Microsoft Secure Score. If you’re an IT administrator or security professional in an organization that uses Office 365, then you’ve no doubt used the tool or at least heard the term. It started as Office 365 Secure Score, but it was renamed in April 2018 to reflect a wider range of elements being scored.
GDPR has been in place since May 25th, 2018 and has already been used in legal actions against companies, with over 200,000 cases reported within this first year. The law is expected to make a notable impact on companies, as it has considerable fines and penalties. Even when compared to HIPAA and FISMA, GDPR has the most threatening teeth of any law to date.
Are you using a framework to establish your information security program? If not, I get it; it’s complicated. On a second thought, have you lost your mind? If you are starting from scratch, there is a knowledge barrier that appears to be very steep. Once you see it, you undoubtedly ask yourself, “is it worth the climb?” Then, the next time you get on an airplane, ask yourself, “are pre-flight checklists worth the effort?”
With over 15 years in information security, I feel like I've seen it all. And while I can't claim to be a great penetration tester myself, I can say that I work with some truly talented pentesters. I can also feel confident stating that I've read more pentest reports than most. So, having this background… I get asked by businesses and defenders all the time, "What advice would you give?" and, "What lessons can be learned?"
In a business environment where resources are limited, compliance requirements abound, and budgets are constantly challenged to meet cost containment targets, this article will explore a strategy to align information technology (IT), information security (IS), system and data owners (SDO), aka: your business units, and leadership.
This blog/article/rant will cover a brief background of password cracking as well as the justification for SynerComm’s 14-character password recommendation.
In February 2017, we took our first shot at upgrading our old open-frame 6 GPU cracker (NVIDIA 970). It served us well, but we needed to crack 8 and 9-character NTLM hashes within hours and not days. The 970s were not cutting it and cooling was always a challenge. Our original 8 GPU rig was designed to put our cooling issues to rest.
At SynerComm's Fall IT Summit 2018 we presented a talk about the top 5 attacks used to compromise a Domain Administrator account. The AssureIT team put together a list of tools to help you check for these vulnerabilities in your network.
On August 15th, 2018 a vulnerability was posted on the OSS-Security list. This post explained that OpenSSH (all versions prior to and including 7.7) is vulnerable to username enumeration by sending a malformed public key authentication request (SSH2_MSG_USERAUTH_REQUEST with type publickey) to the service.
Defenders do not view the world of infosec through the eyes of a determined, skilled attacker. They view the world through the quantity and quality of tickets generated by their SIEM (if they have one). It is true that a determined, skilled attacker (read and understand that) can work around a correctly implemented PowerShell block. One such method is to drop an exe to disk call a dlls.
