7 Minute Security
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7 Minute Security

by Brian Johnson

739 episodesLatest 6 days agoEN
7 Minute Security is a weekly information security podcast focusing on penetration testing, blue teaming and building a career in security. The podcast also features in-depth interviews with industry leaders who share their insights, tools, tips and tricks for being a successful security engineer.

Brian Johnson

Recent reviews on Apple Podcasts (5)
  • Get to the point

    Strange how many podcasts assume listeners already love them and are dying to hear drivel-riffing. No, don't love; found via search for specific topic. Yes, your audio sounds as though recorded with distant mic on camera in a car. Fabulous! Removed!

    TooIllOrEase ·

  • Highly recommend!

    Can’t thank Brian and the 7MS team enough for putting out such an incredible podcast. Engaging conversations, actionable tips, and insights into the cybersecurity industry abound!

    mvelasco07 ·

  • Some gems, getting rare though

    A while ago this podcast was a must listen, but now between all the ad sponsored interviews and news summaries it isn’t on my list anymore. The news episodes with Joe are usually dated and much less interesting than what you’d find from BHIS or RiskyBiz. The tales of pentest pwnage are still pretty good but the rest…meh. Hopefully his business advisers help him course correct soon.

    CyberSecPodFan ·

  • Become too political

    I persisted through all the quirkiness of the podcast but Brian has recently saw fit to become political on his podcast. Not what I came here for. Bye!

    Choppers17 ·

  • Good podcasts

    The podcaster has too many pauses and doesn’t keep the momentum up when telling the story, reviews, etc. it’s like listening to someone telling a story while they are driving in traffic or taking a poop. content is entertaining.

    [REDACTED] USER ·

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Episodes (739)

  1. 7MS #739: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 89

    Sep 11, 202617m

    Hey friends! Today is a tale of pentest pwnage episode, and this one features a path to escalation I have never seen before – one I could only find few references on the entire Internet. It happened completely by acciden

  2. 7MS #738: Baby's First ProjectDiscovery Neo

    Sep 4, 202629m

    Hey friends! Today I'm talking about Baby's First Neo — and to be crystal clear, I don't mean Keanu, and I don't mean the R&B guy with the hat. I mean the AI-powered pentest assistant from our pals at ProjectDiscovery .

  3. 7MS #737: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 88

    Aug 28, 202633m

    Hello friends! Today's tale of pentest pwnage isn't a start-to-finish march to DA – it's me finally emptying out the backlog of "gosh, I've got to share this next time" internal network tips that have been rattling aroun

  4. 7MS #736: Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster – Part 9

    Aug 21, 202629m

    Hey friends! Today's another slice of our Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster miniseries, and fair warning — it's a bit of a Friday mood-ruiner. It's been almost two months since my dad passed, and we've mov

  5. 7MS #735: Baby's First Cloudflare Tunnel

    Aug 14, 202624m

    Hey friends! Today's episode has a new-to-me toy up front and some podcast housekeeping on the back half – all recorded with a raging case of the anxious parent giggidies, because my son Atticus had a big audition and I

  6. 7MS #734: Insight Recon

    Aug 7, 202632m

    Hey friends! Today's episode is a two-parter: some security stuff up front, and then a big ol' personal celebration on the back half. If you're strictly here for the security bits, I love you and you're free to bail afte

  7. 7MS #733: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 87

    Jul 31, 202623m

    Hey friends! Today's episode comes to you from a parking lot in the rain, with a mint hot cocoa in hand and your host absolutely dragging his butt (D-R-A-G-G-I-N-G, not D-R-A-G-O-N – I've never seen a dragon's butt and c

  8. 7MS #732: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 86

    Jul 24, 202640m

    Hey friends! Welcome back to another Tales of Pentest Pwnage — my favorite mini-series where I share the good, the bad, and the "why didn't I check THAT first?!" moments from real-world engagements. Today's story has a l

  9. 7MS #731: CARTP – Cloud Red Team Tactics for Attacking and Defending Azure – THE FINAL CHAPTER!

    Jul 17, 202653m

    Hey friends! Fair warning: today's episode is a bit of an emotional rollercoaster — we've got a big security win, some honest lab feedback, and a very personal share about my dad's funeral. Buckle up. CARTP certified, ba

  10. 7MS #730: Baby's First Project Swarm

    Jul 10, 202625m

    Hey friends! Still your grieving pal over here, but also your swarming friend and Protecting My Network Edge host — because this week I've been tinkering with something called Project Swarm and I've got my diapers on reg

  11. 7MS #729: Pwning Dracarys

    Jul 4, 202618m

    Hey friends! Still your grieving pal over here, but also your happy hacking host — because today we're diving into baby's first Dracarys ! (Yes, I'm probably pronouncing that wrong. Yes, I'm going to keep saying it anywa

  12. 7MS #728: Securing Your Family During and After a Disaster – Part 8

    Jun 30, 202638m

    Hey friends! This is a tough one to write. My dad passed away on Friday, and instead of the hacker-y tech episode I had planned, I pivoted to something more personal — another installment of our "Securing Your Family Dur

  13. 7MS #727: Securing Your Mental Health – Part 7

    Jun 19, 202621m

    Hello friends! It's been over a year since we did a dedicated mental health episode, so today I'm doing a big catch-up and running through my 7-point plan for being a more mentally secure me. None of this is professional

  14. 7MS #726: Baby's First Hermes

    Jun 12, 202622m

    Hello friends! I've been on a bit of an AI agent journey lately, and today I'm sharing my experience ditching OpenClaw and going all-in on Hermes — a self-hosted AI agent built by Nous Research . A Network Chuck video so

  15. 7MS #725: Building a Bulletproof Backup Solution

    Jun 5, 202621m

    Hey friends! Backups are not as cool as pentesting, but boy do they matter when things go sideways. This week I'm sharing how a Proxmox backup disk space meltdown led me to a completely overhauled — and honestly pretty b

  16. 7MS #724: Tales of Pentest Pwnage - Part 85

    May 29, 202630m

    Hey friends! Today we're going deep on external network pentesting — something I realize we've barely touched in however many episodes we've done. I'm currently in a long stretch of back-to-back external assessments, so

  17. 7MS #723: CARTP - Cloud Red Team Tactics for Attacking and Defending Azure - Part 1

    May 23, 202632m

    Hello friends! Today's a hybrid episode — some security content up top about a new certification I've kicked off, followed by an aggressively quick trip to Tangent Town. Feel free to bail after the security stuff if tang

  18. 7MS #722: I Turned My Phone Into a Brick

    May 15, 202623m

    Hey friends! Quasi-vacation week over here, so today's episode is lighter and more personal: just a story about how I turned my phone into a " brick " (kind of) and what that's done for my mental health over the past wee

  19. 7MS #721: Fun Professional and Personal AI Project Ideas – Part 2

    May 8, 202625m

    Hello friends! Picking up the AI-automation series from a couple weeks back — here's another batch of scripts and integrations that have been giving me precious minutes (and sanity) back. Yes, I had to upgrade to Claude

  20. 7MS #720: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 84

    May 1, 202643m

    Hey friends! Today's another Tales of Pentest Pwnage! Quick tangent first on a couple side projects: I've got a music thing at quack.house (like the duck noise, not the drug) and a podcast with my dancer son Atticus at D

  21. 7MS #719: Baby's First OpenClaw

    Apr 24, 202628m

    Hey friends! This week's episode is "Baby's First OpenClaw " – basically me shouting into the void hoping a smart listener will DM me and explain why this thing is supposed to be life-changing. Because right now? I'm a l

  22. 7MS #718: Fun Professional and Personal AI Project Ideas

    Apr 17, 202628m

    Hey friends! After last week's heavy episode about my wife's health scare in Punta Cana, today's is a lighter one. (Quick update: she's doing better – still recovering, but appetite's back and she's got some pep again. T

  23. 7MS #717: I Gave Up My Wife's PHI (And I'd Do It Again)

    Apr 10, 202648m

    Hello friends! Today's episode is a bit of a detour from our usual content — it's part vacation horror story, part security/privacy confession. My wife got seriously ill during our spring break trip to Punta Cana, and in

  24. 7MS #716: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 83

    Apr 3, 202633m

    Today is my favorite pentest pwnage tale of 2026 – and maybe ever! It centers around an ADCS abuse via an attack path I'd never seen before. Tips include: Use Netexec to pull Powershell history Trying to steal reg hives

  25. 7MS #715: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 82

    Mar 27, 202620m

    Hola friends! Today's another fun tale of pentest pwnage. This time we started with no credentials and then set off on the bumpy journey from no-cred zero to domain admin hero! One specific reference in today's podcast t