This document outlines how to conduct Purple Team exercises using the Cyber Kill Chain and Extended Cyber Kill Chain frameworks. It discusses:
- Terminology related to purple teaming, red teaming, and blue teaming.
- The purple team process of conducting focused penetration testing with clear training objectives for the blue team.
- The Cyber Kill Chain and Extended Cyber Kill Chain models and how they can be used for exercises.
- Other frameworks like ATT&CK that can aid exercises.
- The different phases and teams involved in cyber exercises.
- Examples of exercises that could be done using various tools and techniques mapped to the kill chains, like port scanning with Nmap and collecting credentials with Mim
Purple Teaming is the idea of using a Red Team exercise with clear training objectives for the Blue Team.
Great exercises should not just be focused on testing a product, they should also test your active Blue Team members and their skills. But how does one start to think about a Purple Team exercise, how does one go about running one and what does it look like?
In this talk we will explain what, why and how, to plan an effective purple team exercise and give some examples. Most enterprise networks are Windows heavy so examples will heavily lean on this.
Testing Assumptions, gaps, blind spots is what being proactive is all about. This talk is both for the console folks and non-console folks.
Purple Teaming the Cyber Kill Chain: Practical Exercises for Everyone Sector...Chris Gates
Sector 2016 Chris Gates & Haydn Johnson
Purple Teaming is conducting focused Red Teams with clear training objectives for the Blue Team for the ultimate goal of improving the organization’s overall security posture. The popular opinion is that Purple Teaming requires a big undertaking. This is not true and we will show practical exercises for Purple Teaming for varying levels of organizational maturity using the Cyber Kill Chain[1] as our framework.
Co Speaker: Cheryl Biswas
Talk Description:
How about this: a blue team talk given by red teamers. But here’s our rationale - your best defence right now is a strategic offence. The rules of the game have changed and we need to get defence up to speed.
We’ll show you what the key elements are in a good defence strategy; what you can and need to be using to full advantage. We’ll talk about the new “buzzwords” and how they apply: visibility; patterns; big data. There’s a whole lotta data to wrangle, and you aren’t seeing the whole picture if you aren’t doing things right. Threat intel is about getting the big picture as it applies to you. You’ll learn the importance of context and prioritization so that you can manipulate intel feeds to do your bidding. And then we’ll take things further and talk about hunting the adversary, using an update on proven methodologies.
We’ll show you how to understand your data, correlate threats and pin point attacks. Attendees will leave with a new understanding of the resources they have on hand, and how to leverage those into an Adaptive Proactive Defense Strategy.
Phishing for clicks is like the VA portion of a Pentest. It feels nice being a hacker, but that fuzzy feeling wears off quickly, once you learn about command and control.
Everyone knows in theory what phishing is, what phishing emails looks like, they even may even theoretically know how it all works.
What about executing a Phishing campaign? This talk will show you the journey of setting up and executing a Phishing campaign to gain command and control. I have tried a few frameworks, coded some pages myself and will show the way I learned to Phish.
This is not just about sending an email and a link, this is about bypassing the email minefield to get the email to the target and having the payload call back out of the network.
We will go through:
Choosing and setting up a Phishing Framework
Cloning a site
Testing delivery and bypassing Spam filters with a payload (Click Once)
Testing different user interactions for executing payloads
Learning different payloads for command and control
Purple Teaming is the idea of using a Red Team exercise with clear training objectives for the Blue Team.
Great exercises should not just be focused on testing a product, they should also test your active Blue Team members and their skills. But how does one start to think about a Purple Team exercise, how does one go about running one and what does it look like?
In this talk we will explain what, why and how, to plan an effective purple team exercise and give some examples. Most enterprise networks are Windows heavy so examples will heavily lean on this.
Testing Assumptions, gaps, blind spots is what being proactive is all about. This talk is both for the console folks and non-console folks.
Purple Teaming the Cyber Kill Chain: Practical Exercises for Everyone Sector...Chris Gates
Sector 2016 Chris Gates & Haydn Johnson
Purple Teaming is conducting focused Red Teams with clear training objectives for the Blue Team for the ultimate goal of improving the organization’s overall security posture. The popular opinion is that Purple Teaming requires a big undertaking. This is not true and we will show practical exercises for Purple Teaming for varying levels of organizational maturity using the Cyber Kill Chain[1] as our framework.
