According to CybeReady, during such turbulent times, one should regard all emails with extra caution and double-check the sender’s address carefully. Beware of requests that ask for technical assistance such as running software or helping to take down websites. These might not only be illegal but may also be used to hack systems on the corporate network. Try to remember that during times of crisis, there is an increase in phishing attempts of all kinds as hackers take advantage of the situation. In this circumstance, employees need to stay updated from both a news and computing perspective. To be proactive in the defense of computing environments, our security experts recommend:
1. Personal computer and phones: Install the latest operating system and security updates.
2. Implement 2FA/MFA: Use a phone number or authentication app as the second factor of authentication to all important applications, social media accounts (Facebook/Meta, Linkedin, Twitter, etc.), and personal email accounts. Backup email and ensure it is recoverable.
3. Change Passwords: If you are reusing a password in sites that hold your personal information, it is a good time to change your passwords.
4. Support a Culture of Security: Train your employees continuously, advise friends and family to do the same, and take an active role in creating a safer internet.
5. Defend Work from Home Environments: Install the operating system and security updates. If these are available you should see a notification on your computer or phone. Especially important to business continuity in these times of uncertainty is the need for automated cybersecurity training that adapts to employee educational needs and accelerates the learning process.
Segment Resources:
https://cybeready.com/resource-center/playbook
https://cybeready.com/ultimate-guide-to-phishing-protection
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In this segment sponsored by Intel, we will explore all things Intel vPro® platform. Learn how Intel vPro® platform can help you keep your computers up-to-date, prevent attacks, provide reports on the status of the firmware in use, and implement advanced hardware security!
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This topic will go over getting value from SOAR beyond just an initial phishing workflow. It will focus on orchestration and response, give ideas for other types of workflows and change the conversation from using SOAR to replace analysts to increasing SOC retention!
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In the Enterprise Security News, Veza raises $110M for Data Security, Traceable raises $60M for API Security, 10 other security startups get funded, Synopsis buys Whitehat for $330M, HackerOne approves a PullRequest, Bright Security acquires WeHackPurple, LexusNexis acquires BehaviorSec, JupiterOne continues to release some compelling books, the DevSecOps evolution, the future of Product-Led Growth, & more!
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Due to the high influx of security incidents and limited resources available, conducting incident response is an enormous task for all organizations, large or small. This necessitates the use of security automation, in which we would require a single centralized platform that connects to all other security technologies in order to effectively address incidents in a short period of time. SOAR (Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response) functions similarly to an orchestrator, but instead of controlling and conducting multiple individuals playing various instruments, SOAR manipulates a variety of tools to produce a more streamlined and fluent incident response process.
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This week in the Enterprise News: Basis Theory raises $17 million funding round, Crunchbase Funding Round Profile, Devo Acquires AI-Powered Security Automation Innovator to Deliver the “Autonomous SOC”, Hivemapper Dashcam, Authtech, Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s $44 billion offer, Austin Peay State University on Twitter, Basis Theory raises $17 million funding round, & more!
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Digital identity is key to modern security architectures; enables privacy-preserving, trusted services; and drives customer-oriented experiences. Key trends like passwordless, verified credentials, and personal identity will have a profound effect on enterprise security. Discover how you can make the most of these evolutions, and learn how you can support the industry and its professionals.
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Cloud security is confusing enough these days, but a complex product landscape doesn’t make it any easier. In this segment we’ll talk about what’s driving this, how to make sense of it, and where to find things that actually help.
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This week in the Enterprise Security News: Fortress InfoSec raises $125M to help critical infrastructure improve security, ThreatLocker raises $100M, thanks in part to Kaseya’s breach, Obsidian raises $90M to secure SaaS use, DoControl raises $30M to possibly compete with Obsidian, Blueshift raises a seed round to bring SOC and XDR to SMBs, Strike Security raises a seed round to take a different approach to pen testing, Thoma Bravo is still working on an Imprivata exit, The biggest startup failures of all time - how many security vendors are on the list? Is the SEC forcing CISOs into the boardroom, Better, but harder to collect, security metrics, & more!
