Spoiler: it's probably in your pocket or sitting on the table in front of you, right now!

Modern smartphones are conveniently well-suited for identity verification. They have microphones, cameras, depth sensors, and fingerprint readers in some cases. With face scanning quickly becoming the de facto technology used for identity verification, it was a no-brainer for Nametag to build a solution around mobile devices to address employment scams.

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Listeners of the show are probably aware (possibly painfully aware) that I spend a lot of time analyzing breaches to understand how failures occurred. Every breach story contains lessons organizations can learn from to avoid suffering the same fate. A few details make today's breach story particularly interesting:

It was a Chinese APT
Maybe the B or C team? They seemed to be having a hard time
Their target was a blind spot for both the defender AND the attacker

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This week, in the enterprise security news,

Semgrep raises a lotta money
CYE acquires Solvo
Sophos completes the Secureworks acquisition
SailPoint prepares for IPO
Summarizing the 2024 cybersecurity market
Lawyers that specialize in keeping breach details secret
Scientists torture AI
Make sure to offboard your S3 buckets
extinguish fires with bass

All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly.

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-393

"Divine Humility," with Dr. Matthew Wilcoxen