC automation vendor is tackling alert fatigue and SecOps assistants a bit differently. Fortunately for us and our audience, Erik Bloch met with many of these vendors at RSAC and is going to share what he learned with us! Segment 2: Enterprise Weekly News In this week's enterprise security news, 1. Some interesting new companies getting funding 2. Chainguard isn’t unique anymore 3. AI slop coming to open source soon 4. Wiz dominance analysis 5. the IKEA effect in cybersecurity 6. LLM model collapse 7. vulnerabilities 8. DFIR reports 9. and fun with LinkedIn and prompt injection! Segment 3: RSAC Interviews runZero Interview with HD Moore Despite becoming a checkbox feature in major product suites, vulnerability management is fundamentally broken. The few remaining first-wave vulnerability scanners long ago shifted their investments and attention into adjacent markets to maintain growth, bolting on fragmented functionality that's added complexity without effectively securing today's attack surfaces. Meanwhile, security teams are left contending with massive blind spots and disparate tools that collectively fail to detect exposures that are commonly exploited by attackers. Our industry is ready for change. Jeff and HD explore the current state of vulnerability management, what’s required to truly prevent real-world incidents, new perspectives that are challenging the status quo, and innovative approaches that are finally overcoming decades old problems to usher in a new era of vulnerability management. Segment Resources: Read more about runZero's recent launch, including new exposure management capabilities: Watch a two-minute summary and deeper dive videos here: Tune into runZero's monthly research webcast, runZero Hour, to hear about the team's latest research findings and additional debate on all things exposure management: Try runZero free for 21 days by visiting . After 21 days, the trial converts into a free Community Edition license that is great for small environments and home networks. Imprivata interview with Joel Burleson-Davis Organizations in mission-critical industries are acutely aware of the growing cyber threats, like the Medusa ransomware gang attacking critical US sectors, but are wary that implementing stricter security protocols will slow productivity and create new barriers for employees. This is a valid concern, but organizations should not accept the trade-off between the inevitability of a breach by avoiding productivity-dampening security measures, or the drop in employee productivity and rise in frustration caused by implementing security measures that might mitigate a threat like Medusa. In this conversation, Joel will discuss how organizations can build a robust security strategy that does not impede productivity. He will highlight how Imprivata’s partnership with SailPoint enables stronger enterprise identity security while enhancing efficiency—helping organizations strike the right balance. This segment is sponsored by Imprivata. Visit to learn more about them! Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36699175

The State of Cybersecurity Readiness for the Next Big Emergency - David Aviv, Bri Frost, Marshall Erwin - ESW #407 05/19/2025

The State of Cybersecurity Readiness for the Next Big Emergency - David Aviv, Bri Frost, Marshall Erwin - ESW #407 Segment 1: Fastly Interview In this week's interview segment, we talk to Marshall Erwin about the state of cybersecurity, particularly when it comes to third party risk management, and whether we're ready for the next big SolarWinds or Crowdstrike incident. These big incidents have inspired executive orders, the Secure by Design initiative, and even a memo from JPMorgan Chase's CISO. We will discuss where Marshall feels like we should be pushing harder, where we've made some progress, and what to do about incentives. How do you convince a software supplier or service provider to prioritize security over features? This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit to learn more about them! Segment 2: Weekly Enterprise News In this week's enterprise security news, Agents replacing analysis is highly misunderstood only one funding round Orca acquires Opus to automate remediation OneDrive is updating to make BYOD worse? Companies are starting to regret replacing workers with AI Is venture capital hanging on by a thread (made of AI)? Potential disruption in the traditional vuln mgmt space! MCP is already looking like a dumpster fire from a security perspective malicious NPM packages and, IS ALCHEMY REAL? Segment 3: RSAC Conference 2025 Interviews Interview 1: Pluralsight Emerging technologies like AI and deepfakes have significantly complicated the threat landscape of today. As AI becomes more integrated into our lives, everyone - not just cybersecurity professionals - needs to develop security literacy skills to keep themselves, their organizations, and their loved ones safe. Luckily, there are countermeasures to spot and identify AI and deepfake-related threats in the wild. In this segment, Pluralsight's Director of Security and IT Ops Curriculum, Bri Frost, discusses how AI has changed the cybersecurity industry, how to spot AI and deepfakes in the wild, and the skills you should know to defend against these emerging threats. This segment is sponsored by Pluralsight. Visit to learn the skills you need to defend against the latest cyber threats! Interview 2: Radware Adversaries are rewriting the cybersecurity rules. Shifts in the threat landscape are being fueled by attackers with political and ideological agendas, more sophisticated attack tools, new coalitions of hacktivists, and the democratization of AI. Radware CTO David Aviv will discuss how companies must adapt their cyber defenses and lead in an evolving era of asymmetric warfare and AI-driven attacks. This segment is sponsored by Radware. Visit to learn more about them! Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36625135

