Enterprise Security Weekly (Audio)

Interview with Christopher Crawley - The Value of SecOps
This week, we talk to Chris Crawley about his new book, The Value of Cybersecurity Operations. Chris has been training teams on security operations for years, but found that students often struggled to justify the importance of secops training and even the need for secops in general. This book was written to more broadly arm practitioners with the information they need to communicate why security operations are necessary to leadership.
The book is available in several forms: eBook, hardcover, softcover, and an audiobook read by Chris himself!
You can pick all versions up here: https://shop.montance.com/collections/all and Security Weekly listeners get 50% off with code sw-50!
The Evolving Exploitation of Trust with Josh Davies, Security Strategist at Fortra
Fortra Intelligence and Research Experts (FIRE) is Fortra's emergent threat intelligence identity, created to unify research teams across multiple security disciplines and share intelligence with the wider threat intelligence community. FIRE co-ordinator and security strategist Josh Davies joins us to share insights from original FIRE research like Calphishing, Mirage2FA, RatPressto phishkit and heavily obfuscated campaigns that evade defences. While also digging into trends from big data analysis within phishing, fraud, social engineering and credential theft.
Segment Resources:
Art of Security Podcast
Fortra Research
This segment is sponsored by Fortra. Access FIRE Research here: https://securityweekly.com/fortrabh
Why Agentic AI Security Requires a Defense-In-Depth Strategy with Kaushik Shanadi, CTO and Co-Founder of Helmet Security
Many organizations are approaching agentic AI security by stitching together individual controls, assuming that identity, network, endpoint, or application security alone is enough. Each address only one part of the problem. As AI agents become more autonomous, move across systems, and take actions on behalf of users, organizations need a true defense-in-depth strategy that combines every layer of the security stack. Kaushik can discuss how each security layer provides a different piece of the puzzle and how individually, none of the controls are sufficient. But together, they create the layered governance needed to securely deploy agentic AI.
For more information about Helmet Security, please visit https://securityweekly.com/helmetbh
Above Security on Why Legacy Tools Don't Cut It for Modern Insider Risk with Tricia Howard, Head of Marketing at Above Security
As organizations rush to adopt agentic AI, agents are often given broad access to critical business systems and sensitive data. Legacy insider risk management tools weren't built for this, and organizations have spent years on insider risk posturing and investments that leave security teams inundated with false positives while the real risk slips through undetected. In this segment, Tricia Howard draws on her decade in cybersecurity, including years watching user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA) overpromise and underdeliver, to unpack why understanding human – and now AI – intent is the missing piece.
Segment Resources:
Blog Post: Redefining Insider Threat
Blog Post: What I wanted UEBA to be, Years Ago
To learn more about Above Security and insider risk management in the era of agentic AI, visit: https://securityweekly.com/abovebh
The Identity Crisis Your Security Team Didn't See Coming: Governing AI Agents with Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security
AI agents outnumber human identities in enterprise environments, and traditional security software was never built to govern them. 89% of cybersecurity decision-makers recently surveyed by Keeper Security said that AI adoption has made identity management harder.
In this Black Hat USA conversation with Cyber Risk TV, Darren Guccione, CEO and Co-Founder of Keeper Security, shares a practical framework for extending identity governance to non-human identities and AI agents before the access gap becomes a breach.
Segment Resources:
Privileged Access Management
Identity Security at Machine Speed
To learn more about Keeper Security, visit: https://securityweekly.com/keeperbh
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-478

