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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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15:16

7MS #281: Baby's First Banking Infosec Conference

7 Minute Security ·

2017/10/11

I went to my first ever banking-focused infosec conference a few weeks ago (WBA's Secure-IT) and learned a ton. I met some really great people and had many productive conversations around security. The main takeaways from the conference that I talk about in today's episode: Standing all day and talking about security is exhausting! You can thwart "swag whores" (sorry mom, but I learned that that's what they're called!) by pushing your merch table deep into the booth so it's touching the rear

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11:42

7MS #280: How to Become a Packtpub Author

7 Minute Security ·

2017/10/05

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be a PacktPub author! I'm going to work with them to create a course on network/vulnerability scanning. I'm pumped, but kinda nervous, so when I had the initial conversations with PacktPub staff, I made sure I hit them with my burning questions: Q: Are you going to ask me to create a sweet course and then pay me pennies for every digital copy sold? A: No. Authors get paid a lump sum up front and then share in profits for digital copies sold. Q: Who's gonna

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15:24

7MS #279: Patching Solutions Bake-Off - Part 4

7 Minute Security ·

2017/09/28

Intro The patching solutions review concludes this week with Ivanti's patch solution, as well as PDQ Deploy/Inventory. As a quick reminder, here's where our bake-off currently sits: Ninite (covered in 7MS #275) ManageEngine (covered in 7MS #277) Quick reminder: none of these solutions are bribing me with fat wads of cash to plug their products. Some day I hope to have such problems, but today is not that day. Ivanti You might know Ivanti as Shavlik - that's the product name I'm more familiar with

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56:05

7MS #278: Interview with Rob Sell

7 Minute Security ·

2017/09/21

Intro We're breaking ground with this episode, folks! For the first time in 7MS history, we've got a guest on the show (finally, right?!). Rob Sell is an IT manager who has been working in IT for many years, with a focus on information security specifically for the last 4 years. He recently came home from Defcon 25 with a third place in the SE CTF. Rob sat down with me to discuss the CTF, how to make an outstanding CTF audition video, OSINT tools/tips/techniques, the value of tech/security

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13:11

7MS #277: Patching Solutions Bake-Off - Part 3

7 Minute Security ·

2017/09/14

ManageEngine Desktop Central Overall, I have to bluntly say that I really enjoyed playing with ManageEngine's solution. It's got a crap-ton of features built into it - above and beyond patching - that I think IT/security folks will really appreciate. Pros Agent or agentless management of systems MDM (didn't play with it but it certainly looks feature-rich) Application white/blacklisting Ability to push out configurations for things you'd normally use GPOs for - i.e. setting a login banner,

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12:18

7MS #276: The CryptoLocker song

7 Minute Security ·

2017/09/06

This is it! The worldwide Internet debut of an original infosec-themed song called CryptoLocker'd, and as the name implies, it's about a CryptoLocker incident. Here's the quick back story: A few years ago a worked on an incident response where a user got phished with a promise of a free burrito from Chipotle but instead got a free order of CryptoLocker! And rather than tell IT or sound the alarms, the user just left for the day! The next day they came back and the company was digitally on fire, and

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11:38

7MS #275: Patching Solutions Bake-Off - Part 2

7 Minute Security ·

2017/08/30

This episode continues our series on comparing popular patching solutions, such as: Ninite ManageEngine Ivanti PDQ Ninite This week I focused on Ninite, and here's the TLDR version: Pros Does one thing (third party patching) and does it really well Extremely affordable User interface is clean, simple and really easy to use/learn Cons No "agentless" option - it's an agent or nothin' I'm not sure if Ninite has the brand name recognition and reputation to be accepted/respected by large

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15:12

7MS #274: Speaking at ILTACON - Part 4

7 Minute Security ·

2017/08/23

I'm back from Vegas! My talk went really well and I'm excited to tell you about it in today's episode. First, some conference/trip highlights: During the ILTACON conference I attended a great talk by Don McMillan about how to infuse humor into your work environment. Really enlightening, and you know those things you hear about how humor lowers blood pressure, increases satisfaction and just overall makes you a more pleasant person to be around? Turns out it's true! On the day before my presentation

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09:26

7MS #273: Speaking at ILTACON - Part 3

7 Minute Security ·

2017/08/17

I ran out of time in episode #272 to tell you about why preparing to be a speaker for ILTACON was way more stressful that preparing for Secure360 a few months ago. The main points of difference/stress were: ILTA wanted to see PowerPoint deck progress weekly, whereas with Secure360 it was pretty much "Your talk is accepted - see you at the conference!" ILTA is going to show a "speaker slide" with bio a few minutes before the sessions starts. That way the session is focused on content (and

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11:20

7MS #272: Speaking at ILTACON - Part 2

7 Minute Security ·

2017/08/17

This is part 2 of a series focusing on public speaking - specifically for the ILTACON conference happening in Vegas this week. In this episode I share a high-level walkthrough of my talk and the 10 "Blue Team on a Budget" tips that the talk will focus on. These tips include: Turning up Windows auditing and PowerShell logging Installing Sysmon Installing Security Onion Don't put too much faith in endpoint protection Keep an eye on Active Directory Install RITA Deploy a Canary Use strong passwords