Secrets and their role in infrastructure security - Jawahar Sivasankaran, Chas Clawson, Sergey Gorbaty, Fernando Medrano - ESW #406 05/12/2025

Secrets and their role in infrastructure security - Jawahar Sivasankaran, Chas Clawson, Sergey Gorbaty, Fernando Medrano - ESW #406 Segment 1 - Secrets and their role in infrastructure security From API keys and tokens to environment variables and credentials, secrets are foundational—and often overlooked—attack surfaces in cloud-native and distributed systems. We break down the risks tied to poor secret hygiene, discuss emerging patterns for secure secret management at scale, and shares insights on integrating secrets management into systems design. This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit to learn more about them! Segment 2 - Weekly Enterprise News In this week's enterprise security news, we have: Funding, mostly focused on identity security and ‘secure-by-design’ Palo Alto acquires one of the more mature AI security startups, Protect AI LimaCharlie is first with a cybersecurity-focused MCP offering Meta releases a ton of open source AI security tooling, including LlamaFirewall Exploring the state of AI in the SOC The first research on whether AI is replacing jobs is out Some CEOs are requiring employees to be more productive with AI Are prompts the new IOCs? Are puppies the new booth babes? We get closure on two previous stories we covered: one about an ex-Disney employee, and one about a tiny dog Segment 3 - Executive Interviews from RSAC CYWARE The legacy SecOps market is getting disrupted. The traditional way of ingesting large troves of data, analysis and actioning is not efficient today. Customers and the market are moving towards a more threat centric approach to effectively solve their security operations challenges. Cybersecurity Alert Fatigue! Frost & Sullivan's This segment is sponsored by Cyware. Visit to request a demo! SUMOLOGIC Intelligent SecOps is more than a buzzword—it's a blueprint for modernizing security operations through real-time analytics, contextual threat intelligence, and AI-powered automation. In this segment, Sumo Logic’s Field CTO Chas Clawson explains how SOC teams can accelerate detection and response, cut through alert noise, and improve security outcomes by fusing AI-driven automation with human context and expertise. He also shares the latest security capabilities Sumo Logic announced at the RSA Conference to help organizations build and operate Intelligent SecOps. Press Release: Blog: Brief: Chas Blog: LinkedIn Live: This segment is sponsored by Sumo Logic. Visit to learn more about them! Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36515050

2025 Security Trends: Identity, Endpoint, Cloud & the Rise of Browser Threats - Jason Mical, Lori Robinson, Hed Kovetz, Rob Allen, Vivek Ramachandran, Alex Pinto - ESW #405 05/05/2025

