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The three proactive security principles of visibility, prioritization, and remediation have always been the foundation of vulnerability management teams. But these teams face continuous challenges. How do you address these challenges? Erik Nost, Senior Analyst at Forrester, joins Business Security Weekly to break down the six questions that need to be answered for each proactive security principle: who, what, when, where, why, and how. The introduction of generative AI (genAI) into proactive security promises to provide a broader and speedier ability to answer these questions, providing further opportunities for the proactive security market to grow. In the leadership and communications segment, What the CEO and C-Suite Must Ask Before Building an AI Enabled Enterprise, Don’t Underestimate the Value of Professional Friendships, What Kevin Bacon Can Teach You About Cybersecurity Career, and more! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-43

Are you dead? AI Hellscape, Copilot Uninstalled?, Blue Delta, 2026 predictions, Quishing, Confer, Aaran Leyland, and More on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-546

Not all infosec advice is helpful. Bad advice wastes time, makes people less secure, and takes focus away from making software more secure. Bob Lord talks about his efforts to tamp down hacklore -- the security myths and mistakes that crop up in news stories and advice to users. He talks about how these myths come about, why they're harmful, and how they're related to the necessity of building software that's secure by design. Segment Resources: https://www.hacklore.org/ https://medium.com/@boblord/lets-stop-hacklore-d5c86a0fdad8 https://www.cisa.gov/securebydesign https://medium.com/@boblord/recurring-classes-of-software-weaknesses-2007-vs-2025-c2cd56125e1a https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/a-method-to-assess-forgivable-vs-unforgivable-vulnerabilities https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/nut-behind-wheel/ https://timharford.com/2022/05/cautionary-tales-short-a-screw-loose-at-17000ft/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com

First Topic - Podcast Content Plans for 2026 Every year, I like to sit down and consider what the podcast should be focusing on. Not doing so ensures every single episode will be about AI and nobody wants that. Least of all, me. If I have one more all-AI episode, my head is going to explode. With that said, most of what we talk about in this segment is AI (picard face palm.png). I think 2026 will be THE defining year for GenAI. Three years after the release of ChatGPT, I think we've hit peak GenAI hype and folks are ready for it to put up or shut up. We'll see winners grow and get acquired and losers pivot to something else. More than anything, I want to interview folks who have actually seen it work at scale, rather than just in a cool demo in a vendor sandbox. Also on the agenda for this year: The battle against infostealers and session hijacking: we didn't have a good answer in 2025. When is it coming? Will it include Macs, despite them not having a traditional TPM? The state of trust in outsourcing and t

Grok Nudification, Spying, Ni8mare, Cisco, Chat-GPT, Chrome, SaaS, CES, Josh Marpet, and More on this episode of the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-545

This week in the security news: Supply chain attacks and XSS PS5 leaked keys Claude tips for security pros No Flipper Zeros allowed, or Raspberry PIs for that matter Kimwolf and your local network Linux is good now Removing unremovable apps without root Detecting lag catches infiltrators Defending your KVM Fixing some of the oldest code Deleting websites live on stage in costume It was a honeypot FCC is letting telecoms off easy Don't buy a Haribo power bank Ransomeware scum Fortinet vulns CISA warns about NVRs Patching MongoDB Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-908

Cyber threats and cyber criminals indiscriminately target the old as well as young regardless of race, creed or origin. Teens and young adults must realize that on the Internet nobody knows you’re a rat. How do we keep kids and young adults safe in an era of AI-driven attacks? Tom Arnold, Adjunct Professor, Digital Evidence & Forensics, Cybersecurity Graduate Program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, joins Business Security Weekly to discuss his new book: The Digital Detective: First Intervention. We examine how technologies like deepfakes, voice cloning, and hyper-personalized scams are being used to target younger audiences, and what parents, educators, communities, and CISOs can do to build awareness, resilience, and smart digital habits. Learn how today’s highly organized operations, powered by automation and advanced AI, power the bad actors’ tools, techniques, and procedures—making them more effective than ever. Understanding the past helps us prepare for the future—and protect the next generat

Pornhub Redux, Enki, Grok, BSODs, NORDVPN, Kimwolf, Privacy in Rhode Island, Aaran Leyland, and More, on the Security Weekly News. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-544

Developers are adding LLMs to their code creation toolboxes, using them to assist with writing and reviewing code. Chris Wysopal talks about the security downsides of relying on LLMs and how appsec needs to adapt to dealing with more code at a faster pace. Resources https://www.veracode.com/blog/genai-code-security-report/ https://www.veracode.com/blog/ai-code-security-october-update/ https://www.veracode.com/resources/analyst-reports/2025-genai-code-security-report/ Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/asw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/asw-364

For our first episode of the new year, we thought it would be appropriate to dig into some cybersecurity predictions. First, we cover the very nature of predictions and why they're often so bad. To understand this, we get into logical fallacies and cognitive biases. In the next segment, we cover some 2025 predictions we found on the Internet. In the final segment, we discuss 2026, drop some of our own predictions, and talk about what we hope to see this year. SPOILER: Please fix session hijacking, okay tech industry? Segment resources: A great site for better understanding logical fallacies and cognitive biases Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/esw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-440

