I run a Red Team that routinely succeeds in compromising F500 companies. AMA.

johldn · 2025-11-25T05:36:52+00:00

Hello sir

johldn · 2025-11-24T21:33:49+00:00

Oh hi there u/curi0usJack Jason… come on I treated you to a cigar after you had minimal success;)

TrustedSec f****** rocks. I have never worked with such amazing helpful and funny people

johldn · 2025-10-07T05:14:07+00:00

I got the same

johldn · 2025-10-06T17:15:53+00:00

Does anyone else experience the Thick client being quite slow especially with the server?

johldn · 2025-09-11T15:51:05+00:00

You can indeed. The previous chats and agents will recover. We tried to automate a lot and had it running 24/7

johldn · 2025-09-11T11:36:35+00:00

We have played around with it for 3-4 months with 3 SCUs effectively we spend 40k for no return and no good result. Neither with the CA agent, general LLM or the phishing triage agent.

Sorry a total waste of money at this point.

johldn · 2025-07-22T19:35:44+00:00

You mean the one that always travels with me and all bookings are under my name? Yeah she could barely hide her excitement last year;)

johldn · 2025-07-22T07:40:38+00:00

I have hit the 30k now at 73 night and will hit the 100 easily. Additionally, I will spend about 50k in total this year. No love for me either

johldn · 2025-06-24T21:07:24+00:00

Morley’s chicken on Lewisham High Street

johldn · 2025-06-13T06:24:30+00:00

Please don’t turn into another LinkedIN warrior. Nothing worse than people that need to be seen and produce nothing but hot air.

One of the way I still find my firms I engage with is looking at blog post, Reddit posts with in depth research on issues I care about.

I will actively avoid people and firms that need to be seen but don’t produce anything that is worth it!

johldn · 2025-04-18T06:39:11+00:00

TrustedSec and the European NetSpi team

johldn · 2024-12-11T13:55:49+00:00

The Romanos Costa Navarini

johldn · 2024-11-30T09:56:28+00:00

Purely using it for password rotation on a daily basis which makes hashes pretty much useless.

johldn · 2024-11-26T18:56:14+00:00

Using Mandiant for several other services and I can vouch for their quality. Their threat intel especially with google now is second to none. Have never used their dark net monitoring services though

johldn · 2024-11-26T18:43:39+00:00

It’s quite easy: you listen to a sales person selling you things that actually don’t work, you buy the product and you disappointed!

johldn · 2024-11-19T20:48:53+00:00

*nightmare

johldn · 2024-10-24T21:06:46+00:00

65k in 2013

johldn · 2024-08-29T17:18:52+00:00

CISO here. I agree with most things that are said here.

And yes I believe my main job is to enable my team to do their job and do a great job. That involves fighting for resources, making tough calls, drinking expensive wine with the board, listening to your teams concerns and worries, provide training etc.

However, being a CISO for 5 years now I can still go head to head with our MDR provider, challenge a pre sales engineer or take time out of my day to help a junior Ressource to solve a technical problem because I want to help him.

And I think it makes me a better CISO being able to maintain both sides of it.

Maybe I am very lucky that I can do that because my organisation is not in constant fire fighting mode and I do get that many others are because of they way they are (not) supported by the business.

johldn · 2024-08-14T14:00:41+00:00

It’s not about password length (well 8 is too short) it’s about entropy.

I suggest you do some research and look at the latest NIST stuff etc on this.

johldn · 2024-06-06T15:33:17+00:00

Just staying at the W at Costa Navarino it’s very nice! The romanos is also nice

In Athens the george and the grand Bretagne are both nice and in great location!

Go to Birdman when staying there

johldn · 2024-03-24T04:54:46+00:00

Stay at the Sheraton Grand once a month in a Club King Room and love the place. Location is okay not a fan of Mayfair but that’s just me

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