2025 Security Trends: Identity, Endpoint, Cloud & the Rise of Browser Threats - Jason Mical, Lori Robinson, Hed Kovetz, Rob Allen, Vivek Ramachandran, Alex Pinto - ESW #405 Now in its 18th year, the Verizon Business DBIR is one of the industry’s longest standing and leading reports on the current cybersecurity landscape. This year’s report analyzes more than 22,000 security incidents with victims spanning 139 countries, examining significant growth in third-party involvement in breaches, increases in ransomware and examines the average amounts paid and amount of time to patch vulnerabilities, among many other findings. Segment Resources: - - This segment is sponsored by Verizon Business! To read the full Verizon Business 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report, please visit . Over the past two decades, the browser has evolved from a simple web rendering engine to the primary gateway through which users interact with the internet, be it for work, leisure or transactions. In other words, browsers are becoming the new endpoint. Yet, despite the exponential growth of browser-native attacks, traditional security solutions continue to focus on endpoint and network, leaving a large gaping hole when it comes to browser security. SquareX has started the Year of Browser Bugs (YOBB), a yearlong initiative to draw attention to the lack of security research and rigor in what remains one of the most understudied attack vectors - the browser. Learn more about SquareX's Browser Detection and Response solution at Last Mile Reassembly Attacks: Polymorphic Extensions technical blog: There is a growing overlap between endpoint and cloud environments, creating new security challenges. ThreatLocker has recently released innovative solutions designed to protect organizations operating in this space. These include Cloud Control, Cloud Detect, Patch Management, and other advanced security tools tailored to bridge the gap between endpoint and cloud protection. This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit to learn more about them! Jason Mical, Field CTO, discusses Devo and Detecteam's integrated solution, which proactively improves security posture by identifying and closing detection gaps. The integration combines Devo's comprehensive threat detection, investigation, and response capabilities with Detecteam's autonomic detection lifecycle platform to continuously validate and improve detection capabilities based on real-world attack scenarios. Solution demo: This segment is sponsored by Devo . Visit to learn more about them! While the value of identity security remains largely untapped, SailPoint’s latest Horizons of Identity Security report reveals that organizations with mature identity programs can bend their identity security-to-value curve and recognize disproportionately higher returns. These programs unlock new value pools and can help address emerging challenges, such as securing machine and AI agent identities. The 2024-25 Horizons of Identity Security report: Take the identity security maturity assessment: Learn more about SailPoint’s Customer Experience Portfolio: This segment is sponsored by SailPoint. Visit to learn more about them! Identity has long been the soft underbelly of cybersecurity—but with AI, non-human identities (NHIs), and autonomous agents on the rise, it’s now front and center for security teams, the C-suite, and boardrooms alike. Adversaries aren’t just hacking systems anymore—they’re hijacking identities to slip through the cracks and move undetected in systems. For too long, identity security was treated as interchangeable with IAM—but that mindset is exactly what left critical gaps exposed. Listen to our interview with Hed Kovetz as he unpacks why identity has become today’s most urgent battleground in cyber. He'll what you can do about it with an identity security playbook that gives you the upper hand. This segment is sponsored by Silverfort. Visit to learn more about Silverfort's IDEAL approach to identity security! Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36431265

The Future of Access Management - Jeff Shiner - ESW #404 04/28/2025

The past, present, and future of enterprise AI - Matthew Toussain, Pravi Devineni - ESW #403 04/21/2025

What is old is new again: default deny on the endpoint - Colby DeRodeff, Danny Jenkins - ESW #402 04/14/2025

What is old is new again: default deny on the endpoint - Colby DeRodeff, Danny Jenkins - ESW #402 Default deny is an old, and very recognizable term in security. Most folks that have been in the industry for a long time will associate the concept with firewall rules. The old network firewalls, positioned between the public Internet and private data centers, however, were relatively uncomplicated and static. Most businesses had a few hundred firewall rules at most. The idea of implementing default deny principles elsewhere were attempted, but without much success. Internal networks (NAC), and endpoints (application control 1.0) were too dynamic for the default deny approach to be feasible. Vendors built solutions, and enterprises tried to implement them, but most gave up. Default deny is still an ideal approach to protecting assets and data against attacks - what it needed was a better approach. An approach that could be implemented at scale, with less overhead. This is what we’ll be talking to Threatlocker’s CEO and co-founder, Danny Jenkins, about on this episode. They seemed to have cracked the code here and are eager to share how they did it. This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit to learn more about them! We wanted security data? We got it! Now, what the heck do we DO with all of it? The core challenge of security operations, incident response, and even compliance is still a data management and analysis problem. Which is why we’re seeing companies like Abstract Security pop up to address some of these challenges. Abstract just released a comprehensive eBook on security data strategy, linked below, and you don’t even need to give up an email address to read it! In this interview, we’ll talk through some of the highlights: Challenges Myths Pillars of a data security strategy Understanding the tools available Segment Resources eBook In the enterprise security news, new startup funding what happened to the cybersecurity skills shortage? tools for playing with local GenAI models CVE assignment drama a SIEM-agnostic approach to detection engineering pitch for charity a lost dog that doesn’t want to be found All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36105170