Co Speaker: Cheryl Biswas
Talk Description:
How about this: a blue team talk given by red teamers. But here’s our rationale - your best defence right now is a strategic offence. The rules of the game have changed and we need to get defence up to speed.
We’ll show you what the key elements are in a good defence strategy; what you can and need to be using to full advantage. We’ll talk about the new “buzzwords” and how they apply: visibility; patterns; big data. There’s a whole lotta data to wrangle, and you aren’t seeing the whole picture if you aren’t doing things right. Threat intel is about getting the big picture as it applies to you. You’ll learn the importance of context and prioritization so that you can manipulate intel feeds to do your bidding. And then we’ll take things further and talk about hunting the adversary, using an update on proven methodologies.
We’ll show you how to understand your data, correlate threats and pin point attacks. Attendees will leave with a new understanding of the resources they have on hand, and how to leverage those into an Adaptive Proactive Defense Strategy.
Phishing for clicks is like the VA portion of a Pentest. It feels nice being a hacker, but that fuzzy feeling wears off quickly, once you learn about command and control.
Everyone knows in theory what phishing is, what phishing emails looks like, they even may even theoretically know how it all works.
What about executing a Phishing campaign? This talk will show you the journey of setting up and executing a Phishing campaign to gain command and control. I have tried a few frameworks, coded some pages myself and will show the way I learned to Phish.
This is not just about sending an email and a link, this is about bypassing the email minefield to get the email to the target and having the payload call back out of the network.
We will go through:
Choosing and setting up a Phishing Framework
Cloning a site
Testing delivery and bypassing Spam filters with a payload (Click Once)
Testing different user interactions for executing payloads
Learning different payloads for command and control
In 2014, Filip managed to exceed our audience's expectations with a well-researched and energizing lecture. Since then, he's managed to build a successful tech startup and has worked for clients across the globe. We are very proud to present you one of the brightest minds on the Czech marketing scene!
Backup-File Artifacts - OWASP Khartoum InfoSec Sessions 2016 - Mazin AhmedMazin Ahmed
Backup-File Artifacts - OWASP Khartoum InfoSec Sessions 2016 - Mazin Ahmed
Backup-File Artifacts: The Underrated Web-Danger
Testing and Exploiting Backup-File Artifacts with BFAC
BFAC Homepage: https://github.com/mazen160
Blog Post: http://blog.mazinahmed.net/2016/08/backup-file-artifacts.html
Bug Bounty Hunting for Companies & Researchers: Bounty Hunting in Sudan and A...Mazin Ahmed
Bug Bounty Hunting for Companies & Researchers: Bounty Hunting in Sudan and Abroad
http://blog.mazinahmed.net/2016/10/bug-bounty-hunting-swiss-cyber-storm.html
My presentation at Expon 2011 in Sao Paulo. Anyone interested in my talk should check out the "importxml guide" here:
http://www.distilled.net/blog/distilled/guide-to-google-docs-importxml/
This is the slide deck from a presention for SecTor 2016.
I spoke with Chris Gates @carnal0wnage.
The outline is:
Purple Teaming is conducting focused Red Teams with clear training objectives for the Blue Team for the ultimate goal of improving the organization’s overall security posture. The popular opinion is that Purple Teaming requires a big undertaking. This is not true and we will show practical exercises for Purple Teaming for varying levels of organizational maturity using the Cyber Kill Chain[1] as our framework.
The recent trend of using Attack and Defense Together.
Due to the recent trend of using offensive and defensive capabilities together, we thought a talk on Purple Teaming would be interesting. We hope to benefit those on the Attack side (red team), Defensive (blue team) and mixing the two.
The recent trend of using Attack and Defense Together.
Due to the recent trend of using offensive and defensive capabilities together, we thought a talk on Purple Teaming would be interesting. We hope to benefit those on the Attack side (red team), Defensive (blue team) and mixing the two.
The PDX Splunk community came together for a fantastic in-person Splunk PNW User Group at Steeplejack Brewing Company in PDX! We had a great Detection Engineering walkthrough and demo from our sponsor Anvilogic, and Arcus Data gave a wonderful demo of both Edge Hub and AI Assist. See you again soon!