Cloud breaches don’t always start in the cloud, but they do end there. To defeat an attacker you need to understand their mission target along with the access points available to them, regardless of whether they reside within or beyond the cloud. SentinelOne is purpose-built to stop attacks wherever they originate - from within and beyond the cloud. This year’s OneCon aims to showcase exactly how Singularity Cloud Security can be applied to each stage of a cloud attack - from buildtime to runtime. You’ll hear about the latest innovations for the Singularity Cloud Security product during our General Session. Immediately following, our packed Cloud Security Breakout session agenda will showcase how to put these capabilities into practice. You’ll also hear more about our partnership with AWS and how we are advancing cloud security with Purple AI Support for AWS CloudTrail and Singularity Hyperautomation for AWS Security Incident Response. Live from SentinelOneCon 2025, join us for an in-depth conversation on tod

Our field is booming! Cybersecurity jobs are projected to grow 33 percent through 2033, far outpacing the average 4 percent growth across all jobs. (And yes, those stats could be made up, but they sound nice, eh?) Yet newcomers often feel paralyzed by where to start. The truth? There's no single "right path," but there are proven strategies that work. The field needs people at all levels, and you don't need a four-year degree to break in. We'll discuss all the details, including a list of projects for beginners in Cybersecurity, plus plenty of non-technical suggestions! Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-907

CISO pressures are on the rise - board expectations, executive alignment, AI, and personal liability - and that's all on top of your normal security pressures. With all these pressures, CISO burnout is on the rise. How do we detect it and help prevent it? Easier said than done. In this Say Easy, Do Hard segment, we tackle the health and wellness of the CISO. In part 1, we discuss the increased pressures CISOs face. We all know them, but how are they impacting our daily lives, both at work and at home. In part 2, we discuss detection and prevention techniques to help avoid burnout, including: Detecting the signs of stress Acknowledging there is a problem Asking for help Techniques to deal with stress Industry and community support This is a serious problem in our industry and one we want to continue to focus on as we head into another stressful 2026. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-428

SentinelOne announced a series of new innovative designations and integrations with Amazon Web Services (AWS), designed to bring the full benefits of AI security to AWS customers today. From securing GenAI usage in the workplace, to protecting AI infrastructure to leveraging agentic AI and automation to speed investigations and incident response, SentinelOne is empowering organizations to confidently build, operate, and secure the future of AI on AWS. SentinelOne shares its vision for the future of AI-driven cybersecurity, defining two interlinked domains: Security for AI—protecting models, agents, and data pipelines—and AI for Security—using intelligent automation to strengthen enterprise defense. With its Human + AI approach, SentinelOne integrates generative and agentic AI into every layer of its platform. The team also unveils the next evolution of Purple AI, an agentic analyst delivering auto-investigations, hyperautomation, and instant rule creation—advancing toward truly autonomous security. Visit http

In an era dominated by AI-powered security tools and cloud-native architectures, are traditional Web Application Firewalls still relevant? Join us as we speak with Felipe Zipitria, co-leader of the OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS) project. Felipe has been at the forefront of open-source security, leading the development of one of the world's most widely deployed WAF rule sets, trusted by organizations globally to protect their web applications. Felipe explains why WAFs remain a critical layer in modern defense-in-depth strategies. We'll explore what makes OWASP CRS the go-to choice for security teams, dive into the project's current innovations, and discuss how traditional rule-based security is evolving to work alongside — not against — AI. Segment Resources: github.com/coreruleset/coreruleset coreruleset.org The future of CycloneDX is defined by modularity, API-first design, and deeper contextual insight, enabling transparency that is not just comprehensive, but actionable. At its heart is the Transparency E

For this week's episode of Enterprise Security Weekly, there wasn't a lot of time to prepare. I had to do 5 podcasts in about 8 days leading up to the holiday break, so I decided to just roll with a general chat and see how it went. Also, apologies, for any audio quality issues, as the meal I promised to make for dinner this day required a lot of prep, so I was in the kitchen for the whole episode! For reference, I made the recipe for morisqueta michoacana from Rick Martinez's cookbook, Mi Cocina. I used the wrong peppers (availability issue), so it came out green instead of red, but was VERY delicious. As for the episode, we discuss what we've been up to, with Jackie sharing her experiences fighting against Meta (allegedly, through some shell companies) building an AI datacenter in her town. We then get into discussing the limitations of AI, the potential of the AI bubble popping, and general limitations of AI that are becoming obvious. One of the key limitations is AI's inability to apply personal experienc

You survived the click—but now the click has evolved. In Part 2, the crew follows phishing and ransomware down the rabbit hole into double extortion, initial access brokers, cyber insurance drama, and the unsettling rise of agentic AI that can click, run scripts, and make bad decisions for you. The conversation spans ransomware economics, why paying criminals is a terrible plan with no guarantees, and how AI is turning social engineering into a whole new wild west. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-541

The crew makes suggestions for building a hacking lab today! We will tackle: What is recommended today to build a lab, given the latest advancements in tech Hardware hacking devices and gadgets that are a must-have Which operating systems should you learn Virtualization technology that works well for a lab build Using AI to help build your lab Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/psw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/psw-906

Join Business Security Weekly for a roundtable-style year-in-review. The BSW hosts share the most surprising, inspiring, and humbling moments of 2025 in business security, culture, and personal growth. And a few of us might be dressed for the upcoming holiday season... Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/bsw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/bsw-427

It’s the holidays, your defenses are down, your inbox is lying to you, and yes—you’re gonna click the link. In Part 1 of our holiday special, Doug White and a panel of very smart people explain why social engineering still works decades later, why training alone won’t save you, and why the real job is surviving after the click. From phishing and smishing to click-fix attacks, access control disasters, and stories that prove humans remain the weakest—and most entertaining—link in security, this episode sets the stage for the attack we all know is coming. Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/swn for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/swn-540