Soft skills for engineers - Evgeniy Kharam, Paul Nguyen - ESW #401 04/07/2025

Soft skills for engineers - Evgeniy Kharam, Paul Nguyen - ESW #401 When we use the phrase "talent gap" in cybersecurity, we're usually talking about adding headcount. For this interview, however, we're focusing on a gap that is evident within existing teams and practitioners - the often misunderstood soft skills gap. Side note: I really hate the term "soft skills". How about we call them "fundamental business skills", or "invaluable career advancement skills"? Hmm, doesn't quite roll off the tongue the same. Soft skills can impact everything, as they impose the limits of how we interact with our world. That goes for co-worker interactions, career advancements, and how we're perceived by our peers and community. It doesn't matter how brilliant you might be - without soft skills, your potential could be severely limited. Did you know that soft skills issues contributed to the Equifax breach? We'll also discuss how fear is related to some of the same limitations and challenges as soft skills. Segment Resources: You might know them from their excellent research work on groups like Scattered Spider, or their refreshing branding/marketing style, but Permiso is laying some impressive groundwork for understanding and defending against identity and cloud-based attacks. In this interview, we talk with co-founder and co-CEO Paul Nguyen about understanding the threats against some of cybercriminals' favorite attack surface, insider threats, and non-human identity compromise. Segment Resources: on Scattered Spider shows how threat actors move laterally in an environment across identity providers, Iaas, PaaS and SaaS environments, and how this lateral movement ultimately creates blind spots for many security teams by Ian Ahl, from fwd:cloudsec 2024, touches on a lot of great TTPs used by attackers in IDPs and in the cloud Another blog, and another, This week, in the enterprise security news, we check the vibes we check the funding we check runZero’s latest release notes tons of free tools! the latest TTPs supply chain threats certs won’t save you GRC needs disruption the latest Rippling/Deel drama All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/36038425

Setting up your SIEM for success - Pitfalls to preclude and tips to take - Geoff Cairns, Neil Desai - ESW #400 03/31/2025

Building the SOC of the Future - JP Bourget, Michael Mumcuoglu - ESW #399 03/24/2025

Building the SOC of the Future - JP Bourget, Michael Mumcuoglu - ESW #399 What does a mature SecOps team look like? There is pressure to do more with less staff, increase efficiency and reduce costs. JP Bourget's experience has led him to believe that the answer isn't a tool upgrade, it's better planning, architecture, and process. In this interview, we'll discuss some of the common mistakes SecOps teams make, and where to start when building the SOC of the future. It feels like forever ago, but in the mid-2010s, we collectively realized, as an industry, that prevention was never going to be enough. Some attacks were always going to make their way through. Then ransomware got popular and really drove this point home. Detection engineering is a tough challenge, however. Where do we start? Which attacks should we build detections for? How much of the MITRE ATT&CK matrix do we need to cover? How often do these detections need to be reviewed and updated? Wait, are any of our detections even working? In this interview with Michael Mumcuoglu, we'll discuss where SecOps teams get it wrong. We'll discuss common pitfalls, and strategies for building more resilient and effective detections. Again, as an industry, we need to understand why ransomware attacks keep going unnoticed, despite attackers using routine techniques and tools that we see over and over and over again. Session Resources: This week, JP Bourget from Blue Cycle is with us to discuss Building the SOC of the Future Then, Michael Mumcuoglu (Moom-cuoglu) from CardinalOps joins us to talk about improving detection engineering. In the enterprise security news, Google bets $32B on a Wiz Kid Cybereason is down a CEO, but $120M richer EPSS version 4 is out Github supply chain attacks all over A brief history of supply chain attacks Why you might want to wait out the Agentic AI trend Zyxel wants you to throw away their (old) products HP printers are quantum resilient (and no one cares) A giant rat is my hero All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/35826870

Penetration Tests: useful, pointless, harmful, required, ineffective? - Phillip Wylie, Marina Segal - ESW #398 03/17/2025