Adversary Emulation - Red Team Village - Mayhem 2020Jorge Orchilles
Presentation at DEF CON Red Team Village - Mayhem Virtual Summit 2020
Adversary Emulation - Red Team emulating APT19 with Empire3 and Starkiller
Connect:
https://twitter.com/jorgeorchilles
https://twitter.com/c2_matrix
References:
https://mitre-attack.github.io/attack-navigator/enterprise/
https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0073/
https://www.thec2matrix.com/
https://howto.thec2matrix.com/slingshot-c2-matrix-edition
https://howto.thec2matrix.com/c2/empire#red-team-village-mayhem-demo-of-apt19
https://vectr.io/
https://www.scythe.io/
Command and Control is one of the most important tactics in the MITRE ATT&CK matrix as it allows the attacker to interact with the target system and realize their objectives. Organizations leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence to understand their threat model and adversaries that have the intent, opportunity, and capability to attack. Red Team, Blue Team, and virtual Purple Teams work together to understand the adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures to perform adversary emulations and improve detective and preventive controls.
The C2 Matrix was created to aggregate all the Command and Control frameworks publicly available (open-source and commercial) in a single resource to assist teams in testing their own controls through adversary emulations (Red Team or Purple Team Exercises). Phase 1 lists all the Command and Control features such as the coding language used, channels (HTTP, TCP, DNS, SMB, etc.), agents, key exchange, and other operational security features and capabilities. This allows more efficient decision making when called upon to emulate and adversary TTPs.
It is the golden age of Command and Control (C2) frameworks. Learn how these C2 frameworks work and start testing against your organization to improve detective and preventive controls.
The C2 Matrix currently has 35 command and control frameworks documented in a Google Sheet, web site, and questionnaire format.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b4mUxa6cDQuTV2BPC6aA-GR4zGZi0ooPYtBe4IgPsSc/edit#gid=0
https://www.thec2matrix.com/matrix
https://ask.thec2matrix.com/
Learn how Red Teams and Blue Teams work together in virtual Purple Teams
Leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence to understand adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures
Perform adversary emulations in Red or Purple Team Exercises
Choose which command and control to use for the assessment to provide the most value
Measure and improve people, process, and technology
What is agile? Where did it come from, and how can it help me?
This session will go through a history of agile, including the origins of waterfall, the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing, the creation of the agile manifesto, and how these all lead to the modern agile development frameworks we use today. By exploring the original design and intent behind agile principles and practices, we'll also uncover common pitfalls to agile adoption, and insights into overcoming them.
In 2014, Filip managed to exceed our audience's expectations with a well-researched and energizing lecture. Since then, he's managed to build a successful tech startup and has worked for clients across the globe. We are very proud to present you one of the brightest minds on the Czech marketing scene!
Backup-File Artifacts - OWASP Khartoum InfoSec Sessions 2016 - Mazin AhmedMazin Ahmed
Backup-File Artifacts - OWASP Khartoum InfoSec Sessions 2016 - Mazin Ahmed
Backup-File Artifacts: The Underrated Web-Danger
Testing and Exploiting Backup-File Artifacts with BFAC
BFAC Homepage: https://github.com/mazen160
Blog Post: http://blog.mazinahmed.net/2016/08/backup-file-artifacts.html
Bug Bounty Hunting for Companies & Researchers: Bounty Hunting in Sudan and A...Mazin Ahmed
Bug Bounty Hunting for Companies & Researchers: Bounty Hunting in Sudan and Abroad
http://blog.mazinahmed.net/2016/10/bug-bounty-hunting-swiss-cyber-storm.html
My presentation at Expon 2011 in Sao Paulo. Anyone interested in my talk should check out the "importxml guide" here:
http://www.distilled.net/blog/distilled/guide-to-google-docs-importxml/
This is the slide deck from a presention for SecTor 2016.
I spoke with Chris Gates @carnal0wnage.
The outline is:
Purple Teaming is conducting focused Red Teams with clear training objectives for the Blue Team for the ultimate goal of improving the organization’s overall security posture. The popular opinion is that Purple Teaming requires a big undertaking. This is not true and we will show practical exercises for Purple Teaming for varying levels of organizational maturity using the Cyber Kill Chain[1] as our framework.
The recent trend of using Attack and Defense Together.
Due to the recent trend of using offensive and defensive capabilities together, we thought a talk on Purple Teaming would be interesting. We hope to benefit those on the Attack side (red team), Defensive (blue team) and mixing the two.
