Elizabeth Wharton interviews Guest Mitch Parker, Exec. Dir./CISO at Indiana University Health. Healthcare security is present on all of our minds these days. The security and medical communities are working together towards the same goal: protecting the people. You may be wondering, what does that look like in today’s world?

As SCYTHE looks boldly ahead into the new year, the Unicorns welcome the expertise of Megan Samford to the Advisory Council. Her accomplished security background, Master’s degree in Public Administration, and strong presence on numerous security boards are some of her many accomplishments in our community.

Meeting today's security challenges requires the Red Team and the Blue Team working together simultaneously - creating a Purple Team. Our CTO, Jorge Orchilles, has been leading the charge developing the standard for Purple Team program materials and trainings. Read more to engage, implement, and experience purple.

SCYTHE 3.1 is here and will be debuted at DEF CON Red Team Village on 8 AUG! With MITRE ATT&CK sub-techniques going live shortly after our major release of v3.0, we wanted to ensure that you are aligning to the latest and greatest framework in the cybersecurity industry across all of your SCYTHE Campaigns and Reports!

It's that time of the year again, Hacker Summer Camp! The SCYTHE team has a busy week scheduled as we love to give back to the community. We are giving talks, panels, workshops, releasing tools, and even have two Choose Your Own Adventure games for Red and Blue Teams. Here’s a quick guide to where you can find us virtually over the next few days during Black Hat USA and Def Con Safe Mode.

We are not introducing a new job role where you have to hire more people or have to spend more money. See, a purple team is a virtual, functional team that fosters collaboration and efficiency in testing, measuring, and improving your current cyber security people, process, and technology (security controls).

Jorge Orchilles sits down with Sean Gallagher, a Senior Threat researcher at Sophos Labs. Sean walks us through understanding how this ransomware operates, creating an adversary emulation plan, and the best defense against a similar attack.

This week we will take a look at Egregor ransomware that has breached, exfiltrated data, and brought down multiple networks since September 2020. Stealing data before deploying ransomware has been a common modus operandi of the Egregor group.