Kyle Hanslovan

Kyle Hanslovan is the CEO and co-founder of Huntress. Prior to Huntress, he co-founded and built a defense consulting firm, StrategicIO, worked as a senior cyber vulnerability analyst at publicly-traded defense firm ManTech, and won the World Series of hacking (DEF CON's Capture the Flag competition). He is still active in the ethical hacking community. Earlier, Kyle spent over a decade supporting Offensive Cyber Operations within the U.S. Intelligence Community and began his career as a non-commissioned officer in the US Air Force.

Kyle Hanslovan comes to Huntress Labs from the U.S. Intelligence Community, where he supported defensive and offensive cyber operations for the past decade. He previously co-founded the defense consulting firm StrategicIO and actively participates in the ethical hacking community as a Black Hat conference trainer, STEM mentor, and Def Con CTF champion. Additionally, he serves in the Maryland Air National Guard as a Cyber Warfare Operator.Chris Bisnett is a veteran information security researcher with more than a decade of experience in offensive and defensive cyber operations. While serving with the NSA RedTeam, he attacked government networks and systems to identify and remedy vulnerabilities. Chris is also a recognized Black Hat conference trainer and has taught his “Fuzzing For Vulnerabilities” course at several events around the world. Before founding Huntress Labs, Chris co-founded LegalConfirm, LLC, where he led product design and development until the company was acquired in 2014.In this episode, we discuss incident response planning, their early starts in offensive theaters, red teaming, Ransomware-as-a-Service, small business and enterprise threats, breaking bad news to clients, holding leadership accountable, hacking back, tips and resources for start-ups, warnings for founders, and so much more.(Note: If you are interested in start-ups and being a founder, Daniel Ayala and I created a regularly updated blog for founders and start-ups: Hang Out A Shingle – Starting Your Cybersecurity Company.Where you can find Kyle and Chris:LinkedIn - KyleLinkedIn - ChrisTwitter - KyleTwitter - ChrisHuntress Blog

There has been a string of coordinated attacks on MSPs recently. Large players like WiPro, Fujitsu, and IBM. As well as a number of smaller regional MSPs. Kyle Hanslovan (@kylehanslovan) of Huntress Labs joins me on the podcast to give us his expert viewpoint on the risks these attacks pose and how IT service companies should be securing their environments to avoid being the next victim. LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST: Huntress Labs Attack Debrief Webinar

There is mounting evidence supporting lurking hackers and intruders are testing out new gimmicks to get access to the data within your business' computer network.  If you've ever been a victim of ransomware, or data erasing tragedy you can't help but have that lingering feeling or question yourself, "Am I Safe, Are They Gone" Kyle Hanslovan and Barb talk about how to avoid, find an detect intrusion within your computer network.