7 Minute Security

Oct 30, 202634m

Hey friends, today I'm sharing something that might be obvious, but really helped save my bacon this week: Claude is very good at PowerPoint. I was working on a presentation with my friends at Netwrix ( go catch the repl

Oct 23, 202623m

This episode is a downer, but asks some important topics related to losing a loved one: Do you know what their wishes are for their funeral, their money, cremation vs. burial vs. other? Do you know all the places they do

Oct 17, 202626m

Hey friends! Today I'm mashing two of our mini-series — eating the security dog food and my new obsession with n8n — into one big automation sandwich. I'll walk you through how Claude and a bunch of JSON files helped me

Oct 9, 202625m

Hey friends, it has been a long time since we talked about eating our own security dog food . However, I couldn't be more excited about some big ways we've moved the 7MinSec security program forward, including the releas

Oct 2, 202626m

Hey friends! I've got some personal and work travel this week, so I'm skipping the tangents (mostly) and jumping straight into something I'm nerdily excited about: Baby's First n8n . If you're not familiar, n8n is a plat

Sep 25, 202636m

Hey friends! Today's tale of pentest pwnage is brought to you by four hours of sleep, a large mint hot cocoa, and unhealthy levels of giggity. There's a very good reason for all three, but you'll have to hang out to the

Sep 18, 202633m

Hey friends! We've been on a bit of a Tales of Pentest Pwnage bender lately, so let's keep it rolling with Part 90. (And Mom, relax — this is not one pentest story chopped into 90 parts.) Today is less of an A-to-Z story

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

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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