The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP)

All Aboard—we’re off to Vegas 🎰 ! For the latest episode of the podcast, Alex Bovee and Darwin Salazar, MSc, author of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP), sat down for chat recorded in Las Vegas during Black Hat 2024. Darwin — who’s also the co-host of the Enterprise Security Weekly podcast and Founding Product Manager at Monad (busy guy!) — shares his takeaways from Black Hat and thoughts about where the cybersecurity industry is headed. It's a great listen! What’s inside: ✨ Why Darwin started the Cybersecurity Pulse newsletter ✨ Why more practitioners should transition to product building ✨ Trends seen on the expo floor at Black Hat 2024 ✨ How security tool sales motions are changing ✨ Industry predictions for 2025 and beyond Listen to the full episode here: https://lnkd.in/dNXjC6Hr Or on your fav platform 📺 YouTube: https://lnkd.in/dsJepRUs 🎧 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gieq74Xg 🎧 Apple:  https://lnkd.in/gpJrdXPZ

We're back for our next episode drop w/ Darwin Salazar, MSc for Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Tune in with Alex Hurtado as she dives into the intricacies of data streams + pipelines, log source prioritization, and so much more with Darwin. Links to Youtube & Spotify below 👇 🎧 https://lnkd.in/dDxZxKNt ▶️ https://lnkd.in/djDSY_mG

Issue #62 of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) issue is LIVE! 🥑 This week's issue is brought to you by Prophet Security which is paving the way for the future of the SOC! Highlights this week include: 🤺 Clutch Security's NHI Index. This is an instant must-use resource in cloud, app, SaaS and identity sec Ofir Har-Chen 🙌🏽 💭 Sentiment in the SOC towards AI is improving based on Vectra AI's survey results 🐕 Snyk launches several AI-powered features during their annual conference, DevSecCon 🕷 Resourcely launches 'Campaigns' module which helps bring unmanaged cloud resources into IaC and into compliance Travis McPeak 🀄 The 2025 SANS Institute survey on the state of detection engineering is open to respondents in collaboration with Anvilogic! Looking forward to the results on this one Alex Hurtado All that and 10+ product updates on this week's TCP! Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eF8ruS7p

Ep. #375 of Enterprise Security Weekly is live and it's jampacked with goodness ranging Formula 1, AppSec, fundraising and identity security ! 🏎 😮💨 In the news segment, we discuss: 🎉 Cribl's $319.5M Series E fundraising and what justifies their $3.5B valuation 🎈 Zafran Security's $40M Series A 🤺 Wiz Code potential impact on rest of AppSec space 💰 How local governments can fix their funding shortcomings Adrian Sanabria also discusses: 💠 The upcoming annual Okta conference and the state of identity security with Harish Peri 🏎 Cybersecurity at Williams Racing and Formula 1 with Darren Guccione and Harry Wilson Links in post comments. You can also catch us on your favorite podcast platform! Katie T., Tyler Shields, Samantha Estrella, Bill Brenner

This week's The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! 🥑 This issue covers the past ~2 weeks including: 🏆 Earning recaps for Okta, CrowdStrike, PANW, SentinelOne, Zscaler from Cole Grolmus 🤔 A game changing launch from Wiz 🌋 Major product announcements from Huntress, Recorded Future, Google Cloud Security, Prompt Security, Fortinet, Rezonate, Tenable, JFrog, Netskope, Tufin, CAST AI, and HYCU, Inc. 📉 A look at the Cybersecurity Poverty Line in 2024 and how we can all play a part in closing the gap. Great piece from Chris Hughes and Mr. Ross Haleliuk. 🫱🏼🫲🏾 Partnerships from Wiz, Expel, Netskope, Cequence Security, HashiCorp, and Veza. 👉 Check out the full digest here: https://lnkd.in/eH3Ek2WQ 📩 Make sure to subscribe to TCP if you don't want to miss out on getting these updates delivered straight to your inbox!

