Why Your People Are Still Your Best Cyber-Defense

Why Your People Are Still Your Best Cyber-Defense

Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, Microsoft, speaks at RSA Conference.

As organizations digitally transform, access to artificial intelligence and machine learning powered by the cloud will mean the difference between struggle or success for organizations, as bad actors look to AI to do their dirty work. While cybersecurity and operational resilience should be complementary disciplines, the one thing many organizations who recover quickly from a cyberattack possess is also the one thing many attackers don’t take into account. The human spirit. Ann Johnson, CVP Cybersecurity Solutions Group, Microsoft, will share how to create a culture where people are your best defense.Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President, Cybersecurity Solutions Group, Microsoft Corp.

Free 14 Hour Ethical Hacking Course Network Penetration Testing for Beginners

Free 14 Hour Ethical Hacking Course Network Penetration Testing for Beginners

freeCodeCamp.org has posted a full 14 hour network penetration testing/ethical hacking in this full tutorial course for beginners.

This course teaches everything you need to know to get started with ethical hacking and penetration testing. You will learn the practical skills necessary to work in the field.

Throughout the course, you will develop your own Active Directory lab in Windows, make it vulnerable, hack it, and patch it. We’ll cover the red and blue sides. We’ll also cover some of the boring stuff like report writing :).

This course was originally live streamed weekly on Twitch and built from lessons learned in the previous week.

GitHub repo (for homework):
https://github.com/hmaverickadams/Beginner-Network-Pentesting

Course created by The Cyber Mentor.

Check out his YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0ArlFuFYMpEewyRBzdLHiw

Course Contents

  • (0:00) – Course Introduction/whoami
  • (6:12) – Part 1: Introduction, Notekeeping, and Introductory Linux
  • (1:43:45) – Part 2: Python 101
  • (3:10:05) – Part 3: Python 102 (Building a Terrible Port Scanner)
  • (4:23:14) – Part 4: Passive OSINT
  • (5:41:41) – Part 5: Scanning Tools & Tactics
  • (6:56:42) – Part 6: Enumeration
  • (8:31:22) – Part 7: Exploitation, Shells, and Some Credential Stuffing
  • (9:57:15) – Part 8: Building an AD Lab, LLMNR Poisoning, and NTLMv2 Cracking with Hashcat
  • (11:13:20) – Part 9: NTLM Relay, Token Impersonation, Pass the Hash, PsExec, and more
  • (12:40:46) – Part 10: MS17-010, GPP/cPasswords, and Kerberoasting
  • (13:32:33) – Part 11: File Transfers, Pivoting, Report Writing, and Career Advice