Legacy systems are riddled with outdated and unreliable cryptographic standards. So much so that recent proprietary research found 61 percent of the traffic was unencrypted, and up to 80% of encrypted network traffic has some defeatable flaw in its encryption
No longer can enterprises take their cryptography for granted, rarely evaluated or checked.
Knowing when, where and what type of cryptography is used throughout the enterprise and by which applications is critical to your overall security policy, zero-trust approach, and risk management strategy. After all, zero-trust is meaningless if your cryptography isn't working.
Segment Resources: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20231030166159/en/Proprietary-Research-from-Quantum-Xchange-Shows-the-Dreadful-State-of-Enterprise-Cryptography
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This segment is sponsored by Quantum Xchange. Visit https://securityweekly.com/quantumxchange to learn more about them!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-349
As a computer-smitten middle-schooler in the former Soviet Union in the 1970s, to his current and prominent role in the cybersecurity research community, Bratus aims to render the increasingly prevalent and perilous software, hardware, and networks in our lives much safer to use. His fascination with computer security started for real in the 1990s as a mathematics graduate student when a computer he was programming and responsible for at Northeastern University in Boston was taken over by a hacker. That experience set him on his life’s mission to learn as much as he can about the vulnerabilities of software and hardware with the goal of learning how to best minimize or eliminate those vulnerabilities. Noting his embrace of the hacker community for its deep and innovative expertise in this context, Bratus’s portfolio at DARPA could help reduce or entirely remove even some of the most stealthy and unexpected vulnerabilities that reside in software and its logical, computational, and mathematical foundations.
Segment Resources:
• Overall Portfolio: https://www.darpa.mil/staff/dr-sergey-bratus
• Safe Documents: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-06-14
• Enhanced SBOM for Optimized Software Sustainment: https://sam.gov/opp/d0af3e325a594a8191b94e3f80b6bdcd/view
• V-SPELLS program: https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/18/darpalegacybinary_patching/
• Digital Corpora Project: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/jpl-creates-worlds-largest-pdf-archive-to-aid-malware-research
• SocialCyber: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/07/14/1055894/us-military-sofware-linux-kernel-open-source/
• Weird Machines: https://www.darpa.mil/program/hardening-development-toolchains-against-emergent-execution-engines
• Safe Docs: https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2023-06-14
• Exploit programming: https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/december-2011-volume-36-number-6/exploit-programming-buffer-ove
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-816
Qualys discloses syslog and qsort vulns in glibc, Apple's jailbroken iPhone for security researchers, moving away from OpenSSL, what an ancient vuln in image parsing can teach us today, and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-272
Teens Gone Wild, Nintendo, Anydesk, RUST, Google, Deepfakes, Jason Wood, and more are on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-360
We can't talk about OWASP without talking about lists, but we go beyond the lists to talk about a product security framework. Grant shares his insights on what makes lists work (and not work). More importantly, he shares the work he's doing to spearhead a new OWASP project to help scale the creation of appsec programs, whether you're on your own or part of a global org.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-272
Large security vendors and hyperscalers, including Microsoft, continue to expand their cybersecurity product and service portfolios. Microsoft’s extensive enterprise reach, massive partner network, and enormous influence in the C-suite puts pressure on CIOs and CISOs to consolidate on it as much as possible for cybersecurity. This report helps security leaders understand Microsoft’s cybersecurity portfolio, the tactics it uses, and how to manage peer and executive pressure to single-source security technology.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-337
It's time to review the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. We also update you on the Security Weekly 25 index. The index came roaring back last quarter. Here are the stocks currently in the index:
SCWX Secureworks Corp PANW Palo Alto Networks Inc CHKP Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. SPLK Splunk Inc GEN Gen Digital Inc FTNT Fortinet Inc AKAM Akamai Technologies, Inc. FFIV F5 Inc ZS Zscaler Inc OSPN Onespan Inc LDOS Leidos Holdings Inc QLYS Qualys Inc VRNT Verint Systems Inc. CYBR Cyberark Software Ltd TENB Tenable Holdings Inc DARK Darktrace PLC S SentinelOne Inc NET Cloudflare Inc CRWD Crowdstrike Holdings Inc NTCT NetScout Systems, Inc. VRNS Varonis Systems Inc RPD Rapid7 Inc FSLY Fastly Inc RDWR Radware Ltd ATEN A10 Networks Inc
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-337
E-Coli, Mercedes, Cloudflare, Ivanti, Volt Typhoon, GIGO, AI, Congress, Aaran Leyland, and more are on this edition of the Security Weekly News.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-359
In this week's Enterprise Security News, Adrian, Tyler, and Katie discuss: 1. Tons of funding! 2. A notable acquisition! 3. The line is blurring between services and product firms 4. Apparently IronNet isn’t dead? 5. The toxicity of Hero culture in tech 6. Knowing when to quit 7. AI-powered fraud is hitting close to home 8. Quantum snake oil is getting worse 9. Prompt injection 10. Are you being hacked by your washing machine?
All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-348
We've seen general users targeted with phishing, financial employees targeted for BEC scams, and engineers targeted for access to infrastructure. The truly scary attacks, however, are the indirect ones that are automated. The threats that come in via software updates, or trusted connections with third parties.
The software supply chain is both absolutely essential, and fragile. A single developer pulling a tiny library out of NPM can cause chaos. A popular open source project changing hands could instantly give access to millions of systems. Every day, a new app store or component repository pops up and becomes critical to maintaining infrastructure.
In this interview, we'll chat with Pete Morgan about how these risks can be managed and mitigated.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-348
Danny Jenkins, CEO & Co-Founder of ThreatLocker, a cybersecurity firm providing Zero Trust endpoint security, is a leading cybersecurity expert with over two decades of experience building and securing corporate networks, including roles on red and blue teams. He is dedicated to educating industry professionals about the latest cyber threats and frequently speaks on the topics of ransomware and Zero Trust.
This segment is sponsored by ThreatLocker. Visit https://securityweekly.com/threatlocker to learn more about them!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-815
When an RCE really isn’t, your kernel is vulnerable, calling all Windows 3.11 experts, back to Ebay, Turkish websites and credentials, 10 public exploits for the same vulnerability, hacking Bitcoin ATMs, another vulnerability disclosure timeline gone wrong, Flipper Zero tips and how you should not use it to change traffic lights, Windows 11 S mode, and you’re dead (but like in the movie Hackers dead), and more!
Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-815