Penetration Tests: useful, pointless, harmful, required, ineffective? - Phillip Wylie, Marina Segal - ESW #398 Penetration tests are probably the most common and recognized cybersecurity consulting services. Nearly every business above a certain size has had at least one pentest by an external firm. Here's the thing, though - the average ransomware attack looks an awful lot like the bog standard pentest we've all been purchasing or delivering for years. Yet thousands of orgs every year fall victim to these attacks. What's going on here? Why are we so bad at stopping the very thing we've been training against for so long? This Interview with Phillip Wylie will provide some insight into this! Spoiler: a lot of the issues we had 10, even 15 years ago remain today. Segment resources: Phillip's talk, from Dia de los Hackers last fall It takes months to get approvals and remediate cloud issues. It can take months to fix even critical vulnerabilities! How could this be? I thought the cloud was the birthplace of agile/DevOps, and everything speedy and scalable in IT? How could cloud security be struggling so much? In this interview we chat with Marina Segal, the founder and CEO of Tamnoon - a company she founded specifically to address these problems. Segment Resources: Gartner prediction: By 2025, 75% of new CSPM purchases will be part of an integrated CNAPP offering. This highlights the growing importance of CNAPP solutions. Cloud security skills gap: Even well-intentioned teams may inadvertently leave their systems vulnerable due to the cybersecurity skills shortage. CNAPP market growth: The CNAPP market is expected to grow from $10.74 billion in 2025 to $59.88 billion by 2034, indicating a significant increase in demand for these solutions. Challenges in Kubernetes security: CSPMs and CNAPPs may have gaps in addressing Kubernetes-specific security issues, which could be relevant to the skills gap discussion. Addressing the skills gap: Investing in training to bridge the cybersecurity skills gap and leveraging CNAPP platforms that combine advanced tools are recommended strategies. Tamnoon's report In this week's enterprise security news, Knostic raises funding The real barriers to AI adoption for security folks What AI is really getting used for in the wild Early stage startup code bases are almost entirely AI generated Hacking your employer never seems to go well should the CISO be the chief resiliency officer? proof we still need more women in tech All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/35713285

Ransomware Attacks a Decade In: What Changed? What Didn't? - benny Vasquez, Mike Mitchell - ESW #397 03/10/2025

Ransomware Attacks a Decade In: What Changed? What Didn't? - benny Vasquez, Mike Mitchell - ESW #397 2025 brings us close to an interesting milestone - ransomware attacks, in their current, enterprise-focused form, are almost a decade old. These attacks are so common today, it's impossible to report on all of them. There are signs of hope, however - ransomware payments are significantly down. There are also signs defenders are getting more resilient, and are recovering more quickly from these attacks. Today, with Intel471's Mike Mitchell, we'll discuss what defenders need to know to protect against today's ransomware attacks. He'll share some stories and anecdotes from his experiences with customers. He'll also share some tips, and tricks for successful hunts, and how to catch attacks before even your tools trigger alerts. Segment Resources: And now, for something completely different! I've always urged the importance for practitioners to understand the underlying technology that they're challenged with defending. When we're yelling at the Linux admins and DevOps folks to "just patch it", what does that process entail? How do those patches get applied? When and how are they released in the first place? This is often one of the sticking points when security folks get nervous about "going open source", as if 90% of the code in their environments doesn't already come from some open source project. It's a legitimate concern however - without a legal contract, and some comfort level that a paid support team is actually going to fix critical vulnerabilities, how do we develop trust or a relationship with an open source project? In this interview, benny Vasquez, the Chair of the board of directors for AlmaLinux, will fill in some of the gaps for us, and help us understand how an open source project can not only be trusted, but in many cases may be more responsive to security teams' needs than a commercial vendor. Segment Resources: benny's on cloud vs on-prem usage across AlmaLinux users In the enterprise security news, Why is a consulting firm raising a $75M Series B? A TON of Cybereason drama just dropped Skybox Security shuts down after 23 years The chilling effect on security leaders is HERE, and what that means IT interest in on-prem, does NOT mean they’re quitting the cloud Updates on the crazy Bybit heist the state of MacOS malware Skype is shutting down Mice with CRISPR’ed woolly mammoth fur is NOT the real life Jurassic Park anyone was expecting All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/35581340

