Fighting the Cyber War With Battlefield Tactics – Jeremy Miller, Philip Niedermair – PSW #649
Jeremy Miller, a retired Green Beret and current CEO of Lionfish Cyber Security, will discuss how mission set tactics used by Special Forces can be applied directly to the cyber war being waged today. These mission sets are very relevant for the front line of cybersecurity professionals, who are the next generation of Special Operation forces. These are the men and women that protect our country, our businesses and our families. Approaching the cyber war with this mindset, Miller is re-aligning how cybersecurity in small to medium sized businesses is structured. His team plans to be a force multiplier for SMBs by bundling resources and capabilities into an affordable security platform, making cyber security more a strength than a weakness for these organizations.
Link to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC): https://www.solarium.gov/
Jeremy Miller (harbinger) is Product Manager for Offensive Security. He is an experienced teacher with a demonstrated history of working in the computer and network security industry. His primary skills include public speaking, web vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and leadership. A multi-disciplined professional, he has earned various Offensive Security certifications (OSCP, OSCE, OSWP).
As Managing Director of Strategic Alliances, Philip’s role is to develop and nurture high value relationships, building synergy and identifying opportunities in the marketplace for our firm’s clients, allies and friends. Through the added force of collaboration and strategic alliances large projects and significant opportunities can be won and influenced to benefit the clients we serve.
Python Pickling, Sophos 0-Day, & AWS RDS MySQL – PSW #649
In the Security News, Half a Million Zoom Accounts Compromised by Credential Stuffing, Sold on Dark Web, Scammers pounce as stimulus checks start flowing, NSA shares list of vulnerabilities commonly exploited to plant web shells, Using Pythons pickling to explain Insecure Deserialization, How to encrypt AWS RDS MySQL replica set with zero downtime and zero data loss, 9 Skills That Separate Beginners From Intermediate Python Programmers, Hackers are exploiting a Sophos firewall zero-day, and more!
Defensive Strategies and Qualys VMDR – PSW #649
The crew talks about how to accomplish asset management, vulnerability management, prioritization of remediation, and the actual remediation steps! No small task! Then check out a deep dive demonstration of Qualys VMDR that includes, you guessed it, Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, Threat Detection & Prioritization, and Response!
To learn more about Qualys and VMDR, please visit: https://securityweekly.com/qualys
As CEO, Sumedh leads the company’s vision, strategic direction and implementation. He joined Qualys in 2003 in engineering and grew within the company, taking various leadership roles focused on helping Qualys deliver on its platform vision. Since 2014, he has served as Chief Product Officer at Qualys, where he oversaw all things product, including engineering, development, product management, cloud operations, DevOps, and customer support. A product fanatic and engineer at heart, he is a driving force behind expanding the platform from Vulnerability Management into broader areas of security and compliance, helping customers consolidate their security stack. This includes the rollout of the game-changing VMDR (Vulnerability Management, Detection and Response) that continually detects and prevents risk to their systems, Multi-Vector EDR, which focuses on protecting endpoints as well as Container Security, Compliance and Web Application Security solutions. Sumedh was also instrumental in the build-up of multiple Qualys sites resulting in a global 24×7 follow-the-sun product team.
Sumedh is a long-time proponent of SaaS and cloud computing. He previously worked at Intacct, a cloud-based financial and accounting software provider. He also worked at Northwest Airlines developing complex algorithms for its yield and revenue management reservation system. Sumedh has a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering with distinction from the University of Pune.
