Lawmakers are warming to a Microsoft request for Congress to pass laws that would compel private sector companies to notify the US Government about security incidents.
This is a sponsored podcast featuring ExtraHop’s co-founder and CTO Jesse Rothstein. ExtraHop is a Network Detection and Response (NDR) vendor that started out offering network health and monitoring tools before being pulled into the security space by its own customers.
Jesse joined host Patrick Gray to talk about the SolarWinds compromise from a Network Detection and Response vendor’s perspective, about cloud security and monitoring, some of ExtraHop’s backstory and more. Enjoy!
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s founder Haroon Meer is this week’s sponsor guest and he joins us to have a very Haroon-style conversation. We talk about how security controls and detections often fall over when things happen that take place outside of our assumptions: trojaned software updates, attackers hiding in unconventional places like monitors, things like that. That’s a great conversation.
The five most recent listings on the leak site of the CL0P ransomware group have two things in common. One, and most obviously, they are being extorted. And two, they’ve deployed Accellion file transfer appliances to send large files in their recent past.
Recent attacks by SVR against US targets have mostly been written up under the moniker of the “SolarWinds campaign”. In our view, that’s inaccurate. The defining characteristic of this campaign wasn’t the SolarWinds supply chain stuff, it was the abuse of Microsoft cloud services.
My understanding of how contemporary cloud services work isn’t actually as good as it should be. And that got me thinking – if my understanding isn’t that great, then there’s probably a lot of other people out there who don’t quite grok this stuff, particularly on the policy side. So, I set out to prepare a primer on Microsoft cloud security.
Our guest in this podcast is Dirk-Jan Mollema. He works at Fox-IT in the Netherlands and is one of their core researchers on Azure AD and Active Directory Security. What you’re about to listen to, essentially, is me picking his brain so I can wrap my own head around this stuff. The hope is that some of you will learn along with me!
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
This week’s sponsor interview is with Dan Guido of Trail of Bits. They’ve released an enterprise version of their iVerify tool. It’s a security tool for iOS (an Android version is in beta) that lets organisations monitor things like patch levels and passcode compliance without actually requiring the installation of MDM profiles. It’s an enterprise mobile security tool for orgs that don’t need or want full MDM.
Somebody used a simple remote access tool to pump up the supply of chemicals into the water supply to a small town in Florida. Was it Florida Man or Iranian APT? Either is possible, but one would be a curiosity, the other an international incident.
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
Proofpoint’s Sherrod DeGrippo is this week’s sponsor guest. She joins the show to talk about Emotet’s demise, Trickbot’s survival, BEC, ransomware and more.
Accellion’s decades-old file transfer appliance is used in all the places you wish it wasn’t.
These Soap Box editions of the show are wholly sponsored, which means everyone you hear in one of these editions, paid to be here.
This edition of the show is brought to you by Material Security. Basically what they do is lock up your cloud-based email. They use Google and Microsoft’s APIs to redact sensitive information from your mail spool – or even redact entire messages from your spool, like, say, anything over a month old – and then kick you up to an auth challenge when you want to access that mail.
It’s a product that recognises that email isn’t just a vector – often it’s an attacker’s target.
On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
This week’s show is brought to you by Cmd Security, the Linux security company. Its focus has traditionally been on restricting the type of bash commands users can enter. It’s like a control plane for Linux systems. But some of its customers manage their Linux endpoints through different, non-bash entry points. So they’ve added some features to their product to deal with that, which has also resulted in them having an IDR capability. It’s all pretty sensible stuff though, and Cmd co-founder and CEO Jake King will be along to talk us through all of that.
SonicWall customers are on high alert after the company disclosed its internal network was compromised in an attack that abused vulnerabilities in its own SSL-VPN remote access products.
On this week’s show Dmitri Alperovitch, Sherrod DeGrippo and Joe Slowik join host Patrick Gray to talk through the week’s news:
COVID-19 vaccine documents stolen from Europe’s pharmaceutical regulator were altered before being published in a cybercrime forum, in what now looks like an effort to erode trust in Europe’s COVID-19 vaccination program.
Joe Slowik and Katie Nickels are guest co-hosts in this week’s edition of the show. They join Patrick Gray to talk about:
These Soap Box editions of the show are wholly sponsored. If that’s not your thing and you’re looking for the weekly news edition of the show, just scroll one show back in your feed.
This soap box edition is brought to you by AttackIQ. They make a Breach and Attack Simulation platform that’s designed to test the effectiveness of your security controls by simulating bad things in your environment.
Carl Wright and Jonathan Reiber are joining us in this edition of the show. These days he’s AttackIQ’s senior director of cybersecurity and strategy but he previously served as a former Chief Strategy Officer for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
They joined the show to talk through their work in mapping NIST 800-53 to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Enjoy!
Two of America’s most respected mastheads allege that attackers were able to poison a SolarWinds software update in early 2020 via the company’s use of JetBrains TeamCity, but there’s some critical details missing in this story.
On this week’s show, Patrick Gray talks to Joe Slowik and Dmitri Alperovitch about the APT campaign that impacted the US government and FireEye via SolarWinds’ supply chain.
Alex Stamos also joins the show to chime in more generally on supply chain interference before discussing some other news, like:
You don’t get to choose how Russia hacks you.
On this week’s show Patrick and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:
