Presentation on the need to re-examine how we engineer systems (taking service providers as an example) and the implications on how we quantify cyber risk if we want to take this message into the board room (as given at BT’s SnoopCon 2019 and Cisco’s June 2019 Knowledge Network webinar for service providers). Continue reading
Presentation on building an effective operational security capability (as given at Cisco Live US/Talos Threat Research Summit 2019). Continue reading
Presentation on building effective SOCs (as given at InfoSec Europe 2019 on the interactive workshop track). Continue reading
Whilst there are some great examples of how to assess infrastructure as code dynamically with things like the Center for Internet Security‘s Docker benchmark and CoreOS‘s Clair, these kinda run a little too late in the pipeline for my liking. If we want to treat infrastructure as code then surely we ought to be performing code reviews and if we’re performing code reviews then perhaps we can perform a subset of these checks automatically pre-commit? Continue reading
By way of an introduction to our talk at Black Hat Europe, Security Advisory EMEAR would like to share the background on our recent research into some common Active Directory integration solutions. Just as with Windows, these solutions can be utilized to join UNIX infrastructure to enterprises’ Active Directory forests. Continue reading
Presentation on Active Directory integration solutions for UNIX (as given at Black Hat Europe 2018). Continue reading
Presentation on logging and auditing strategies (as given at Secure South West 11). Continue reading
This document aims to analyse and explore data collected from technical assurance engagements during 2016. Continue reading
Whilst there has been quite a lot of analysis of Microsoft’s new Windows Subsystem for Linux (aka WSL or Bash on Ubuntu on Windows) and how it functions (particularly from Alex Ionescu), most of this has focused on how it affects the Windows security model. Being a keen UNIX focused researcher, I decided to take it for a spin. Continue reading
Following a recent post from a consultant at IBM discussing how how privileged access should be performed on VIOS, I figured it was time to share some of our research in this arena. Those of you that are regular readers will know that I love root. For those of you that are new, welcome aboard. Continue reading