Penetration Testing

“Red team” vs. “blue team” exercises have been adapted into cybersecurity from the military and intelligence realms. As a means to simulate real-life threats and attack scenarios, organizations have been putting this methodology into play, either with internal resources, or by hiring outside experts to help find system issues.

Applications have become the technological underpinnings which enable employees to do their jobs faster, more accurately, and with greater ease. Applications have become so ubiquitous within organizations that most employees don’t even consider the tools with which they are working “applications” at all. 

Penetration testing is a mandatory component of any thorough information security program, as security pros know. Company networks are vast and complex, and security teams have the (often thankless) job of protecting everything that falls under the general category of “IT” or “IS.”

Almost every morning I wake up and read about another company that has been breached, and consumers' or patients' information has been stolen as a result. It's getting to be so common that social security numbers and credit card numbers posted on dark Web sites sell for less than a dollar each.

I stumbled upon something the other day that i think will be critical for most penetration testers. Chances are, you run many VMs which are responsible for carrying out a variety of tasks during a penetration test. Linux for attacking, Windows for reporting/attacking, etc. whatever. I use a windows box to do my reporting, because, […]

Recently I have been working more and more on my pentest plugin for Metasploit doing bug fixes and trying to improve some of the current areas of it. I added the Auto Exploit plugin to it for exploit automation and added some commands to aid in doing enumeration and discovery thru a pivot. I was […]