7MS #502: Building a Pentest Lab in Azure

Road trip time! I’ve been traveling this week doing some fun security projects, and thought all this highway time would be a perfect opportunity to take a dip into the 7MS mail bag!  Today’s questions include: How do you price internal network penetration tests? Have you ever had to deal with a difficult client situation, and how did you resolve it? Are you done going after certs?  Spoiler: no – I’m interested in doing the XINTRA labs (not sure if it includes a cert) Do you provide managed services or just stick with more “one and done” assessment work? You said the “smart business people” tell you to form reseller partnerships, otherwise you’re leaving money on the table – so why don’t you? I’m thinking of starting my own cybersecurity consultancy – what type of insurance do I need to protect me in case of a digital “oops?”

24 Mai 202444min

Today’s tale of pentest pwnage is all about my new favorite attack called SPN-less RBCD. We did a teaser episode last week that actually ended up being a full episode all about the attack, and even step by step commands to pull it off.  But I didn’t want today’s episode to just be “Hey friends, check out the YouTube version of this attack!” so I also cover: Our first first impressions of Burp Enterprise Why I have a real hard time believing you have to follow all these steps to install Kali on Proxmox

17 Mai 202429min

Today’s prelude to a tale of pentest pwnage talks about something called “spnless RBCD” (resource-based constrained delegation).  The show notes don't format well here in the podcast notes, so head to 7minsec.com to see the notes in all their glory.

10 Mai 202424min

Sadly, the Broadcom acquisition of VMWare has hit 7MinSec hard – we love running ESXi on our NUCs, but ESXi free is no longer available.  To add insult to injury, our vCenter lab at OVHcloud HQ got a huge price gouge (due to license cost increase; not OVH’s fault).  Now we’re exploring Proxmox as an alternative hypervisor, so we’re using today’s episode to kick off a series about the joys and pains of this migration process.

5 Mai 202416min

Today we revisit a series about eating the security dog food – in other words, practicing what we preach as security gurus!  Specifically we talk about: We’re going to get a third-party assessment on 7MinSec (the business) Tips for secure email backup/storage Limiting the retention of sensitive data you store in cloud places

26 Apr 202423min

Today we’re talking about tips to deal with stress and anxiety: It sounds basic, but take breaks – and take them in a different place (don’t just stay in the office and do more screen/doom-scrolling) I’ve never gotten to a place in my workload where I go “Ahhh, all caught up!” so I should stop striving to hit that invisible goal. Chiropractic and back massages have done wonders for the tightness in my neck and shoulders For me, video games where you punch and kick things relieves stress as well (including a specific game that’s definitely not for kids!)

21 Apr 202422min

We did something crazy today and recorded an episode that was 7 minutes long!  Today we talk about some things that have helped us out in recent pentests: When using Farmer to create “trap” files that coerce authentication, I’ve found way better results using Windows Search Connectors (.searchConnector-ms) files This matrix of “can I relay this to that” has been super helpful, especially early in engagements

14 Apr 20247min

Today’s episode is all about writing reports in Sysreptor.  It’s awesome!  Main takeaways: The price is free (they have a paid version as well)! You can send findings and artifacts directly to the report server using the reptor Python module Warning: Sysreptor only exports to PDF (no Word version option!) Sysreptor has helped us write reports faster without sacrificing quality

5 Apr 202438min