Capital One Fraud Seminar Recap

Michael Pitcher, Vice President, Technical Cyber Services, Coalfire Federal

Scripted Inputs and Splunk

Josh Porto, Senior Consultant, Cyber Engineering, Coalfire

Splunk is an extremely versatile tool when dealing with data:

- Monitor files?  Check!

- Listen in on an open port?  Check!

- Monitor the file system? Performance monitor?  HTTP Event Collector?

- Check, check aaaaand check!

But what if the data you want to ingest does not have a method listed above? Say, something like a database or a security tool’s API? Scripted inputs are the solution! Splunk can even employ a variety of scripts to include (but not limited to) PowerShell, shell scripts, and Python.  Besides working around data sources, which do not use log files and cannot send via TCP or UDP, the advantages abound and include:

Top 10 Things CSPs Need to Know about FedRAMP Authorization on Amazon Web Services

Jennifer Tonisson, Partner Marketing Manager, Technology & Cloud, Coalfire

Coalfire conducted a webinar, FedRAMP on AWS: What you need to know. The discussion covered what cloud service providers need to know when pursuing FedRAMP authorization leveraging AWS U.S East/West or GovCloud. Below you’ll find the Top 10 things that cloud service providers should know.

An Analysis of PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.4.1 and the Compliance Expectations

Jason Pieters, Product Director, PCI, Coalfire

For some organizations, understanding, navigating, and complying with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), especially after the release of the latest version (v3.2) released in April 2016, has become confusing and/or challenging because of the inclusion of phased-in applicability of requirements. The most common questions that Coalfire receives from clients are regarding requirement 11.3.4.1

Blockchain: Are You Ready?

Mitch Ross, Senior Consultant, Cyber Engineering, Coalfire

By now, most of us have heard of Bitcoin. Few of us really know the specifics about what that is. Fewer still have a workable (or even cursory) knowledge of the underlying technology that makes Bitcoin possible.

How I discovered CVE-2017-13707

Michael Allen, Senior Consultant, Coalfire Labs

New Vulnerability Found Using Techniques Taught at Black Hat USA

One of the topics I teach in Coalfire's Adaptive Penetration Testing course, given most recently at Black Hat 2017, is manual privilege escalation on Linux- and Unix-based systems. I also talk about how common it is to gain an initial foothold in an environment by leveraging default or easily guessable login credentials. During a recent red team engagement, I leveraged both of these techniques – not only to fully compromise the organization's Active Directory environment, but also to discover and exploit a previously unknown vulnerability in the Replibit Linux distribution installed on a server on their network.

How You Respond Can Make All the Difference

Doug Hudson, Senior Director, Cyber Risk Advisory, Coalfire

(Part Three of a Three Part Series)

As the narrative on the Equifax compromise evolves, the general public, politicians, and speculators continue to seek blame for what happened. Was it an unpatched vulnerability? Was Equifax not following proper configuration management? Was management derelict in their duties? At this point, the damage of leaking records including the personally identifiable information (PII) of 143 million people is done. However, it might be a good to look at what could have been done differently to reduce impact to the organization.