Does your cybersecurity start at the heart?
Get a highly customized data risk assessment run by engineers who are obsessed with data security.
Articles by
Andy Green
Andy blogs about data privacy and security regulations. He also loves writing about malware threats and what it means for IT security.
Inside Out Security Blog
Insider Threats: Living With WMI Permanent Events
At the end of the previous post in this series, I suggested WMI permanent events, though somewhat complicated, is a more effective way for insiders to conduct surveillance on their...
Active Directory Has a Privacy Problem
Back when I was pen testing with the wonderful PowerView, I was using it to pull user information from Active Directory. At the time I was more interested in gathering...
What is DNS Tunneling? A Detection Guide
DNS Tunneling turns DNS or Domain Name System into a hacking weapon. As we know, DNS is a giant White Pages or phone directory for the Internet. DNS also has...
What the H**L Does Reasonable Data Security Really Mean?
For anyone who’s spent time looking at data security laws and regulations, you can’t help but come across the words “reasonable security”, or its close cousin “appropriate security”. You can...
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) Compliance Guide
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is “the first consumer privacy act in the country,” as one California legislator put it. No other US state has provided its citizens with GDPR-like...
Insider Threats: Hard Lessons From WMI Eventing and Surveillance
Last time, we explored how a hypothetical insider could use the Windows Management Interface (WMI) and its eventing system to surveil other employees. No, I’m not the first person to...
A Practical Software Approach to Insider Threats
Insider data theft presents multiple challenges for traditional IT security. Insiders are employees who are entitled to be in the network unlike hackers. Standard perimeter security measures won’t work. But...
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the Future of Data Security Standards
If you’ve been following the blog, you know that the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, is set to take effect on January 1, 2020. It will establish a new...
Insider Threats: Stealthy Hacking With WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)
In looking at Windows features and tools from the perspective of a pen tester, it’s easy to lose sight that Microsoft’s operating system is really, wait for it, impressive. I...
Insider Threats: Stealthy Password Hacking With Smbexec
As we’ve been writing about forever, hackers are relying more on malware-free techniques to fly below the radar. They’re using standard Windows software to live off the land, thereby getting...