It's been 9 years and over 210 different content items since we started this thing in January of 2010.  As much as we hate it we feel it's time to end this project and start thinking about What Comes Next.

Don't worry - the episodes and website aren't going anywhere anytime soon so you'll still be able to download all the content.  We're also discussing some new ideas to stay engaged with the cybersecurity community so you'll want to keep this feed live on your podcast listening device to catch updates on where we are on that.

All of us would like to thank all of you for your support over the last 9 years.  This started as just something Andy, Steve, and Martin did because they 'had things to say and didn't even care if anybody listened' and it's grown into more than any of us could have imagined.  Joseph and Yvette joined them for the ride and added so much color and sparkle in every episode.

Thank you and we hope to be talking to you again.

It's another Front Porch episode!

Yvette talks to her friend Brandon Clark as his first novel "Ransomware" is about to be released.  "Ransomware" is part of Brandon's "Killchain Chronicles" series that will be coming out over time.

You can find the book here:

 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1732651108/

We will be back soon with more great new content.

Episode 206 - The Front Porch….

Welcome to the first of an occasional series of episodes featuring conversations with a variety of interesting people from both inside and outside of information security.

In this inaugural episode you get to listen to dinner conversation between Wendy Nather, Mike Rothman, Wolfgang Goerlich, and Martin Fisher that happened in Atlanta at the Atlas Restaurant. We cover a lot of topics that I’m sure you’ll find interesting.  

And, for the record, the “Aristocrat” cocktail at Atlas is something you must try.

I appreciate Duo Security and CBI for helping to make this dinner possible.

We recorded this episode as the closing keynote at BSides Atlanta on May 5th, 2018.

We want to give a big round of thanks to the organizers, volunteers, sponsors, and attendees of BSides Atlanta for a great venue and event.  It was a great time and we hope to be there again next year.

Episode 204 - Evaluating Your Security Program: Communications Plan

1. Why Evaluate Your Program
2. 1. Part of annual policy review
   2. If you don’t evaluate you will never improve
   3. Continual review will help protect your budget
   1. Awareness and Education is how most people in your org know the program
   2. Threat Mapping maps the outside threats to your inside controls & tech
   3. Communications is that final turn from the inside out
3. Start At The Outside and Move Your Way In
   1. If Education & Awareness are how the employees engage the program then Communications is how the management team engage the program
   2. In business life, like everywhere else, if people don’t know who you are or what you do then they aren’t going to be willing or able to support you in times of crisis or need
   3. The higher up in the org you want to communicate the more deliberate your plan needs to be
4. Why Even Consider Communications?
   1. Each sub-org needs to be considered
   2. 1. CIO-org
      2. CFO-org
      3. COO-org
      4. CMO-org
      5. CCO-org
      1. Unless you report to the CEO the next person down in your chain is going to have to likely carry that water
      2. We will address the opportunities and dangers of directly engaging a CEO at some other podcast
   3. Notice that there is no “CEO-org”
5. Determine the Audience(s)
   1. Updated status reports are better than a ‘newsletter’
   2. Compelling progress reports (especially if validated by a third party) can be a huge gain
   3. If you invent something new it better be hugely valuable
   4. “Communication is what the listener does”
6. Leverage Existing Comms Before Inventing Something New
   1. Get over yourself
   2. Really.
7. “But this is just playing politics!”

Show Notes

Episode 203 - Evaluating Your Security Program: Threat Mapping

1. Why Evaluate Your Program
2. 1. Part of annual policy review
   2. If you don’t evaluate you will never improve
   3. Continual review will help protect your budget
   1. Awareness and Education is how most people in your org know the program
   2. Threat Mapping maps the outside threats to your inside controls & tech
   3. Communications is that final turn from the inside out
3. Start At The Outside and Move Your Way In
   1. How is this different from threat modeling?
   2. Threat modeling is listing what could happen to you.
   3. Threat mapping is mapping the holes in your program.
4. What is “Threat Mapping”?
   1. Must have a assessment management program
   2. 1. you can’t protect what you don’t know about
      2. This isn’t “I have a CMDB”.  It’s actually taking actions based on what you know about what you have
      1. Map assets to known threats
         1. industry
         2. entry points
         3. technology
         4. Online threat maps
      2. What are you doing to know this?
      3. What controls do you currently have in place to mitigate or reduce the risk?
   3. Understand what your “real” threats are
      
      
      1. Apps
      2. Infrastructure
      3. 3rd parties
      4. etc
   4. Scope and prioritize - break down into areas to tackle
5. How To Get Started
   1. Scorecard (KRI)
   2. 1. What is important and helpful
   3. Risk Registry
6. How To Measure
   1. Use your risk registry or GRC tool to track progress and keep management updated. You need them onboard to improve.
   2. once you have some areas mapped don’t ignore them
   3. implement solid change control and change management processes
   4. keep risk scores updated so you aren’t focusing on unimportant things
7. How To Improve/Modify

Episode 202 - Evaluating Your Security Program: Awareness & Education

1. Why Evaluate Your Program
2. 1. Part of annual policy review
   2. If you don’t evaluate you will never improve
   3. Continual review will help protect your budget
   1. Awareness and Education is how most people in your org know the program
   2. Threat Mapping maps the outside threats to your inside controls & tech
   3. Communications is that final turn from the inside out
3. Start At The Outside and Move Your Way In
   1. What do you think you do?
   2. 1. Mandatory CBLs
      2. CyberCyberCyberStuff (Posters, Email, Swag)
      3. Briefings and Classes
      4. Phishing Awareness
      5. $NOVEL_IDEA
      1. How many people is it designed to engage?
         1. Not how many people took the awareness, how many people were ENGAGED?
      2. How many people were actually engaged?
      3. How did they do? (CBL completions, % phished, reviews, etc)
         1. If CBL_Completion = 15(clicks) then you may want to rethink that
         2. 0% phished is not a sign of a great security program...more likely a sign of a bad phishing program
         3. If there is no way to allow for anonymous reviews of training/briefings/etc then you’re not likely to get fully honest reviews (Who wants to piss off security?)
      4. Are you being honest with yourself?
   3. How do you measure it?
4. Measuring Awareness & Education
   1. Don’t change the measurement...change the program
   2. 1. The key to long term success is consistently measuring the same thing over time
      2. You may want to update goals (up or down) but be able to explain why especially if you are making the test easier
      1. Big changes in delivery will skew the numbers in ways you likely will not like
      2. Constant large turmoil is counter to most corporate cultures
      3. Small changes take advantage of previous investments best
      4. “Iterate small and grow larger” - doing too much too fast almost always ends is highly suboptimal results over time
   3. Don’t make drastic changes until Year 3 unless you have to make drastic changes
   4. Clearly failing components should be axed and replaced and not tweaked around the edges - especially if there’s a compliance or safety aspect
5. Adjusting The Program
6. If this feels like “Wash, Rinse, Repeat” it’s because is it “Wash, Rinse, Repeat”

We're going to use this episode to allow the cast to talk about reaching 200 episodes and you'll hear what *really* happened on the Lost Episode.

We will be back in 2018 with more episodes.  Until then be well and stay secure!

Episode 200 - Building A Security Strategy - Part III

1. Recap
2. 1. Strategy vs Policy
   1. Understand the business of your Business
   2. Know who your stakeholders really are
   3. Capability = (Tech + Service) * Process
   4. Crawl, Walk, Run
   5. It Takes A Village
3. The Question is “How do I make one?”
   1. Tech
   2. 1. Tech, by itself, only consumes electricity and turns cool air into warm air
      2. So many choices….
      3. The tech selection is the *least* critical one for developing a capability
      4. http://www.southernfriedsecurity.com/episode-192-security-waste/
      1. This is the “Stuff You Have To Do”
      2. Usually determined by regulation, policy, or corporate edict
      3. Describes a desired outcome - not how to get there
      4. Examples include “Malware Detection”, “Email Security”
   3. Service
      1. How you do the crazy things you do
      2. Security is not a One-Off - things must be repeatable and consistent
   4. Process
      1. Describes value team brings to org
      2. While tech and service selection is important the biggest improvement usually comes from better process
   5. Capability
4. Capability = (Tech + Service) * Process
   1. Armorguy’s Maxim of Life: “Start small and iterate larger”
   2. Try to do to much out of the gate and you WILL fail
   3. Define success criteria for each stage that allows for error and learning
5. Crawl, Walk, Run
   1. Security cannot exist as an island
   2. Interdependence with business units is key - if you don’t you are the foreigner and will be rejected
   3. The relationship with IT Operations is going to be wonky at first
6. It Takes A Village
   1. Where do you look for more info?
7. Strategy - It’s What CISOs Do…

Episode 199 - Building A Security Strategy - Part II

1. Recap
2. 1. Strategy vs Policy
   1. Understand the business of your Business
   2. Know who your stakeholders really are
   3. Capability = (Tech + Service) * Process
   4. Crawl, Walk, Run
   5. It Takes A Village
3. The Question is “How do I make one?”
   1. Almost no business is in the business of information security
   2. Follow The Money
   3. Understand The Decisioning Process
   4. “Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast”
   5. Vocabulary Matters
4. Understand the Business of Your Business
   1. Know the Formal and Informal Org Charts
   2. Influencers are as important as Deciders
   3. Beware the Spoiler
   4. “Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast”
   5. Don’t Give a Vote or Veto Unnecessarily
5. Know Who Your Stakeholders Really Are
   1. We will keep discussing this.
   2. Underestimating the power of culture WILL result in your plan faling
   3. That’s a majority of the reason that Strategy Is Hard
6. Culture Is The Key

Episode 198 – Building a Security Strategy – Part 1

Strategy is the hardest thing a CISO will do in their career...except if they have to explain a massive breach…

1. What is a Strategy?
2. 1. What’s the difference between a strategy and a policy?
   2. 1. A policy is binding statements
      2. A strategy is thought out planning
      1. A list of tech you want to buy
      2. A remediation plan that follows an audit/assessment
      3. A continued justification for the way you’ve always done things
      4. The stuff your favorite vendor told you needs doing
   3. What a strategy isn’t…
      1. Based on the needs and desires of the org and its senior leaders
      2. Culturally relevant
      3. A guide to where investment (money and people) need to be made
      4. Balanced between boldness and reassurance
      5. Built on a set of capabilities that map to business success criteria
   4. A strategy is…
   1. Creates a consistent frame of reference for talking about the program
   2. Helps senior leaders understand the where/why of the investments
   3. Lays out a connected story for CFOrg to make budget less hard
   4. Provides a decision-making framework that enables effective choices
3. Why do you want one?
   1. Understand the business of your Business
   2. Know who your stakeholders really are
   3. Capability = (Tech + Service) * Process
   4. Crawl, Walk, Run
   5. It Takes A Village
4. How do I make one?

In our next episodes we’ll break down each of the steps and talk more about strategy…

Episode 197 - After the Penetration Test 

We've kind of talked about how to choose your vendors, and we’ll get more into services soon, but we wanted to take some time to talk about penetration tests and especially what to do as they wrap up, how they affect the organization, and how you can manage your penetration tests to make sure they're actually effective.

• Receiving the report
• • First and foremost, you are the customer. The report is not done until you say it is done.
  • • That doesn't mean to massage the data, but you need to be sure that the penetration testers actually provided value.
  • If there isn't a solid executive summary, send it back. Period. Your testers should be able to summarize what they did, what they found, and what they think for your executives.
  • A Nessus or Burp scan is not a report. Ever.
  • Always ask “how did we do for this application/organization size” etc. You’re not just paying for someone to run Nessus on your network, you’re paying for their analysis. Ask for that.
• Triaging the Results
• • Results rarely go to the same place in the organization. You might have findings for different teams, or entirely different parts of your org. Make sure they get to the right people.
  • Results may be inaccurate for your organization. A penetration tester isn't necessarily familiar with your organization’s risk profile, priorities, or anything else. What they mark as a medium may be a high or critical for you, or vice versa.
  • • Example: Information disclosure in Healthcare is often rated much higher when triaging than in other types of businesses.
• Working with the stakeholders
• • Work in systems that make sense to people that need to do the work. Rally, Jira, etc.
  • • This can also give you traceability for when things are actually fixed.
  • Don’t dump on people in big group meetings, take the findings to the specific teams
  • • That will give them time to develop a plan for the findings that are affecting them
• Managing upwards
• • No matter how well or poorly the report is written, it’s still going to end up being your job to explain “how bad is this thing you handed me?”
  • Have to manage the findings and their perception upwards
  • • Remediate, mitigate, or accept
    • That's an upper management call
• Dealing with the Re-test
• • Most penetration tests have a clause in there for re-testing findings. Make sure you actually take advantage of that.
  • • This looks good from both an actual security posture position and a management position
  • Some penetration testers will let you remediate quickly and have them re-test, which can be reflected in the final report
  • • Especially if your report might going to customers, this is incredibly useful. Take advantage of this if at all possible.

SFS Podcast - Episode 196

Wannacry: Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda 

First and foremost: Why was medical hit so hard by WannaCry? See Episode 189 - Medical Device Security and Risky Business 455 - https://risky.biz/RB455/

1. The Lead-Up
2. 1. Threat Intelligence is A Thing
   2. Threat Intelligence is Hard
   3. Threat Intelligence Feeds are [REDACTED] for many/most
   1. Do
   2. 1. Stay Calm
         1. You have finite human resources
         2. You have finite time
      2. Prioritize Your Responses
         1. Episode 192 - Security Waste
      3. Know what all your tools can do and be ready to use them
         1. Your Business Continuity Program can inform that
         2. You do have a BCP, right?
      4. Know what area to focus on first
      5. Be willing to cut off an arm to save the body
      6. When you can remember that Herd Immunity is a Thing.
      1. Scare the Children
      2. Waffle in decision making
         1. This is not the time to point out for the millionth time that your patching program is suboptimal
         2. This is not the time to point out that if you’d only gotten that BlinkyBox last capital season this wouldn’t be an issue
      3. Focus on what you can’t do
      4. Overpromise
   3. Don’t…
3. When the Crisis Arrives
   1. Be sure you’re in Aftermath and not still in Crisis
   2. Do a Hot Wash and a full After Action Review/Post-Mortem
   3. Document your lessons learned and distribute them widely
   4. Follow Up, Follow Up, FOLLOW UP!!
4. The Aftermath

Episode 195 - Annual Policy Review - Making It Worthwhile

1. Define policy vs. standards vs. procedures
2. 1. What is a Policy? It is a guiding principle to set the direction of an organization. High level, governing, statements. Do not include technical details.
      1. Example: Policy statement = Users must authenticate with a unique ID and password
      2. Standard: User passwords must be: # of characters, include one uppercase letter, one special character, be at least 10 characters in length. This type of information would go into an Access Control Standard.
   2. What is a Standard? Standards support the policy, make it more meaningful and effective.
   3. What is a Procedure? A procedure is a step by step, how to guide to which is consistent with the end result being the same. These are the steps for configuring your firewalls, setting up a new user, building a server, etc.
   1. Every policy guide everywhere says you need to review your policies regularly which almost always means annually.
   2. Failure to do the annual review can get you in hot water with your regulator and/or auditor.
   3. It just Makes Sense.
3. Why review your policies?
   1. It’s the one time a year you can nudge the organization where it needs to go
   2. 1. Past Problems
      2. Current Issues
      3. Future Challenges
   3. Killing off/modifying policies that get in the way of people doing work will Make Friends And Influence People
   4. There is no better way to ensure your team is working on what needs to be worked on than aligning with stated policy.
4. Making Sense of Policy Review
   1. Alert The Approvers
   2. Line Them Up
   3. Divide and Conquer
   4. Bring The Business Into The Process
      1. Internal Audit
      2. Legal
      3. Risk
      4. Corporate Security
      5. IT
      6. Marketing / Public Relations
   5. As Needed Bring In
   6. Change Crosswalks FTW
   7. Communicate, Communicate, Communicate.
5. The Review Process
   1. Have a process to deal with questions.  Route questions to the authoritative source for an answer - don’t answer stuff you can’t/shouldn’t
6. Questions?
7. Resources?

More Notes

• Make sure what is being added is enforceable. This is a legal document and can be used in court. Statements support what is being done today, not what you would like to do or wish the program would do in the future.
• Go back to those “parking lot” statements that were not added or removed from a draft because you couldn’t enforce them at the time. Can they be added? Don’t lose sight of them if they are important to your security program  
• Does the corporate culture / C levels support statements in the policy? As a security practitioner you may firmly believe that your security program must abide by certain policy statements but the corporate culture or your CEO/CFO even CISO may not support it. They may become “parking lot” items for a future version or you may be able to successfully display that the program can support that statement without affecting the culture.
• Legal is an important reviewer. It feels nitpicky during the review but Legal knows when “should” and “must” are appropriate.
• Don’t reinvent the wheel. ISO 27001 is a good framework for your policy. Use it. Don’t try to come up with statements because you think you have to appear to be an Info Sec Policy God. KISS!
• Don’t write standards and procedures in your policy! We’ve reviewed countless policies that had what we’d consider a standard or “step by step instructions for making firewall changes. That’s a procedure! Keep it out of your policy.

Evaluating Security Product Vendors

In light of recent news about “Vendors Behaving Badly” we want to talk about how a security professional should evaluate vendors and their products.

Recent News:

Tanium exposed hospital’s IT while using its network in sales demos: https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/04/security-vendor-uses-hospitals-network-for-unauthorized-sales-demos/

Lawyers, malware, and money: The antivirus market’s nasty fight over Cylance: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/the-mystery-of-the-malware-that-wasnt/

1. There are so many different sources of information about vendors and their products.  You owe it to yourself to evaluate not just the vendor but also each source of information.
   1. Analyst Firms:  Gartner/Forrester/etc
   2. 1. Always remember they take a very generic view using a notional enterprise as the standard.
      2. Current customer interviews are important but, remember, those customer contacts likely came from the vendor.
      3. The perception of “Pay for Play” is there no matter how much the firms want to squelch that.
      1. These tests presume a lot so make sure you understand what the conditions of the test were.
      2. The “Pay for Play” perception exists here too….
      3. The results of the testing aren’t specific but can help show outliers in a group
   3. 3rd Party Testing:  NSS Labs, etc.
      1. Obviously your best and most relevant source of information.  :-)
   4. Podcasts
      1. If you have developed a reliable network of peers you can reach out and ask folks.  But, remember, buy them a beer for their troubles…
      2. Always remember perspective is everything.  Some people just don’t like Company_Z and will always hate their products.
   5. Networking
2. Information Sources
   1. Start with 3rd party data and demos.  This will determine if your requirements (you did write out your requirements, right?) are met by the product
      1. Do not allow the vendor to drive the definition of “success” in a PoC
      2. Try to break it.  I mean REALLY try to break it.
      3. Remember during the PoC is going to be the best support and interaction you will ever get.  If that sucks you might want to move along.
      4. Test *all* of your use cases. (you do have documented use cases, right?)
   2. Do a PoC (Proof of Concept).
3. Product Evaluation Rules
   1. Service providers such as penetration testers and MSSPs
4. Edge Cases

Tonight's episode is all about those learning moments. 

CISOs and security orgs find new and interesting way to screw up all the time.  Leaving that Any-Any rule in place on the new firewall…  Disabling the CEOs account by accident…  Not realizing that Shadow IT had just installed a new egress point…

Here are our stories.  The name have been changed to protect the culpable.

Today's Topic: Security Waste - Buying new tools without maximizing use of current tool set

It’s not just a security problem but we often add to our arsenal without fully (or even mostly) utilizing the tools that we do have.

Problems associated with this are:

• Have more complexity in your environment
• Needing more staff or requiring current staff to stretch themselves thin to support differing tools
• Increased cost (capital, operational, support)
• Information overload - even with a SIEM more data requires more analysis
• • Increased chance of missing key events
  • Increased false positives
• What am I missing?

How do we work through this when you’re not the decision maker?

• “Operational Excellence” - Martin’s story

How do we work with our vendors to ensure that we are leveraging their tools without over dependence on one tool or vendor?

The Southern Fried Security Podcast - Episode 191 - Gone Phishin’

Phishing your employees - Does it make them aware or do they feel mistrusted?

1. Intro - Phishing - what is it typically?
2. 1. Example - Emails from a Prince in Nigeria, phished on Match.com, etc
   1. What is it? An email designed to get employees to click on suspicious links or give their credentials
   2. Discuss what I designed as part of my phishing campaign - Partnered with trusted vendor
   3. Designed an email, google doc, supplied AD user list, launch
   4. Stats from our phishing campaign
   5. How GMail caught it and started dumping the emails into spam but some employees even went into spam and clicked (RSA breach!)
   6. Employees used Slack to warn others. Can you avoid neighbors leaning over the cube telling each other? Is this when “see something, say something?” becomes a good thing? How to get employees to follow it?
3. What about when you phish your employees to improve security?
   1. How often?
   2. Do you target specific areas you know are susceptible (Ex - Marketing, Finance)
   3. What about Engineering? How do you trick them?
4. What are the benefits of a targeted phishing campaign?
   1. Start with education first. Then to sanctions.
   2. Use to teach - not ridicule.
   3. C-Levels *have* to be part of it.
5. How do you prevent employees from feeling that Security doesn’t trust them?
6. People are still the weak link! Solutions and hardware can’t prevent that one user from clicking on a link that creates havoc for the company.
   1. We blow holes in security to allow Phish email through.  What if vendor gets compromised?
7. Downsides?

Episode 190 - Burnout

1. Intro
2. 1. Why the topic of burnout?
   2. 1. Because it affects all of us, and yet it’s not talked about much in this field
      2. Disclaimer: We am not a doctor. Or a psychiatrist or psychologist. Nor did we stay in a holiday inn express...
   1. Reason for sabbatical
   2. Martin’s story
3. Personal Connection
   1. Symptoms may mirror depression
   2. 1. “The Creeping Malaise”
      1. Weight
      2. Panic Attacks, etc
      3. Isolation - even while in a crowd
   3. Physical symptoms
   4. It’s been around for a long time.  http://www.secburnout.org/ & http://www.slideshare.net/secburnout/burnout-in-information-security are from 2011/12
4. Recognizing Burnout
   1. “It won’t happen to me”
   2. “I just have to make it through this busy season and this end of quarter and the end of FY and…”
   3. “Everybody else is exactly the same…”
   4. Conferences are not vacations and shouldn’t be seen that way.  Cons can be very hard work.
5. Easy Traps
   1. Outdoor hobbies
   2. 1. Just get outside and away from screens
   3. A physical, people you can talk to in person community
      1. http://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/i-work-from-home
      2. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/running
   4. Exercise & diet
   5. Creating and enforcing boundaries (emotional and physical)
6. Mitigation Strategies
   1. Not liking your job or employer  (that’s quite the opposite problem, actually)
   2. Just hard work for a little while
7. What burnout isn’t…
   1. http://lisacongdon.com/blog/2016/12/on-burnout-and-the-slow-rebuilding/
8. Resources
9. Outro

In this inaugural bonus track we release the interview we did with Nick Selby (@nselby) on his experience validating the work of MedSec on St. Medical devices.