This week's issue of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! 🥑 30+ product updates so I won't enumerate through them all here. Below are my favorites: 🤼♀️ SpecterOps releases Hybrid Attack Graphs to create a unified Bloodhound graph experience across Microsoft Active Directory and Azure Entra ID 🔥 🚒 Andy Robbins Justin Kohler 🕸 Elastic launches Automated Imports which uses RAG + LLMs to create integrations for custom data sources not supported OOTB by Elastic. #kewl James Spiteri Check out Issue #56 here for the full digest: https://lnkd.in/e8yAnQTc As always, drop a comment if there's something you found interesting or have any feedback on improving TCP! 🤗

BlackHat Startup Spotlight Finalists 2024 ✨ The 3rd annual Blackhat Startup Spotlight competition will be wrapping up tomorrow as the finalists go toe to toe for the top spot. I recently wrote a post on the history of the competition, how to qualify, and a product deep dive on this year's finalists which include: 🏃♂️ DryRun Security - AppSec startup founded by Ken Johnson and James Wickett 🏄♂️ RAD Security - Cloud-Native threat detection and response startup founded by Brooke M. and Jimmy Mesta 🤙 🤺 Knostic - GenAI security startup founded by Gadi Evron and Sounil Yu 🚰 LeakSignal - Data protection startup founded by Wesley Hales and Max Bruce Blog post link: https://lnkd.in/eBEbShiA Best of luck to the finalists and safe travels to everyone getting into Vegas! Looking forward to catching up with everyone! If you see me, say hello! 🤗

Issue #55 of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! 🥑   In this week's issue, I cover:   🍿 Major VCs (Greylock, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, Merlin Ventures) join the NHI race to back Natoma and Clutch Security. 10+ players in this space. Thx for the memes Pramod Gosavi + Jonathan Rau 👨🍳   🕹 Adrian Sanabria, Katie T., and I interview Edward Wu on the future of AI for SecOps. Enterprise Security Weekly Productions Ep. 369!   🦉 Cycode | Complete ASPM adds AI capabilities to their ASPM.   🦄 Lineaje Inc raises $20M to continue building for software supply chain security.   🐶 ZEST Security emerges from stealth w/ $5M seed to build an AI-powered cloud risk resolution platform.   🕹 More product news from Fortanix, Credo AI, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Adaptive Shield, Devo, Mimecast, and Cohesity.   👨🔬 Ross Haleliuk takes a look at Wiz's recipe for success.   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------   📩 Every week, I cover the latest security product announcements and news impacting the product landscape. Subscribe to The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) and check out issue #55 here: https://lnkd.in/g78y_jbg

💎 Security programs prioritize crown jewel #SaaS apps that are key for BizOps yet often overlook other core apps that may seem innocuous on the surface but still hold lots of value to attackers. 👨💻 Our latest blog post by guest author Darwin Salazar, MSc explores a few widely used SaaS apps that fall outside of a ‘crown jewel’ app, how attackers normally gain access to them, and perform reconnaissance to launch the next phases of their attack. He provides best practices that could help prevent these risks and limit the blast radius. https://hubs.ly/Q02FKsDP0 #cybersecurity #saassecurity #CISO

Issue #52 of The Cybersecurity Pulse (TCP) is LIVE! Things are heating up with Hacker Summer Camp just a month away 🚒 In this week's issue, I cover: 🤖 1touch.io launches Mainframe Security Posture Management (MSPM)🤔 🐶 10+ product announcements from Datadog's annual DASH con Amber Bennoui Prashant P. Zack Allen 🦄 SCYTHE launches v4.3 of their threat emulation platform Bryson 🦄 Bort #PurpleTeam 🐳 Orca Security adds coverage for Gitlab + Github and integrates GPT-4o #AppSec #CloudSecurity 🎇 Amazon Web Services (AWS) adds data lineage ( 🔥 ) feature to Amazon DataZone #DataSecurity 📡 SandboxAQ launches AQNav. A jammer resistant GPS system that uses the earth's magnetic fields to perform some wizardry #scifi #IoT 🤺 Cloudflare launches AI bot/scraper blocking feature #WebSecurity 🏃🏽♂️ 💨 Rapid7 acquires Noetic Cyber Julian Waits 👌🏽 #CAASM 🕹 More product news from LogRhythm, WatchGuard Technologies, GetReal Labs, AuthZed, Odaseva, and CrowdStrike! 🎬 In the 'Extras' section, 'A CISO's Guide to Avoiding Jail After a Breach' by Nate Nelson and 'Cybersecurity technology adoption cycle and its implications for startups and security teams' by Kane N. and Mr. Ross Haleliuk 🔥 -------------------------------------------------------------- I also recently wrote a guest post for Reco AI on why "non-critical" SaaS apps pose outsized risks and how attackers target such apps. Check it out here: https://hubs.ly/Q02FKsDP0 Link to TCP #52: https://lnkd.in/ebugqtrR If you have any thoughts, feedback, or questions, feel free to PM me or drop it in the comment section!