First Do No Harm - Security Challenges in Healthcare - Ed Gaudet, Tanya Janca - ESW #396 03/03/2025

The Future of Cyber Regulation in the New Administration - Ilona Cohen, Jenn Gile - ESW #395 02/24/2025

The Future of Cyber Regulation in the New Administration - Ilona Cohen, Jenn Gile - ESW #395 In this interview, we're excited to have Ilona Cohen to help us understand what changes this new US administration might bring, in terms of cybersecurity regulation. Ilona's insights come partially from her own experiences working from within the White House. Before she was the Chief Legal Officer of HackerOne, she was a senior lawyer to President Obama and served as General Counsel of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB). In this hyper-partisan environment, it's easy to get hung up on particular events. Do many of us lack cross-administration historical perspective? Probably. Should we be outraged by the disillusion of the CSRB, or was this a fairly ordinary occurrence when a new administration comes in? These are the kinds of questions I'll be posing to Ilona in this conversation. 'Shift Left' feels like a cliché at this point, but it's often difficult to track tech and security movements if you aren't interacting with practitioners on a regular basis. Some areas of tech have a longer tail when it comes to late adopters and laggards, and application security appears to be one of these areas. In this interview, Jenn Gile catches us up on AppSec trends. Segment Resources: In the enterprise security news, Change Healthcare’s HIPAA fine is vanishingly small How worried should we be about the threat of AI models? What about the threat of DeepSeek? And the threat of employees entering sensitive data into GenAI prompts? The myth of trillion-dollar cybercrime losses are alive and well! Kagi Privacy Pass gives you the best of both worlds: high quality web searches AND privacy/anonymity Thanks to the UK for letting everyone know about end-to-end encryption for iCloud! What is the most UNHINGED thing you've ever seen a security team push on employees? All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/35383445

Evolving the SOC: Automating Manual Work while Maintaining Quality at Scale - Allie Mellen, Tim MalcomVetter - ESW #394 02/17/2025

The groundbreaking technology addressing employment scams and deepfakes - John Dwyer, Aaron Painter - ESW #393 02/10/2025

The Growth of Women in Cybersecurity Has Slowed - Why, and What Can We Do About It? - Lynn Dohm - ESW #392 02/03/2025

The Growth of Women in Cybersecurity Has Slowed - Why, and What Can We Do About It? - Lynn Dohm - ESW #392 Celebrating and Elevating Women in Cyber: Recently, International Women in Cyber Day (September 1) highlighted the ongoing challenges women face in the cybersecurity field, as well as the progress made in recent years. Women bring exceptional skills and knowledge to cybersecurity; however, it is estimated that they make up only 20% to 25% of the cybersecurity workforce—a percentage that has remained stagnant for years. Even more concerning, women often hit a glass ceiling just six to ten years into their cybersecurity careers. Lynn Dohm sheds light on these issues and emphasizes what the industry needs to focus on to continue celebrating and elevating women in cyber. Segment Resources: by N2K and WiCyS This week, we've added an extra news segment just on AI. Not because we wanted to, but because the news cycle has bludgeoned us into it. My mom is asking about Chinese AI, my neighbor wants to know why his stocks tanked, my clients want to know how to prevent their employees from using DeepSeek, it's a mess. First, a DeepSeek primer, so we can make sure all Enterprise Security Weekly listeners know what they need to know. Then we get into some other AI news stories. DeepSeek Primer I think the most interesting aspect of the DeepSeek announcements is the business/market impact, which isn't really security-related, but could have some impact on security teams. By introducing models that are cheaper to train, sell access to, and less demanding to run on systems, DeepSeek has opened up more market opportunities. That means we'll see generative AI used in markets and ways that didn't make sense before, because it was too expensive. Another aspect that's really confusing is what DeepSeek is or does. For the most part, when someone says "DeepSeek", they could be referring to: the company the open source models released by the company the SaaS service () the mobile app (which is effectively just a front end for #3) the API (which is what the mobile app and SaaS service are built on top of) From a security perspective, there's little to no operational risk around downloading and using the models, though they're likely to get banned, so companies could get in trouble for using them. As for the app, API, or SaaS service, assume everything you type into them is getting collected by China (so, significantly less safe, probably no US companies should do this). But because these services are crazy cheap right now, I wouldn't be surprised if some suppliers and third parties will start using DeepSeek - if your third party service provider is using DeepSeek behind the scenes with your data, you still have problem #2, so best to ensure they're not doing this through updated contract language and call to confirm that they're not currently doing it (can take a while to get a new contract in place). This week in the enterprise security weekly news, we discuss funding and acquisitions Understanding the Semgrep license drama Ridiculous vulnerabilities everywhere: vulns to take down your entire city’s cell service vulns to mess with your Subarus vulns in Microsoft 365 authentication cybersecurity regulations are worthless Facebook is banning people for mentioning Linux Vigilantes on Github Mastercard DNS error Qubes OS Turning a "No" into a conversation All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly! Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/35103660

