Penetration testing is something that more companies and organizations should be considering a necessary expense. Pen Testing  is an important aspect of discovery and identifying potential critical vulnerabilities within your organizations external network, internal network, applications, or systems. They provide a valuable insight on how your digital and human assets perform.

In this episode we review the criticality of scoping a Pen Test, along with differences between Pen Testing, Red Teaming and Vulnerability Assessment. Why should you choose one over the other and when would one proceed the other.

Sponsored by: Hacket Cyber and post game interview with Founder James Carroll.  Hacket Cyber is a security consulting firm specializing in penetration testing, ethical hacking, and industry-leading cybersecurity services. Our offerings are purpose-built for the MSP, MSSP, and VAR channels.  https://hacketcyber.com/partner/

James Carroll LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jchax/

Co-hosts:
Ryan Weeks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanweeks/
Phyllis Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phyllis-lee-21b58a1a4/
Wes Spencer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesspencer/

The biggest takeaway from CIS Control 17 is that planning and communication are critical when responding to an incident. The longer an intruder has access to your network, the more time they’ve had to embed themselves into your systems. Communicating with everyone involved can help limit the duration between attack and clean-up.

Establish a program to develop and maintain an incident response capability (e.g., policies, plans, procedures, defined roles, training, and communications) to prepare, detect, and quickly respond to an attack.

Our sponsor: Exigence (https://www.exigence.io) is a multi-tenant, Incident Readiness, Incident Response platform, built for MSP/MSSPs. Drive new revenue streams and meet cyber insurance & regulatory requirements for Incident Response plans and tabletops.
 
The Exigence platform gives you full control of critical incidents by uniquely addressing every aspect of the incident – turning an unstructured situation into one that is structured and easy to manage. ​

 It coordinates all stakeholders and systems all the time, orchestrates complex workflows from trigger to resolution, simplifies the post-mortem, and always leverages lessons learned for doing it even better next time.

Contact Noam here: noam@exigence.io

Co-hosts:
Ryan Weeks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanweeks/
Phyllis Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phyllis-lee-21b58a1a4/
Wes Spencer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesspencer/
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CIS Control 16 - Application Software Security
The way in which we interact with applications has changed dramatically over years. Organizations use applications in day-to-day operations to manage their most sensitive data and control access to system resources. Instead of traversing a labyrinth of networks and systems, attackers today see an opening to turn an organizations applications against it to bypass network security controls and compromise sensitive data.  NOTE: Crowdstrike notes that Cloud based attacks and initial access via these systems has increased 112%, therefore SaaS applications, their potential vulnerabilities and misconfigurations along with initial access are all being focused on by threat actors.

**Jim Manico at minute 52:40 - do not miss!!**

Our sponsor: Jim Manico, Founder of Manicode is considered the "Godfather" of the OWASP Top 10 and trains software development teams around the globe. His firm helps organizations building secure code and creates programs to address the primary cause of insecurity, which is the lack of secure software development practices.
Contact Jim here: https://manicode.com/

Co-hosts:
Ryan Weeks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanweeks/
Phyllis Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phyllis-lee-21b58a1a4/
Wes Spencer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesspencer/
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