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This episode is sponsored by ThreatLocker. The weird part about modern cyber attacks is how normal they look. The attacker logs in from Chrome, uses PowerShell, runs a remote admin tool your IT team already trusts. There's no custom malware, no dramatic movie hacker moment, just normal tools used in the wrong way. That's part of why ThreatLocker exists. ThreatLocker helps organizations control what software can run, what it can do, and how systems communicate. If attackers get credentials or land on a machine, they'll have a much harder time moving through the environment because security teams are realizing something important. The problem isn't always unknown software anymore. Sometimes it's trusted software being used by the wrong person. If you want to see how ThreatLocker works, go to threatlocker.com slash darknet and book a demo today. That's threatlocker.com slash darknet to book a demo.

This episode is sponsored by Drata. Let's face it, if you're leading GRC at your organization, chances are you're drowning in a sea of spreadsheets every day. Balancing security, risk, and compliance in an ever-changing landscape of threats and regulatory frameworks can feel like running a never-ending marathon. Enter Drata's agentic trust management platform designed for leaders like you. Drata automates the tedious tasks, security questionnaires, responses, continuous evidence collection, and much more, saving you hundreds of hours each year. With Drata, you can spend less time chasing documents and more time solving real security problems. With Drata, you also get access to a powerful trust center, a live customizable product that supports you in expediting your never-ending security review requests in the deal process. It's perfect for sharing your security posture with stakeholders or potential customers, cutting down on the back and forth questions and building trust at every interaction. Ready to modernize your GRC program and take back your time? Visit drata.com slash darknetdiaries to learn more. That's drata, spelled D-R-A-T-A, drata.com slash darknetdiaries.

This episode is sponsored by Material Security. Your cloud office is the heart of your business, but it's still protected by a patchwork of point solutions and manual workarounds. Yet while other critical assets have purpose-built security, your cloud office remains exposed. It's time to protect this system your business relies on with dedicated security built for cloud workspaces. Material Security is a detection and response platform purpose-built for protecting your Google Workspace and Microsoft 365. Siloed point solutions might stop some threats at the gate, but leave massive gaps between tools. Sophisticated email attacks, risky misconfigurations, shadow IT, account takeovers. Material not only monitors everything continuously, it applies fixes and steps in to make sure information only flows where it's supposed to go. So if you're ready to stop trying to fill the gaps and start getting ahead of threats, check out Material Security. Learn more at their website, material.security. The website is material.security.

This episode is sponsored by ThreatLocker. The weird part about modern cyber attacks is how normal they look. The attacker logs in from Chrome, uses PowerShell, runs a remote admin tool your IT team already trusts. There's no custom malware, no dramatic movie hacker moment, just normal tools used in the wrong way. That's part of why ThreatLocker exists. ThreatLocker helps organizations control what software can run, what it can do, and how systems communicate. If attackers get credentials or land on a machine, they'll have a much harder time moving through the environment. Because security teams are realizing something important. The problem isn't always unknown software anymore. Sometimes it's trusted software being used by the wrong person. If you want to see how ThreatLocker works, go to ThreatLocker.com slash Darknet and book a demo today. That's ThreatLocker.com slash Darknet to book a demo.

This episode is sponsored by Maze. Security teams are drowning in vulnerabilities. 40,000 common vulnerabilities and exposures, aka CVEs, dropped in 2025 alone, with attackers being able to exploit new vulns in days, not weeks, or backlogs, or a ticking time bomb. Engineers do not have enough time to manually triage them all. But what if they did? That's the question Maze was created to answer. Maze uses AI agents to triage and remediate cloud vulnerabilities. Traditional vuln scans use rigid rule sets like if CVE is on a publicly exposed asset, make it a critical. But that's silly. Maze's AI agents investigate every vulnerability in your cloud the way your best security engineer would. figuring out what's actually exploitable, not just what's theoretically risky. They remove the noise, prioritize bones that matter, and manage remediation so your team stops wasting time on meaningless bones. So check out Maze at mazehq.com slash darknet to learn all about AI vulnerability management that works. That's Maze, spelled M-A-Z-E. mazehq.com slash darknet.