SFS Podcast Episode: 189

Medical Device Security

1. Intro
   1. Hospital devices (infusion pumps, CT, MRI, etc)
   2. Personal devices (pacemaker, insulin pumps, etc)
2. Medical Devices are a broad category
   1. Discussion of Sentinel Events...
3. This has some of the same threat landscape as the IoVCT, but the consequences can be much more serious.
   1. Lead times for device approval
   2. Fixed configurations / FDA compliance
   3. Working life of devices
   4. “Well just replace them all!” Cost of devices (esp for small/struggling hospitals)
   5. Sheer number of devices can be overwhelming when looking to upgrade/replace
   6. Vendors that bring in things for a trial w/o involvement of IT/IS
4. Challenges to Fixing The Problem:
   1. Vuln Disclosure  
   2. 1. Muddy Waters / St Jude
      2. 1. Problem there wasn’t disclosure it was the look of the profit motive
         2. August 25, 2016 > http://www.muddywatersresearch.com/research/stj/mw-is-short-stj/
         3. SJM sued in early September >> http://www.wsj.com/articles/st-jude-medical-sues-short-seller-over-device-allegations-1473258343
         4. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/short-seller-muddy-waters-renews-claims-of-st-jude-medical-cyber-vulnerabilities-2016-10-19
         5. Goes beyond Vulnerability Disclosure and Muddy Waters claims SJM is attacking their First Amendment - Right to Free Speech - rights >> https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-24/muddy-waters-fights-st-jude-lawsuit-over-pacemaker-reports
         6. Muddy Waters report from Bishop Fox >> http://www.reuters.com/article/us-st-jude-medical-cyber-muddywaters-idUSKCN12O1O1
         1. http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/2016/0210/FDA-presses-medical-device-makers-to-OK-good-faith-hacking
      3. Bug Bounties
   3. FDA Task Force - http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm481968.htm
      1. I Am The Cavalry - https://iamthecavalry.org/oath
         1. HIMSS Cyber Security Community - http://www.himss.org/get-involved/community/cybersecurity
         2. Archimedes Center for Medical Device Security - https://secure-medicine.blogspot.com
         3. NH-ISAC - http://www.nhisac.org/
         4. MDISS - http://www.mdiss.org
      2. Other interest groups
   4. Other groups
5. How Can it Get Better
   1. Sometime, somewhere, somehow something bad is going to happen and somebody is going to die.
   2. There will need to be more market pressure - http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/278712-a-new-narrative-on-cyber-security
   3. What will regulators do?  (eg DLink and the FTC)
6. What’s the Future?
7. Outro & Credits

Andy and Martin close out 2016 with a quick run through of the major stories of the year and look forward to what's to come in 2017.

Thanks to everyone who came to BSides Atlanta!

Martin, Steve, and Yvette discuss the recent DDoS of the DNS provider Dyn and what information security people should be considering in a world where terabit DDoS is a reality.

Martin, Steve, and Yvette talk about recent events at Yahoo and the moral compass questions information security professionals and leaders may be forced to face when their employer appears to be doing something they shouldn't...

For the first time we can think of it's just Yvette and Martin on this episode.  The two of them talk about what to think about and what you might do if you run into some extra budget at the end of the year.  Do you invest in shiny? What about services? Some training might be nice?  Or so you score points with the team down the hall?

We interview Nick Selby (@nselby) about a recent blog post where he had a less than optimal experience with a managed security service provider.

https://nselby.github.io/When-Security-Monitoring-Provides-Neither-Security-Nor-Monitoring/

Martin, Andy, and Steve talk about third party risk programs in light of breaches at Target, Banner Health, and other unfortunate souls.

Joseph is on sabbatical but the rest of the crew talks about how infosec professionals should focus on their problems and how to effectively interact with "the business".

Guillaume’s last visit to the show: Episode 167
Last year’s WWDC episode

WWDC 2016 Security Rumors and Wishes
Possible Touch ID changes
Touch ID for the Mac?

Wishlist
Encrypted iCloud Backups
Permissions and Pairing
Granular Location Access
Better Public Wi-Fi, VPN And SSL/TLS Handling

Reduced Annoyances and Increased Security on iOS

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This evening, Martin sat down with Patrick Heim from Dropbox. Enjoy the interview, and the gang will be back next episode.

The 2016 DBIR
OSVDB Thoughts on the DBIR
Analyzing the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report » Digital Shadows
The DBIR’s ‘Forest’ of Exploit Signatures – Trail of Bits Blog
Response to Kenna Security’s Explanation of the DBIR Vulnerability Mess | OSVDB

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This evening, Martin, Steve, and Joseph talk about overhyped vulnerabilities, and how that affects communication with the business.

Badlock’s Site
Sadlock
Hyping vulnerabilities is no longer helping application security awareness | TechCrunch

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Tonight, Martin and Joseph sit down and talk about communicating cautionary tales without turning them into FUD.

US-CERT advisory on ransomware

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InfoSec programs without money are like cereal but no milk, peanut butter but no jelly, Milli but no Vanilli… (Get over it, I’m old - Martin)

Martin is doing a talk on “The ABCs of Getting Your InfoSec Program Funded” and we’re going to discuss how this works in the real world at all of the different levels.

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Episode 175 - RSAC Wrapup and More...

Congrats to Risky Business for winning this year’s podcast of the year!

RSA:
Let’s get an update from our reporter on the scene: Mr. Steve Ragan.

Fear and loathing at RSA: Hacking, security and the limits of protection | TechCrunch

Hack the Planet! I mean the Pentagon: U.S. military invites vetted experts to "Hack the Pentagon" | Fortune

Spear Phishing:
Three more firms hit by targeted Phishing attacks seeking W2 data | CSO Online

What Happens When You Dare Expert Hackers to Hack You

Backdoors:
Linux Mint hacked: Compromised data up for sale, ISO downloads backdoored | CSO Online

Transmission Infected with KeRanger Ransomware – MacStories

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We’ve been nominated for the 2016 Security Blogger Awards!

Topic: Threat Intel

Norse Corp disappears shortly after CEO is asked to step down

Digital Shadows announces 14 million series B fund raising

PDF WARNING - Threat Intelligence Maturity Model (tl;dr - Intel programs are hard and take years to get right)

Forrester - Maximizing your investment in cyber threat intelligence providers (tl;dr - be careful spending big bucks and make sure you are gathering your own intel first)

Mind Over Matter: The Importance of Intelligence in Your Threat Program - “When it comes down to it, you can’t outsource your business risk management strategy.”

