This is a short highlight video of CISO Series Video Chat “Hacking the Encryption Fallacy: An hour of critical thinking on where encryption fails and how to keep data protected continuously.” Our guests for this discussion were: Purandar Das, CEO,…
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Best moments from “Hacking the Encryption Fallacy” – CISO Series Video Chat
Best moments from “Hacking the Encryption Fallacy” – CISO Series Video Chat
Cyber Security Headlines – May 5, 2021
Cyber Security Headlines – May 5, 2021
A new set of vulnerabilities may affect 60 percent of the world’s public email servers The Qualys Research Team has discovered 21 vulnerabilities in the Exim mail server, some of which can be chained together to obtain full remote unauthenticated…
Why Commute When You Can Stay Home and Be Overworked?
Why Commute When You Can Stay Home and Be Overworked?
Work from home seemed ideal until you realized you were working at all hours with people all over the world. It would actually be a nice respite to have to commute and leave work at a reasonable hour. This episode…
Cyber Security Headlines – May 4, 2021
Cyber Security Headlines – May 4, 2021
A look at the Project Signal ransomware campaign Security researchers at Flashpoint identified the ransomware campaign, seemingly organized by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps using the contracting company ENP. The project began in the late summer of 2020, with malicious…
Is the CISO-Vendor Relationship Getting Any Better?
Is the CISO-Vendor Relationship Getting Any Better?
As we’re coming on our third anniversary of the CISO/Security Vendor Relationship Podcast my co-host Mike Johnson and I have a question for you, is the relationship between security practitioners and vendors improving, and how? This was our primary mission…
PREVIEW [5-7-21] “Hacking Cloud Access” – CISO Series Video Chat
PREVIEW [5-7-21] “Hacking Cloud Access” – CISO Series Video Chat
Here’s a preview for this Friday’s (May 7th, 2021) CISO Series Video Chat entitled “Hacking Cloud Access: An hour of critical thinking about how managing permissions is complicating our ability to secure our environment.” In the video, I’m chatting with…
Cyber Security Headlines – May 3, 2021
Cyber Security Headlines – May 3, 2021
New Spectre exploits beat AMD and Intel mitigations Researchers from the University of Virginia and University of California San Diego discovered several new variants of Spectre exploits that affect all modern processors from AMD and Intel with micro-op caches. Existing…
CISO Series Video Chat vs. Webinar
CISO Series Video Chat vs. Webinar
You know that moment when you’re speaking on a webinar and you’re thinking, “Is anyone listening?” In this video, I chat with Ed Bellis (@ebellis), co-founder and CTO for Kenna Security, about the frustration of doing webinars. Ed and his…
Cyber Security Headlines – April 30, 2021
Cyber Security Headlines – April 30, 2021
Babuk ransomware operators announce shutdown In a forum post titled “Hello World 2,” the operators said they intend to close up shop. Often when ransomware groups cease operations, they release their encryption keys. However the Babuk operators plan to make…
Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – April 26-30, 2021
Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review – April 26-30, 2021
This week’s Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review, April 26-30, 2021, is hosted by Steve Prentice (@stevenprentice) with our guest, Jerich Beason (@blanketSec), CISO, Epiq. Cyber Security Headlines – Week in Review is live every Thursday at 4pm PT/7pm…