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This is a recurring segment, in which we bring on a VC to provide an investor’s point-of-view on all this activity. It’s hard to imagine a better investor to join us than Will Lin, co-founder of Forgepoint, one of the few VC firms that exclusively invests in cybersecurity startups! We're very excited to have Will back on and are looking forward to discussing:
- Huge valuations and potential pricing/market resets and corrections
- Interesting new security categories: DSPM, SaaS Security, Enterprise Browsers
- Why security startups seem to be more resilient than in other markets (for reference: https://www.cbinsights.com/research/biggest-startup-failures/)
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Learn all about the technical ins and outs of HP SureClick Enterprise with HP expert Dan Allen and discover how SureClick Enterprise can help improve security efforts in your organization.
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This week in the Enterprise News: Datto to be Acquired by Kaseya for $6.2 Billion, with Funding Led by Insight Partners, Perforce Software Puppet, Synopsys acquires Juniper Networks, Managed detection and response startup Critical Start lands $215M in funding, Thinking About the Future of InfoSec, DuckDuckGo launches Mac app in beta, How I automated my presence in video calls for a week (and nobody knew), Why Do So Many Cybersecurity Products Suck?
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Security professionals face a variety of challenges on a daily basis. The cybersecurity talent shortage and the so-called Great Resignation can lead to gaps in security, an increase in insider threats and overworked employees, not to mention external threats like hacking and ransomware. Digital forensics can help alleviate these challenges with solutions that collect evidence properly, automate workflows, function in Zero Trust environments and detect and mitigate insider threats.
Segment Resources: FTK Over the Air podcast: https://www.exterro.com/ftk-over-the-air-podcast
FTK Feature Focus weekly videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjlGL4cu_NaM0e7h1RCTJwNnZb-dyUf3B
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With cybersecurity attacks continually on the rise, security teams are under more pressure than ever. It’s imperative to use your pen testing resources wisely, leveraging automation capabilities where it makes sense to save time and help conduct more impactful engagements. During this interview, Bob Erdman will discuss how to find the right balance between the reliability and efficiency of pen testing automation with the astuteness and logic of human intervention.
Segment Resources:
The Truth About Pen Testing Automation - https://www.coresecurity.com/blog/the-truth-abouth-pen-testing-automation
Core Impact Rapid Pen Tests - https://www.coresecurity.com/products/core-impact/rapid-pen-tests
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Finally, in the Enterprise Security News for this week: NordVPN raises $100M and becomes the first Lithuanian Unicorn?, Coro lands a $60M Series C for small business-focused security, Airgap Networks closes a funding gap with a $13.4M Series A, Corsha lands a $12M Series A to bring MFA to machine-to-machine API traffic. What? Tru.id lands a $9M seed round to take a stab at using SIM cards for MFA, ex-Alienvault employees raise funding from Ballistic Ventures with Nudge Security, SeeMetrics scores a $6M seed round to provide better KPIs to CISOs, an essay on trust: the two sides of “Say” and “Do”, Ubiquiti continues to alienate the security community with its attacks against Brian Krebs, Why an option to edit tweets is a terrible idea, & more!
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Defensive and Offensive skills have never been mutually exclusive, but the value in training across disciplines has often been overlooked. Catherine joins us today to explain why familiarity with offensive skills, tools, and the attacker's mindset is such a huge benefit for defenders. A few of the highlights we'll cover in this interview include:
- How to get started, learning offensive tools and techniques
- What it means to be an 'Active Defender'
- How to get into the head of the attacker
- How to avoid 'tool-focused tunnel vision'
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In the recent Shields Up advisory, CISA released guidance advising enterprises to prepare for an influx of malicious cyber activity. The advisory includes best practices for reducing the likelihood of a damaging cyber intrusion and how to detect and respond to potential incidents from nation state-sponsored actors. Josh Snow joins Enterprise Security Weekly to provide additional, practical advice for analysts who are on the front lines of the developing cyber conflict. He will dive into the specific practices and protocols that defenders should shore up, as well as behavioral indicators that signal active exploitation attempts.
Segment Resources:
A Practical Guide for Shields Up: https://www.extrahop.com/resources/papers/shields-up-guidance-for-organizations/
Free Shields Up Assessment: https://www.extrahop.com/lp/free-shields-up-assessment/
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In the Enterprise Security News for this week: 14 cybersecurity startups have raised funding! Massive late stage market corrections underway and talks of self-repricing valuations, A private equity firm acquires Zimperium, Even more massive amounts of cryptocurrency are stolen, The NPM package library is under active, constant attack, Microsoft Azure Defender IoT has trivial critical vulnerabilities, White house earmarks $11B for cybersecurity, Death to SPACs, as well as Several new security vendors and products!
