Podcasts

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

• UK, Netherlands and Australia promise offensive response to big ticket ransomware
• Wave of major cyber regulation and legislation in USA
• Iran up in yer O365s, Russians in yer gmails
• Submarine spy guy would have been fine, if he didn’t make one very big mistake
• Much, much more

Jonathan Reiber is this week’s sponsor guest. He’s senior director of cybersecurity at AttackIQ and he’s joining us to talk through the US Government’s executive order on Zero Trust. Jonathan says it is actually born of a realisation the US government needs to do something differently, that the old approaches aren’t working.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

• Group-IB CEO arrested in Russia for treason
• Lawsuit alleges ransomware contributed to hospitalised baby’s death
• Nakasone outs self as hound release advocate
• Syniverse owned, but we don’t know how badly
• Why Google keyword warrants are awesome
• Much, much more…

Nucleus co-founder Scott Kuffer is this week’s sponsor guest and the topic is actually a bit hilarious. They’ve found a killer use case that customers are clamouring for: Being able to map vulnerabilities to org groups within your enterprise so you can see who’s slacking off when it comes to patching.

In this edition of the Snake Oilers we’ll hear pitches from three vendors:

• Stairwell! A new startup from Chronicle Security co-founder Mike Wiacek
• Red Canary explains what modern managed detection and response looks like
• Pierre Betouin from Datadog talks about the challenges around bringing together DevOps and Security while providing full-stack security

Links to everything we talked about are in the show notes.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

• The amazing Yahoo! News story on the former CIA director’s awesome brainwaves
• Hostage diplomacy pays off for Huawei CFO
• NSA releases great guidance on VPN security
• Microsoft has actually hired a cybersecurity executive
• Much, much more

This week’s show is brought to you by Material Security. Material’s co-founder Ryan Noon will be along in this week’s sponsor interview to talk about smarter ways to do email retention and destruction. They have a product that interfaces with your mail provider’s API – whether you’re on Google Workspace or O365 – to do things like archive and redact email, and they’re finding their customers are using these features to actually implement retention email strategies.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s security news, including:

• BlackMatter is back in the USA’s critical supply chain
• The FBI and friends apparently got up in REvil’s business
• The Azure OMI thing is totally the disaster we were expecting
• Much, much more

Brett Winterford is this week’s sponsor guest. These days Brett is a senior director of cybersecurity strategy at Okta, but the reason you might recognise his name is because he took a year off working for vendors to be our newsletter author – he was the founding editor of the Seriously Risky Business newsletter.

He’ll be along to talk about legacy auth and why vendors should have deprecation policies.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss recent security news, including:

• Apple 0day has everyone freaking out
• So much more 0day in the wild
• American Project Raven staffers settle with DoJ
• Two absolutely bonkers Azure security problems
• SEC tells corporate America to spill on breaches
• Much, much more

In this week’s sponsor interview Gigamon’s security product manager Fayyaz Rajpari will be along to talk about some of the work they’ve been doing to integrate their NDR product with Crowdstrike.

Snake Oilers: Get Signal Sciences in your CDN, automate canary generation and cloud your SIEM! Three solid pitches in this edition…

In this edition of the Snake Oilers we’ll hear pitches from three vendors:

• Brian Joe from Fastly talks about its integration of the Signal Sciences WAF into its CDN
• Ben Whitham and Dan Holman talk about HoneyTrace, a canary creation and monitoring automation play
• Anton Chuvakin from Google Cloud talks about cloud native SIEMs

Links to everything we talked about are in the show notes.

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss recent security news, including:

• Apple backs down on CSAM measures
• FTC shuts down spouseware company
• REvil is back!
• Confluence boxes are getting owned a lot
• Trickbot crew member arrested in South Korea
• The Juniper/NSA backdoor story just keeps on truckin’

This week’s show is brought to you by Thinkst Canary. Thinkst’s Jacob Torrey is this week’s sponsor guest. He pops by to tell us about the relaunch of Thinkstscapes, a fantastic quarterly publication that analyses security research.

(Editor’s note: Dmitri Alperovitch is a guest in this podcast and wishes to express his gratitude to Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University for helping guide him on the Juniper story.)

On this week’s show Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss recent security news, including:

• More info on the Belarusian Cyber Patriots
• How infosec overhyped election security risks
• Is data ransoming dying?
• All about the Azure Cosmos DB drama
• Much, much more…

In this week’s sponsor interview Airlock Digital’s Daniel Schell and David Cottingham join the show to talk about EDR bypasses. They are a thing.

In this edition of the Soap Box podcast we’ll be hearing from Ryan Kalember, the EVP of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint, a company best known for being an email filtering giant.

Proofpoint’s biggest challenger in that space is Microsoft, and if you’ve been paying attention you’d know that Microsoft is doing an absolutely massive push into the security space. It claims security is a $10bn revenue centre for the company, which is a bit of a screwy situation given a lot of the insecurity its security products mitigate is introduced through deficiencies in its core products.

And, largely, that’s what this interview is about – the screwy incentives that are driving Microsoft’s decisionmaking. More emphasis on security product development, and less effort on securing its core products.

Of course it’s self-serving for Ryan and Proofpoint to give Microsoft a kicking, given Redmond is its primary competitor. But the thing is, Ryan makes some very good points.

We talk about the incentives thing, and then we talk about why active directory is a trashfire and why the replication of the domain trust model in AzureAD is going to eventually bite us all in the ass. The circle of life, enterprise computing fail edition. Enjoy.