Enterprise Security Weekly Subscribe

Cloud Security, Breach, Mergers and Acquisitions

Rumored Wiz Deal Would be HISTORIC (if it happens), redefining shared responsibility – ESW #368

July 18, 2024

In this week's enterprise security news,

Google is rumored to be considering acquiring Wiz for $23 BILLION
ThreatConnect acquires Polarity
XBOW and Sola Security are interesting new companies we’ll discuss
What does “shared responsibility” actually mean?
Palo Alto probably isn’t going to buy your startup
Snowflake-related breaches continue getting worse
MUCH less AI talk than usual
Defragmenting your browser

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

Full episode and show notes

Announcements

We're always looking for great guests for all of the Security Weekly shows! Submit your suggestions by visiting https://securityweekly.com/guests and completing the form!

Hosts

Adrian Sanabria

Principal Researcher at The Defenders Initiative

https://adriansanabria.com

1. ACQUISITIONS: ThreatConnect Acquires Polarity to Bring Intelligence to the Point of Decision for Security Teams
2. ACQUISITION RUMORS: Google reportedly in advanced talks to acquire cyber startup Wiz for $23 billion, its largest-ever deal
Is it though? Or is this a strategic play to prepare for an IPO? Only time will tell.
3. NEW COMPANIES: XBOW
Autonomously finding webapp vulns!
4. NEW COMPANIES: Sola Security (coming soon)
This is a "must click" to read the silly quotes. We talked about this last week, but wow - really? This guy really got $28M and doesn't know what he's gonna build yet?

Must be nice.
5. ESSAYS: Unobtrusively Upgrading Ubuntu Underfoot
6. ESSAYS: Palo Alto isn’t going to buy everyone: the anatomy of cybersecurity startup exits
7. ESSAYS: A new SaaS security shared responsibility model
Shared responsibility is a mess right now. We're going to have to address a lot of issues.
8. BREACHES: AT&T’s massive data breach deepens crisis for Snowflake seven weeks after hack was disclosed
9. AI INDEGESTION: Delving into ChatGPT usage in academic writing through excess vocabulary
10. AI TALK: RAID (Real World AI Definitions)
11. SQUIRREL: Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

Lead Product Manager at Monad

https://www.cybersecuritypulse.net/

Katie Teitler-Santullo

Product Marketer and Content Strategist at OX Security

Related

Application security

State Of Application Security 2024 – Sandy Carielli, Janet Worthington – ASW #290

July 8, 2024

Sandy Carielli and Janet Worthington, authors of the State Of Application Security 2024 report, join us to discuss their findings on trends this year! Old vulns, more bots, and more targeted supply chain attacks -- we should be better at this by now. We talk about where secure design fits into all this why appsec needs to accelerate to ludicrous sp...

Application security

Building a Successful API Security Strategy – Luke Babarinde – BSW #354

June 24, 2024

With 71% of web traffic coming from API calls last year and the average organization maintaining 613 API endpoints, a robust strategy is needed to protect APIs against automated threats and business logic attacks. Tune in as Luke Babarinde, Global Solution Architect, shares the key steps to building a successful API security strategy. This segment...

Learning EBPF – Liz Rice – ASW Vault

June 17, 2024

Check out this interview from the ASW Vault, hand picked by main host Mike Shema! This segment was originally published on April 4, 2023. Following on from her successful title "Container Security", Liz has recently authored "Learning eBPF", published by O'Reilly. eBPF is a revolutionary kernel technology that is enabling a whole new generation of...