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Cybersecurity buzzwords tend to go through a process. They're used as a differentiator. Then everyone adopts them and things get out of control. The term Zero Trust originally gained traction in InfoSec thanks to the model designed by John Kindervag during his time at Forrester. These days, you could be seeing the term Zero Trust because:
1. a vendor makes a product that fits into any one of dozens of categories that contribute to a Zero Trust architecture (IAM, MFA, ZTNA, micro segmentation, directory services, etc)
2. a vendor is using 'zero trust' as a metaphor (small z, small t)
3. a vendor is using 'zero trust' as a philosophy, or company principle (small z, small t)
4. the CMO said it needs to be somewhere on the website for SEO
5. someone told a founder to put it in the sales and/or pitch deck
Steve joins us to separate the cyber virtue signaling from the truth of what Zero Trust actually looks like, why it's difficult, and what impact federal interest in Zero Trust will have on this trend.
Segment Resources:
NIST SP 800-207
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-207/final
UK NCSC ZT Guidance
https://github.com/ukncsc/zero-trust-architecture
USA CISA/OMB ZT Guidance
DOD ZT Reference Architecture
https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Library/(U)ZT_RA_v1.1(U)_Mar21.pdf
Microsoft ZT Guidance
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security/zero-trust/
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High School students represent the very beginning of the pipeline for the Cyber industry. What are the attitudes and perspectives of these young people? How can we attract the best and brightest into our industry?
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In the Enterprise Security News for this week: Island raises another $115M to build a secure web browser, less than 2 months after raising $100M, Bionic raises $65M for application intelligence, Israeli startup HUB Security merges with a SPAC to go public on the NASDAQ at a $1.28B valuation, Cybersecurity now has 53 unicorns, which are the most interesting to follow? New data shows VCs pulling back on Series A, B, and C, but is this data any good? Over 90% of orgs had an incident tied to a third party last year, the SEC might require public companies to report hacks and hand over details, & more!
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The uptick in cyber incidents- and in particular ransomware- offer an opportunity if not serve as a clarion call for cyber insurance industry adaptation. In short, risk transfer that meets the needs of both industry and insurers demands more effective coordination of infosec controls, more complete and continuous optics, and more robust risk modeling.
Segment Resources: - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ekenneally_cybersecurity-cyberinsurance-cyberrisk-activity-6831288006494814208-PVtE?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web
- https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/3950_CYRIE_Report_FINAL508.pdf
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Since IT network secrets unlock access to highly privileged systems and data, securing secrets is just as critical to preventing cyberattacks as securing end-user passwords. One study found that 75% of ransomware attacks involve compromised credentials – most of the time, RDP credentials. However, secrets management is a challenge for IT teams, who must mitigate secrets sprawl, hardcoded and embedded credentials, and duplicative data stores in hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. Keeper Secrets Manager (KSM) is a fully cloud-based, Zero-Knowledge platform for managing IT infrastructure secrets such as API keys, database passwords, cloud access keys, certificates, SSH keys, service account passwords, and any other type of confidential data. KSM seamlessly integrates into nearly any data environment, with no additional hardware or cloud-hosted infrastructure required. It offers out-of-the-box integrations with a wide variety of DevOps tools, including Github Actions, Kubernetes, Ansible and more.
Segment Resources: https://www.keepersecurity.com/en_GB/secrets-manager.html
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This week in the Enterprise News: Quincy man rescues coworker from Ukraine, Cloudflare Email Security Tools, New CISA Vulns, RSA Conference Acquired, Massive Rounds, & \Incident Reporting Signed into Law, & more!
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Learn how a proactive cybersecurity program can be a game changer for an organization's success through continuously assessing risk and evolving to stay ahead of threats. Join us as we discuss impactful ways to stay one step ahead with Pablo Zurro, Product Manager at Core Security, by HelpSystems.
Segment Resources: [
Guide] Taking Back Control: A Proactive Approach to Advance Your Security Maturity
- https://static.helpsystems.com/core-security/pdfs/guides/cs-advancing-your-security-maturity-gd.pdf
[Video] Core Impact Pen Testing Software Overview
- https://www.coresecurity.com/resources/videos/core-impact-overview
https://static.helpsystems.com/hs/pdfs/2022/datasheet/hs-security-maturity-matrix-ds.pdf
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