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Cliff Janzen, CISO and VP of Security Services at Arctiq, joined us for Defender Fridays for a special "Security Potpourri" session! What's on the menu? > SOC operations and optimization> Security automation strategies> Penetration testing insights> The current state of security landscape> All through Cliff's expert lens and real-world experience.

PromptLock ransomware represents a chilling evolution: AI that makes real-time decisions about your data. Unlike traditional ransomware that blindly encrypts everything, this malware uses a locally-hosted LLM to analyze file contents and decide whether to exfiltrate or encrypt based on what it finds. It's essentially agentic AI making autonomous threat decisions.

This week on the podcast, we cover a vulnerability in Entra ID that could have allowed attackers to gain Global Admin access to any and all Entra ID tenants. After that, we discuss the Shai Hulud NPM worm that ran rampant over the last week, infecting hundreds of packages. Finally, we end with a quick reminder to WatchGuard Firebox customers to update their devices to the latest firmware to resolve CVE-2025-9242z.

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This week’s highlight: Firebox T185 – the most powerful T Series tabletop firewall. Built for MSPs, ready for heavy traffic loads, and ideal for demanding environments.

On this episode of the Cybersecurity Defenders Podcast we speak with Robert Boles, Founder / CEO of BLOKWORX. A veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Rob founded BLOKWORX in 2006 to further his passion for creating fast, secure networks. Since 1999 Rob was a core technical contributor and presenter on an Advanced IP Team, delivering bleeding edge WAN and Managed Security services to Small, Mid-level and Fortune 500 businesses around the world.