The recent trend of using Attack and Defense Together.
Due to the recent trend of using offensive and defensive capabilities together, we thought a talk on Purple Teaming would be interesting. We hope to benefit those on the Attack side (red team), Defensive (blue team) and mixing the two.
The PDX Splunk community came together for a fantastic in-person Splunk PNW User Group at Steeplejack Brewing Company in PDX! We had a great Detection Engineering walkthrough and demo from our sponsor Anvilogic, and Arcus Data gave a wonderful demo of both Edge Hub and AI Assist. See you again soon!
Adversary Emulation - Red Team Village - Mayhem 2020Jorge Orchilles
Presentation at DEF CON Red Team Village - Mayhem Virtual Summit 2020
Adversary Emulation - Red Team emulating APT19 with Empire3 and Starkiller
Connect:
https://twitter.com/jorgeorchilles
https://twitter.com/c2_matrix
References:
https://mitre-attack.github.io/attack-navigator/enterprise/
https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0073/
https://www.thec2matrix.com/
https://howto.thec2matrix.com/slingshot-c2-matrix-edition
https://howto.thec2matrix.com/c2/empire#red-team-village-mayhem-demo-of-apt19
https://vectr.io/
https://www.scythe.io/
Command and Control is one of the most important tactics in the MITRE ATT&CK matrix as it allows the attacker to interact with the target system and realize their objectives. Organizations leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence to understand their threat model and adversaries that have the intent, opportunity, and capability to attack. Red Team, Blue Team, and virtual Purple Teams work together to understand the adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures to perform adversary emulations and improve detective and preventive controls.
The C2 Matrix was created to aggregate all the Command and Control frameworks publicly available (open-source and commercial) in a single resource to assist teams in testing their own controls through adversary emulations (Red Team or Purple Team Exercises). Phase 1 lists all the Command and Control features such as the coding language used, channels (HTTP, TCP, DNS, SMB, etc.), agents, key exchange, and other operational security features and capabilities. This allows more efficient decision making when called upon to emulate and adversary TTPs.
It is the golden age of Command and Control (C2) frameworks. Learn how these C2 frameworks work and start testing against your organization to improve detective and preventive controls.
The C2 Matrix currently has 35 command and control frameworks documented in a Google Sheet, web site, and questionnaire format.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1b4mUxa6cDQuTV2BPC6aA-GR4zGZi0ooPYtBe4IgPsSc/edit#gid=0
https://www.thec2matrix.com/matrix
https://ask.thec2matrix.com/
Learn how Red Teams and Blue Teams work together in virtual Purple Teams
Leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence to understand adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures
Perform adversary emulations in Red or Purple Team Exercises
Choose which command and control to use for the assessment to provide the most value
Measure and improve people, process, and technology
What is agile? Where did it come from, and how can it help me?
This session will go through a history of agile, including the origins of waterfall, the Toyota Production System and lean manufacturing, the creation of the agile manifesto, and how these all lead to the modern agile development frameworks we use today. By exploring the original design and intent behind agile principles and practices, we'll also uncover common pitfalls to agile adoption, and insights into overcoming them.
Operational Security (OPSEC) is one of the most important aspects to consider in Adversary Simulations (usually called "Red Teaming"). When talking about OPSEC, it is common to think around matters like AV/EDR evasion, avoiding "noises" or using builtin/legitimate tools whenever is possible. In fact, the scope of the term OPSEC is usually wider than that.
OPSEC usually refers to the identification and protection of data that could be useful for an adversary. In Adversary Simulations, the adversary is the organisation's security team (Blue Team) and the goal is to improve their detection capabilities. This is why the maturity of an organisation should dictate the complexity required to carry out these operations, so that the objectives are met with the minimum effort, as it would do an attacker in real life.
For example, for experienced Blue Teams, the mere fact of using legitimate tools such as net.exe (e.g. “net users /domain”) or powershell.exe could be a reason for the whole operation to be discovered, whereas in other organisations or situations these same actions could remain completely unnoticed.
In this presentation we will discuss how you should review and understand your own toolset and procedures in order to gain OPSEC. We will comprehend how to deal with trade-offs, and why understanding your adversary is key in that matter. In addition, sources of detection (disk, memory, network...) and resources commonly employed by defenders (events, hooks, callbacks...) will be explained visually and practically to help you building and improving your operations.
Understanding and Hiding your Operations’ goal is to be a resource for comprehending the meaning of OPSEC and creating awareness in your operations, so as you can successfully face – and improve – experienced security teams and their detection capabilities.
Red Teaming is hot right now. Many people want to get into it just because it sounds cool. While I tend to agree, there are many things to consider. There is way more to red teaming than just "getting in" to organizations. Join us for this one hour webcast where we cover what red team is, why you may want to be a red teamer, and how to become a red teamer.
Threat hunting is the best, proactive approach. But, excelling at threat hunting, discovering adversaries takes time, patience, planning, and some serious skills. Mature beyond the basics of hunting and evolve your program!
Introduction to Just in Time Access - BrightTalkHaydn Johnson
Ensuring users have access to only the resources they need, aka least privilege is great. But have you considered granting users only needed access?
This talk will introduce the concept of granting ‘Just-in-Time Access’. Securing an endpoint is more than patching and vulnerability management. Granting access to who, when and what also secures an endpoint. Only when a user needs to connect to a system, can access be granted. Ports such as SSH do not need to be open for the world to connect and probe. Database credentials do not need to last forever.
This approach limits the damage that can be caused by an account -- privileged or otherwise -- by reducing the amount of time an attacker has to gain access to the account, as well as the time they have to move from a compromised account before losing access.
The short explanation for Just-in-Time Access is providing short-term access in real time. It is a relatively new term in the industry and is another way to practice the least privileged best practice.
Key Takeaways:
• The benefits to Just-in-Time access for security and operations
o Improved visibility
o Minimize damage from compromised accounts
o Operational efficiency
• How SSH can be replaced with AWS SSM sessions
o Direct SSH replacement
o SSH reverse proxy
• How Just in Time Access for database credentials can help
o Example: Hashicorp Vault
o Example: Akeyless
• Resources for learning more
Communication to the business is very different to exploitation. This talk helps bridge the gap between a finding and a business risk.
Presented at HackFest 2018
Human(e) Security in a World of Business 2018Haydn Johnson
Relationship Building in Security is extremely important.
Understand where I came from, where I am at, struggles I had and things I found work to help improve the security Posture of my organizaiton.
This talk was presented at BSidesLV 2016. It covered the trend of Automating Penetration Testing. We will delve into what this means for skilled penetration testers / exploit developers and the probable outcome of bigger and more breaches.
This was part of a 3 hour talk for students at a local college. Introductipn to post exploitation with PowerShell Empire. Feel free to use and learn from.
This report is to explain some key commands within Meterpreter that allow you to have some sort of situational awareness. That is, how to gain more insight into system information, the user you currently are and what processes are running among other things.
This blog gives a step by step guide to creating persistence with
PowerSploit. A reverse shell will be sent to the attacker when a victim logs into their machine.
Welcome to the first live UiPath Community Day Dubai! Join us for this unique occasion to meet our local and global UiPath Community and leaders. You will get a full view of the MEA region's automation landscape and the AI Powered automation technology capabilities of UiPath. Also, hosted by our local partners Marc Ellis, you will enjoy a half-day packed with industry insights and automation peers networking.
📕 Curious on our agenda? Wait no more!
10:00 Welcome note - UiPath Community in Dubai
Lovely Sinha, UiPath Community Chapter Leader, UiPath MVPx3, Hyper-automation Consultant, First Abu Dhabi Bank
10:20 A UiPath cross-region MEA overview
Ashraf El Zarka, VP and Managing Director MEA, UiPath
10:35: Customer Success Journey
Deepthi Deepak, Head of Intelligent Automation CoE, First Abu Dhabi Bank
11:15 The UiPath approach to GenAI with our three principles: improve accuracy, supercharge productivity, and automate more
Boris Krumrey, Global VP, Automation Innovation, UiPath
12:15 To discover how Marc Ellis leverages tech-driven solutions in recruitment and managed services.
Brendan Lingam, Director of Sales and Business Development, Marc Ellis
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Why You Should Replace Windows 11 with Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 for enhanced perfor...SOFTTECHHUB
The choice of an operating system plays a pivotal role in shaping our computing experience. For decades, Microsoft's Windows has dominated the market, offering a familiar and widely adopted platform for personal and professional use. However, as technological advancements continue to push the boundaries of innovation, alternative operating systems have emerged, challenging the status quo and offering users a fresh perspective on computing.
