Episode 233: Red Team Mac-hinations at Defcon

The art of the security Red Team is a difficult one, and Cedric Owens joins us this week to talk about how it works, some of the tools of the trade, and how to go after macOS fleets.
Hosts:
- Tom Bridge, Principal Product Manager, JumpCloud – @tbridge777
- Charles Edge, CTO, Bootstrappers.mn – @cedge318
- Marcus Ransom, Apple Systems Architect, CompNow – @marcusransom
Guests:
- Cedric Owens
Links
- Gone Apple Pickin: Red Teaming MacOS Environments in 2021
- Bloodhound
- Machound
- Introducing Machound
- Persistent JXA
- Cody Thomas’ talk on Bifrost at OBTS
- Apple bug bounty
- Mythic
- Mischa van de Bent macOS Security Compliance – CIS Baseline
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