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Scott Sutherland

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VP, Research

Scott is Vice President of Research at NetSPI. In that role, he helps grow the execution team and services while performing research and development of testing tools, techniques, and methodologies used during engagements. Over the years, Scott has had the opportunity to provide security services to small and large organizations (Fortune 5) across many industry verticals, but his focus has always been on identifying critical client needs and designing service delivery models to help meet them. Scott has also been an active participant in the information security community and has contributed multiple open-source tools, technical security blog posts, whitepapers, and presentations.

Below are links to some of his published material:

Presentations
https://www.slideshare.net/nullbind

Recent Open-Source Projects
https://github.com/NetSPI/PowerUpSQL
https://github.com/NetSPI/Powerhuntshares
https://github.com/NetSPI/Powerhunt

More by Scott Sutherland

Network Pentesting

Hunting SMB Shares, Again! Charts, Graphs, Passwords & LLM Magic for PowerHuntShares 2.0

Learn how to identify, understand, attack, and remediate SMB shares configured with excessive privilege in active directory environments with the help of new charts, graphs, and LLM capabilities.

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Network Pentesting

Hijacking SQL Server Credentials using Agent Jobs for Domain Privilege Escalation 

Learn how threat actors can exploit SQL Server credential objects to escalate domain privileges and how you can detect it.

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Videos & Livestreams

The Adversary is Using Artificial Intelligence. Why Aren’t You?

In this livestream, we explore the challenges of ransomware readiness and how AI can be your knight in shining armor. NetSPI's VP of Research Scott Sutherland, takes us through a unique three-phased approach to combat ransomware.

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Videos & Livestreams

BAS In Action: NetSPI’s Breach and Attack Simulation Demo

See NetSPI’s Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) in action with this video demonstrating how security leaders use our BAS software.

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Videos & Livestreams

Breach and Attack Simulation & Security Team Success

Join SANS Institute John Pescatore and NetSPI’s VP of Research Scott Sutherland for an engaging conversation on “Breach and Attack Simulation & Security Team Success” and explore critical findings that led to the development of NetSPI’s latest BAS updates.

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NetSPI Updates

NetSPI Offensive Security Solutions Updates: Q1 2023

Learn how NetSPI’s updates to Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS), Attack Surface Management, and Breach and Attack Simulation can better secure your environment.

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SecurityWeek: Cyber Insights 2023: Cyberinsurance

NetSPI Scott Sutherland, VP of Research, and Norman Kromberg, CISO, were featured in the SecurityWeek article called Cyber Insights 2023: Cyberinsurance.

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Help Net Security: 4 Key Shifts in the Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Market

On January 11, NetSPI VP of Research Scott Sutherland was featured in the Help Net Security article called 4 Key Shifts in the Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) Market.

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Enterprise Security Tech: 2023 Cybersecurity Predictions: Major Financial Institutions Will Turn To Blockchain

NetSPI's Scott Sutherland and Nick Landers were featured in the Enterprise Security Tech article called 2023 Cybersecurity Predictions: Major Financial Institutions Will Turn To Blockchain.

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Network Pentesting

15 Ways to Bypass the PowerShell Execution Policy

By default, PowerShell is configured to prevent the execution of PowerShell scripts on Windows systems. In this blog I’ll cover 15 ways to bypass the PowerShell execution policy without having local administrator rights on the system.

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VMBlog: 18 Security Leaders Come Together to Share Their 2023 Predictions

On November 29, VPs of Research, Scott Sutherland and Nick Landers, were featured in the VMblog article called 18 Security Leaders Come Together to Share Their 2023 Predictions.

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Security Guy TV: Threat Hunting with Scott Sutherland of NetSPI

On August 26, NetSPI's Scott Sutherland was featured in episode 2732 of the Security Guy TV.

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