Threat Intelligence Indicators are not Signatures // InfoSec Zanshin

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Topic: Vendor Relationships 

Trend Micro AV gave any website command-line access to Windows PCs

Google security researcher excoriates TrendMicro for critical AV defects

Trustwave lawsuit

Norse story

Demos:
Pro Tip: Kicking off your demo with "I hope you'll understand these concepts" sets a pretty sad tone. - Martin

Pro Tip: Presuming you know our business processes during your demo means you aren't showing us what we are looking for. Ask first. - Martin

Pro Tip: If you don't prepare to demo the requested features please just cancel and move along. - Martin

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Topic: Security Awareness

Some people think it's a waste of time:

Why you shouldn’t train employees for security awareness
Schneier on Security Awareness Training
Does security awareness training even work?

But, that said, it's a requirement for government agencies and regulated industries:

HHS Security Awareness and Training Requirements

Privacy and Security Training requirements for multiple regulations

DISCUSSION & OPINION: Is Security Awareness worth the time?

If you have to do it, make it better:
Ten Recommendations for Security Awareness Programs

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Tonight, Martin, Joseph, Steve, and Andy got together and went over how their 2015 predictions went, and laid out what their predictions were for 2016.

The gang is on break from now until the new year, happy holidays!

Check for signs of the apocalypse, everyone was here tonight...

Comcast resets nearly 200,000 passwords

In the era of GPS, Naval Academy revives celestial navigation

How Carders Can Use eBay as a Virtual ATM

What Flu Season Can Teach Us About Fighting Cyberattacks

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This week, Andy's back!

The FitBit "hack"

The FBI's Advice on Ransomware? Just Pay The Ransom

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Dale Myers - 1Password Leaks Your Data

AgileBits - When a Leak Isn't a Leak

Jessy on Twitter
Joseph on Twitter
Steve on Twitter

Tonight, Steve and Joseph talked password managers and consumer reports for cybersecurity.

LogMeIn now owns LastPass

Troy Hunt's article on switching from LastPass

Websites, Please Stop Blocking Password Managers. It's 2015

Mudge's Consumer Cyber Reports

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This week, Joseph and Guillaume Ross talked content blockers, phishing consequences, and home network monitoring.

Back to Work Episode 239

Accidental Tech Podcast Episode 136

FireEye: Forbes.com served malicious ads to visitors | CSO Online

Ad Blocking, Ad Networks, & Your IP Address

DHS infosec chief: We should pull clearance of feds who fail phish test | Ars Technica

Cujo Is a Smart-Home Device That Protects Against Hacks | Digital Trends

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This week Martin and Joseph sat down and talked about stress, burnout, and why Martin took a break for a while. 

Tweet from Ed Willson

Chrome and Firefox dump Flash

Netflix dumps antivirus

Windows 10:
Even When Told Not To, Windows 10 Can't Stop Talking to Microsoft
Even the pirates are nervous about Windows 10
Timcast - Windows 10 is spying on you and it's super creepy

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This week's show notes:

Vegas:
BlackHat Day 1
Car Hacking
BlackHat Day 2
Defcon Roundup
@sawaba's BSides Talk
Washington Post's Article on l0pht

Oracle's CSO makes a questionable publishing decision

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No full episode this week thanks to Security Summer Camp, but Martin got to sit down and chat with good friend of the podcast Wendy Nather. 

We'll be back soon!

Life is Short. For some it may get shorter?

Archuleta is out at OPM: Who didn't see that one coming?

If you look for breaches, you might find them.

Darkode Shutdown: Former FireEye Intern Accused Of Creating $65,000 Android Malware - Forbes 

BREAKING: UCLA Health breach hits data of 4.5M - Modern Healthcare

This episode, the gang was joined by Chris Burton (@cyberhiker) to talk about the OPM breach.

OPM - The Breach that Keeps on Giving:

Second OPM Hack Exposed Information About Military, Intelligence Workers - Defense One
http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/06/second-opm-hack-compromised-information-military-intelligence-workers/115213/

Report: Hack of government employee records discovered by product demo | Ars Technica
http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/report-hack-of-government-employee-records-discovered-by-product-demo/

Carnal0wnage Attack Research Blog: Hard to Sprint When You Have Two Broken Legs
http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/2015/06/hard-to-sprint-when-you-have-two-broken.html

Data hacked from U.S. government dates back to 1985: U.S. official | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/06/us-cybersecurity-usa-idUSKBN0OL1V320150606?irpc=932

Brief: 4 million federal employees affected by data breach at OPM | CSO Online
http://www.csoonline.com/article/2931560/data-breach/brief-4-million-federal-employees-affected-by-data-breach-at-opm.html

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The show notes for this episode have some screenshots, see the website for the full notes:

http://www.southernfriedsecurity.com/apple-and-privacy-with-guillaume-ross/ 

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This week Steve and Joseph were joined by a guest from America's hat: Guillaume Ross. 

The IRS and PII as verification:

Security checks that rely on PII put businesses and consumers at risk | CSO Online http://www.csoonline.com/article/2927652/data-protection/security-checks-that-rely-on-pii-put-businesses-and-consumers-at-risk.html

If you're not paying for the service, you're probably the product:
Adios, Hola! - Why you should immediately uninstall Hola http://adios-hola.org/

Hola VPN client vulnerabilities put millions of users at risk | CSO Online

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2928817/vulnerabilities/hola-vpn-client-vulnerabilities-put-millions-of-users-at-risk.html

Facebook Uses PGP

Official announcement:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/securing-email-communications-from-facebook/1611941762379302

https://threatpost.com/facebook-bolsters-message-security-adds-openpgp/113079

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Joseph and Steve were joined by a special guest tonight, Mr. Kevin Riggins. They tackled mafia-style shakedowns, vulnerabilities in medical equipment, and “stunt hacking.”

"Breach" Extortion:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/05/07/technology/tiversa-labmd-ftc/index.html

ICS-CERT issues advisory for medical equipment for the first time:

https://ics-cert.us-cert.gov/advisories/ICSA-15-125-01A

http://hextechsecurity.com/?p=123

"Stunt Hacking":

http://aptn.ca/news/2015/05/15/hacker-told-f-b-made-plane-fly-sideways-cracking-entertainment-system/

http://www.wired.com/2015/05/feds-say-banned-researcher-commandeered-plane/

http://idoneous-security.blogspot.com/2015/05/lessons-in-grown-up-security.html

http://carnal0wnage.attackresearch.com/2015/05/normal-0-false-false-false-en-us-x-none.html

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This week, Joseph and Steve talked about what these "six hacker tribes" are, and the recent rise of some accountability in security in both the government and the private sector.

"The Six Hacker Tribes"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet-security/11568376/Unmasked-the-six-hacker-tribes-you-need-to-watch-out-for.html

“Accountability in Security” on multiple fronts:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davelewis/2015/04/29/notes-from-rsa-accountability-in-security/

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2916649/disaster-recovery/fireeye-customers-get-liability-shield-thanks-to-safety-act.html

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The gang is back with some cast changes. Martin will be taking a break for a while, so Joseph will be hosting for the next while.

This week, we talked Wordpress, Steve's experiences at RSAC, and this year's DBIR:

Wordpress:
http://www.csoonline.com/article/2915142/vulnerabilities/wordpress-promises-patch-for-zero-day-within-hours.html 

RSAC:
RSAC 2015: RSA Conference (Day 1): http://www.csoonline.com/article/2910943/security-industry/rsac-2015-rsa-conference-day-1.html

RSAC 2015: RSA Conference (Day 2): http://www.csoonline.com/article/2912475/security-awareness/rsac-2015-rsa-conference-day-2.html 

RSAC 2015: RSA Conference (Day 3): http://www.csoonline.com/article/2912411/data-protection/rsac-2015-rsa-conference-day-3.html

Defcon/BH Attendance: http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/12/black-hat-and-defcon-see-record-attendance-and-thats-not-even-counting-the-spies/

The DBIR:
http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2015/

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It's going to be a little bit before the next episode of the podcast as we work out some changes.  Until then take a listen to some news about BSides Las Vegas Proving Grounds!  See you in Vegas!

