The AI-est news segment ever, now with even more AI! - ESW #357

This week, Tyler and Adrian discuss Cyera's $300M Series C, which lands them a $1.4B valuation! But is that still a unicorn? Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures, who coined the term back in 2013, recently wrote a piece celebrating the 10th anniversary of the term, and revisiting what it means. We HIGHLY recommend checking it out: https://www.cowboy.vc/news/welcome-back-to-the-unicorn-club-10-years-later They discuss a few other companies that have raised funding or just come out of stealth, including Scrut Automation, Allure Security, TrojAI, Knostic, Prompt Armor. They discuss Eclipsium's binary analysis tooling, and what the future of fully automated security analysis could look like. Wiz acquired Gem, and Veracode acquired Longbow. Adrian LOVES Longbow's website, BTW. They discuss a number of essays, some of which are a must read: Daniel Miessler's Efficient Security Principle Subsalt's series on data privacy challenges Lucky vs Repeatable, a must-read from Morgan Housel AI has Flown the Coop, the latest from our absent co-host, Katie Teitler-Santullo Customer love by Ross Haleliuk and Rami McCarthy We briefly cover some other fun - reverse typosquatting, AI models with built-in RCE, and Microsoft having YET ANOTHER breach. We wrap up discussing Air Canada's short-lived AI-powered support chatbot. Show Notes: https://securityweekly.com/esw-357