Risky Business Podcast
September 06, 2013
Risky Business #295 -- Behind Arbor's Packetloop acquisition
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In this week's show we're taking a look at Arbor Networks' acquisition of Packetloop, a two-year-old Australian start up that makes big data security analytics software. You'd think that Arbor would want to move the company to the USA, but that's not what's happened in this case. Packetloop co-founder Michael Baker joins the show to fill us in.
This week's show is brought to you by the fine folks at Adobe Systems. And in this week's sponsor interview Adobe CSO Brad Arkin joins the podcast to talk about how he manages the security aspect of all the different cloud technologies various arms of the company use. It's a situation made infinitely more complicated by Adobe's habit of buying software companies at a rate of something like one a month. Not surprisingly, some of these acquired companies can leave a little to be desired in the security department. How does the Adobe security team bring these new services into the fold?
Show notes
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Windows 8 Picture Gesture Authentication Research | Threatpost
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Apple Safari Vulnerable to Buffer Overflow Exploit | Threatpost
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Watchwatch-like Heartbeat Monitor to Replace Passwords | Threatpost
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Researchers: Oracle's Java Security Fails - Krebs on Security
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Cisco Issues Four Security Advisories | Threatpost
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Samsung to build Lookout into KNOX protection | Security & Privacy - CNET News
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Office, SharePoint Patches Await September Patch Tuesday | Threatpost
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Sydney's Bugcrowd raises $1.6 million - Risk - SC Magazine Australia - Secure Business Intelligence
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Arbor Networks buys Sydney startup PacketLoop - Cloud - SC Magazine Australia - Secure Business Intelligence
http://www.scmagazine.com.au/News/355620,arbor-networks-buys-sydney-star...
Packetloop
https://www.packetloop.com//
SoundCloud - Hear the world's sounds
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