From Hackers to Streakers – How Counterintelligence Teams are Protecting the NFL – Joe McMann – ESW #358

Apr 18, 2024

Protecting a normal enterprise environment is already difficult.
What must it be like protecting a sports team? From the stadium to
merch sales to protecting team strategies and even the players –
securing an professional sports team and its brand is a
cybersecurity challenge on a whole different level.

In this interview, we’ll talk to Joe McMann about how Binary
Defense helps to protect the Cleveland Browns and other
professional sports teams.

This week, Adrian and Tyler discuss some crazy rumors – is it
really possible that a cloud security startup valued at over $8
billion in November 2021 just got bought for $200
million???

Some healthy funding for Cyera and Cohesity ($300m and $150m,
respectively)

Onum, Alethea, Sprinto, Andesite AI, StrikeReady, YL-Backed
Miggo, Nymiz, Salvador Technologies, and Simbian all raise smaller
seed, A, or B rounds.

Akamai picks up API security startup, Noname Security, Zscaler
picks up Airgap networks, and it’s rumored that Armis will acquire
Silk Security for $150M.

LimaCharlie seems to be doing some vertical growth, adding its
own response and automation capabilities (what they call
“bi-directional” capabilities). CISA releases a malware analysis
system to the general public. Boostsecurity.io releases “poutine”,
an open source CI/CD pipeline vulnerability scanner.

Some great essays this week, with Phil Venables’ Letter from
the FutureBen Hawkes’ Robots Dream of Root Shells, and
Aileen Lee’s 10 year Unicorn anniversary piece.

We briefly discuss the 3rd party breach that affected Cisco Duo
customers, and the financial impact of Change Healthcare’s highly
disruptive ransomware incident.

Finally, we talk about the latest research on the security of
LLMs and the apps using them. It’s not looking great.

For more details, check out the show notes here:
https://www.scmagazine.com/podcast-episode/3188-enterprise-security-weekly-358

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