What is your GCP infra worth?…about ~$700 [Bugbounty]
BugBounty story #bugbountytips A fixed but they didn't pay the bugbounty story... Timeline: reported 21 Oct 2019 validated at Critical 23 Oct 2019 validated as fixed 30 Oct 2019 Bounty amount stated (IDR 10.000.000 = ~700 USD) 12 Nov 2019 Information provided for payment 16 Nov 2019 13 March 2020 - ... Read More
From my Gartner Blog – Updated Paper on Penetration Testing and Red Teams
I finally managed to publish the update to my paper on pentesting, “Using Penetration Testing and Red Teams to Assess and Improve Security”. It has some small tweaks from the previous version, including some additional guidance around Breach and Attack Simulation tools role.Questions about how to define the scope of ... Read More
Devoops: Nomad with raw_exec enabled
"Nomad is a flexible container orchestration tool that enables an organization to easily deploy and manage any containerized or legacy application using a single, unified workflow. Nomad can run a diverse workload of Docker, non-containerized, microservice, and batch applications, and generally offers the following benefits to developers and operators..." from:Â https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/index.html ... Read More
Devoops: Nomad with raw_exec enabled
"Nomad is a flexible container orchestration tool that enables an organization to easily deploy and manage any containerized or legacy application using a single, unified workflow. Nomad can run a diverse workload of Docker, non-containerized, microservice, and batch applications, and generally offers the following benefits to developers and operators..."from: https://www.nomadproject.io/intro/index.htmlTo ... Read More
From my Gartner Blog – The New Vulnerability Management Guidance Framework
After a huge delay I can finally announce that the new version of our Vulnerability Management Guidance Framework is out! Although it is a refresh of a document that has gone through many updates (even before my Gartner time), this one has some very nice new stuff to mention. First, ... Read More
From my Gartner Blog – Presenting at the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit DC 2019
This is literally a last minute blog post about my sessions at this year’s Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit. This time I have three sessions:Tuesday 18, 2:30PM – Debate: Changing Societal Perception of Cybersecurity: This is a very fun debate with my colleague Paul Proctor, where we discuss the ... Read More
Book review: “Own Your Future : How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy” by Paul B. Brown et al. The ALBR process
I came accross this book by Paul B. Brown, Charles F. Kiefer and Leonard A. Schlesinger almost by chance. The title was enticing so I decided to give it a go. You can read it really fast and the structure is very approachable. Having an Information Security mindset, you can ... Read More
Book review: “Diary of a hedge fund manager” by Keith McCullough
Keith McCullough and Richard Blake wrote this book in 2011: "Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager: From the Top, to the Bottom, and Back Again". Keith McCullough was also the author of the mcmmacro blog (already discontinued in 2008). This book has nothing to do with Information Security. At least ... Read More
Book highlights: The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington
This time I share with my readers the main reading points of the book titled "The Sleep Revolution" by the famous entrepreneur Arianna Huffington, currently leading thriveglobal, probably the site to visit to keep yourself in balance. Disclaimer: as always, a very personal and biased collection of thoughts extracted from ... Read More
Book highlights: The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser
This time I write about a book by Eli Pariser first appeared in 2011. It title points to its main content: The filter bubble. How the new personalized web is changing what we read and how we think.As it were real future-telling, the author, already in 2011, prepares the reader ... Read More

