Podcasts

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

Risky Business returns for its 19th year! Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news and there is a whole bunch of it. They discuss:

• The incoming Trump administration guts the CSRB
• Biden’s last cyber Executive Order has sensible things in it
• China’s breach of the US Treasury gets our reluctant admiration
• Ross Ulbricht - the Dread Pirate Roberts of Silk Road fame - gets his Trump pardon
• New year, same shameful comedy Forti- and Ivanti- bugs
• US soldier behind the Snowflake hacks faces charges after a solid Krebs-ing
• And much, much (much! after a month off) more.

This week’s episode is sponsored by Sandfly Security, who make a Linux EDR solution. Founder Craig Rowland joins to talk about how the Linux ecosystem struggles with its lack of standardised approaches to detection and response. If you’ve got a telco full of unix, and people are asking how much Salt Typhoon you’ve got in there… Sandfly’s tools are probably what you’re looking for.

If you like your Business like us… - Risky - then we’re hiring! We’re looking for someone to help with audio and video production for our work, manage our socials, and if you’re also into the Cybers… even better. Position is remote, with a preference for timezones amenable to Australia/NZ. Drop us a line: editorial at risky.biz.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

In this Risky Bulletin sponsor interview, Travis McPeak, the CEO and founder of Resourcely, explains that companies are now realising they have a ton of cloud-related technical debt because of the success of cloud posture management products. Travis talks about different approaches he has seen to tackle rampant cloud misconfigurations.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

Brian A. Coleman, Senior Director for Insider Risk, Information Security, and Digital Forensics at Pfizer, talks to us about how his security team is experimenting with AI to improve their insider risk detection systems. The system Brian and his team put together can detect sensitive information or documents handled by unauthorized accounts, but can also spot documents moving around and ending up where they shouldn’t be - either by accident, malice, or as a result of a security breach.

In this sponsored Soap Box edition of the show Patrick Gray talks to Island CEO Michael Fey about some of the cool tricks in the Island enterprise browser. You can use it to tick off so many compliance boxes, and not just cybersecurity boxes.

This is largely a conversation about compliance, but it’s actually interesting and fun. These are words we never thought we’d type!

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.

In this podcast Tom Uren and Patrick Gray talk about the likelihood that the incoming Trump administration will end the ‘dual-hat’ arrangement where a single officer leads both US Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. This would result in Cyber Command outranking NSA and could prioritise cyber disruption operations over intelligence collection. That would be a bad outcome.

They also talk about how changes to SEC disclosure rules have led to an outpouring of corporate drivel and how WhatsApp became an everything app.

This episode is also availble on Youtube.

A short podcast updating listeners on the security news of the last few days, as prepared by Catalin Cimpanu and read by Claire Aird.