A Light Week, InfoSec Tabletop Gaming, White House CyberSec, & AI Galore! – ESW #308
In the enterprise security news, A light week in funding, after last week’s mega raises from Wiz and Sandbox AQ HP acquires some Zero Trust and CASB with Axis Security InfoSec-themed Table Top gaming is really catching on The White House’s updated cybersecurity strategy is more of an update than a game changer I go a bit nuts with AI news and essays, but a lot of it is really worth your time, I promise Doing evil things with chrome extensions Women in cybersecurity Letting strangers call you, on purpose All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.
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- 1. FUNDING: Oligo Security raises $20 million Series A to secure open-source libraries
- 2. FUNDING: Revelstoke Announces $20M Series B Funding Following Exponential Growth in Its First Year in Market
- 3. FUNDING: SOCRadar Announces $5M Series A Funding for New Extended Threat Intelligence (XTI) Cybersecurity Platform
- 4. FUNDING: trackd Secures $3.35MM Seed Funding to Bring Its Novel Approach to Vulnerability Remediation to the Enterprise Security Market – trackd
- 5. FUNDING: Cado Security Announces $20M in Funding to Drive Innovation and Global Expansion
- 6. ACQUISITIONS: Hewlett Packard Enterprise fortifies network security with acquisition of Security Service Edge provider Axis Security
- 7. TOOLS: Cyber Fortress – Simulation-Strategic Games Based on Scenarios of the Latest Advanced Cyber Attacks
An excellent-looking tabletop game developed by some folks in Poland, courtesy of FIRST.
- 8. USGOV: Cyber Command, NSA Successes Point Way to Future
My favorite quote: "The command must work on readiness and resilience. Every member of the command also must buy into developing and maintaining a culture of continuous improvement."
- 9. USGOV: Biden Administration Releases Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Strategy
- 10. USGOV: Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy – Krebs on Security
- 11. USGOV: The US National Cybersecurity Strategy: Takeaways for Private Sector Security Leaders
- 12. AI ESSAYS: Why AI Won’t Cause Unemployment
- 13. AI ESSAYS: How AI is Eating the Software World
- 14. AI ESSAYS: You Are Not a Parrot
- 15. AI NEWS: What OpenAI’s API announcement means for makers
- 16. AI NEWS: ChatGPT and Whisper APIs debut, allowing devs to integrate them into apps
- 17. AI NEWS: Introducing the ChatGPT App for Slack
- 18. AI NEWS: Salesforce Ventures Launches $250M Generative AI Fund
- 19. FUN&PROFIT: Let’s build a Chrome extension that steals everything
- 20. REPORTS: 2022 Year in Review – The DFIR Report
- 21. ATTACKS: Post-quantum algorithm vulnerable to side channel attacks, researchers
- 22. TRENDS: Inside Uber’s move to the Cloud: Part 1
- 23. TRENDS: Why we must finally draw more women into cybersecurity in 2023
- 24. TRENDS: Silicon Valley Bank shares slide on stock-sale plan to cope with cash burn
- 25. ESSAYS: Women in Cyber: Stats on female security vendor CEOs
- 26. ADVICE: Deploying MDR: Quotes from the experts
- 27. SQUIRREL: blahph0bia on Instagram: “volume slider cringe compilation”
- 28. SQUIRREL: Anyone – A radically different networking app
- 29. SQUIRREL: I Will Fucking Dropkick You If You Use That Spreadsheet — Ludicity
- 30. SQUIRREL: ChatGPT for YouTube – YouTube summary with ChatGPT
- 31. SQUIRREL: Raising a fund with memes
