Living in Blue Team Land and Skicon – O’Shea Bowens – PSW #639
O'Shea Bowens is the CEO of Null Hat Security. O'Shea will discuss why I think blue teaming is as essential now as our red brothers. Mistakenly calling out APT's. A new type of security conference I've created, SKICON. If there is time, diversity in cyber.
O’Shea Bowens is a cyber security enthusiast with a decade of experience. He’s the founder of Null Hat Security, which focuses on the areas of security program management, security operations, threat hunting, cyber defense training, and cloud security. Null Hat Security also addresses workforce issues with skills and gap assessments via their cyber range product. O’Shea is also the co-founder of “Intrusion Diversity System “, a bi-monthly hosted podcast and the founder of SkiCon Conference, advisor to SANS Blue Team Summit, organizer to BSides Boston, and advisor to Layer8 Conference. When he’s not in front of a terminal, he’s spending time with his beautiful family, in the kitchen making something curious and tasty, or snowboarding somewhere on Earth.
The Unprotected Attack Surface of the Enterprise – John Loucaides – PSW #639
Hackers are using firmware implants and backdoors to compromise enterprise security with attacks that are stealthy and persistent. It’s time for information security specialists to learn how to attack and defend enterprise infrastructure. John will provide a preview of his upcoming presentation at InfoSec World where he will demonstrate attacks on firmware that are invisible to traditional security platforms, and show how to detect and defend against them.
John has extensive history in hardware and firmware threats from experience at Intel and the United States government. At Intel he served as the Director of Advanced Threat Research, Platform Armoring and Resiliency, PSIRT, and was a CHIPSEC maintainer. Prior to this, he was Technical Team Lead for Specialized Platforms for the US government.
Docker, 42 Vulnerabilities, Backdoors, Spying on 100+ Foreign Govs. – PSW #639
In the Security News, Misconfigured Docker Registries Expose Thousands of Repositories, a Forgotten motherboard driver turns out to be perfect for slipping Windows ransomware past antivirus checks, Jail Software Left Inmate Data Exposed Online, Adobe patches 42 vulnerabilities across 5 products, and how the CIA Secretly Owned Global Encryption Provider, Built Backdoors,& Spied On 100+ Foreign Governments!
