Google announces Google Unified Security (GUS)

Oracle Faces Mounting Criticism as It Notifies Customers of Hack

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AI SECURITY SURVEY RESULTS PREVIEW

Richmond Advisory Group has surveyed 300 US-based security professionals regarding their use and planned adoption of AI Security tools. We preview some of the results in this episode...

If you would like to learn more, please contact either Christina or Rory via the links below!

NEWS

Google DeepMind Unveils Framework to Exploit AI’s Cyber Weaknesses

EvilCorp & RansomHub Working Together to Attack Organizations Worldwide

RSA LATEST

Reminder: RSAC 2025 – April 28 to May 1 – Moscone Center, San Francisco

• As of the 8th April we have only three weeks – 21 sleeps! – until the first day of the show!
• We have a PACKED schedule…
• Looking forward to meeting with friends, colleagues – new and old – and all the lovely tech vendors and service providers who will be attending.

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• Christina Richmond - christina@richmondadvisorygroup.com
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NEWS

Microsoft Warns of New StilachiRAT Malware

Legacy Medical Devices Remain Easy Targets for Ransomware

THIS WEEK'S GUEST

This week’s special guest is Saryu Nayyar, the Founder and CEO of Gurucul

Saryu talks with us about User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), next-gen SIEM and how AI/ML and automation can help with incident triage and identifying the “unknown unknowns”

CONTACT

• Christina Richmond - christina@richmondadvisorygroup.com
• Rory Duncan - rory@richmondadvisorygroup.com

SPECIAL EPISODE

This week is devoted to a deep-dive discussion about Google's announcement that it plans to acquire Wiz for $32 billion...!

The news has been reported extensively (like... everywhere), so we take a deeper dive into what may (or may not) be behind the move, what it means for Google, its cybersecurity strategy and more...

Links to some additional sources we reference:

Security Tinkerer Ross Haleliuk’s blog post from July 2024: The Wizard Of Cyber: what is behind Wiz's success and what got the security industry craving for magic

David Strom’s September 2022 article in CSO Online, CNAPP buyers guide: Top tools compared

YOUTUBE CHANNEL

Richmond Advisory Group’s YouTube channel is now live!

Our YouTube channel is where we post videos of tradeshow and event visits, discussions with vendors and other folks in the industry, and some “behind the scenes” insights. The first pieces of content are already published:

· A quick tour of the Cloud & Cybersecurity Expo in London on 12th March

Three short discussions with some interesting technology vendors and service providers: · Yoav Cogen, CTO, Satori Cyber · Nico Sanguinetti, Inside Partner Account Manager, ESET UK · Ed Hume, Managing Director, Advanced Cyber Defence Systems (ACDS)

RSAC 2025

RSAC 2025 – April 28 to May 1 – Moscone Center, San Francisco • We’ll be there! • Reach out if you would like to meet us – thanks to all of you who have done so already! Our calendar is filling up! • Vendors: we are always happy to have a chat • Newcomers to the industry: let’s grab a coffee and chat…

CONTACT US

Send us your comments, suggestions and feedback!

Christina Richmond - christina@richmondadvisorygroup.com Rory Duncan - rory@richmondadvisorygroup.com

NEWS

New CCA Jailbreak Method Works Against Most AI Models New Polymorphic Attack That Mimics Any Chrome Extension Installed On The Browser

THIS WEEK'S GUEST

We had a great chat with Josh Ray, Founder & CEO of Blackwire Labs!

RSA LATEST

RSAC 2025 – April 28 to May 1 – Moscone Center, San Francisco

• We’ll be there! Reach out if you would like to meet us
• Vendors: we are always happy to have a chat
• Newcomers to the industry: let’s grab a coffee and talk.
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NEWS

Trustwave will no longer be merging with Cybereason

Shocking? Or not really a surprise? In an open letter to clients, partners, trustees, CEO Eric Harmon announced on Friday 7th March that Trustwave will no longer be merging with Cybereason, following the announcement in November 2024.

Data breach at Japanese telecom giant NTT hits 18,000 companies

Japanese telecommunication services provider NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) is warning almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. Was the DDoS attack in January are precursor to this most recent incident?

RSA LATEST

RSAC 2025 – April 28 to May 1 – Moscone Center, San Francisco

• We’ll be there! Reach out if you would like to meet us
• Vendors: we are always happy to have a chat
• Newcomers to the industry: let’s grab a coffee and talk.
• Security Tinkerers - Pitch for Charity - REGISTER
• Vendor Submission Form
• Contact for more information - pitchforcharityinfo@okta.com
• Sponsored by Okta and SentinelOne

CYBER SIDEKICKS UNIVERSITY PRESENTS....

... A history of Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)

• First in an irregular series looking at the history of cybersecurity
• Designed to be educational and informative - reflecting on how key technologies and topics came into being and what we can learn from their development.

REACH OUT TO US

• Christina Richmond - christina@richmondadvisorygroup.com
• Rory Duncan - rory@richmondadvisorygroup.com

Welcome to Episode #6!

Today we talk about cyber cruising, the challenges of early advantage in AI and security; GenZ privacy & security concerns; as well as the perils of having raccoons in your kitchen.

SPECIAL GUEST

• This week, we chat with Allan Alford, Senior Vice President of Information Security at NTT Global Datacenters

NEWS

• Apple removes iCloud end-to-end encryption in the UK
• Forget Phishing, “mishing” is the new threat we have to worry about
• Poor old Nvidia - earnings beat expectations but stock still slides….

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Feedback, suggestions, comments and questions welcome!

Yours hosts,

Rory & Christina

Hello!

Episode #5 continues our chats with cybersecurity practitioners, this week with Adriana Duarte, a SIEM Engineer with NDM Technologies based in Spokane, WA.

An MSP and MSSP, NDM Technologies specialises in application software, cloud computing, data center, networking, security, storage, unified communication, virtualization, and managed services.

Christina and I also have the first part of our discussion on Continuous Threat Exposure Management (aka CTEM) as outlined by Gartner's framework - https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/how-to-manage-cybersecurity-threats-not-episodes

Part 2 will follow in the next episode. Richmond Advisory Group will be publishing a paper on the topic of CTEM in advance of RSAC 2025.

Let us know if you have any feedback, suggestions or comments.

All the best from Rory & Christina