One such alternative that has garnered significant attention and acclaim is Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, a sleek, powerful, and user-friendly Linux distribution that promises to redefine the way we interact with our devices. With its focus on performance, security, and customization, Nitrux Linux presents a compelling case for those seeking to break free from the constraints of proprietary software and embrace the freedom and flexibility of open-source computing.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Generative AI Deep Dive: Advancing from Proof of Concept to ProductionAggregage
Join Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, in this new session where he'll share a practical framework to transform Gen AI prototypes into impactful products! He'll delve into the complexities of data collection and management, model selection and optimization, and ensuring security, scalability, and responsible use.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
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Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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Inspiration from
@carnal0wnage - Chris Gates
@indi303 - Chris Nickerson
Relevant Videos:
Purple Teaming the Cyber Kill Chain Practical Exercises for Management
http://2016.video.sector.ca/video/188841307
BruCON 0x08 - Building A Successful Internal Adversarial Simulation Team - C.
Gates & C. Nickerson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5Fu6AvXi_A
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Terminology
Vulnerability Assessment Person - Run Vuln
Scanner....hey client you suck
Penetration Tester - Metasploit / MSF PRO (FTW)...hey
client you suck
Red Teaming - Phish, move laterally, find “sensitive stuff”,
maybe custom implant...hey client you suck
Purple Teaming - You did all the above, but got to charge
for an extra body and to tell the client how they suck in
person
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Terminology
Red Teaming - “Red Team engagements are the full
spectrum warfare of security assessments. In a red team
engagement, the consultants attack the client organization
using physical means, social engineering, and
technological avenues. “
From: http://winterspite.com/security/phrasing/
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Terminology
Purple Team
❏ Working together to achieve the ultimate goal of
making the organization more secure
❏ different threats & attacker mindset
❏ incident detection and response
❏ policy and procedures
❏ tuning of controls
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Purple Team
❏ Conducting focused pentesting (up to Red
Teaming) with clear training objectives for the
Blue Team.
❏ It isn't a "can you get access to X" exercise it is
a "train the Blue Team on X" exercise. The
pentesting activities are a means to conduct
realistic training.
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Cyber Kill Chain
❏ Worst Name Ever
❏ “The seven steps of the Lockheed Martin Cyber
Kill Chain® enhance visibility into an attack
and enrich an analyst’s understanding of an
adversary’s tactics, techniques and
procedures.”
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/what-we-do/aerospace-defense/cyber/cyber-kill-chain.html
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Cyber Kill Chain
❏ The Idea is great
❏ This is an integrated, end-to-end process
described as a “chain” because any one
deficiency will interrupt the entire process.
❏ AKA:
Any deficiency in the attackers chain, will
interrupt the entire process
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The Expanded
Cyber Kill Chain
Sean Malone
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Malone-Using-An-Expanded-Cyber-Kill-Chai
n-Model-To-Increase-Attack-Resiliency.pdf
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Expanded Cyber Kill Chain
❏ AKA - The Internal Kill Chain
❏ Original CKC focuses primarily on before an
attack gains access
❏ ECKC builds out the methodology once an
attacker is in the network
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ATT&CK Framework
a threat modeling methodology and suite of models
for the various phases of an adversary's lifecycle and
platforms that are known to be targeted by cyber
threats
The MITRE ATT&CK Matrix™ is a visualization of the
tactics and techniques.
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ATT&CK Framework
Great video that explains it in practice:
Hackfest 2016 - Chris Nickerson :
Adversarial Simulation: Why your defenders are the
Fighter Pilots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flmxbKfIAE4
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Events / Injects
Events - generally executed by the Red Team to elicit
responses from the Blue Team in specific phases,
focused on the objectives of the exercise.
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Exercises - Teams
Exercise Control Group
Take information from other teams and make
decision to ensure the exercise is “controlled” and
reaches its goals.
IR Manager
Team Lead
VP
ECG
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Exercises - Teams
Gray Team / Observers
Observe the Blue Team's reaction or non-reaction and
report back to ECG.
Ongoing process
IR Manager
Team Lead
VP
GREY
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Exercises - Planning
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
Benjamin Franklin
Everything needs consideration, pros, cons and a
plan!
