Enhancing Security Practices and Achieving Least Privilege with Vanta and Sonry Security

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Enhancing Security Practices and Achieving Least Privilege with Vanta and Sonry Security

Learn how Vanta simplifies risk assessment and compliance monitoring, while Sonry Security's cloud permissions firewall reduces attack surface permissions by 92% with ease, aiding companies like Atlassian, Flow Health, and Quora in maintaining robust security practices.

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Leicester City Council suffers a crippling ransomware attack, and a massive data breach, but is it out of the dark yet? And as election fever hits India we take a close eye at deepfakery.

All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.

Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language.

Episode links:

When a breach goes from 25 documents to 1.3 terabytes… - Graham Cluley.
Leicester street lights stuck on all day due to cyber attack - Leicester Mercury.
Top AI researchers race to detect ‘deepfake’ videos: ‘We are outgunned - Washington Post.
AI deepfakes threaten to upend global elections. No one can stop them - Washington Post.
Models, dead netas, campaigning from jail: How AI is shaping Lok Sabha polls - India Today.
Why Elections Take So Long in India - The New York Times.
How A.I. Tools Could Change India’s Elections - The New York Times.
Bollywood deepfakes fuel AI election meddling fears in India - GG2.
World Explained: How India's politicians are using AI to reach voters in the world’s most populous country - The Scotsman.
12 Angry Men - Wikipedia.
VIA Rail.
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Theme tune: "Vinyl Memories" by Mikael Manvelyan.

Assorted sound effects: AudioBlocks.

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