Episode 156 - Sad Panda Martin, Steve, and Joseph got on tonight to talk about clickbait-that-wasn't, AV eating itself, and 6 ways the Sony breach didn't actually change everything. A great slideshow article from friend of the podcast Michael Santarcangelo http://www.csoonline.com/article/2895341/security-leadership/8-steps-successful-security-leaders-follow-to-drive-improvement.html A bad, bad day for Panda AV http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/panda-labs-detects-itself-as/ http://redd.it/2yofpo "6 Ways The Sony Hack Changes Everything" http://www.darkreading.com/risk/6-ways-the-sony-hack-changes-everything-/a/d-id/1319415 And if you have any feedback, questions, or comments, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

The Show Notes

Opening Music

BSides Atlanta

• SFS Podcast is a sponsor

• Martin is presenting “The Art of Speaking with Muggles”

• Sold out but sponsors have tix they are handing out. Also Eventbrite courtesy.

Stories:

It’s hard to find infosec folks…

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2894377/infosec-staffing/shortage-of-security-pros-worsens.html

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-infosec-hiring-lost-its-way-harsh-findings-in-leviathan-report/

The number of things wrong with the editorial are immense…  We read it so you don’t have to….

http://www.darkreading.com/application-security/which-apps-should-you-secure-first--wrong-question/a/d-id/1319355

Anthem declines post-breach audit from regulators…

https://threatpost.com/anthem-refusing-oig-security-audit-following-breach/111476

Twitter: @SFSPodcast

www.SouthernFriedSecurity.com

 Martin & Steve get a change to talk to Rob Fuller (@mubix) about his ideas on Open Source Architecture.  It's a great conversation where you can see the idea grow in front of your own ears!

The link to the Open Source Architecture group is:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ossag

Remember BSidesATL and BSidesLV!

Episode 153 - Internet Veapon The gang braved the snow to get a show together tonight, here's what they covered: $17 mill-yun dollars scammed from Omaha company… A cautionary tale on business process controls... http://www.csoonline.com/article/2884339/malware-cybercrime/omahas-scoular-co-loses-17-million-after-spearphishing-attack.html You get an attribution! And you get an attribution! You all get attributions! https://threatpost.com/massive-decades-long-cyberespionage-framework-uncovered/111080 Feds want more threat info from private companies. Is this the way to go? http://www.wired.com/2015/02/president-obama-signs-order-encourage-sharing-cyber-threat-information/ Join us next week for episode 1784 of the continuing special “Responsible Disclosure!” http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/google-blinks-first-with-project/ PSAs: BSidesATL 2015 CFP is open http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/92311122/BSidesATL2015 BSidesLV 2015 CFP and Call for Mentors is open as well http://www.bsideslv.org/ And if you have any feedback, questions, or comments, drop us a comment here or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

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Run Sheet for 2/9/15 - Episode 152

The Stories

Anthem…. a megabreach if ever we've seen one...

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2881532/business-continuity/anthem-how-does-a-breach-like-this-happen.html

With the end of Microsoft’s Trusted Computing Group has the overall security posture of products taken a hit?  Anecdotes say...maybe.

http://www.itproportal.com/2015/02/02/microsofts-new-ios-outlook-app-serious-security-flaws/

BSides Vegas PSA

Security Model is Broken. In other news, water is wet, and if you stop breathing, you may die.

http://www.scmagazine.com/the-security-model-is-broken/article/393033/

A vendor sponsored survey is slanted so that the “biggest problem” is likely fixed by the sponsor?  NO WAY!!

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2879117/data-protection/vendor-math-doesnt-add-up-on-federal-security-priorities.html

Episode 151 -  

Tonight, the gang dodged the snow for long enough to talk about some of the stories that have come out in the past week or two.

Can we finally quantify risk?

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2874171/data-protection/new-framework-helps-companies-quantify-risk.html

Security budgets seem to be on the rise according to Ponemon:

http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/security-budgets-going-up-thanks-to-mega-breaches/d/d-id/1318714?

Filed under "Duh..."

http://www.infosecisland.com/blogview/24236-Fear-Hackers-First-Invest-in-an-IT-Security-Culture-Change.html

There are lots of potential changes to the CFAA, what can you do?

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2873537/security-industry/post-state-of-the-union-reaction-to-proposed-legislation-remains-mixed.html

https://medium.com/message/we-should-all-step-back-from-security-journalism-e474cd67e2fa

https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2015/01/26/how-do-we-de-criminalize-security-research-aka-what-s-next-for-the-cfaa

Public Service Announcement:

BSidesLV's awesome Proving Grounds track is looking for speakers: http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/89943218/BSidesLV2015

CircleCityCon's CFP is open: https://circlecitycon.com/

BSidesCharm is looking for sponsors: http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/80637041/BSidesCharm2015

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Episode 150 - Not Quite Explicit The gang is back after their holiday break, and it sure was nice that nothing big happened between episodes, right? Right? Now, we're not tackling Sony in this episode, but there was still plenty to discuss. Microsoft is ending Advanced Patch Notification Service for everyone except for certain support levels. http://windowsitpro.com/security/microsoft-ends-advanced-patch-notification-service-and-slams-google-early-warning-policy Microsoft and Google are starting up the disclosure discussion all over again. http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/01/a-call-for-better-vulnerability-response.html http://blogs.technet.com/b/msrc/archive/2015/01/11/a-call-for-better-coordinated-vulnerability-disclosure.aspx http://www.csoonline.com/article/2867534/vulnerabilities/microsoft-blasts-google-for-vulnerability-disclosure-policy.html Surprise surprise, politicians are calling for regulation of technology. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/us/politics/obama-to-call-for-laws-covering-data-hacking-and-student-privacy.html If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, questions, or comments, drop us a comment here or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

The gang got together for one last show before the end of year hiatus to give talk about the year in review, and their predictions for the year to come. We'll be on hiatus until January, so have a safe holiday season, and we'll be back next year. If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

It's a longer than normal episode with two great interviews.

First Martin talks with Jennifer Minella (@jjx) about the upcoming (ISC)2 elections and her experience being on the board for the past year.

Then Martin brings Dave Shackleford (@daveshackleford) on to talk about what it wrong with security cons today.

We'll be back next week!

Tonight Martin, Steve, and Joseph tackled FUD, stolen medical data, and executive orders. Remember, if it says X number of Y, you should probably just move on. http://www.csoonline.com/article/2835080/data-breach/15-of-the-scariest-things-hacked.html Stolen Medical Data is Now Worth Something http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/09/24/us-cybersecurity-hospitals-idUSKCN0HJ21I20140924 A great step forward by the government?! http://www.csoonline.com/article/2835476/data-protection/obama-signs-executive-order-to-bolster-federal-credit-card-security.html There are also a lot of upcoming SecurityBSides events that you should check out here: http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/12194156/FrontPage If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

In case of breach, ask reporters for money? http://motherboard.vice.com/read/hacked-snapchat-website-demands-payment-bitcoin-to-talk-about-getting-hacked-snapsaved POODLE explained. Is this really what the future of vulnerability disclosure looks like? http://www.wired.com/2014/10/poodle-explained/ Rethinking the Security “Con” http://daveshackleford.com/?p=1063 If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

Sorry for the delay in getting episodes out, folks.  Life...it happens.

