Chris Kastan has nine years of IT/Information Security experience including almost four years managing Fairview Health Service’s Incident Response and Security Operations team, overhauling their security policies and green fielding most of their security technologies/processes with a team of ten engineers. He spent another five years at Kroll Ontrack supporting security technologies, security audits, server administration, and E-Discovery. Prior to that, he spent five years proudly serving in the U.S. Marine Corps as an Infantry Rifleman; guarding national strategic assets at Bangor Naval Submarine Base and working with 1st Intelligence Battalion in a sensor intelligence platoon. He has a Master of Science in Security Technologies from UMN, BS in Computer Forensics, AS in Network Administration, and several certifications including CISSP, GIAC GSLC, and Six Sigma Green Belt.
Introduction Living off the land (LOTL) is a term that gets thrown around a lot at security conferences and webinars, but what does it mean? Living off the land attacks refer to an attacker leveraging what is already available in the environment rather than bringing along a whole bunch of custom software and malware. The…
