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What began as an effort to help those coming out of the military better demonstrate their skills has turned into an entire E-Sports league. Cyber Warrior Network Brings Call of Duty style game play to the process of developing and evaluating Cybersecurity talent.
We have talked a lot about security. One of the biggest challenge is not knowing where the next attack is going to come from, and the list of vulnerabilities changes every day. Today we are going to talk with a company that is looking to help you understand what your attack surface looks like.
Security threats are growing every day. Protecting the crown jewels of an organization is a challenge. Historically, we have protected the perimeter. More recently we have been looking deeper into the environment adding layers of defense, but storage has always been difficult to secure. we are talking to a company that looks to help solve this challenge.
In the world of security, operationalizing your security is a big challenge. Most companies don't have a good perspective on where their biggest threats lie, and what should be their focus. This means that money and effort doesn't always provide the biggest bang for the buck. Today we are going to be talking with a company that helps you understand you threat profile so you can build the right defenses.
When Sandesh and I are talking with startups, they typically lack a critical piece in their path to success, someone to drive company culture and vision and to communicate that with both employees and customers. This is usually when you hear the phrase, “You just need someone like Hat, “ or, “If we only had Hat.” The Hat everyone is talking about is David Hatfield, co-CEO of the cloud security platform Lacework, which just raised and absolutely stunning $1.3B with an $8.3B valuation.
Today we are talking with SentinelOne. Their product faired better than most against the SolarWinds attack. To quote their site, “SentinelLabs, the research division of SentinelOne, has confirmed that devices with SentinelOne agents deployed were excluded from the SUNBURST attack from an early stage, even before any communication with a malicious C2. Technical analysis confirmed that SUNBURST was unable to disable or bypass SentinelOne in any environment.” I’ll let that sink in for a second.
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There have been some very high profile hacks in the news lately. Some of these have even been hacks of security vendors themselves, from Microsoft to FireEye, but perhaps one of the most disturbing was the recent SolarWinds hack that we are just starting to come to grips with. If you are not familiar with the details of this attack, you need to be. Today we are going to talk security so buckle in.
