Exploring the Intersection of Security for Edge Computing and Endpoint – Theresa Lanowitz, Mani Keerthi Nagothu – ESW #340
- Maybe not less budget, but more pressure to produce results and justify spending
- Security leaders being held personally accountable for performance
- Potential layoffs, and the need to achieve the same goals with less labor and tool overhead
Theresa Lanowitz is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, former Gartner analyst, and former Chief Cybersecurity Evangelist with AT&T Cybersecurity and LevelBlue.
She is the creator of Executive-led Growth, a strategy that emphasizes the importance of business understanding in the cybersecurity market.
With a distinguished career in the technology industry, Theresa has held influential roles at companies including Gartner, Borland, Taligent, and Sun Microsystems, significantly impacting application security and emerging technologies.
Theresa is a globally respected leader known for her deep and diverse experience in cybersecurity. She frequently speaks at major industry conferences, including RSA and Black Hat sharing her insights on market trends, AI integration, and the evolving threat landscape. She’s been published in Forbes, Dark Reading, SC Media, ISMG, InformationWeek, and more, with her contributions reflecting a deep commitment to advancing cybersecurity practices and fostering innovation within the industry.
Theresa holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Mani Keerthi Nagothu is a cybersecurity professional with global work experience. Her expertise includes cybersecurity strategy, incident response, and risk management. She has been a speaker at various conferences, including RSA Conference 2023, Evanta, Infosec World, (ISC)2 Security Congress, Cloud Security Alliance, and many more. She is passionate about sharing knowledge with others, and most recently, her LinkedIn course – Insider Threat Risk Management, was published
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Five Lessons Learned From Okta’s Customer Support System Breach – ESW #340
- Protect Your Session Tokens
- Monitor for Unusual Behavior
- SaaS Vendors Are Common Targets
- Zero Trust Principles Work
- MFA Isn't a Binary (on or off) Control
New security startups, Stamos and Krebs go to SentinelOne, NY takes cyber seriously – ESW #340
- Lots of new security startups with early stage funding
- SentinelOne picks up Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos’s consulting firm
- PE firm picks up ActiveState - a company I haven’t thought about since I last downloaded ActiveState Perl 1000 years ago
- Microsoft announces the limited release of Security Copilot
- Semgrep releases a secrets scanner
- AGI predicted to come much sooner than you might expect
- NY State doubles down on cybersecurity regulations to protect its hospitals
- the young hackers behind Mirai, one of the biggest botnets ever
- Ransomware groups snitch on businesses to the SEC
Adrian Sanabria
- FUNDING: Vulcan Cyber Closes $55 Million Series B with Additional $34 Million to Solidify Position as a Leader in Cyber Risk Management
- FUNDING: Securing Our Vision: The $6.4M Seed Funding Milestone
- FUNDING: Risk Ledger Secures £6.25M to Prevent Cyber Attacks on the Supply Chains of Nation’s Largest Enterprises
- FUNDING: Myrror Security Raises $6M in Seed Funding
- FUNDING: Tidal Cyber Raises $5M in Seed Funding
- FUNDING: HydroX AI: Building a One-Stop Platform for LLM Security and Privacy
- FUNDING: Protecto Raises $4M in Seed Funding
- FUNDING: Attack Surface Management Technology Provider Cavelo Announces CAD$5M Funding Round
- ACQUISITIONS: SentinelOne® Launches PinnacleOne Strategic Advisory Group
SentinelOne picks up Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos's consulting firm, Krebs Stamos Group LLC, rebranding it as PinnacleOne (redundant?) Strategic Advisory Group
- ACQUISITIONS: Vertu Capital Acquires Secure Open Source Integration Platform Company, ActiveState
- DIVESTITURES: ThreatDown: A new chapter for Malwarebytes
- NEW PRODUCTS: Microsoft unveils expansion of AI for security and security for AI at Microsoft Ignite
- NEW PRODUCTS: Introducing Semgrep Secrets
- ESSAYS: Why We’ll Have AGI by 2025-2028
TL;DR - Daniel's theory is that AGI won't first emerge as a single packaged product, but will be the product of many smaller AI products integrated together.
- ESSAYS: As cars hoover up more and more drivers’ data, is it time to regulate the industry?
- REGULATIONS: New York State Cybersecurity Strategy
- REGULATIONS: New York State Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies
- REGULATIONS: Governor Hochul Announces Proposed Cybersecurity Regulations for Hospitals Throughout New York State
- INVESTIGATIONS: The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story
- VULNERABILITIES: In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack
- SQUIRREL: Are ransomware groups using the SEC as leverage now?
Ransomware group hacks public company... then turns them into the SEC for not reporting the breach within the new required timelimit???
