Wading Into the Wide World of WAF – Daniel Corbett – ESW #321
The WAF has a relatively long history with InfoSec. A few years back, we saw the traditional architecture separated by new technologies and philosophies on the best way to detect and stop web-borne attacks. In this episode with Daniel Corbett, we'll take a deep dive into the latest on WAF capabilities, what it means to be 'next-gen' in the WAF world, and how LLM AI like ChatGPT could influence the attacks we see (and have to defend against) in the near future.
This segment is sponsored by Fastly. Visit https://securityweekly.com/fastly to learn more about them!
Daniel Corbett is a Staff Product Manager on the Security Product team, where he works on the Signals and Rules that power Fastly’s Next-Gen WAF. He has over 15 years of security practitioner experience and has previously worked at a high-traffic managed hosting provider where he was architecting and building secure infrastructure, mitigating threats and attacks of varying degrees, and performing incident response. Daniel is a passionate teacher and mentor who enjoys helping others. When he’s not working you can find him spending time with his family, working on home improvement projects, or trying to duplicate meals from his favorite restaurants.
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Optimizing Security Investment: Sophos’ Vision for MDR Excellence – Andrew Mundell – ESW #321
Explore the rapidly-evolving landscape of Managed Detection and Response (MDR) with insights from Sophos, a pioneering MDR provider. Understand how businesses can gain superior security outcomes and better value from their investments by integrating 3rd party products natively into an adaptive ecosystem backed up by 24/7/365 threat detection, incident response and proactive threat hunting from one of the largest global providers of MDR services.
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This segment is sponsored by Sophos. Visit https://securityweekly.com/sophos to learn more about them!
Andrew Mundell is a seasoned Principal Solutions Engineer at Sophos, specializing in threat prevention and investigation technologies. With a wealth of experience, Andrew offers valuable insights and practical guidance to security teams and CISOs across diverse industries, empowering them to effectively prevent, detect, and respond to the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.
Having joined Sophos in 2008, Andrew has established himself as a trusted expert in the field. Before his tenure at Sophos, he played integral roles in infrastructure and innovation technologies at the United Kingdom’s Office of Communications and infrastructure engineering for a leading global provider of Information Services.
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A bit of a downer week – not much funding, layoffs, company shutdowns, AI snitches! – ESW #321
This week, in the news segment, we discuss the user-facing security trend, bad ideas in company naming/branding, and why you might not want to be on a list of the top 200 most secure companies. We also discuss the right way to treat employees when doing layoffs, and the future for companies that probably shouldn't have received funding before the market downturn. Finally, France uses AI to discover untaxed pools.
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- FUNDING: Blackpoint Cyber Secures $190 Million Growth Investment from Bain Capital Tech Opportunities and Accel
What? In this market?
- FUNDING: Shift5 Raises $33M in Funding
- FUNDING: Cybersecurity Startup Elba Raises €2.5 Million for Employee-Focused Product
Probably competing with Push Security and Nudge Security.
- ACQUISITIONS: Outpost24 Acquires External Attack Surface Management Provider Sweepatic to Reduce Risk Exposure of Internet-Facing Assets
- NEW COMPANIES: Start Left™ Security: Application Security Posture Management (ASPM)
I think they announced some seed funding as well.
- NEW COMPANIES: Company with ridiculous name, Private Tech, is launched.
Just try to Google "Private tech funding" and see what you get.
- NEW FEATURES: Apple announces powerful new privacy and security features
There are many features here. The one that caught my eye though, was the sensitive content warning. Quote:
"Sensitive Content Warning helps adult users avoid seeing unwanted nude images and videos..."
I can read between those lines. FFS guys, this is why we can't have nice things.
- NEW FEATURES: Valence Security brings AI to SaaS risk analysis and remediation – SiliconANGLE
My day job has added GenAI to our product! There are some very obvious places GenAI can make security easier, and one of them is assisting with remediation. Many security products have that moment where you need to open an extra tab (or 10) to research a finding. This is an attempt to use GenAI to save you that extra time and trouble.
- LAYOFFS: A message from Expel’s co-founders
- LAYOFFS: Dragos CEO’s Email to Employees on Layoff
- SHUTDOWNS: Former Shin Bet director’s cyber startup Opora is shutting down
- SHUTDOWNS: Company with ridiculous name, [redacted] shuts down
Was anyone aware they were open for business? Or just annoyed that they refused to reveal the name of the company?
- HOT TAKES: Forbes just created a top 200 list of the most secure companies
What could go wrong?
- HOT TAKES: The Price of Crypto
Last week, we had "RIP Metaverse", this week, it's crypto. This is a scathing book review, but it really reads as a scathing review of cryptocurrency and blockchain. H/T Kelly Shortridge for pointing us to this one.
- REPORTS: List of Startups that Failed in 2023
This list is gonna grow.
- REPORTS: Orange Cyber Defense Ransomware Ecosystem Map
- REPORTS: Just 14% of CISOs possess desired traits for cybersecurity-expert board positions
Interesting report that's a collab between IANS and others. TL;DR - most of them ain't ready. This pairs nicely with the study we discussed a few weeks ago where 80%+ of boards said that they had plenty of cybersecurity expertise. Hmmm...
- ESSAYS: Why your MTTR is Probably Bogus
- ESSAYS: A startup ‘mass extinction event’ has begun. You can’t see it clearly yet, but it’s going to be bad.
- AI ESSAYS: Why AI Will Save The World
This could be Marc Andreessen's next "software is eating the world" essay.
- AI TOOLS: Meet “ZipPy”, a fast AI LLM text detector
- AI USE CASES: Threat Modeling Example with ChatGPT
- AI TOOLS: Introducing Google’s Secure AI Framework
- RESEARCH: Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?
Some VERY cool thinking and researching here by the folks at Vulcan Cyber. TL;DR - if ChatGPT hallucinates package dependencies consistently, attackers can use that to their advantages by making these hallucinations a reality and getting people to run their malicious code!
- AI SQUIRREL: French tax officials use AI to spot 20,000 undeclared pools
