Bringing intelligence to assets, new White House cybersecurity strategy, and the news - Tim Morris - ESW #447

Segment 1 - Interview with Tim Morris

Bringing intelligence to assets

You’ve been through 6 CMDB projects in the last decade. None of them came close to the original goals, the CMDB was already out-of-date long before the project had any hopes of completing. Is building an asset inventory just too ambitious a project for most organizations, or is there a better way?

Tim Morris shares a different approach with us today. It might require some convincing and some courage, but it seems much more likely to succeed than any of your past CMDB efforts…

Segment Resources

• Trusted automation: Building autonomous IT with confidence

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Segment 2 - Topic: the new White House cybersecurity strategy

In this segment, we explore some early details about the White House's new, but yet unreleased cybersecurity strategy. It appears that drafts have been shared (or leaked) to the press, so there's plenty to discuss here!

Segment 3 - News

Finally, in the enterprise security news,

1. Massive amounts of funding and acquisitions as we get close to RSA
2. Open source registries need help
3. Microsoft Copilot reads email marked as DO NOT READ
4. Don’t use an LLM to generate passwords
5. is prompt injection a vulnerability
6. defining risks
7. AI changes the build versus buy equation
8. the scammer’s perspective

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

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Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-447