Interview with Rob Sadowsky from Cohesity
Global Cyber Resilience Report: Cyber Recovery Plans Weren't Designed for this Moment
Cyber recovery plans weren't designed for this moment. Most were built around assumptions that made sense when they were written: incidents could be understood, dependencies mapped, recovery could follow a predictable sequence, and decision-makers would have enough information to act.
In practice, major cyber incidents unravel those assumptions. AI and autonomous agents are creating new paths to compromise, while cloud and SaaS expansion increases the systems, services, and dependencies involved in recovery. Vulnerabilities are discovered and weaponized faster than ever, and AI is accelerating that cycle. As incidents unfold, scope expands, dependencies appear only when they break, and recovery plans no longer match reality.
With assumptions under greater strain, confidence is beginning to erode. This year, the percentage of survey respondents reporting complete confidence in their cyber resilience strategy fell.
To understand how recovery unfolds today, Cohesity commissioned Vanson Bourne to survey 3,200 IT and security decision-makers at organizations with 1,000 or more employees across 11 countries.
This report examines where recovery becomes more difficult than expected, the obstacles organizations encounter, how they define and test a Minimum Viable Company (MVC), and how AI is reshaping cyber threats and cyber resilience.
https://www.cohesity.com/dm/global-cyber-resilience-report/
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Topic: When should we use AI for writing and when should we avoid it?
I've had an essay in draft form for a month now, trying to get my feelings across on why AI writing drives me so crazy. I struggled to put it into words.
Fortunately, Charity Majors figured out how to put it into words and I think she nailed not just how I feel about AI, but the reasons why I feel so strongly about it. She uses a scale to help explain this, with "personal" at one end and "functional" at the other.
https://charity.wtf/p/confessions-of-an-unrepentant-slop
When I ask AI to create a company profile for me, 10 minutes before I meet with them, I don't need poetry - just facts. But when I read something that is supposedly someone's opinions and analysis on a topic, and it's clearly 100% AI-generated, I angrily dismiss it.
I love that this writeup isn't just an "I hate slop" rant - it actually quantifies why a personal touch matters and how to gauge when it is necessary and when outsourcing the task to AI is totally fine.
In both cases, Charity notes that quality matters. My most recent complaints come from cases where things are not only clearly written by AI, but where quality went out the window and they're unrecognizable as a human-readable language.
And yes, I brought an example: https://dispatch.cybersecurityhq.com/p/escalation-voided-on-construct-failure-timing-condition-placed-under-review
Weekly Enterprise News
Finally, in the enterprise security news,
We check the vibes, funding, and acquisitions
Tenable now has Mythos built-in???
We check in on how vulnerability remediation is going
Microsoft is creating a code of conduct for AI
OpenAI just got called to the principal's office
Booz Allen created new cybersecurity AI benchmarks
50% of CISOs see Mythos as a sign to resign???
Ayman read the latest Anthropic AI misuse report
MIT explains the 12 possible AI outcomes (very ominous)
a 9-year old decided to promote his YouTube account… with his dad's corporate card
All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-477

Interview with Snehal Antani
Snehal Antani, CEO and co-founder of Horizon3 joins us to talk about how automated validation can help with exposure management. As vulnerability counts spike, security teams are looking for a way to prioritize. Automated penetration testing offers a way to quickly separate exploitable vulnerabilities from the rest.
This segment is sponsored by Horizon3. Visit https://securityweekly.com/horizon3 to learn more about them!
Topic Segment - SmartTVs and Privacy
For this week's topic segment, we explore privacy and TVs. LG has been in the news for allegedly collecting data from its customers, but the facts are unclear.
We share our recent experiences and dive into some of the primary concerns and theories about what's going on here.
If you want to opt out of some of your TV's data collection, Consumer Reports has a collection of instructions for a variety of TV platforms.
Weekly Enterprise News
Finally, in the enterprise security news,
We check the vibes
We check finding and acquisitions
Nightmare Eclipse or Good Night of Sleep Eclipse?
Update on Anthropic's Glasswing project
How long would it take for a mobile phone worm to spread?
Don't expose SSH to the public Internet
Massive amounts of cryptocurrency continue to get stolen
Did you actually read your third party's SOC 2?
Your boss may be reading your AI chat history
All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-476

Interview - Amit Assaraf
As employees rapidly adopt local AI models, autonomous agents, and browser extensions to boost productivity, enterprise endpoints are quietly accumulating unchecked security risks. This episode explores how traditional EDR solutions miss non-binary software, leaving critical blind spots for prompt injection and data exfiltration. Discover how Cortex Agentic Endpoint Security (AES) uses LLM-based classifiers and an AI powered risk engine to surface shadow AI and protect the modern workspace without stalling innovation.
This segment is sponsored by Palo Alto Networks. Visit https://securityweekly.com/paloalto to learn more about them!
Topic - The British Library Cyber-Attack
For this week's topic segment, we're discussing the British Library cyber-attack.
In October 2023, the British Library, one of the largest libraries in the world, was breached by the Rhysida ransomware group. The attack encrypted systems across the organization, led to over 500,000 files being leaked, and set off a recovery effort that consumed a significant portion of the Library's £17.5 million cash reserves. With no clear end date, this is a story of what could happen when all of an organization's tech debt comes due at once.
Resources
https://www.defendersinitiative.com/p/breach-lessons-the-2023-british-library
The Weekly Enterprise News
Finally, in the enterprise security news,
We check the vibes
the funding
the acquisitions
and the closures
is the vulnpocalypse real, or not?
TeamPCP finds out why being perpetually online isn't great if you're doing cybercrimes
millions of IDs get leaked online
What's the bigger story: Huggingface and NVIDIA or Microduck?
Dyson enters a new product category. Try to guess what it is without cheating and looking it up before the end of the episode!
All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-475

