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Step into the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity with the offensive security group from SecurIT360. We’re bringing you fresh content from our journeys into penetration testing, threat research and various other interesting topics. brad@securit360.com

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August 20, 2026Episode 19339 min

Your IT Job Doubled. Nobody Told Your Boss. | Ep 193

In July 2026, Microsoft alone released 622 CVEs. In the 2010s, the monthly average was about a dozen. Nobody handed IT teams more time, budget, or headcount to match, and that gap is what burnout is actually made of. Somewhere in the last five to ten years, "keeping the lights on" became "and also prevent cyberattacks." Spencer Alessi and Brad Causey talk through how security landed on IT's plate, why capable admins end up feeling like they're failing, and what to do about it when hiring a dedicated security person isn't on the table. The core of the episode is a four-question framework for prioritizing when you can't do everything: - Harm: what would cause the greatest damage to the business? - Likelihood: what is most likely to actually be attacked? - Improve: what can you realistically fix with the people and tools you have today? - Accept: what risk must leadership explicitly own because your team can't address it? Brad's addition: don't start from the scan report, start from the crown jewels. Client matters if you're a law firm, financial data if you're a bank. From there, draw lines outward to whatever touches them. And executives need to get comfortable accepting risk, because zero risk tolerance isn't a strategy, it's a phrase. We also get into the language that works with leadership. "You gave me four things and I have time for two" is adversarial and doesn't give anyone enough to decide with. "I recommend A and C, here's why, and here's when B and D land if nothing else gets added" is managing up. Same for new projects: price the work honestly, including cost, timeline, and tradeoffs, then hand the decision back to the people with full business context. We close with the four things IT teams need to succeed: authority, budget, team, and support, including a trusted outside partner for the specialized work you shouldn't be doing yourself. Planning your next penetration test? Book a call with us at https://securit360.com If you enjoyed this episode, please share it with your network. See you next week. Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

August 14, 2026Episode 19238 min

Subtractive Security: Stop Adding Tools and Start Deleting Attack Paths | Ep 192

Work with us --> https://www.securit360.com/#contact-anchor The OWASP Subtractive Security Top 10 Project --> https://github.com/OWASP/OWASP-Subtractive-Hardening-Top-10 The OWASP Subtractive Security Top 10 Project is an initiative to identify, document, and promote the highest-impact opportunities for reducing cyber risk through the elimination of attack paths. Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

August 6, 2026Episode 19138 min

The CrowdStrike Settings That Actually Stop Us | Ep 191

Two pen testers have spent thousands of hours inside client networks, and the most common failure they see isn't a missing security product — it's an EDR nobody ever tuned. In this episode, Spencer and Tyler open up the CrowdStrike Falcon console and walk through the specific settings that decide whether your team catches an attack or never sees it. They start with the story that kicked the whole thing off: Tyler running a pen test where every AMSI bypass gets blocked and detections fire left and right, while Spencer runs nearly identical tooling against the same product at another client and the SOC sees nothing all week. Same CrowdStrike. Same version. Different checkboxes. From there it's a tactical walkthrough of Endpoint Security → Prevention Policies and the settings worth your attention: Enhanced Exploitation Visibility, which unlocks command-line and PowerShell telemetry that Microsoft disables by default; Enhanced DLL Load Visibility for side-loading attacks; WSL2 Visibility, which closes a sandbox threat actors have been using to run Kali tooling under the radar; memory scanning for in-memory C# tradecraft; Office malicious macro removal; file system containment for ransomware over SMB; vulnerable driver protection, the direct mitigation for BYOVD attacks and EDR killers; and cloud-based anomalous process execution for living-off-the-land binaries. They also cover custom IOA rule groups for blocking unauthorized RMM tools, centralized firewall policy management, device policies for USB control, and a warning on exclusions — especially wildcard paths, which Tyler calls a threat actor's best dream. The takeaway is simple: you're paying real money for EDR, and default configurations aren't giving you what you paid for. Open your console, work through the settings, test them against an IT pilot group, and enable what fits your environment. TOPICS COVERED - Why EDR vendors ship deficient defaults on purpose - Enhanced Exploitation Visibility and the telemetry gap in PowerShell attacks - DLL side-loading, WSL2 abuse, and vulnerable driver attacks - Memory scanning and in-memory tooling detection - Blocking RMM tools with custom IOA rule groups - Exclusion hygiene and the wildcard path problem - Device policies, USB blocking, and insider threat Sentinel One and Defender for Endpoint are next — let us know what else you want covered. Blog: https://offsec.blog Work with us on an internal pen test: https://securit360.com Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

July 31, 2026Episode 19022 min

Episode 190 | OWASP Top 10 Part 4: Cryptographic Failures

Most cryptographic findings on your vulnerability report will never be exploited by a real attacker. So why do they keep showing up — and why should you still fix them? In this episode of the Cyber Threat Perspective, Brad Causey and Jordan Natter break down OWASP Top 10 A04: Cryptographic Failures — the entry they openly call their least favorite on the list. They explain why SWEET32, BEAST, and the other scary-sounding named TLS vulnerabilities almost never translate into real-world compromise, why platforms like Security Scorecard and BitSight inflate their severity anyway, and where genuine cryptographic risk actually lives. Jordan also walks through a real penetration test finding: a JSON Web Token signed with HS256, an exposed configuration backup sitting on the web server, and the signing secret that turned a standard user into an administrator. In this episode: - Why A04 dropped on the OWASP Top 10 without becoming less important - The difference between exploitable risk, hygiene risk, and brand reputational risk - An honest take on Security Scorecard and BitSight scores — what they measure, what they miss, and why a perfect score can coexist with a weak password policy and no MFA - The two halves of A04: data in transit (TLS/HTTPS, integrity, tampering) and data at rest (secure storage of credentials, PII, and payment data) - What a JWT actually is, and why pen testers love pulling them apart - Real pen test story: exposed config backup → leaked JWT secret → signature tampering → privilege escalation to admin - Broken server-side signature validation and other improperly implemented cryptography - Why MD5 and SHA-1 still show up for password storage 20 years too late — and what to use instead (Argon2, scrypt, bcrypt) - HSTS, secure renegotiation, and certificate expiration as A04 subcategories - The coffee shop scenario: the full chain of conditions required to exploit SWEET32 — including roughly 250 GB of captured traffic — and why no one has ever documented it happening in the wild - Why a decade-plus-old vulnerability in your environment says more about your vulnerability management program than about your crypto - Quantum computing: how today's theoretical attacks may not stay theoretical The takeaway: classify your data, choose modern algorithms, retire deprecated protocols, and keep a functioning vulnerability management program. Not because a threat actor is sitting in your local coffee shop waiting to derive your session key — but because leaving decade-old findings in place is a signal about everything else you might be missing. Next up: OWASP A05, which Brad promises is way cooler than A04. Blog: https://securit360.com/blog/ Podcast: https://securit360.buzzsprout.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SecurIT360 Contact: https://securit360.com/contact/ Have a topic you want us to cover? Send it our way. Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

July 24, 2026Episode 18927 min

Episode 189 | OWASP Top 10 Part 3: Software Supply Chain Failures — From SolarWinds to Vibe Coding

Almost no one writes an application from scratch anymore, and that's exactly the problem. In Part 3 of our OWASP Top 10 series, Brad Causey and Jordan Natter break down A03: Software Supply Chain Failures, the category that climbed to #3 and topped OWASP's own community survey as the vulnerability organizations worry about most. If your team pulls in third-party libraries, buys SaaS, or lets anyone "vibe code" a project, this episode is for you. Brad and Jordan cover both sides of supply chain risk: the trusted third-party applications you deploy (SolarWinds being the case that put this category on the map) and the open-source components you pull into your own code without always knowing what's inside. They explain why AI and vibe coding are accelerating the problem, why jQuery is the modern-day Flash, and why "just upgrade the package" is rarely that simple. From there it gets practical: What a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) is and why you need one Transitive dependencies — the packages hiding beneath your packages Building security checks into your CI/CD pipeline and shifting left Why a flaw caught in static analysis can cost ~$200, while the same flaw found in a pen test can cost $20,000+ Why a pen test should validate your controls, not be your first line of defense How SecurIT360's Project Lantern and ChainGarde automate SBOM analysis against known and actively-exploited vulnerabilities A playbook for vetting vendors, writing accountability into contracts, and holding third parties responsible for actually fixing findings The takeaway: whether you're writing software or buying it, you need a way to inventory your components, check them against known vulnerabilities, and hold your vendors accountable — and most of it you can do with tools and teams you already have. Part 1 — Broken Access Control, IDOR & CORS: https://youtu.be/BwYJ-kZ3XaY Part 2 — Security Misconfigurations: https://youtu.be/Po8H140BijE Need a web app pen test? SecurIT360 | Cybersecurity From Every Angle More content: https://offsec.blog Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