AI Red Teaming Comes to Bug Bounties - Francis Dinha, Michiel Prins - ESW #391 01/27/2025

The Next Era of Data Security: AI, Cloud, & Compliance - Jeff Smith, Dimitri Sirota, Kiran Chinnagangannagari - ESW #390 01/20/2025

How threat-informed defense benefits each security team member - Frank Duff, Nathan Sportsman - ESW #389 01/13/2025

How threat-informed defense benefits each security team member - Frank Duff, Nathan Sportsman - ESW #389 We're thrilled to have Frank Duff on to discuss threat-informed defense. As one of the MITRE folks that helped create MITRE ATT&CK and ATT&CK evaluations, Frank has been working on how best to define and communicate attack language for many years now. The company he founded, Tidal Cyber is in a unique position to both leverage what MITRE has built with ATT&CK and help enterprises operationalize it. Segment Resources: Tidal Cyber Tidal Cyber We're a fan of hacker lore and history here at Security Weekly. In fact, Paul's Security Weekly has interviewed some of the most notable (and notorious) personalities from both the business side of the industry and the hacker community. We're very excited to share this new effort to document hacker history through in-person interviews. The series is called "Where Warlocks Stay Up Late", and is the creation of Nathan Sportsman and other folks at . The timing is crucial, as a lot of the original hackers and tech innovators are getting older, and we've already lost a few. References: Check out the website and subscribe to get notified of each episode as it is released Check out the and relive your misspent youth! In this latest Enterprise Security Weekly episode, we explored some significant cybersecurity developments, starting with Veracode’s acquisition of Phylum, a company specializing in detecting malicious code in open-source libraries. The acquisition sparked speculation that it might be more about Veracode staying relevant in a rapidly evolving market rather than a strategic growth move, especially given the rising influence of AI-driven code analysis tools. We also covered One Password's acquisition of a UK-based shadow IT detection firm, raising interesting questions about their expansion into access management. Notably, the deal involved celebrity investors like Matthew McConaughey and Ashton Kutcher, suggesting a trend where Hollywood influence intersects with cybersecurity branding. A major highlight was the Cyber Haven breach, where a compromised Chrome extension update led to stolen credentials. The attack was executed through a phishing campaign disguised as a Google policy violation warning. To their credit, Cyber Haven responded swiftly, pulling the extension within two hours and maintaining transparency throughout. This incident underscored broader concerns around the poor security of browser extensions, an issue that continues to be exploited due to lax marketplace oversight. We also reflected on Corey Doctorow's concept of "Enshittification," critiquing platforms that prioritize profit and engagement metrics over genuine user experiences. His decision to disable vanity metrics resonated, especially considering how often engagement numbers are inflated in corporate settings. The episode wrapped with a thoughtful discussion on how CISOs can say "no" more effectively, emphasizing "yes, but" strategies and the importance of consistency. We also debated the usability frustrations of "magic links" for authentication, arguing that simpler alternatives like passkeys or multi-factor codes could offer a better balance between security and convenience. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/34806950

