Blue Security

This week, Adam and Andy give you their thoughts on the Fireeye and Solarwinds breach. They also give defenders advice on immediate steps to help strengthen their organizations as well as some future insights on the direction security may be heading in terms on identity and device management. Finally, they give some thoughts on why it is important for security, business, and technical teams need to work as one cohesive unit in order to make security programs successful.

Documentation:

Unauthorized Access of FireEye Red Team Tools

Check Point Response to FireEye Red Team Tools Leak

CISA Updates Alert and Releases Supplemental Guidance on Emergency Directive for SolarWinds Orion Compromise

Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain to Compromise Multiple Global Victims With SUNBURST Backdoor

"The Chat" by Gavin Ashton

Becoming resilient by understanding cybersecurity risks: Part 2

Detecting Abuse of Authentication Mechanisms by the NSA

Protecting Microsoft 365 from on-premises attacks

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

Passwordless authentication is one of those rare features that strengthens security while making it easier for users to sign in. This week, Adam and Andy breakdown passwordless authentication options for enterprises in Windows, Azure AD, and other third party IDP's. They also address concerns about privacy when it comes to biometric data.

Documentation:

Windows Hello for Business

Plan a passwordless authentication deployment in Azure Active Directory

Passwordless authentication options for Azure Active Directory

Factor Sequencing for Okta

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

This is it! Adam and Andy are finally diving into conditional access. They give an overview on what conditional access is including different types of conditional access like user, sign-in, and device based. Stick around until the end where Adam gives a great overview on a new feature for Azure AD authentications called Continuous Access Evaluation that changes the duration authentication tokens and how they are evaluated.

Documentation:

Advancing Password Spray Attack Detection

Continuous Access Evaluation in Azure AD is now in public preview!

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

On this week's episode, Andy and Adam give you their tips and tricks for working from home. Having been in mature work from home company cultures, they have insights on what it was like pre and post pandemic. Enjoy!

Documentation:

Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

On this week's episode, Andy and Adam give their thoughts on the firing of Chris Krebs, former director of CISA. They also talk about their opinions on whether a CISO should be fired after a cybersecurity breach. Finally, they discuss if people need to have technical degrees and what qualifications are required to be in infosec.

Documentation:

CISA's Statement on the Nov 3rd Election

IT Director fired after ransomware attack

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

This week, Morgan joins Adam and Andy on the podcast to discuss on-prem Active Directory security. They dive into administrator privileges, best practice for account creation, GPO's, and server admins. They also discuss the concept of Privileged Access Workstations (PAW).

Documentation:

Securing Privileged Access

Privileged Access Workstations

Morgan Patzwald

Twitter: @morgancpatz

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

This week, Adam and Andy go over why you should think about using an Identity Provider (IDP) to onboard your SaaS apps to use SSO. They also talk about why it's really important to think about what IDP to go with prior to making a decision. Finally, they talk about SSPR and why it's important to implement this feature in your organization.

Documentation:

Azure AD SSO options

Enable Azure SSPR

Enable Okta SSPR

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

This week, Adam and Andy bring you a bonus episode where they talk about how they got into information security and offer advice on career progression in IT and cybersecurity.

Documentation:

Free Microsoft Developer's Environment

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

This week, Adam and Andy wrap up the ransomware series by first going over controlled folder access in Windows 10 security and Onedrive for Business Known Folder Move. They discuss network segmentation and go into tools and process for detection and incident response. Finally, they conclude with tips on business continuity and disaster recovery when it comes to ransomware and cybersecurity.

Documentation:

Controlled Folder Access

Onedrive for Business Known Folder Move

Azure ATP/Microsoft Defender for Identity

Ransomware Decryptors

Maersk NotPetya Blog

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/

This week, Adam and Andy continue the conversation on techniques and tools to protect your organization from ransomware. They dive into the concept of least privileged access and administrative rights, email protection solutions, and phishing/cybersecurity training program concepts for your company.

Documentation:

Exchange Online Protection Overview

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/exchange-online-protection-overview?view=o365-worldwide

Office 365 ATP

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/office-365-atp?view=o365-worldwide

Andy Jaw

Twitter: @ajawzero

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyjaw/

Adam Brewer

Twitter: @ajbrewer

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamjbrewer/