Many people think security is too difficult to learn because it is such a big field, and constantly growing. But it's endlessly fascinating and surprising, once you learn some fundamentals and get used to feeling stupid. My task is to help people get started, and learn how to appreciate this complex and challenging topic.
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In the Leadership and Communications section, Uber CISO's trial underscores the importance of truth, transparency, and trust, 4 Leadership Strategies to Help Women Advance in the Tech Industry, 5 Best Predictors of Employee Turnover and What Leaders Should Do About Them, and more!
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This week in the AppSec News: SynLapse shows shell injection via ODBC, Java deserialization example, MFA for Ruby Gems ecosystem, simple flaws in firmware, the decade-long journey of a Safari vuln, & more!
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IE has gone to 11 and is no more. There's some notable history related to IE11 and bug bounty programs. In 2008, Katie Moussouris and others from Microsoft announced their vulnerability disclosure program. In 2013 this evolved into a bug bounty program piloted with IE11, with award ranges from $500 to $11,000. Ten years later, that bounty range is still common across the industry. The technical goals of the program remain similar as well -- RCEs, universal XSS, and sandbox escapes are all vulns that can easily gain $10,000+ (or an order of magnitude greater) in modern browser bounty programs. So, even if we've finally moved on from a browser with an outdated security architecture, we're still dealing with critical patches in modern browsers. Fortunately, the concept of bounty programs continues.
References:
- https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-08/Reavey/MSRC.pdf
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130719064943/http://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/report/IE11.aspx
- https://web.archive.org/web/20190507215514/
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/bluehat/2013/07/03/new-bounty-programs-one-week-in/
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With recent proposed rule making from he SEC, there is increased focus on the Board's involvement in governing and managing cybersecurity. What is changing in how effective CISO's engage with their Board of Directors and what is over the horizon for cybersecurity leaders?
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What does a CISO do all day? Do they eat bon-bons and read the WSJ? Do they read Threatpost or BleepingComputer or Twitter? Why does a company need a CISO, or better still, do they need one? All these questions and more will be answered in this weeks episode.
Segment Resources:
https://www.cbts.com/security/security-services/
https://www.cbts.com/blog/cloud-security-controls-mitigate-risk/
https://www.cbts.com/blog/weighing-risks-benefits-moving-to-the-cloud-part-1/
https://www.cbts.com/blog/what-is-cyber-insurance/
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We will cover high level winning strategies in cybersecurity marketing. The do's and don'ts for our specific industry and key factors of success in a go to market strategy.
Segment Resources: https://cybersecuritymarketingsociety.com/podcast/
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Two important shifts over the last two years transformed what we once knew as an on-premise ecosystem into a global system accessible from anywhere. One is remote work, which began as a temporary measure to get us through the early days of the pandemic and has since become the norm. The other is cloud adoption, which was mainstream even before the pandemic, but has seen another bump in the last two years. As a result, the internet has become the new corporate network. Where do we go from here?
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Phishing attacks are increasingly focused on new vectors such as social media, business collaboration apps, and text messages. These vectors generally lack any protection for the end user. How can we protect against these attacks that are increasingly leading to costly breaches?
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Employee turnover is the biggest threat to any organization's IP. Nearly 60% of employees move to a new company within similar fields (think: competitors) and are using collaboration technology to take sensitive data at an alarming rate. Code42's Joe Payne will discuss how Insider Risk Management addresses data loss in a volatile job market while still enabling collaboration.
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This week in the Security News: Big DDOS, tracking smartphones, play Doom in your BIOS, hertzbleed, Apple M1 vulnerability, who will buy NSO, spoof your location data, building system attacks, and a hacker's revenge!
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This week, in the Enterprise News: Vanta raises a $110M Series B to automate SOC 2, ISO, PCI and other compliance efforts Immuta raises a $100M Series E for secure data access (an everything-old-is-new-again market that’s exploding) Perimeter 81 raises $100M Series C and becomes a unicorn - You get a VPN! I get a VPN! Everyone gets a VPN! Over a dozen other vendors raise funding! IBM acquires EASM vendor, Randori Another Azure vulnerability allowing tenancy escapes Microsoft’s Purview goes beyond DLP and gets into the pre-crime business Half a dozen cybersecurity vendor layoff announcements! We discuss the controversy around Rob Lee’s involvement with developing federal standards for critical infrastructure protection and we say farewell (and good riddance) to Internet Explorer… but not really Then, after the news, we’re going to air some segments recorded at the RSA conference last week.
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Michigan has a group of volunteers who assist local governments and public services with incident response. The program is relatively mature, and will be presented (along with those of Ohio and Wisconsin) at the upcoming National Governors Association Cybersecurity Summit. Come hear the interview and scoop the governors!
Segment Resources:
Our home page http://micybercorps.org
Our supporting legislation https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/mcl/pdf/mcl-Act-132-of-2017.pdf
Our partner organization https://www.michigan.gov/dtmb/services/cybersecurity/cyber-partners
Key article in moving our development forward - https://warontherocks.com/2018/01/estonias-approach-cyber-defense-feasible-united-states/
An article with more info https://www.lawfareblog.com/bridging-state-level-cybersecurity-resources
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This week in the AppSec News: OWASP Top 10 for Kubernetes, Firefox improves security with process isolation, CNCF releases guidance on Secure Software Factories and Cloud Native Security, & the DOJ clarifies its policy on CFAA!
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Developers want bug-free code -- it frees up their time and is easier to maintain. They want secure code for the same reasons. We'll talk about how the definition of secure coding varies among developers and appsec teams, why it's important to understand those perspectives, and how training is just one step towards building a security culture.
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Defining Cyber Risk With Bryan Ware This year, RSAC is happening amidst the backdrop of major geopolitical tensions with cyber impacts; a continued, lingering pandemic and a potential economic downturn that cyber adversaries can and have leveraged to their benefit; and increasing technological innovation. All of this points toward ever-evolving cyber risk. What are some of the key considerations that executives – both ones with cyber expertise and ones without – should keep in mind as they look to not only define cyber risk but also reduce it and ensure operational resiliency? In this segment, we’ll hear thoughts from Bryan Ware, the new CEO of LookingGlass Cyber Solutions, former CEO of Next5, a business intelligence and advisory firm, and the first presidentially appointed Assistant Director of Cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Is the Market Ready for Integrated Cyber Risk Management? Cyber risk management is now a dynamic practice for security teams and leadership. It requires up-to-date risk intelligence across many factors – external, internal, third parties, cloud posture – to inform the right decisions and enable cyber risk quantification and risk modeling to be more dynamic. Victor will discuss what drove him to leave security leadership and start a company to solve the problems he experienced with cyber risk management and how the market is responding.
Segment Resources:
https://fortifydata.com/request-an-assessment
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There are a few IETF standards that make the identity world go 'round. SAML, FIDO and LDAP are ones that we know and love... but there's one particularly un-loved standard that is the glue between most identity systems -- cloud and on-prem -- out there. It's called SCIM and -- good news -- smart people are working on improving this 10+ year old standard. Big changes coming, and here to talk with us about it is Paul Lanzi...
Segment Resources:
https://identiverse.com/idv2022/ (Paul on Wednesday)
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Seamlessly Connect & Protect Entire IT Ecosystem The new business reality is that everything is connected, and everyone is vulnerable. In today’s world, security resilience is imperative, and Cisco believes it requires an open, unified security platform that crosses hybrid multi-cloud environments. Our vision for the Cisco Security Cloud will reshape the way organizations approach and protect the integrity of the entire IT ecosystem.
Segment Resources:
Cisco Security Resilience: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/security/security-resilience.html
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The Culture Blindspot: Harmonizing DevSecOps Helps Curb Burnout Recent data shows that security and development teams are still stressed, and they’re taking that stress home with them. Not only are they spending unnecessary hours addressing security issues that they could have otherwise prevented with modern tools and best practices, but also these teams are taking time out of their personal lives during holidays and on weekends to manage critical issues, contributing to burnout and ultimately churn. There’s good news, though: relationships between security and development are steadily improving, and with the right support and modern tooling at hand, you can transform the lives of cybersecurity professionals while also boosting your organization’s security posture, too.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw200
In the Leadership and Communications section, Being concerned is not enough – What boards should know and do about cybersecurity, In the Case of Cybersecurity, the Best Defense is Education, Reskilling workers can help meet the cybersecurity staffing challenge, and more!
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HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends, Career Advice and Professional Development, Active Exploitation of Confluence CVE-2022-26134
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In our research, 85% of security professionals attribute preventable business impacts to insufficient response practices. In this segment, Bill will discuss the key challenges slowing down response times, such as staffing challenges, alert quality, and organizational culture as primary factors slowing down response.
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Data is the most valuable resource on the planet; but, as businesses collect and store data at an astonishing pace, data sprawl, volume, and diverse storage environments create a security nightmare. With support for hundreds of data stores across leading cloud providers and thousands of automation and response integrations, Imperva Data Security Fabric modernizes and simplifies data governance, security, and workflow management for data in all forms across multicloud and hybrid environments. The product’s flexible architecture supports structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data across a range of data repositories to ensure security policies are applied consistently everywhere so businesses can quickly understand and mitigate risk.
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Finally, in the Enterprise Security News, Funding is back, in preparation for RSA! Devo raises $100M and becomes our 56th unicorn, JupiterOne raises $70M and becomes our 57th unicorn! Open source projects get some security funding, 10 more funding announcements, Mimecast has been taken private and is now delisted from the NASDAQ, ReliaQuest acquires Digital Shadows, We talk about public and private market performance, The cybersecurity skills crisis gets worse, Expired certs + IoT devices = PAIN! All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw276
This segment will be an opportunity to discuss web application client-side security with subject matter expert Matt McGuirk from Source Defense. Modern web applications have a massive and misunderstood attack surface that exists within the webpages they serve. Potential discussion topics: - A visual overview of the problem - A simulated client-side attack - How to evaluate client-side risk on a given web site - What technologies are available to defend against client-side attacks - Historical case studies of landmark attacks
Segment Resources:
"Magecart 101" - a courseware-style overview of the problem for security practioners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4al8idAE_M
A quick five minute explainer on the problem and Source Defense's solution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8MO45EQcKY
Source Defense's brand new (as of 5/25/22) "State of the Industry" report for client-side security: https://info.sourcedefense.com/third-party-digital-supply-chain-report-white-papere
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This week in the Security News: Analyzing chat logs with Python, consumer reports for IoT, hypothetically BS, the year of the Linux desktop and the year of Linux malware are the same, do you trust Google to tell you open-source software is secure?, Twitter fines, WSL attack vector, Follina, UK Government still won't pay a bounty, and ransomware that makes you a better person!
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In the Autumn of 2019, Salesforce started on an ambitious journey - to require all of their customers to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) as of February 2022. The journey required the collaboration of every product line and every business function within Salesforce. And the journey potentially required every single one of Salesforce’s customer to deploy new technology and to change all of their user’s behavior. Clearly this would be no simple journey, but it was one with massive rewards for everyone involved. Join Ian Glazer as he discusses the impetus for Salesforce’s MFA push, the challenges of such a large scale endeavor, some of the setbacks and victories along the way, and, most importantly, what you can take from Salesforce’s journey towards complete customer MFA adoption and apply it in your own organization.
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Boards and CEOs are asking what their cyber risk posture is, and they aren't getting clear answers. Reports produced from assessments oftentimes are built on stale data rather than real-time compliance and risk data. How should C-levels be thinking about cybersecurity posture reporting, and how can they manage cyber risk in real-time as opposed to point-in-time?
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw263