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

Apr 18, 2024

Cybersecurity expert Joe McMann discusses protecting sports teams like the Cleveland Browns. Rumors of big tech acquisitions, funding for Cyera and Cohesity, and industry news. Topics include deepfakes, cyber manipulation, upcoming events, financial speculations, brand protection, recent funding activities, cybersecurity acquisitions, autonomous warfare, and recent breaches.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Exploring Cybersecurity Strategies in NFL with Counterintelligence Teams

03:06 • 2min

Evolving Roles of CISOs in Cybersecurity and Physical Security

05:10 • 21min

Rising Threat of Deepfakes and Cyber Manipulation

25:49 • 15min

Upcoming Cybersecurity Events and Funding Stories in the Industry

40:55 • 4min

Financial Speculations in the Cybersecurity Industry

45:16 • 23min

Exploring a New Product for Brand Protection and Disinformation Prevention

01:08:42 • 2min

Recent Funding Activities and Cybersecurity Acquisitions

01:10:14 • 25min

The Future of Autonomous Warfare

01:35:16 • 7min

Discussion on Recent Breaches and Vulnerabilities in Large Language Models

01:42:01 • 5min

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 Future, Ben 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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