Plan-B Security

Sandboxes are supposed to be where AI plays safely. This summer, one of them had a door. AI agents testing a cybersecurity benchmark turned an internal package server into a group chat, found their way to the open internet, and spent four and a half days inside Hugging Face's production systems. All to find the answer key.

The scary part wasn't the AI. It was what the agents found lying around: secrets in environment variables, a sh...

Great Scott, we've seen this before.

If you could climb into a DeLorean and travel back through your organization's identity management history, you'd find the same pattern repeating at every stop. 2014: overprivileged Active Directory service accounts. 2017: Hadoop credentials nobody remembers creating. 2021: Tray.io integrations that are "too risky to rotate."

Different year. Same mistake. And if my calculations are correct, your A...

MCP promised to be the USB-C of AI agents, a universal bridge to your tools, APIs, and data. But when the setup docs tell you to copy cookies out of Chrome DevTools and paste them into plaintext config files, something has gone very wrong. This episode traces a year of MCP security breaches from tool poisoning to full supply chain compromise, unpacks the IDE vulnerabilities turning developer laptops into open doors, and makes the c...

In 1983, Ken Thompson warned us: you can't trust code you didn't write yourself. Forty-two years later, a worm called Shai-Hulud proved him right after compromising thousands of packages in hours. Software supply chain attacks aren't just theoretical anymore, they're automated, self-replicating, and could be spreading through the packages your team installed this morning. We break down the s1ngularity and Shai-Hulud campaigns, expl...

AI systems are all the buzz - and for good reason! The productivity gains are real! But do the risks outweigh the gains?

Every AI agent you deploy has three capabilities: what it can see, what it can access, and what it can do. Combine all three, and you've handed attackers a skeleton key. In this episode, we dig into Meta's Agents Rule of Two framework and show you exactly how to build customer service bots, fraud detection systems...

Join us as we explore the treacherous waters between perfect security planning and real-world implementation. Drawing surprising parallels between the Battle of Trafalgar's communication challenges and modern cybersecurity struggles, we dive into seven critical security initiatives that often fail even the most capable companies. From zero trust architecture to passwordless authentication, we examine why brilliant ideas sometimes s...

In this hoot of an episode, we've taken a nocturnal flight through the fascinating world of User Behavior Analytics, guided by the wisdom of our feathered friends, the owls. Just as these majestic birds use their UV-powered pick-up lines to find the perfect mate, we've explored how UBA can help you find the perfect balance between trusting your users and verifying their actions. You'll walk away with a toolkit full of insights on i...

Discover how to navigate the rich landscape of open source, from safely integrating external code to contributing your own digital harvest back to the community. Learn practical strategies for implementing a robust Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), managing dependencies, and governing your open source program effectively. Explore the parallels between autumn's vibrant farm stands and the diverse ecosystem of open source projects,...

In this thrilling episode of Plan B Security, we're diving headfirst into the treacherous Legal Labyrinth of cybersecurity. Picture this: You're a valiant CISO, armed with firewalls and patched systems, suddenly faced with a dragon named "Negligence" breathing hot legal fire your way. We'll guide you through this maze of bits, breaches, and bureaucracy, showing you how to slay the beast of data negligence and rescue Princess Data f...

Build vs Buy is a tale as old as time - something every business leader has been challenged with deciding. In this episode, we talk about 5 scenarios on when building vs buying make sense from not just a security perspective, but also a procurement and data privacy perspective. From building your own SIEM to data sharing platforms, we talk about our own experiences and when constraints help you go faster or when they'll slow you do...

Whether you’re big or small company or maybe even a solo entrepreneur, third-party risk management is a key part of your business staying secure. In this episode, we talk about a few ways to get ahead of all the international regulations that require compliance with third-party risk programs. As you listen, be sure to pause and apply some of the key concepts into your own business whether it’s data mapping or risk mappi...

Security Controls can make or break a business - it could be the difference between going fast or screeching to a halt. Learn how we can use industry data from Marsh McLennan (link at the bottom) to help quantify and justify which controls we should invest in first, and how all the controls in the world may just end up backfiring. Be sure to take a few moments to think through the thought exercises to help bring some of these lesso...

Sometimes it feels like there's a war happening between Product/Eng and Security/Privacy team. Speed vs Stability can make or break a business. Not getting a feature out fast enough? You could loose the market edge. The service constantly going down? The only thing you'll grow are detractors. Listen to this tale of how to apply security principles using things like tests and data presentation layers to build a compromise between th...

Join us in Celebrating not just our first podcastiversary, but also, a great perspective in growing a security mindset. Learn how to start good habits just like waking up when your alarm goes off. Building strong security habits in yourself allow you to grow those around you. Like a plant, you must water and find your purpose first, before you can inspire. Sometimes, you can inspire yourself through trying to inspire others using t...

This is a quick episode geared at showing the importance of making security usable. Using the GDPR and e-Privacy Directive cookie consent popup as an example, we can explore the difference the letter of the law vs the spirit of the law makes. Usable security follows the spirit of the law, where as bad security experiences are just to satisfy the letter of the law. So put on your most comfortable socks and join us for this great epi...

Authentication (Authn) and Authorization (Authz) are two of the most overloaded and incorrectly used words in the field of cybersecurity. It's with good reason - they are the two most fundamental principles behind building trust in the digital world. Authentication is when an identity is validated and verified to be who it say's it is. Authorization is the enforcement of permissions of the verified identity. Join us in this episode...