Enterprise Security Weekly (Audio) Initial entry to resilience: understanding modern attack flows and this week's news - Warwick Webb - ESW #444
Feb 2, 2026
Warwick Webb, VP of Managed Detection and Response at SentinelOne, leads global MDR operations and threat response. He explains how modern breaches move as coordinated attack flows, why living-off-the-land techniques evade simple detections, and how unified platforms plus machine-speed detection help build resilience. The show also covers prioritizing detections, post-incident learning, and this week’s security headlines.
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Old Attack Classes Still Work
- Many classic attack classes (credential theft, vulnerable internet services, supply chain) still succeed today.
- The longevity of these techniques highlights how hard holistic defensive coverage remains.
Hardening Shifts Attack Vector To Humans
- Defensive improvements (browsers, OS hardening) reduced drive-by malware, but attackers adapted to rely on social engineering.
- Human behavior remains a consistent attack vector despite platform hardening.
Don't Rely On Prevention Alone
- Keep prevention but accept it won't stop everything; invest in detection and response too.
- Assume some threats will bypass preventive controls and plan detection accordingly.
