
7 Minute Security
by Brian Johnson
Brian Johnson
May 1, 2026Recent 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 ·
Episodes (720)

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

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

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

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

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

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

7MS #714: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 81
Mar 20, 202622m
Hello friends! We're back with a fun tale of internal network pentest pwnage. This one highlights how AI can be used (with some guardrails!) to automate the boring stuff – and even help you pick part DLLs to find gold nu

7MS #713: How to Secure Your Community – Part 3
Mar 13, 202631m
Hello friends, in today's edition of How to Secure Your Community, I give a brief recap of part 1 and part 2 , and then dive into some cool phone shortcuts you can setup so that with a single tap, you can alert friends/f

7MS #712: How to Secure Your Community - Part 2
Mar 6, 202637m
Hello friends. Today's episode piggybacks off of last week 's discussion of Operation Metro Surge and how it has affected the state of Minnesota. I also highly encourage you to read this Rolling Stone article which featu

7MS #711: How to Secure Your Community
Feb 27, 202651m
Hello friends, it's good to be back with you. I took a podcast hiatus in January to focus on helping communities affected by Operation Metro Surge . Today I share how my family and community has been affected by it. And

7MS #710: I'm Taking a Break
Jan 17, 20264m
Hi friends, I'm going to be taking a break from producing podcast episodes, as well as content over at 7MinSec.club . It's a temporary break, so please don't unsubscribe, unfollow, etc. I need some extra time/energy to i

7MS #709: Second Impressions of Twingate
Jan 10, 202620m
Hey friends, in episode #649 I gave you my first impressions of Twingate . It's been a minute, so I thought I'd revisit Twingate (specifically this awesome Twingate LXC ) and talk about how we're using it to (almost) ent

7MS #708: Tales of Pentest Fail – Part 6
Jan 2, 202625m
After sharing a recent story about how a phishing campaign went south , I heard feedback from a lot of you. You either commiserated with my story, told me I wussed out, and/or had a difficult story of your own to share.

7MS #707: Our New Pentest Course Has Launched!
Dec 26, 202514m
Today we're thrilled to announce the launch of LPLITE:GOAD (Light Pentest Live Interactive Training Experience: Game of Active Directory). The first class is coming up Tuesday, January 27 – Thursday, January 29 (9:00 a.m

7MS #706: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 80
Dec 19, 202529m
I'm so excited to share today's tale of pentest pwnage, because it brings back to life a coercion technique I thought wouldn't work against Windows 11! Spoiler alert: check out rpc2efs , as well as the 7MinSec Club episo

7MS #705: A Phishing Campaign Fail Tale
Dec 12, 202521m
This might be obvious, but security is not all domain admin dancing and maximum pwnage. Sometimes, despite my best efforts, a security project does a faceplant. Today's episode focuses on a phishing campaign that had ple

7MS #704: DIY Pentest Dropbox Tips – Part 12
Dec 5, 202524m
Hola friends! My week has very much been about trying to turnaround pentest dropboxes as quickly as possible. In that adventure, I came across two time-saving discoveries: Using a Proxmox LXC as a persistent remote acces

7MS #703: Tales of Pentest Pwnage – Part 79
Nov 28, 202522m
Happy Thanksgiving week friends! Today we're celebrating a turkey and pie overload by sharing another fun tale of pentest pwnage! It involves using pygpoabuse to hijack a GPO and turn it into our pentesting puppet! Muaha

7MS #702: Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest?
Nov 21, 202521m
Hello friends, in today's episode I give an audio summary of a talk I gave this week at the MN GOVIT Symposium called "Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest?" It's not a pro- AI celebration, nor is it an anti- AI b

7MS #701: What I'm Working on This Week – Part 5
Nov 14, 202518m
Hello friends! This week I'm talking about what I'm working on this week, including: Preparing a talk called Should You Hire AI to Run Your Next Pentest for the Minnesota GOVIT Symposium . Playing with Lithnet AD passwor

7MS #700: Pretender
Nov 7, 20258m
Today is episode 700 of the 7MinSec podcast! Oh my gosh. My mom didn't think we could do it, but we did. Instead of a big blowout with huge news, giveaways and special guests, today is a pretty standard issue episode wit

7MS #699: Pre-Travel Security Tips
Oct 31, 202530m
Today we discuss some pre-travel tips you can use before hopping on a plane to start a work/personal adventure. Tips include: Updating the family DR/BCP plan Lightening your purse/wallet Validating/testing backups and re

7MS #698: Baby's First ProjectDiscovery
Oct 24, 202524m
Today I give a quick review of the cloud version of ProjectDiscovery (not a sponsor!).

7MS #697: Pwning Ninja Hacker Academy – Part 4
Oct 18, 202513m
Today your pal and mine Joe "The Machine" Skeen pwn one of the two Ninja Hacker Academy domains! This pwnage included: Swiping service tickets in the name of high-priv users Dumping secrets from wmorkstations Disabling A

7MS #696: Baby's First Security Ticketing System
Oct 10, 202527m
In today's episode: I got a new podcast doodad I really like JitBit as a security ticketing system (not a sponsor) The Threat Hunting with Velociraptor 2-day training was great. Highly recommend. I got inspired to take t