 Tom here from Lawrence systems and collaboration the key to cyber protection. I really like that So I'll learn more about me or my company over to Lawrence systems calm But right now we're gonna talk about takeaways and things that can be done to improve so yeah cool I tweet out articles and so does everybody else and talk about you know this breach that breach But let's talk about action items now Obviously that some of the debriefs on them are very simple things were not done Which is frequently when you do incident response and you dig into it You're like they just didn't have the right password or a good password or two-factor authentication on But let's talk about sometimes there's flaws and products and things like that and there's a lot more at play But collaboration that's where it all comes down to and if you spend any time at any type of hacking event You'll find a very open and collaborative group of people now the term hacker kind of gets toner thrown around a lot and It can be good or bad It kind of depends on whether it's a white hat or a black hat hacker and it really comes down to intention What is the intention? We actually use the same tools when we're doing a pen test to figure out if a product has a flaw in it Those same tools will apply to or a black hat to go through and decide if there is a flaw in it The difference is the result the results in someone with bad intentions is to keep that flaw or shared amongst their Peers who are also working to exploit that flaw and there's even now ransomware as a service They've followed up a whole business model with affiliate links and everything for doing ransomware And we need that same collaboration to flow through on the other side now It flows through in the hacking community very well, but sometimes in the business community I've seen people throw up some roadblocks in there. It's getting better, but it's just I want to remind people This is an important aspect of it So as we dive into and go through articles like this like adversary expose how one MSP was for sale in a dark web and the team over at Hunter Slabs along with some people Ryan from Ryan Weeks from Datto they dove in figured out who was for sale stopped the sale of that MSP's information now semi-related to this, but it's also very Relevant is we have seen lots of attacks on connectwise I just did a video yesterday about how to secure it how to put 2FA on and that is really important because unfortunately And do some of these instant response we find that was missing But then of course you dig further at the product for further scrutiny and Hunter Slabs is credited over here connect wise on February 5th connect wise controls cloud password recent MFA risk has been mitigated We have verified our mitigation and have asked at Hunter Slabs to verify as well And me and Kyle actually talked about this yesterday, and he was alerted and this goes back over to here by Paul Has Dario, I'm sorry for getting your name wrong from very important power and John Hardwick from NXIO And this is that collaborative They know Kyle had a relationship with connectwise and talking about security because of the recent Follow-up from Bishop Fox, which was also validated by Hunter Slabs But this is that behind the scenes putting it together and putting together a whole process by which We can work with these vendors not to exploit them not to make fun of them But to make the product better, and that's what's starting to happen I'm really happy to see that connectwise did this But these are some of those things that are really important and to give you a little background I hear is me over at and this is you know some of my relationship I have with Hunter Slabs we use the product But where is also over there at tradecraft Tuesday thinking like an attacker I try to put through this YouTube channel and Huntress is doing much the same through their blog and some of the videos They produce we're really trying to raise the awareness of security So you're not just aware that someone got hacked but aware at how it happened and of course that can then lead you to go Oh, I might be someone doing those things So that's a lot of the purpose of this is just to think about the collaboration to think about You know how you can share this and read up on this and understand How to contact your vendor if you think there's a thing and by the way it is much as we work with this and is You know Kyle's been doing this a long time He has an entire you this is him a talk. He had a derby con three years ago Kyle and Chris founders of Huntress labs putting together this they've been in the hacking community for a long time Even with the amount of knowledge they have there's a reason we all reach out to each other to absolutely validate these things and make sure Right, this is that collaborative effort that maybe you don't always see on the surface But is really important in the big picture so we can You know all work together on this. That's all this really is I know it Maybe sounds like just a feel-good video a link to these articles on there But I just want more people to think about the whole working together aspect of it because that is something that I sometimes See walls put up around people not want to share things or just telling me a click on here and sign up for my webinar Are not really talking about the collaborative effort that really goes into cybersecurity because just me if you're not auditing these Tool if you're not collaborating and sharing, you know information in relate in regards to security Don't worry the threat actors are they're talking about the landscape in these forums It's very much highlighted in here with the way they're doing it They're collaborating together to get better at cracking into the tech systems that we use We have to be collaborating on the other side to help secure and look at each other and look out for each other in this community in space Thank you very much and appreciate it And thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video Please give it a thumbs up if you'd like to see more content from the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the Bell icon if you like YouTube to notify you when new videos come out If you'd like to hire us head over to laurance systems calm fill out our contact page And let us know what we can help you with and what projects you'd like us to work together on If you want to carry on the discussion head over to forums.laurancesystems.com where we can carry on the discussion about this video Other videos or other tech topics in general even suggestions for new videos They're accepted right there on our forums, which are free Also, if you like to help the channel in other ways head over to our affiliate page We have a lot of great tech offers for you and once again, thanks for watching and see you next time