D3FEND 1.0: A Milestone in Cyber Ontology - Peter Kaloroumakis - ESW #388 12/20/2024

The 2024 Cybersecurity Market Review - Mike Privette, Rew Islam - ESW #387 12/13/2024

The 2024 Cybersecurity Market Review - Mike Privette, Rew Islam - ESW #387 For our second year now, Mike Privette, from Return on Security and the Security, Funded newsletter joins us to discuss the year's highlights and what's to come in the next 12 months. In some ways, it has been a return to form for funding, though some casualties of a tough market likely had to seek acquisition when they might have otherwise raised another round and stayed independent a while longer. We'll cover some stats, talk 2025 IPO market, and discuss the likelihood of (already) being in another bubble, particularly with regards to the already saturated AI security market. It won't be all financial trends though, we'll discuss some of the technical market trends, whether they're finding market fit, and how ~50ish AI SOC startups could possibly survive in such a crowded space. In this segment, we discuss two new FIDO Alliance standards focused on credential portability. Specifically, if passwordless is going to catch on, we need to minimize friction and maximize usability. In practice, this means that passkeys must be portable! Rew Islam of Dashlane joins us to discuss the new standards and how they'll help us enter a new age of secure authentication, both for consumers and the enterprise. Segment Resources: This week, in the enterprise security news, NOTE: We didn't get to 2, 3, 5, or 7 due to some technical difficulties and time constraints, but we'll hit them next week! The show notes have been updated to reflect what we actually discussed this week: Snowflake takes security more seriously Microsoft takes security more seriously US Government takes telecom security more seriously Cleo Capital takes security more seriously EU’s DORA takes effect soon Is phishing and security awareness training worthless? CISOs need financial literacy Supply chain firewall is basic but useful All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/34429775

Tackling Barriers on the Road To Cyber Resilience - Rob Allen, Theresa Lanowitz - ESW #386 12/06/2024

Tackling Barriers on the Road To Cyber Resilience - Rob Allen, Theresa Lanowitz - ESW #386 In this final installment of a trio of discussions with Theresa Lanowitz about Cyber Resilience, we put it all together and attempt to figure out what the road to cyber resilience looks like, and what barriers security leaders will have to tackle along the way. We'll discuss: How to identify these barriers to cyber resilience Be secure by design Align cybersecurity investments with the business Also, be sure to check out the first two installments of this series! Episode 380: Episode 383: This segment is sponsored by LevelBlue. Visit to learn more about them! When focused on cybersecurity through a vulnerability management lens, it's tempting to see the problem as a race between exploit development and patching speed. This is a false narrative, however. While there are hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities, each requiring unique exploits, the number of post-exploit actions is finite. Small, even. Although Log4j was seemingly ubiquitous and easy to exploit, we discovered the Log4Shell attack wasn't particularly useful when organizations had strong outbound filters in place. Today, we'll discuss an often overlooked advantage defenders have: mitigating controls like traffic filtering and application control that can prevent a wide range of attack techniques. This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit to learn more about them! This week, in the enterprise security news, Funding and acquisition news slows down as we get into the “I’m more focused on holiday shopping season” North Pole Security picked an appropriate time to raise some seed funding Breaking news, it’s still super easy to exfiltrate data The Nearest Neighbor Attack Agentic Security is the next buzzword you’re going to be tired of soon Frustrations with separating work from personal in the Apple device ecosystem We check in on the AI SOC and see how it’s going Office surveillance technology gives us the creeps All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly. Visit for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: /episode/index/show/eswaudio/id/34318110

2023 Funding and Acquisition Summary with Return on Security - Mike Privette - ESW Vault 11/28/2024

Fixing how cybersecurity products are bought and sold - Mariana Padilla - ESW #385 11/22/2024

AI and the Autonomous SOC - Separating Hype from Reality - Justin Beals, Itai Tevet - ESW #384 11/15/2024

Cybersecurity Budgets: the Journey from Reactive to Proactive - Todd Thiemann, Theresa Lanowitz - ESW #383 11/08/2024

What if securing buildings was as easy as your smartphone? - Damon McDougald, Blaine Frederick, Punit Minocha - ESW #382 11/04/2024

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