Interview with Dan Meacham, CISO at Legendary Entertainment
Dan Meacham joined us to share a preview of his leadership panel at InfoSec World. At this CRA event in October, Dan will be discussing The Augmented Defender - What AI Actually Changes on the Front Line with Daniel Bowden, the Global CISO at Marsh.
Dan dives into the unique world of securing data and assets when film production is largely handled by partners and contractors, working from systems you'll likely have limited access to and definitely can't install agents on. It's a fascinating conversation you should check out!
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Black Hat Interview 1 - Google Cloud
Outpacing the Adversary with AI Threat Defense - Black Hat interview with John Hultquist, Chief Analyst, Google Threat Intelligence Group at Google
The cybersecurity landscape is undergoing a radical shift. AI is no longer just a productivity accelerator for developers and analysts—it has become actively weaponized by sophisticated threat actors to discover and exploit vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed. We'll discuss Google's own approach to combating today's threats and the need for security teams to transform vulnerability management with machine-speed defense.
Segment Resources:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-ai-threat-defense
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/ebookgooglecloudsecurityaithreatdefense.pdf
https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/whitepapercombatingaidriventhreatsgooglemachinespeed_defense.pdf
This segment is sponsored by Google Cloud. Visit https://securityweekly.com/googlebh to learn more!
Black Hat Interview 2 - Forcepoint
Decoding Agentic: Securing the Data Layer AI Just Set on Fire - Black Hat interview with Ronan Murphy, Chief Data Strategy Officer of Forcepoint
AI didn't ask permission — and it permanently changed what data risk looks like. Forcepoint Chief Data Strategy officer and member of the Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council in Ireland, shares insights on a clear call to action for agentic enterprises: stop locking AI down and start securing it where the risk actually lives, in the data itself. Learn why data trust is the foundation of the agentic era and how the world's leading enterprises are ending the false choice between AI innovation and data safety.
Segment Resources:
https://www.forcepoint.com/resources/ebooks/enterprise-guide-ai-data-security
https://www.forcepoint.com/blog/insights/forcepoint-announces-ai-data-security
This segment is sponsored by Forcepoint. Visit https://securityweekly.com/forcepointbh to learn more!
Black Hat Interview 3 - Keyfactor
From Secrets to Verified Workload Identity—at Enterprise Scale - Black Hat interview with Ellen Boehm, SVP, Strategy & AI Innovation at Keyfactor
As AI agents become autonomous participants inside enterprise environments, organizations can no longer rely on static credentials and traditional identity models to establish trust. Enterprise AI is driving a shift from possession-based access to cryptographically verified identity, as AI agents, cloud-native workloads, and automated services increasingly make decisions and interact with critical systems. In this discussion, we'll discuss why organizations need to continuously establish trust, govern machine identities and cryptography, and build a resilient foundation for securing AI across increasingly dynamic environments.
Segment Resources:
https://www.keyfactor.com/blog/ai-agents-the-identity-problem-nobody-owns-yet/
https://www.keyfactor.com/education-center/what-is-trust-infrastructure/
https://www.keyfactor.com/resources/topic/col/products/the-trust-control-plane?pflpid=60788&pfsid=HsCXvwPWB1
This segment is sponsored by Keyfactor. Visit https://securityweekly.com/keyfactorbh to learn more!
Black Hat Interview 4 - Delinea
Delinea Delivers Runtime Authorization for AI Agents, Closing Access Control Gap - Black Hat interview with Frank Vukovits, Chief Security Scientist at Delinea
As AI agents move from experiments to autonomous operators inside production databases, cloud consoles, and Kubernetes clusters, enterprises face a new problem: agents with legitimate credentials taking actions no one authorized. Frank breaks down why verifying access at connection time is no longer enough and what it takes to enforce policy on every agent action before it executes. He explains how runtime authorization closes the gap between hiding credentials and actually controlling what agents do once they're inside a session.
This segment is sponsored by Delinea. Visit https://securityweekly.com/delineabh to learn more!
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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-474