7MS #477: Cobalt Strike for Newbs

Today's episode of the 7 Minute Security podcast is brought to you by Blumira, which provides easy-to-use automated detection and response that can be set up in…well..about 7 minutes. Detect and resolve security threats faster, and prevent breaches. Try it free today at blumira.com/7ms. Hey friends, today we're giving you a first impressions look at a free easy asset management tool called Snipe-IT you can use to build your inventory with! Why is this important? Because it's the first critical security control! It might help to see this tool in action, so we invite you to check out our recent Twitch stream where we got it up and running in about 45 minutes.

4 Marras 202240min

Today's episode is brought to us by Blumira, which provides easy to use, automated detection and response that can be setup in…well…about 7 minutes! Detect and resolve security threats faster and prevent breaches. Try it free today at blumira.com/7ms! Today we have a really fun interview with Nato Riley of Blumira. He cut his IT/security teeth working for a cell phone company, exorcising malware demons out of workstations, and even building an email-based SIEM. He has had a very cool career path that involves embracing newbness, pushing aside imposter syndrome, and even begging for jobs! I think this interview can best be summed up by a direct quote from Nato: "Things absolutely go wrong, and I think that's what deters people from trying. But just because something goes wrong, doesn't mean you're necessarily going to die from it. So why not try?"

28 Loka 202258min

This podcast is sponsored by Arctic Wolf, whose Concierge Security teams Monitor, Detect and Respond to Cyber threats 24/7 for thousands of customers around the world. Arctic Wolf. Redefining cybersecurity. Visit Arcticwolf.com/7MS to learn more. Hey friends! Today we talk about a SoSaaS (Spreadsheet on Steroids as a Service...not a real thing) that is helping 7MinSec be more organized - both from a project standpoint and from an "alert us when important things are due!" standpoint.

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This podcast is sponsored by Arctic Wolf, whose Concierge Security teams Monitor, Detect and Respond to Cyber threats 24/7 for thousands of customers around the world. Arctic Wolf. Redefining cybersecurity. Visit Arcticwolf.com/7MS to learn more. In today's episode we talk more about eating the security dog food (following the best practices we preach!). Specifically, we focus on keeping that bloated email inbox a little more lean and mean. There are lots of tools/services to help with this, but we had a blast playing with MailStore (not a sponsor but we'd like them to be:-).

14 Loka 202228min

SafePass.me is the only enterprise solution to protect organizations against credential stuffing and password spraying attacks. Visit SafePass.me for more details, and tell them 7 Minute Security sent you to get a 10% discount! Today we talk about configuring your Active Directory with MFA protection thanks to AuthLite. In the tangent department, we give you a short, non-spoilery review of the film Smile.

7 Loka 202235min

Today we're excited to kick off a new series all about blue team bliss - in other words, we're talking about pentest stories where the blue team controls kicked our butt a little bit! Topics include: The ms-ds-machineaccount-quota value is not an "all or nothing" option! Check out Computer Configuration > Policies > Windows Settings > Security Settings > Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Add workstations to domain. We installed LAPS on Twitch last week and it went pretty well! We'll do it again in an upcoming livestream. Defensive security tools that can interrupt the SharpHound collection! EDRs are pretty awesome at catching bad stuff - and going into full "shields up" mode when they're irritated!

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Today we revisit a series we haven't touched in a long time all about eating the security dog food. TLDL about this series is I often find myself preaching security best practices, but don't always follow them as a consultancy. So today we talk about: How the internal 7MS infosec policy development is coming along Why I'm no longer going to be "product agnostic" going forward Some first impressions of a new tool I'm trying called ITGlue (not a sponsor) How to start building a critical asset list - and how it shouldn't overlook things like domain names and LetsEncrypt certs Also, don't forget we are doing weekly livestreams on security topics!

23 Syys 202247min

Hey friends! Today we're giving you a first impressions episode all about Airlock Digital, an application allowlisting solution. They were kind enough to let us play with it in our lab with the intention of exploring its bells and whistles, so we're excited to report back our findings in podcast form. TLDL: we really like this solution! It is easy to deploy (see this YouTube video for a quick walkthrough). Once I had it going in the lab, I tried administering it without reading any of the documentation, and figured out most of the workflows with ease. I just ran into a couple questions that the Airlock folks were great about answering quickly. I want to better understand the "Microsoft way" to do application allowlisting - using their standard offering or something like AaronLocker. But several colleagues have told me they had "OMG moments" where a C-level staff member suddenly needed to run something like ringcentral.exe and they weren't able to because of app blocklisting. It then becomes difficult to quickly allow that .exe to run without pushing GPO updates or having someone log in as local admin or something like that. But Airlock has a cool, killer feature to address this need...take a listen to today's program to learn more!

16 Syys 202236min