ESW #312 - Tom Kellermann, Donald Fischer

Kellermann will discuss the recently published report “Cyber Bank Heist” that exposes the cybersecurity threats facing the financial sector. Security must be a top-of-mind issue amid rising geopolitical tensions, increased destructive attacks utilizing wipers and a record-breaking year of zero-day exploits. Podcast listeners will learn what financial sector security leaders from around the world revealed in a series of interviews about specific trends when it comes to notable cyberattacks, e-fraud and cyber defense.

Segment Resources:

 - https://www.contrastsecurity.com/cyber-bank-heists-report

- https://www.contrastsecurity.com/security-influencers/cyber-bank-heists-report-code-patrol-podcast-contrast-security

Overall increase in government regulations. EU as well. Shift in liability from consumers to organizations.How to take advantage of safe harbor protections and reduce organizational risk and liability. NIST SSD Framework - how do you understand the security practices of the open source packages you use in your applications and ensure they are following the NIST practices (so you can take full advantage of safe harbor protections and reduce potential liability). Creating a network of open source maintainers, documenting and attesting to their security practices, is a solution. Work with the maintainers to be able to provide documentation. How to get more involved with development in open source security. What is the mechanism?

Segment Resources:

https://tidelift.com/government-open-source-cybersecurity-resources

https://blog.tidelift.com/webinar-how-the-nist-secure-software-development-framework-impacts-open-source-software

https://blog.tidelift.com/webinar-recap-what-the-new-u.s.-national-cybersecurity-strategy-means-for-open-source-software

https://blog.tidelift.com/tidelift-advisory-impact-of-new-u.s.-national-cybersecurity-strategy-on-organizations-building-apps-with-open-source-software

In this week's enterprise security news, we talk about new companies and funding, trends in the deception and SaaS Security/SSPM space. We discuss Andy Ellis's "10 plagues of cloud security" and Kelly Shortridge's 69 ways to F*&$ up your deploy. We discuss rolling out Yubikeys and the pros/cons of using biometrics instead of security keys. There have been some bad takes in the media on how OpenAI uses your ChatGPT prompts, so we set the record straight there. Cybersecurity is a new requirement for K-12 students in North Dakota, and you've got to see this week's security story - a rogue tire sends a Kia Soul FLYING.* * - but no one was hurt!

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