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10:22

7MS #271: Patching Solutions Bake-Off - Part 1

7 Minute Security ·

2017/08/10

Seems like every business I meet with needs some sort of help in the patching department. Maybe they've got the Microsoft OS side of the house under control, but the third-party stuff is lacking. Or vice-versa. Either way, the team I work with is excited to kick the tires of some popular patching solutions over the next few weeks, and we'll audibly barf up what we learn into this mini-series! Solutions we'll poke around with include: Ninite ManageEngine PDQ Deploy PS: None of these solutions are

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12:30

7MS #270: IDS on a Budget - Part 4

7 Minute Security ·

2017/08/03

I spent a bunch of time with Security Onion the last couple week's and have been lovin' it! I ran the install, took all the defaults, ran the updates, and pretty much just let it burn in on my prod (home) environment. After a few days, I went back to check the Security Onion dashboard to check the alerts. There was a bunch of benign stuff (computers pinging each other, Dropbox broadcasting to the network) but also a couple interesting finds - SO caught one of my VMs downloading (intentionally)

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13:04

7MS #269: Documentation

7 Minute Security ·

2017/07/27

Documentation is super boring, right? Yet it's critical to getting your client/audience excited about making their security better! In this episode I talk about my mixed feelings towards the "big" standards like ISO/NIST/etc. and how a more tactical, down-to-earth documentation approach might be more effective in some cases. And I think we need our documentation to be much more focused on consultation/remediation and not just "Hey, your security sucks...and these next 100+ pages will tell you

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12:09

7MS #268: IDS on a Budget - Part 3

7 Minute Security ·

2017/07/19

Been having a blast working with the beta branch of the Sweet Security project and it anxious to try the latest fixes of the beta branch. Give it a look! I also spent a lot of time the last few nights playing with Security Onion and love it. After zipping through the install wizard and hitting reboot a few times you're pretty much good to go. A few recommendations I'd make after those initial reboots though: Run the soup command to update Security Onion with all the latest packages Use ufw to

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11:48

7MS #267: Backup Disasters

7 Minute Security ·

2017/07/18

Today's episode is a horror story about how I recently lost 5+ years of CrashPlan backups due to what I'm calling a...small clerical error. Yes, this oopsie was 100% my fault, but I think backup providers can do a better job of warning us (via text or automated call rather than just email) before blowing away our life's work.

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10:41

7MS #266: IDS on a Budget - Part 2

7 Minute Security ·

2017/07/13

This week I've continued to play with the awesome Sweet Security IDS solution you can throw on a Raspberry Pi 3. A big update to share is that there is a beta branch which has some cool new features, such as the ability to break the Bro + ELK stack across multiple machines. I also lost a lot of sleep these last few days playing with Security Onion and will do a future episode focusing only on that!

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10:56

7MS 265: IDS on a Budget - Part 1

7 Minute Security ·

2017/07/05

I've been wanting to get a Bro IDS installed for a long time now - and for several reasons: It looks fun! My customers have expressed interest It will be part of my upcoming ILTACON session. So this weekend I started getting the hardware portion ready, which includes: Ubiquiti Edge Router X (~$99) TP-Link TL-SG105E (~$35) CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 Complete Starter Kit (~$70) If you need additional information such as screenshots/configs etc to get the VLANs passing properly from the

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11:36

7MS #264: Hacking Wordpress

7 Minute Security ·

2017/06/29

I was pleasantly surprised to see a Wordpress site fall into a pentest scope this past week. One helpful tool to get familiar with when attacking Wordpress sites is wpscan, which is built right into Kali - or you can grab it from GitHub. Get familiar with the command line flags as they can help you conduct a more gentle scan that recovers from site errors/disconnections more easily. Specifically, read up on these options: --throttle - for example, I've been using --throttle 1000 in order to be a

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13:39

7MS #263: Make Nessus Reporting Fun Again!

7 Minute Security ·

2017/06/25

Tell me I can't be the only one who regularly wants to combine a bunch of small Nessus scans files into a big fat Nessus scan file, and then make pretty pictures/graphs/summaries that the customer can easily understand? Over the last few weeks I must've tried every Powershell and Python script I could get my hands on, yet still didn't find the magic bullet solution. That is, until I found this little beauty of a tool: NamicSoft. It's a $65 tool for Windows that will not only combine multiple Nessus

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10:22

7MS #262: Speaking at ILTACON

7 Minute Security ·

2017/06/14

Through kind of a weird series of events, I have an opportunity to speak at ILTACON this summer in Vegas (baby!). I'll be talking about some things you can do if you suspect your perimeter is breached, as well as low-hanging fruit you can implement to better defend against breaches. I'm pumped. And I've done the most important part and chosen a PowerPoint theme: A Few Good Men :-) I've spoken with some of you in the past and know a few of you spend your days and sleepless nights hunting threats. If

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