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The Weekly Enterprise News (segments 1 and 2)

This week, we’ve had to make some last minute adjustments, so we’re going to do the news first, split into two segments.

This week, we’re discussing:

1. Some interesting funding
2. Two acquisitions - one picked up for $250M, the other slightly larger, at $25 BILLION
3. Interesting new companies!
4. On the 1 year anniversary of that thing that happened, Crowdstrike would like to assure you that they’re REALLY making sure that thing never happens again
5. Flipping the script
6. How researchers rooted Copilot, but not really
7. talks to check out at Hacker Summer Camp
8. detection engineering tips
9. the Cloud Security Alliance has a new AI Controls Matrix
10. sending in the National Guard to handle a breach!
11. and how to read an AI press release

Interview: Guillaume Ross on Building Security from Scratch

Guillaume shares his experiences building security from scratch at Canadian FinTech, Finaptic. Imagine the situation: you're CISO, and literally NOTHING is in place yet. No policies, no controls, no GRC processes. Where do you start? What do you do first? Are there things you can get away with that would be impossible in older, well-established financial firms?

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-418