Treacherous Devs, Selling Text Messages, Spicy Takes, & Unicorns Galore - ESW #253

This week, we welcome Allie Mellen, Industry Analyst at Forrester Research to discuss Digging Into XDR! In the second segment, Vincent Berk, CTO and Chief Security Architect at Riverbed to talk about Securing the Invisible: Holes in Your Visibility Fabric & Where Hackers Hide! Finally, in the Enterprise Security News for this week: At least a dozen cybersecurity companies announced raises totaling more than $900m - just in the past week!, Permira proposes to take Mimecast private for $5.8bn, The leader of a Swiss tech company is accused of selling access to text message data for surveillance, A former Ubiquiti developer was behind the big breach announced earlier this year - he unsuccessfully tried to extort his employer, SentinelOne tries to bring mobile security back?, Google and Trail of Bits team up to release a tool that scans for vulnerable Python packages, CISA has assembled a panel that will begin making cybersecurity recommendations, Make sure to stick around for, This week's spicy take - Cloudflare recommends ditching your firewall, and This week's squirrel story - a new streaming service from an unexpected source! All that and more, on this episode of Enterprise Security Weekly!

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https://www.riverbed.com/products/npm/netprofiler-advanced-security-module.html

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