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7 Minute Security

7 Minute Security is a weekly information security podcast focusing on penetration testing, blue teaming and building a career in security. The podcast also features in-depth interviews with industry leaders who share their insights, tools, tips and tricks for being a successful security engineer.

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22:52

7MS #340: Forensics 101 Reloaded and The CryptoLocker...

7 Minute Security ·

2018/12/13

Last week I had the fun privilege of speaking twice at the Minnesota Goverment IT Symposium on the following topics: Forensics 101: This was a "reloaded" talk that I started earlier this year (and covered in episode 299 and 300). At a high level, the talk covered: Hunting malware with Sysinternals Creating system images with FTKImager Dumping memory with Volatility and ripping icky stuff out of memory images with their 1-2-3 punch article Seeking out DNS tunneling/exfil using Security Onion

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19:23

7MS #339: A Pulse-Pounding Impromptu Physical Pentest

7 Minute Security ·

2018/12/06

On a recent security assessment I was thrown for a loop and given the opportunity to do a two-part physical pentest/SE exercise - with about 5 minutes notice(!). Yes, it had me pooping my pants, but in retrospect it was an amazing experience. This is the mission I was given: See if you can get the front desk staff to plug in a USB drive - I posed as John Strand and armed myself with a fake resume. And as I approached the front desk I suddenly panicked and thought, "What if the front desk person is

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17:21

7MS #338: SIEMple Tests for Your SIEM Solution

7 Minute Security ·

2018/11/28

Today's episode talks about some SIEMple tests you can run on your SIEM (OMg see what I did there? I took the word simple and made it SIEMple. Genius stuff, right? And there's no extra charge for it!). And if you're just now starting to shop around for a SIEM, this episode also has an extensive questionnaire you can use to put your vendors' feet to the fire and see what they're made of! Along with today's episode, I'm releasing a companion gist that contains: Questionnaire - a series of questions

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27:00

7MS #337: Happy Secure Thanksgiving

7 Minute Security ·

2018/11/21

Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode I: Share some things I'm thankful for - like you! Talk about a fun episode I'm working on that has some SIEMple tests you can use to test your SIEM (omg see what I did there? So clever) Announce the 7MS user's group that will start meeting in the south metro area of Minnesota in January of 2019! Tell you a story about a kid that peed his pants in front of me (you're welcome in advance) Hope you can take some time off and enjoy your friends/family this week and

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23:55

7MS #336: How to Succeed in Business Without Really...

7 Minute Security ·

2018/11/14

Welcome to part 6 of our miniseries all about the ups, downs, trials and tribulations of being a small, one-person security start up. In this episode I detail out all the software/services I use to run 7 Minute Security, LLC in hopes it might help you run your company as well! I started a new gist to complement this episode, which you can get by clicking here. Enjoy!

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13:23

7MS #335: Cool Stuff I Just Learned From Red Teamers

7 Minute Security ·

2018/11/08

Today I'm excited to brain-dump a bunch of cool stuff I learned at a red team conference called ArcticCon this week. Although this conference observes the Chatham house rule I'm just going to talk about a few things from a general, high level. Specifically, I asked several heavy-hitting red teams these burning questions: When you red team an org, do you usually assume compromise (i.e. plug a Kali box into the network and go from there) or are you crafting email payloads from scratch, trying to get

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23:10

7MS #334: IT Security Horrors That Keep You Up at Night

7 Minute Security ·

2018/11/01

This week I got to celebrate Halloween with my friends at Netwrix by co-hosting a Webinar called IT Security Horrors That Keep You Up at Night. The content was a modified version of the Blue Team on a Budget talk I've been doing the past year or so, and essentially focuses on things organizations can do to better defend their networks without draining their budgets. The presentation had a Child's Play theme and showed Chucky trying to hack Andy's company via: Phishing Abusing bad domain passwords

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13:10

7MS #333: Pentesting Potatoes

7 Minute Security ·

2018/10/26

This week I was in lovely Boise, Idaho doing some security assessment work. While I was there I got to hang out with Paul Wilch and some of the Project7 crew and picked up a lot of cool tools and tips I share in today's episode: The Badger Infosec group did a cool Rubber Ducky demo. Dan from DDSec did a demo of PlexTrac which is "the last cybersecurity reporting tool you will ever need." I'm actually going to use PlexTrac for my next few assessments and am working to line up a future interview

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08:07

7MS #332: Low Hanging Hacker Fruit

7 Minute Security ·

2018/10/17

In this episode I'm releasing a new document aimed to help organizations eliminate low hanging hacker fruit from the environment. The document contains (relatively) cheap and (relatively) easy things to implement. And my hope is it can be a living/breathing document that will bulk up over time. Got things to add to this list? Then please comment on the gist below!

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07:49

7MS #331: How to Become a Packtpub Author - Part 3

7 Minute Security ·

2018/10/10

It's done! It's done!! It's DONE!!! That's right mom, my PacktPub course called Mastering Kali Linux Network Scanning is done! In today's episode I: Recap the course authoring experience Explain my super anal retentive editing process that takes 4 hours for every 10 minutes of produced video Admit some last minute mistakes that about made me quit the whole project With the holidays coming up, this course is a perfect gift for that IT or security person in your life :-). Buy them a copy - or

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52:34

7MS #330: Interview with Nathan Hunstad of Code42

7 Minute Security ·

2018/10/03

In today's episode, I'm excited to be joined in the studio by Nathan Hunstad, Director of Security at Code42. Nathan and I had a great chat about Code42's new security offering called Code42 Forensic File Search, which helps IT and security teams figure out where files are located across their enterprise - even if the endpoints are offline. This functionality lends itself to a number of interesting use cases and helps answer questions such as: "Does known malware have, or has it ever had, a

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21:44

7MS #329: Active Directory Security 101

7 Minute Security ·

2018/09/27

Today's episode is brought to you by my friends at Netwrix. Their amazing Netwrix Auditor tool gives you visibility into what’s happening both on your local network and cloud-based IT systems and tells you about critical changes, and when and where people have been accessing data. Give it a spin right in your browser here, and then try it in your environment free for 20 days! www.netwrix.com Welcome! Today I'm kicking off a new miniseries all about the fundamentals of Active Directory security

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28:46

7MS #328: How to Succeed in Business Without Really...

7 Minute Security ·

2018/09/19

This episode is a cavalcade of fun! Why? First, I've got a big announcement: I've accepted a new position. "What?!" exclaimed my mom. "I thought you were president of 7MS, what the what?" No worries, it's business as usual, and my responsibilities at 7MS aren't changing. But I'm also going to start writing blogs, nurturing a Slack channel and producing a podcast for somebody else each week. Tune in to find out who! Oh, and I also conclude this episode with a song from my band, Sweet Surrender. A few

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46:39

7MS #327: Interview with John Strand

7 Minute Security ·

2018/09/13

Today's episode is brought to you by my friends at Netwrix. Their amazing Netwrix Auditor tool gives you visibility into what’s happening both on your local network and cloud-based IT systems and tells you about critical changes, and when and where people have been accessing data. Give it a spin right in your browser here, and then try it in your environment free for 20 days! www.netwrix.com Well I'm geeking out big time because today I chatted with John Strand of Black Hills Information Security,

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01:33:45

7MS #326: Interview with Ryan Manship and Dave Dobrotka

7 Minute Security ·

2018/09/06

Today's episode is brought to you by my friends at Dashlane, a fantastic password manager for you, your family and your business! Head to www.dashlane.com/7ms and use the code 7MS for 10% off a year of Dashlane Premium! Today I'm super pumped to be joined by Ryan Manship of RedTeam Security and Dave Dobrotka of United HealthGroup. Both these guys lead red teams for a living and had a lot of great insight to share as it relates to: The definition of "red teaming" and where it overlaps, if at all,

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19:29

7MS #325: Integrating Pwned Passwords with Active...

7 Minute Security ·

2018/08/30

Today's episode is a follow-up to #304 where we talked about how you can integrate over 500 million weak/breached/leaked passwords form Troy Hunt's Pwned Passwords into your Active Directory. To get started with this in your environment, grab Troy's updated passwords list here, and then you can check out my BPATTY site for step-by-step implementation instructions. The big "gotchas" I discuss in today's episode are: If users update their password to something on the Pwned Passwords list, they'll

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20:52

7MS #324: How to Succeed in Business Without Really...

7 Minute Security ·

2018/08/23

It's been a while so I thought I'd update you on how things are going on the business front. Here are the big updates I want to share with you in today's episode: A new 7MS hire that's going to hunt sales opportunities! My approach to finding podcast sponsors (it seems to be working) Some kick-butt interviews that are on the horizon (including the one and only JOHN STRAND!) Lots of goodies to share today!

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18:11

7MS #323: 7 Ways to Not Get Hacked

7 Minute Security ·

2018/08/16

I'm putting together a general security awareness session aimed at helping individuals and businesses not get hacked. To play off the lucky number 7, I'm trying to broil this list down to 7 key things to focus on. Here's my list thus far: Passwords 2FA/MFA Wifi (put a good password on it, don't use WEP, don't use WPS Sign up for HaveIBeenPwned Update all the things Block malware/mining with browser plugins Security awareness training What do you think? Anything I missed or should consider swapping

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53:26

7MS #322: My First Live Radio Interview

7 Minute Security ·

2018/08/09

I had an exhilarating and terrifying experience this week doing my first ever live radio interview! As a quick bit of background, this interview was part of the 7MS radio marketing campaign that I've talked about my "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying" series (here's part 1, 2 and 3). The interview was conducted by Lee Michaels, and though my heart was pounding for the first few minutes, it quickly became fun as Lee and I talked about picking good passwords, securing wifi, talking to

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01:47:00

7MS #321: Interview with Joe Klein - Part 2

7 Minute Security ·

2018/08/01

Today's episode is brought to you by ITProTV. Visit itpro.tv/7ms and use code 7MS to get a FREE 7-day trial and 30% off a monthly membership for the lifetime of your active subscription. Today's episode is a follow-up interview with Joe Klein, who is my good pal, a former coworker, and a SOC analyst extraordinaire. You might remember Joe from things such as...this podcast - episode #290 to be exact. When we last left Joe, he had just started an exciting new journey as a SOC analyst, and also picked

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