Interview With Chris Kirsch

This week, Micah (@WebBreacher), and Christina (@ChristinaLekati)
are joined by Chris Kirsch (chris_kirsch) for an interview! Chris
is the CEO of runZero, a cyber asset management company he
co-founded with Metasploit creator HD Moore. In 2017, he earned
the Black Badge for winning the Social Engineering Capture the
Flag competition at DEF CON, while last year, he participated as
a judge for the vishing competition at the Social Engineering
Community.


In this interview, we discuss the intersection between OSINT and
social engineering. Chris shares with us stories from the
application of OSINT in social engineering operations, and
describes some of the top OSINT techniques and resources that he
observed at the Social Engineering vishing competition. 


You can follow Chris on: 


Twitter: https://twitter.com/chris_kirsch


LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckirsch/


Mastodon: https://infosec.exchange/@chris_kirsch 





LINKS AND RESOURCES mentioned in this stream: 


Layer8 Presentation "Using OSINT For Competitive Intelligence":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB-wLadJ3hk


Blog "Top OSINT sources and vishing pretexts from DEF CON’s
social engineering competition":
https://medium.com/@chris.kirsch/top-osint-sources-and-vishing-pretexts-from-def-cons-social-engineering-competition-8e08de4c8ea8


Blog "Corporate OSINT for Social Engineering":
https://osintcurio.us/2022/05/17/corporate-osint-for-social-engineering/


Winning call from DEF CON SECTF 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhE372sqURU  


Pickpocketing talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvET4r4uARQ


Social engineering resources:
https://medium.com/@chris.kirsch/social-engineering-recommended-resources-10243113b80b
 


Chris' company: https://www.runzero.com/


External scanning using runZero:
https://www.runzero.com/blog/external-scanning/   


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