Deep Learning to Combat AI Threats & Disrupting the Browser Security Market – Carl Froggett, Vivek Ramachandran – BSW #353
The recent rise in adversarial AI has made it clear: organizations must fight AI with better AI. Gone are the days of relying on legacy, antiquated endpoint detection and response offerings, or cybersecurity tools that are based on ineffective machine learning models. In this interview, Deep Instinct CIO Carl Froggett will explain why Deep Learning is the most superior form of AI, and the technology’s role in powering predictive prevention.
This segment is sponsored by Deep Instinct. Visit https://securityweekly.com/deepinstinctrsac to learn more about them!
Attackers are targeting enterprise users when they are online via attacks like spear phishing, malicious docs infected with malware/ransomware.
Today SASE/SSE’s Secure Web Gateway (SWG) component is touted as the solution to this problem. These SWGs look at traffic between the enterprise users and websites and try to infer attacks.
Unfortunately, attackers are subverting these SWGs and breaking into enterprises. There is an urgent need to stop this and the solution seems to be to have a browser native security agent which can detect-mitigate attacks happening on the users browser and allow enterprises to threat hunt web attacks company wide.
Segment Resources: Why Browser Native Solutions are better than Cloud Based Proxies: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cItXj1KEm45ZNklASFmcvprbPqZChcMn/view?usp=sharing
Data Sheet: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tv3q2iTFROJPceq2b9SJtzkdHD9J6mvC/view?usp=sharing
Blog on the Many Failures of Secure Web Gateways: https://labs.sqrx.com/the-unspoken-challenges-of-secure-web-gateways-c516bc287a6d
Latest Press Release: Forbes: Critical Security Flaws Found In Email Top 4—Apple, Gmail, Outlook & Yahoo: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/04/04/critical-security-flaw-in-apple-icloud-google-gmail-microsoft-outlook-yahoo-mail-aol-mail-email/
This segment is sponsored by Square X. Visit https://securityweekly.com/squarexrsac to learn more about them!
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Carl Froggett is Deep Instinct’s Chief Information Officer (CIO). He has a track record in building teams, system architectures, and large-scale enterprise software implementations, while aligning processes and tools with business requirements. Froggett was formerly Head of Global Infrastructure Defense, CISO Cyber Security Services at Citi. In this role, Froggett delivered integrated risk reduction capabilities and services aligned to the architectural, business, and CISO priorities across Citi’s devices and networks in 100+ countries. Since 1998, he’s held various regional and global roles, covering all aspects of architecture, engineering, global operations, and running critical enterprise cyber services for Citi’s cybersecurity functions.
Vivek Ramachandran is a security researcher, book author, speaker-trainer, and serial entrepreneur with over two decades of experience in offensive cybersecurity. He is currently the founder of SquareX, building a browser-native security product focused on detecting, mitigating, and threat-hunting web attacks against enterprise users and consumers. Prior to that, he was the founder of Pentester Academy (acquired in 2021), which has trained thousands of customers from government agencies, Fortune 500 companies, and enterprises from over 140+ countries. Before that, Vivek’s company built an 802.11ac monitoring product sold exclusively to defense agencies.
Vivek discovered the Caffe Latte attack, broke WEP Cloaking, conceptualized enterprise Wi-Fi Backdoors, and created Chellam (Wi-Fi Firewall), WiMonitor Enterprise (802.11ac monitoring), Chigula (Wi-Fi traffic analysis via SQL), Deceptacon (IoT Honeypots), among others. He is the author of multiple five-star-rated books in offensive cybersecurity, which have sold thousands of copies worldwide and have been translated into multiple languages.
He has been a speaker/trainer at top security conferences such as Blackhat USA, Europe and Abu Dhabi, DEFCON, Nullcon, Brucon, HITB, Hacktivity, and others. Vivek’s work in cybersecurity has been covered in Forbes, TechCrunch, and other popular media outlets.
In a past life, he was one of the programmers of the 802.1x protocol and Port Security in Cisco’s 6500 Catalyst series of switches. He was also one of the winners of the Microsoft Security Shootout contest held in India among a reported 65,000 participants. He has also published multiple research papers in the field of DDoS, ARP Spoofing Detection, and Anomaly-based Intrusion Detection Systems. In 2021, he was awarded an honorary title of Regional Director of Cybersecurity by Microsoft for a period of three years, and in 2024 he joined the BlackHat Arsenal Review Board.
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