1. Brainstorming
2. Action Items
3. Budget / Approval
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Exercises - Planning
Each team needs to know the end goals (except Blue)
Red Team needs to know what injects and when.
Goals:
1. To prevent confusion
2. Finalize Objectives
3. Identify if training is required
4. Decide on Use Cases
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Exercises - Lessons Learned
❏ What observations were made during the
exercise.
What went well, what didn’t
Positive and negative - constructive
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Exercises - Lessons Learned
❏ Internally we need to prepare better
❏ Ensure findings are document
❏ Think of more alternative tests
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Exercises - Lessons Learned
Collect Information from everyone
Strengthen future exercises
Exercise
Control
Group
Red
Team
Training
Audience
Observers
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Example 1 - Nmap
# of People Required: 1
Level of knowledge required: Little
Documentation online: Many
Time to Test Minimal
Disruption to Business None
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Example 1 - Nmap
Test if Nmap / Port scans can be seen internally or
externally
What do the alerts look like?
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Example 2- Credentials in Memory
# of People Required: 1 -2
Level of knowledge required: Little
Documentation online: Many
Time to Test Minimal
Disruption to Business None
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Example 2- Credentials in Memory
Helpdesk / Ops wants a secure way to remotely
manage workstation(s).
RDP | VNC - no thanks
Want to use PowerShell Remoting because easier and
‘secure’
https://blog.netspi.com/powershell-remoting-cheatsheet/
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Example 3 - Malicious Attachment
Testing
<Email> is great at filtering malicious emails,
attachments etc.
We want to see what gets through to know what to
expect
“What could get through”
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Example 3 - Malicious Attachment
Testing
Malicious File Maker
@carnal0wnage
https://github.com/carnal0wnage/malicious_file_make
r
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Example 3 - Malicious Attachment
Testing
The goal:
❏ Confirm email attachment filtering
❏ Confirm attachments that bypass
❏ Document findings for reference
❏ Potential defenses / future steps
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Example 3 - Malicious Attachment
Testing
Which allows us:
❏ Potential tuning to block file types
❏ Research file types for use in the wild
❏ Identification of compensating controls
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Example 4 - Domain Admin Paths
# of People Required: 1 -2
Level of knowledge required: Enough to install the tool
Documentation online: Installation instructions
Time to Test Minimal
Disruption to Business Potential to pop alerts
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Example 4 - Domain Admin Paths
Goals:
❏ Identify Domain Admins
❏ Identify derivative admins
❏ Weakness in the chain of trust
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Example 4 - Domain Admin Paths
❏ Follow up on mystery account
❏ Create Ticket
❏ Does it require the access it has?
Test with a group that has less access
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Example 4 - Table Top Exercise
# of People Required: Many
Level of knowledge required: Varied
Documentation online: Yes
Time to Test Long term
Disruption to Business 1 day +
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Example 4 - Table Top Exercise
Pre Hack
During
Post
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/analyst/killing-advanced-threats-tracks-intelligent-
approach-attack-prevention-35302
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Example 4 - Table Top Exercise
Pre Hack
$Group Threaten Company
https://www.sans.org/reading-room/whitepapers/analyst/killing-advanced-threats-tracks-intelligent-
approach-attack-prevention-35302
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Example 5 - Lateral Movement
# of People Required: 1-2
Level of knowledge required: Ability to find network shares
Documentation online: Yes
Time to Test hours
Disruption to Business Minimal
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Example 5 - Lateral Movement
Goals:
❏ Is there sensitive information at rest?
❏ What data could be accessed on network shares
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Example 5 - Lateral Movement
OpenDLP
❏ Data Loss prevention tool
❏ Identifies sensitive data at rest on thousands of
systema
❏ Not easy to install
https://github.com/ezarko/opendlp
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Example 5 - Lateral Movement
OpenDLP Video Reference
Bsides Cleveland 2017
Blue-Teamin' on a Budget [of Zero]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77M0aO2F2fU
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Example 5 - Lateral Movement
❏ Download OVA
❏ Transfer sc.exe from XP 32bit
❏ Install browser sert
❏ Start apache
❏ connect
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Example 5 - Lateral Movement
Issues with install:
❏ sc.exe 32bit
❏ Accessing web server
❏ Solution:
XP
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/download-wi
ndows-xp-for-free-and-legally-straight-from-
microsoft-si/