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When forming a strategy you must realise for starts that people view the word strategy differently. However, the general view is STRATEGY AS A PLAN. Without a PLAN a strategy is a DREAM.

The plan must be supported by a rang of factors, it must also be managed. It should be something which helps you go from where you are (CURRENT STATE) to where you want to be (FUTURE STATE) and should have a roadmap (TRANSITION PLAN/ROADMP) of how you will get there.

When we talk about can I see your strategy, you will need to have it documented, a strategy without a document isn’t a strategy that can be shared and communicated. As to what “THE STRATEGY” document must be… well there is no such thing as a MUST, but there’s some component that are largely and widely recognised to be useful.

News

Friday the 13th LNKApocalypse

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Monday AM 16/01/2022 – Customers and Friends are reporting this issue is still occuring, just done a test and run MS v1.1. script, it found 0 apps to fix and applied zero fixes. My custom hacky script found a range of shortcuts to restore. I have a feeling this problem might drag on a little. there are timing issues with script application and CONFIG application + Defender update rules which means this might still affect machines. I’ve watched a machine delete icons this morning!

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Leadership

Cloud Adoption Security Review

Anyone that knows me, knows I love maturity assessments and tools (I’ve built a few, and run LOADS more) so this morning when I saw this on LinkedIn I had to start to get some understanding! I’ve not even had a cup of tea, but let’s see what this looks like!

Leadership

Current State Cyber Challenges and why communication is important

Currently I’d list some of the major challenges we face as a civilisation as the following (clearly not exhaustive etc.)

The general population largely don’t understand cyber
Lots of people think there is nothing they can really do
People have shockingly bad personal cyber security
A large number of organisations have shockingly poor cyber security postures
People’s passwords are often ridiculously weak
People re-use passwords all the time
People seem to believe we have “magic nation state cyber shields”
Organisation’s largely do not invest adequately in cyber security

News

Royal Mail Cyber Incident

According to the Belfast Telegraph:

Royal Mail operations hub in Mallusk hit by ‘cyber attack’ as printer spurts out ransom demands – BelfastTelegraph.co.uk

The Incident is reported by them as “RANSOMWARE” and features Lockbit (Lockbit is RaaS, they recently (end of 2022 lost their ransomware payload builder) so the use of Lockbit software and the fact Lockbit is RaaS means this doesn’t prove attribution). (Attribution is hard, for most people what matters is their own network security posture, rather than who pwn3d royal mail)

News

Cyber News Today

Another day in the life o’cyber! There’s probably new exploits, new vulnerabilities, new updates and industry changes galore but here’s some highlights from the day!

Threat Intel

Royal Mail Cyber Attack! What should you do?

breaking news: Royal mails international tracking services are down and have been for > 24 hours:

The ICO have been contacted! The NCSC and NCA have been contacted! What should you do?

Education

Password Spraying Office 365

Clearly this is for penetration testing, not for evil! So if you have to pentest Office 365 you might want to be attacking the authentication services. This will be aligned to the tenant you are testing, as always make sure you have authorisation.

Deploy to your favourite LINUX instance or WSL etc.

Hacking

Office 365/Azure Pentest Tools

I’m not going to talk about these… yet… and there’s duplicates because I think it’s useful to see where they can be used in different scenarios. Expect this list to grow!

Guides

Practical Security Assurance

Penetration testing, adversary simulation, red teaming, purple teaming, rainbow teaming, call if what you like, the security outcome we are working towards is:

Improved Security Posture
Assurance of security investments and controls
Enablement of information sharing
Collaboration and Understanding
Identification of strengths and weaknesses
Optimization and Improvement Opportunities

This is to support the organisations mission, vision, goals, and objectives. Cyber security is to support and enable the organisation’s capability to execute digital services in a safe manner.