7MS #467: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 9
7 Minute Security12 Touko 2021

7MS #467: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Crying - Part 9

Hey everybody! I stayed in a hotel for the first time in over a year and boy oh boy...I hope I didn't get COVID from the bedsheets!

Anyhow, on that journey I thought of some things that I think will help your business on the marketing/project management/sales side to be more successful and less annoying. DISCLAIMER: I have no formal training in these areas, but I've been on both sides of the table for a number of years, and I think I'm getting a better idea of what clients do and don't like during the sales process. These things include:

  • Reduce layers of people complexity - don't have 17 of your people on the client intro/pitch call and then ghost them once they actually want to buy something!

  • Keep project management just complicated enough - I like project management tools and spreadsheet task-trackers like Smartsheet but I'm trying to let the client lead as far as how much detail they need when tracking their projects. By default, we create a document with a high level map of project milestones, timelines and key contact information. We update that as often as the client likes.

  • Personalize responses to Web leads - if you have an info@ or sales@ address for your business, I think you should personalize the response you give folks who write in. They wrote you for a reason! Don't just copy/paste some generic "Hey you wanted info about our company so here it is blah blah blah" response, that doesn't make people feel like you give a rip about their needs. Think of something personal to say in the reply. "Oh, I see you're in Minnesota. I'm a big Twins fan!" Something like that. Simple, easy and personal.

  • Don't sign people up for junk without asking - in this episode I give an example of a vendor we looked at (but didn't select) for some services, and the company decided to automatically sign ups up for a bunch of electronic and paper mailings. That's super annoying!

  • Don't stink at LinkedIn - in the last episode of this series, I told you about a guy who (to me) wins LinkedIn and the Internet because he sent me a personalized video LinkedIn invitation - it was awesome! Be more like that guy, and less like the mosquitoes who send invites like "Hi, I noticed you're human and figured we should be LinkedIn BFFs" and then sign you up for a non-stop barrage of sales pitches!

  • Bug people "just enough" - if you've had an awesome scoping call for a potential project and the client has received and reviewed the SOW, stay in touch with them periodically - even if it feels like you're being ghosted.

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7MS #499: Desperately Seeking a Super SIEM for SMBs - Part 6

7MS #499: Desperately Seeking a Super SIEM for SMBs - Part 6

Today we have some cool updates on this SIEM-focused series we've been doing for a while. Specifically, I want to share that one of these solutions can now detect three early (and important!) warning signs that bad things are happening in your environment: ASREPRoasting WDigest flag getting flipped (reg add HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SecurityProviders\WDigest /v UseLogonCredential /t REG_DWORD /d 1) Restricted admin mode getting enabled (reg add HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa /t REG_DWORD /v DisableRestrictedAdmin /d 0x0 /f) - see n00py's blog for more info

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7MS #498: Securing Your Mental Health - Part 2

7MS #498: Securing Your Mental Health - Part 2

Hi everybody, today we're continuing a series we started way back in June called Securing Your Mental Health. Today I talk about some easy and relatively cheap things I'm doing to try and shutdown negative thoughts, punch imposter syndrome in the face, and be an overall happier and more positive person.

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7MS #497: The Stress and Satisfaction of Offering Live Security Training

7MS #497: The Stress and Satisfaction of Offering Live Security Training

Hey friends, today I'm giving you a peek behind the curtain of our Light Pentest LITE training to talk about the software/hardware we use to make it sing, the growing pains - and OMG(!) moments - that forced us to build in more infrastructure redundancy, and the cool (and expensive!) cloud options we're considering to offer a self-paced version of the course.

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7MS #496: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 30

7MS #496: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 30

Today's tale of pentesting has a bunch of tips to help you maximize your pwnage, including: The new Responder DHCP poisoning module All the cool bells and whistles from CrackMapExec which now include new lsass-dumping modules! Speaking of lsass dumping, here's a new trick that works if you have Visual Studio installed (I bet it will be detected soon). I close out today's episode with a story about how my Cobalt Strike beacons got burned by a dating site!

24 Marras 202148min

7MS #495: Desperately Seeking a Super SIEM for SMBs - Part 5

7MS #495: Desperately Seeking a Super SIEM for SMBs - Part 5

Today we continue our SIEM/SOC evaluation series with a closer look at one particular managed solution and how it fared (very well) against a very hostile environment: the Light Pentest LITE pentesting course! Spoiler alert: this solution was able to detect: RDP from public IPs Password spraying Kerberoasting Mimikatz Recon net commands Hash dumping Hits on a "honey domain admin" account Users with non-expiring passwords Hits on the SSH/FTP/HTTP honeypot

17 Marras 202139min

7MS #494: Interview with Josh Burnham of Liquid Web

7MS #494: Interview with Josh Burnham of Liquid Web

10 Marras 202145min

7MS #493: 7MOIST - Part 2

7MS #493: 7MOIST - Part 2

Hey, remember back in episode #357 where we introduced 7MOIST (7 Minutes of IT and Security Tips)? Yeah, me neither :-). Anyway, we're back with the second edition of 7MOIST and have some cool pentesting and general IT tips that will hopefully make your life a little awesome-r: Stuck on a pentest because EDR keeps gobbling your payloads? SharpCradle might just save the day! CrackMapExec continues to learn new awesome tricks - including a module called slinky that plants hash-grabbing files on shares you have write access to! Browsing 17 folders deep in Windows Explorer and wish you could just pop a cmd.exe from right there? You can! Just click into the path where you're browsing, type cmd.exe, hit Enter and BOOM! Welcome to a prompt right at that folder!

4 Marras 20217min

7MS #492: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 29

7MS #492: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 29

Hello friends! We're long overdue for a tale of pentest pwnage, and this one is a humdinger! It's actually kind of three tales in one, focusing on pentesting wins using: Manual "open heart surgery" on the root of the Active Directory domain The new totally rad DHCP poisoning module of Responder An opportunity to abuse GPOs with SharpGPOAbuse (P.S. we talked about this tool about a year ago in episode 441)

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