Purple Squad Security

Jan 5, 202123m

Episode Notes Here's the first episode of my new podcast, EliteCast! This is intended to be a less technical podcast aimed at business leaders and decision-makers to help explain the importance of information security (o

Mar 8, 202042m

Heath "The Cyber Mentor" Adams stops by to have a nice casual chat about how he got into infosec, what he's currently working on, and how he's giving back to the community in a rather novel way. Definitely someone I resp

Feb 23, 202042m

Kat Sweet (@TheSweetKat) sits down to chat about incident response and security operations, all while sipping tea with me. Some links of interest: Kat's Twitter - @TheSweetKat Kat's Blog - thesweetkat.com Want to reach o

Feb 9, 202031m

John sits down to talk solo about the show and what's in store for 2020. Some links of interest: EliteSec Website - https://elitesec.io EliteSec Twitter - @EliteSec_io Want to reach out to the show? There's a few ways to

Jan 20, 202040m

Circuit Swan stops by the show to talk all things Diana Initiative. If you're going to Hacker Summer Camp 2020, you may want to consider adding the Diana Initiative to your list of cons to attend. Some links of interest:

Dec 15, 201948m

Snow stops by during the winter months to share with us the true origin of her hacker handle, stories from some physical penetration testing, a quick note on her Kringlecon talk, and so much more! A great way to round ou

Dec 1, 201942m

Adrian Cheek stops by the show this week to have a nice fireside chat with me. We talk about passive DNS, which Adrian first introduced to me a few years ago, and then move on to threat hunting. Adrian has a very interes

Nov 17, 201952m

I'm trying a slightly different format for the next few episodes, and I'd appreciate any feedback you may have. In this episode I sit down with The Gibson, mayor of hackers.town, to talk about a variety of things from th

Nov 3, 201950m

I'm trying a slightly different format for the next few episodes, and I'd appreciate any feedback you may have. In this episode I sit down with the amazing Tanya Janca for a fireside chat about her new company, Security

Oct 20, 201942m

Oh what I treat I have for you today! John Strand, former SANS instructor, long time co-host on Enterprise Security Weekly, Founder of Black Hills Information Security, and a whole lot more has taken time out of his busy

Oct 6, 20191h 1m

It's been long enough, and it's time for Tracy "InfoSecSherpa" to return for another #ginfosec episode! This time around we're going to talk about Empathy as a Service, a talk that she recently did at DerbyCon. Soft skil

Sep 22, 201937m

Ah, I love anniversaries. This is an anniversary episode celebrating 2 years of Purple Squad Security! Just a few personal rants and discussions for those interested in a bit of a behind the scenes view of things here at

Sep 1, 20191h 8m

The hiatus is over! Welcome back everyone to the latest episode of the Purple Squad Security podcast! In this episode we have Ken Johnson and Seth Law from the Absolute AppSec Podcast joining me for the latest session of

Jun 23, 201943m

Often times in information security, we look upon penetration testing and red teaming with awe and view those professions as the "sexy" side of security. Truth be told, the defensive side has a lot of exciting opportunit

Jun 9, 20191h 20m

There were more than a few of you who were anxiously awaiting his return, and he's back! Tinker joins me once again to share some stories from his adventures in hackerland. In addition, I have given Tinker free reign to

May 26, 201932m

A few weeks ago, Sam King on Twitter mentioned me in a tweet that included a link to a Medium post, but not just any Medium post. Tim MalcomVetter had posted up an "Choose Your Own Red Team Adventure", which I thought wa

May 12, 201949m

CORRECTION: Early in this episode I mentioned that Amazon would ask for your email password when signing up for a new account. I meant to say Facebook, not Amazon. The practice has since been discontinued, but I wanted t

Apr 28, 201929m

Tribe of Hackers is a recently released book by Marcus Carey and Jennifer Jin that is a collection of stories from member of our community, or tribe as Marcus describes it. This was a great and insightful interview, and

Apr 14, 20191h 37m

Once again I am pleased to share a #ginfosec episode with the woman who helps guide others through the mountains of infosec, Tracy InfoSecSherpa Maleeff! In this extended episode Tracy and I speak about conferences from

Mar 31, 201937m

This week John goes solo and decides to talk about a recent threat he spun up about on Twitter, naming himself as a generalist within Information Security and discussing what that means to him. Some links of interest: Jo

Mar 10, 201939m

Chris Foulon stops by for a fireside chat to talk about breaking into Infosec. For those unfamiliar with the fireside chat series, this is where we come in with a topic but no other real agenda. It's a casual conversatio

Feb 17, 20191h 29m

It's that time again! Yes, another Tabletop D&D episode is upon us! This time I asked Timothy de Block from the Exploring Information Security podcast to join me, along with a few interesting characters. Let's just say t

Feb 3, 201934m

What is a red team? How does it differ from a penetration tester's day-to-day? How do red teams stay sharp? How do they stay motivated? These are a few of the questions I seek to have answered by Curtis Brazzell, a manag

Jan 20, 201951m

Magecart - a web-based credit card skimming kit used by various groups to grab ahold of online shoppers credit cards. Interesting? You bet! On this episode of the Purple Squad Security podcast I have Yonathan Klijnsma, H

Jan 6, 201932m

Welcome to 2019! John goes solo in this episode and talks about his personal goals for 2019, plus some updates for the show that should make things a bit more structured and hopefully more interesting for the listeners.