July 17, 2026Episode 18831 min

Guaranteed way to catch threat actors | Ep 188

In this episode, Spencer and Tyler discuss why deception is one of the best ways to catch threat actors. Resources Spencer's Cyber Deception Webinar Spencer's X posts on the topic of cyber deception https://thinkst.com/ , https://canary.tools/ @_subtee on X, @haroonmeer on X https://tracebit.com/ Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

July 10, 2026Episode 18716 min

Avoid this cyber leadership trap | Ep 187

Need a pentest or vCISO? Work with us! https://www.securit360.com/ A major leadership failure in Cybersecurity is l buying tools first then figuring out where they fit and how to use them. That’s super backwards. Here’s what I would do instead. Plan first, buy & implement second. I’m going to cover just the planning part this week. Next week we will talk about buying and implementing. Because honestly, implementation is where a lot of security teams go wrong. Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

July 3, 2026Episode 18635 min

Episode 186: Real Life Active Directory Attack Paths

In this episode Spencer and Tyler discuss real life Active Directory attack paths, taken from real internal pentest engagements over the last several years. Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

June 25, 202633 min

[Replay] Episode 172: The Biggest Security Blind Spots in Midsized Companies

Some of the most dangerous security gaps aren't sophisticated — they're the ones hiding in plain sight. In this replay, Brad and Spencer break down the biggest blind spots they see over and over in mid-size companies: poor asset inventory, flat networks, flat identities, overconfidence in security tools, credential reuse, and the emerging risks with AI. If any of these hit home, go to our website, fill out the form, and see if we're a fit for you. Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .

June 18, 202645 min

Episode 185 | A Toddler with a Bazooka: The Real Risk of AI Agents

AI agents can search the web, manipulate files, run commands, make API requests, access cloud platforms, and operate fully autonomously. They are powerful, they are here, and most organizations have no security controls around them whatsoever. In this episode, Brad and Spencer break down the five major AI agent risk categories security teams need to understand right now, using Simon Willison's "lethal trifecta" as a framework and building on it with two additional risk areas they see in the field. In this episode: - What an AI agent actually is and why the definition matters before you can secure it - What AI agents are capable of: files, commands, APIs, memory, cloud access, and autonomous execution - The lethal trifecta: access to private data, exposure to untrusted content, and external communication - Risk category 1: Access to private data - why agents inherit your permissions and why that is dangerous - Risk category 2: Exposure to untrusted content and prompt injection attacks - Risk category 3: External communication and data exfiltration (including a real canary token experiment) - Risk category 4: Privileged access and limiting blast radius with least privilege identities - Risk category 5: Autonomous actions, approval gates, rate limits, and kill switches - Why backups, rollback plans, and recovery playbooks are more important than ever in an AI agent world Resources mentioned: - Simon Willison's lethal trifecta post (June 2025): https://simonwillison.net - Zach Korman's ContinuumCon sandbox escape workshop: https://continuumcon.com/schedule/ - offsec.blog | securit360.com Need a pen test before end of year? Q3 slots are filling up fast. Blog: https://offsec.blog/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@cyberthreatpov Twitter: https://x.com/cyberthreatpov Follow Spencer on social ⬇ Spencer's Links: https://spenceralessi.com Work with Us: https://securit360.com | Find vulnerabilities that matter, learn about how we do internal pentesting here .