Today's episode is two fantastic interviews.

First, Sparkles interviews Dave Kennedy (@hackingdave) at DerbyCon.

Next, Martin interviews Ally Miller (@selenakyle) on PCI, Chips, PINs, and other amazing stuff.

We'll be back to what passes for a normal schedule shortly.

Episode 144 - The Ballad of Ricky Joe Tonight marked the return of Yvette back to the podcast, joining Martin, Andy, and Joseph to talk about what else but more Home Depot. http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/home-depot-ignored-security-warnings-for-years-employees-say/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/home-depots-former-security-architect-had-history-of-techno-sabotage/ We also managed to fit in a great discussion on chip and pin and it's effectiveness here in the US. http://www.csoonline.com/article/2685514/data-protection/chip-and-pin-no-panacea-but-worth-the-effort-and-the-cost.html If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

This week Andy made his triumphant return back to the show with Martin, Steve, and Joseph. They dove right back in on some of the recent breaches, as well as a discussion about how CISOs should respond when they find themselves in a "resume-generating event." "C-level security" http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-12/home-depot-didnt-encrypt-credit-card-data-former-workers-say What are the technical details behind the Home Depot breach? There's a lot of people looking into that. http://sub0day.com/2014/09/pos-hacks/ http://www.darkreading.com/home-depot-breach-may-not-be-related-to-blackpos-target/d/d-id/1315636 "Six stages of data breach denial" http://www.csoonline.com/article/2606174/infosec-careers/caught-in-the-breach-how-a-good-cso-confronts-inevitable-bad-news.html?nsdr=true Minecraft purchased by Microsoft, and Notch is leaving Mojang http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=n1qTeikM If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter

It kind of felt like Groundhog Day on the show this evening as Martin, Steve, and Joseph talked about some of the pressing stories that have come to light over the past week. Steve also gave some insight into discussion of breaches in the media. Home Depot has issued a statement confirming that they have been breached, and have posted a FAQ for the breach. http://www.csoonline.com/article/2604320/data-protection/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-home-depot-data-breach.html https://corporate.homedepot.com/MediaCenter/Pages/Statement1.aspx A simple misconfiguration error led to a development server compromise for Healthcare.gov. http://www.csoonline.com/article/2602964/data-protection/configuration-errors-lead-to-healthcare-gov-breach.html If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter.

Episode 141 - What's goin' on? Tonight Martin and Joseph tackled some of the breaking news of the week. Breaking news: Home Depot breached? http://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/09/banks-credit-card-breach-at-home-depot/ 'Celebgate' is upon us, apparently. http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/2/6098107/apple-denies-icloud-breach-celebrity-nude-photo-hack And according to Kaspersky, if we've done nothing wrong, we have nothing to fear. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/29/kaspersky_backpedals_on_done_nothing_wrong_nothing_to_fear_company_article/ If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter

Tonight was an interesting news night for Martin, Steve, and Joseph. This was an episode filled with healthcare discussion. First, CHS Hacked via Heartbleed? https://www.trustedsec.com/august-2014/chs-hacked-heartbleed-exclusive-trustedsec/ http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312514312504/d776541d8k.htm Second, CMS refuses to reveal details on the security behind Healthcare.gov http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-wont-reveal-records-health-website-security If you’d like to subscribe, you can find the RSS feed here: http://sfspodcast.libsyn.com/rss or on iTunes. And if you have any feedback, drop us a comment or find us at @SFSPodcast on Twitter

We talk with Adam Shostack, author of the recently released Threat Modeling masterpiece, about his keynote at BSidesLV...

Let's chat with Michelle Klinger about BSidesLV and the Security BSides organization...

It's Security Summer Camp time!

Join Martin and Jack Daniel over some breakfast and listen in.

Tonight Martin, Steve, and Joseph took the opportunity to get a little ranty. It must be a slow news week in the weeks leading up to Security Summer Camp, so there was some great fodder for the guys tonight.

Elon Musk - Dreamy Hero or Dreamiest Hero?

http://news.hitb.org/content/tesla-model-s-hacked-security-contest

It's time to schedule another World Cup final, it seems.

http://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/website-hacks-dropped-during-world-cup-final/d/d-id/1297370

Great post by Spencer Hsieh on the realities of targeted attacks.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2456221/security-awareness/misconceptions-about-targeted-attacks.html

"We're like sheep waiting to be slaughtered" apparently.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/21/business/a-tough-corporate-job-asks-one-question-can-you-hack-it.html

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Tonight Martin, Yvette, Steve, and Joseph tackled some fun topics, stories are below.

Is this the end of password managers? No.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/severe-password-manager-attacks-steal-digital-keys-and-data-en-masse/

Bitcoin isn't Money

http://www.wired.com/2014/07/silkroad-bitcoin-isnt-money/

What can you do to help your security budget?

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2369048/security-leadership/do-these-3-things-to-get-the-security-budget-you-want.html

Clearly we should track all of our special snowflakes. 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/07/10/330406463/a-new-device-lets-you-track-your-preschooler-and-listen-in

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Tonight went a little off the rails, but Martin (@armorguy), Steve (@steveD3), and Joseph (@jsokoly) had some fun talking about stories.

DNS is important
http://www.darkreading.com/microsofts-seizure-of-no-ip-domains-disrupted-criminals-and-innocents-alike/d/d-id/1279079

Are CISOs too confident?
http://net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17047

Has the Internet of Things gone "mainstream"?
http://www.npr.org/2014/07/05/328888392/from-thermostats-to-prison-security-more-things-going-online

Can we finally kill Comic Sans?
http://theuniversaltypeface.com/home

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Episode 136 - Let's talk about pri-va-cy

Tonight Joseph, Andy, and Steve continued their theme of talking about themes. Joseph brought up a discussion of privacy and got the guys talking. The stories that they discussed are below.

http://www.macworld.com/article/2366921/why-apple-really-cares-about-your-privacy.html

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/usable-security/

http://www.networkworld.com/article/2393044/security/german-government-to-drop-verizon-because-of-us-spying.html

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onight was a little different of an episode. Joseph, Steve, and Andy talked about how tired they were of the "Breach of the Week," how what is old is new again, and the Code Spaces nightmare scenario.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2137033/network-security/meetup-struggles-under-the-weight-of-a-massive-ddos-attack.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2114873/network-security/after-refusing-to-pay-ransom--basecamp-hit-with-ddos.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2362004/cloud-security/ddos-triggers-massive-evernote-outage.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2362243/malware-cybercrime/feedly-hit-by-ddos-after-refusing-extortion-demands.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2365062/disaster-recovery/code-spaces-forced-to-close-its-doors-after-security-incident.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2365772/cloud-security/how-to-avoid-having-your-cloud-hosted-business-destroyed-by-hackers.html

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Tonight Martin, Joseph, Yvette, and Steve managed to pull themselves away from the US vs Ghana World Cup game long enough to talk about some stories tonight. 

When was the last time we saw someone resort to carbon copy?
http://www.darkreading.com/pf-changs-confirms-security-breach/d/d-id/1278577

Is Target's New CISO doomed from the start? 
http://www.csoonline.com/article/2363210/data-protection/target-top-security-officer-reporting-to-cio-seen-as-a-mistake.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2360984/security-leadership/the-cso-s-failure-to-lead.html

TweetDeck was "hacked", but they sure handled it well.
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/tweetdeck-hacked/

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Episode 133 - The Doctor is In

Martin, Joseph, and Steve talk about health care and your phone...

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/health/
http://www.zdnet.com/new-ios-7-lock-screen-flaw-opens-up-iphones-ipads-in-seconds-7000030335/

http://recode.net/2014/06/02/the-doctor-will-see-you-on-your-iphone-now

http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/5/5765732/talkspace-smartphone-therapy-apps

Episode 132 - place holder text.

Tonight it was just Joseph and Steve on the podcast, and they had themselves a grand old time. 

http://www.wired.com/2014/05/ebay-demonstrates-how-not-to-respond-to-a-huge-data-breach/

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2157782/security-awareness/raising-awareness-quickly-the-ebay-database-compromise.html

http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/05/can-i-drop-pacemaker-0day.html

http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/the-mystery-of-the-truecrypt-encryption-software-shutdown-/d/d-id/1269323

https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

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Martin & Steve handle the 'cast without the rest of the crew tonight...

Here's the stories we comment upon:

Dan Geer blows our mind....again.

https://securityledger.com/2014/05/blade-runner-redux-do-embedded-systems-need-a-time-to-die/

Martin disagrees (kinda) with Michael Santarchangelo for the first time ever..

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2156104/security-leadership/thinking-about-security-beyond-winning-and-losing.html

To redefine winning you gotta get rid of the myths...

http://www.darkreading.com/risk/dispelling-the-myths-of-cyber-security/a/d-id/1251171

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See you in two weeks!

Martin, Andy, Steven, and Yvette talk about Nick Selby's high school experiences, the Internet of Things, and why Martin doesn't sleep well at night.

http://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/why-threat-intelligence-is-like-teenage-sex/a/d-id/1235049

https://securityledger.com/2014/05/no-silver-bullet-for-securing-internet-of-things/

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/hospital-equipment-vulnerable/

Joseph is in charge this week and that's about all I've got to say about that.

-Martin

:)

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303417104579542140235850578?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303417104579542140235850578.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lauraheller/2014/05/05/targets-ceo-departure-isnt-just-about-the-data-breach/

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2150205/browser-security/microsoft-fixes-internet-explorer-flaw-with-out-of-band-patch-xp-included.html

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Episode 128 - $VULN_pocalypse

Tonight, Martin and Joseph sat down and talked about $vuln of the week, as well as this year's Verizon DBIR:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2148368/new-internet-explorer-zero-day-puts-web-at-risk-and-xp-isnt-getting-a-fix.html

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2148921/dhs-warns-against-using-internet-explorer-until-bug-is-patched.html

http://www.verizonenterprise.com/DBIR/2014/

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Episode Number 127 - Advanced Malware Attack

Tonight, the whole gang actually got together for the first time in who knows how long. So of course, we tackled some fun stuff:

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2145541/michaels-says-breach-at-its-stores-affected-nearly-3m-payment-cards.html

http://heartbleed.com/

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2142626/security-leadership/how-you-need-to-respond-to-heartbleed-and-how-you-can-explain-it-to-others.html

http://www.csoonline.com/article/2142700/vulnerabilities/heartbleed-cve-2014-0160-an-overview-of-the-problem-and-the-resources-needed-to.html 

http://www.wired.com/2014/04/att-hacker-conviction-vacated/

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It's just Andy and Martin for the first time in years on this episode.  The boys talk about the impending demise of Windows XP and then rant/rage/wax philosophic on all things PCI/QSA...

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Martin, Steve, Yvette, and Joseph sat down on this St. Patrick's Day to have a little discussion on breaches, consequences, and SEEMs. Also, it seems that Yvette may be out of a job, as we found out that "Compliance is not Hard."

http://www.csoonline.com/article/749758/how-to-avoid-becoming-a-victim-like-target

http://www.securityweek.com/what-happens-stolen-data-after-breach

http://www.darkreading.com/compliance/compliance-is-not-hard/240166352
http://www.darkreading.com/authors/Glenn-Phillips

This week Yvette, Martin, Andy, and Steve debated the issue of trust when it
comes to security vendors, off-shoring security management, and the latest
trend of Security by Obscurity as a Service - because you can't hack what
you can't see.

http://www.csoonline.com/article/749173/the-risk-of-offshoring-security

http://www.darkreading.com/privacy/security-firms-face-crisis-of-trust/24016
6454

http://www.unisys.com/unisys/landingPages/index.jsp?id=1120000970027210173

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Episode 123 - Outrage Outrage

Tonight, Martin, Andy and Joseph sat down and talked about passwords, old operating systems, and outrage.

http://blogs.csoonline.com/security-leadership/3020/we-abandon-passwords-these-3-critical-elements-authentication-need-be-fixed

http://www.csoonline.com/article/749074/china-s-windows-xp-users-to-still-get-security-support
http://www.csoonline.com/article/748815/apple-retires-snow-leopard-from-support-leaves-1-in-5-macs-vulnerable-to-attacks

http://www.darkreading.com/risk/juniper-security-chief-takes-swipe-at-se/240166326

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It feels good to be back in the saddle again, and the gang hit some fun articles tonight:

http://www.csoonline.com/article/748462/pulling-the-reins-on-data-breach-costs

http://www.darkreading.com/management/solving-the-security-workforce-shortage/240166247

http://www.businessinsider.com/mtgox-resigns-from-bitcoin-foundation-2014-2

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This week, Martin, Andy, and Steve - in an attempt to capture the golden
days of SFS (not really, Yvette was working, and Sparkles was on a plane to
somewhere) - came back from hiatus to gab about Target, effective
leadership, and the drama that is the RSA / NSA debate.

http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/261084166/disruptive-leadership?s
howDate=2014-01-17

http://www.csoonline.com/article/748236/experts-question-security-used-in-ta
rget-breach

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57617388-83/counter-confab-trustycon-to-hos
t-speakers-boycotting-rsa-conference

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Well, we close out 2013 doing a fantastic interview with Mark Horstman of the Manager Tools podcast (www.manager-tools.com).  We highly recommend these folks to anyone who wants to learn effective ways of doing what managers are supposed to do.

Also - we'll be on hiatus until sometime in February 2014.

We wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year.

Episode 119 - All PCI All The Time

For the first time in a long, long time, the whole crew was back together, plus one! Branden Williams joined us while out on the road to discuss his opinions and answer questions about the new PCI DSS 3.0.

https://www.brandenwilliams.com/blog/2013/11/08/pci-dss-3-0-the-good-the-bad-the-confusing/

Martin got the chance to interview Jennifer Minella (@JJX) to talk about her candidacy for the Board of Directors of (ISC)2, the challenges and opportunities that (ISC)2 has, and her drive to get a slate of write-in candidates elected.

http://securityuncorked.com/2013/11/jjs-complete-unofficial-isc2-voter-guidebook/

Episode 117 – End Times

The end is coming when the podcast is put out 2 weeks in a row AND Andy Willingham is on…  J

Martin, Andy, and Yvette wax philosophic on these stories…

Automated Hacking Tools….94% of all web login attempts?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/110713-automated-hacking-tools-swarm-web-275723.html

Also, as promised, here are the slides Matt Bing of Arbor Networks ASERT used during his talk on Fort Disco at this years University of Michigan SUMIT conference.  It was a GREAT talk.

http://safecomputing.umich.edu/events/sumit13/docs/Bing_FortDisco_SUMIT2013b.pdf

Can the new HIPAA rule cut down on ePHI breaches?  Ummmm….no?

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/110813-can-the-new-hipaa-rule-275790.html

And, finally, just realize leadership isn’t about you.  It’s about helping people solve their problems.’’

http://www.npr.org/2013/11/11/230841224/lessons-in-leadership-its-not-about-you-its-about-them