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Media Alert: NetSPI at Black Hat 2022 and DEF CON 30
Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) leader marks its presence with various speaking sessions, open source tool releases, and a happy hour event during this year’s Black Hat and DEF CON conferences.
Minneapolis, MN and Las Vegas – NetSPI, the leader in enterprise security testing and attack surface management, will be participating in several speaking sessions and activities during Black Hat 2022 and DEF CON, taking place at the Mandalay Bay Expo Hall in Las Vegas starting on August 30. NetSPI is located at Booth #1687 on the Mandalay Bay Trade Floor.
With over 20 years of experience, NetSPI’s team of over 200 global pentesters are highly-skilled in manual pentesting and laser-focused on excellence. During the events, these company experts will inform attendees on the vulnerabilities and escalating threats targeting enterprises, as well as share insights on how businesses can mature their security programs and empower their workforces.
NetSPI speaking sessions during Black Hat and DEF CON include:
- On August 10 at 10:20am PT, Nick Landers, Director of Research at NetSPI, will present at Black Hat alongside James Forshaw, Security Researcher at Google Project Zero, in a talk titled: “Elevating Kerberos to the Next Level.” In this talk, Nick and James will conduct a deep dive into the inner workings of Kerberos as it applies to local authentication and some of the unusual behaviors to be found within. They will also describe the Kerberos security issues they’ve discovered, including authentication bypasses, sandbox escapes and arbitrary code execution in privileged processes.
- On August 12 at 10:10am PT, Karl Fosaaen, Senior Director at NetSPI, will present at the DEF CON Cloud Village in a talk titled: “Automating Insecurity in Azure.” In this talk, Karl will go over how Automation Accounts function within Azure, how attackers can abuse built-in functionality to gain access to credentials, privileged identities, and sensitive information, and present a deep dive on four vulnerabilities from the last year that all apply to Azure Automation Accounts.
- On August 12 and 13, Melissa Miller, Managing Security Consultant at NetSPI will present at the DEF CON Girls Hack Village.
- On August 12 at 5pm PT Imposter Syndrome: The Silent Killer of Motivation, Melissa will discuss the characteristics of a healthy work environment and steps towards updating your environment to make it right for you, along with—how to realistically identify your strengths and weaknesses and use that information to pursue and achieve your career goals.
- On August 13 at 1:30pm PT at the Hacking Diversity panel, Melissa will discuss how the industry can increase diversity in cybersecurity.
During Black Hat, Scott Sutherland, Senior Director at NetSPI, will be revealing two new open source tools for security operations centers. The new tools are designed to help teams hunt for artifacts and anomalies associated with common “known bad” behaviors, and help teams inventory, naturally group, and prioritize the triage/remediation of excessive privileges assigned to SMB shares hosted across Active Directory computers.
For more information or to book a meeting with one of NetSPI’s experts at Black Hat or DEF CON, please click here.
You can also join NetSPI for their Black Hat happy hour co-hosted by Adaptive Shield, and Armis on August 10 at 5 PM PT at the Foundation Room Las Vegas, located on the 63rd floor of Mandalay Bay. Register your spot today.
About NetSPI
NetSPI is the leader in penetration testing and attack surface management, partnering with nine of the top 10 U.S. banks, three of the world’s five largest healthcare companies, the largest global cloud providers, and many of the Fortune® 500. NetSPI offers Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS) through its Resolve™ penetration testing and vulnerability management platform. Its experts perform deep dive manual penetration testing of application, network, and cloud attack surfaces, historically testing over 1 million assets to find 4 million unique vulnerabilities. NetSPI is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN and is a portfolio company of private equity firms Sunstone Partners, KKR, and Ten Eleven Ventures. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
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