The Exploit

Notes from the Front Lines of Penetration Testing

Category: Tips For Everyone

Discover expert cybersecurity tips from the Raxis penetration testing team. Learn how to boost your online safety and protect your data.
  • Raxis Team DefCon 2025
    Raxis at DefCon 2025

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    Brian Tant
    DefCon 33 has come and gone, and the Raxis team was there keeping up with cutting edge exploits for penetration tests, phishing, and PSE.
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  • How AI Makes Phishing Easy & What to Watch For
    How AI Makes Phishing Easy & What to Watch For

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    Andrew Trexler
    Principal Penetration Tester Andrew Trexler got curious how easy it might be to customize a phish to a specific website using AI. The answer? Very easy.
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  • Cybersecurity: It’s how to say “Yes.”

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    Mark Puckett
    Contrary to common misconceptions, cybersecurity acts as a powerful enabler in the digital age, fostering innovation, driving business growth, and empowering organizations to harness technology’s full potential. By building trust, accelerating innovation, enabling emerging technologies, enhancing efficiency, ensuring compliance, supporting remote work, and protecting intellectual property, robust cybersecurity measures create a secure foundation for organizations to thrive and innovate in an increasingly interconnected world.
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  • Raxis Team at DefCon 32
    Tips to Stay Secure at DefCon 2024

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    Brian Tant
    The Raxis pentesting team is at DefCon in Vegas this weekend. It’s an awesome conference that has lessons and contests for everything from lock picking and car hacking to new network and application exploits that our team may try on your next penetration test. For those of you who may not have attended before (or […]
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  • Password Length: More than Just a Question of Compliance
    Password Length: More than Just a Question of Compliance

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    Brian Tant
    Password length requirements are a key part of password security, but, with PCI, NIST, OWASP, and CIS offering different recommendations, what length is best?
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  • Metaverse
    Entering the Metaverse: You are the Real Commodity

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    Mark Puckett
    Raxis’ CEO Mark Puckett explains why we might not wake up in the metaverse tomorrow, but why we should be prepared as we move toward an even more digitized reality.
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  • Corporate Cybersecurity
    What Companies Should be Telling Investors about Cybersecurity

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    Mark Puckett
    Investors shoulder much of a company’s cybersecurity risks. They deserve as much information about the safeguards as is prudent to reveal.
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  • Security Cameras
    Three Questions to Ask Before Connecting a Device to the Internet

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    Scottie Cole
    Should you connect your latest device to the Internet? Lead Penetration Tester Scottie Cole recommends asking yourself some questions before you do.
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  • Raxis CTO, Brian Tant
    What is Least Privilege Access?

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    Bonnie Smyre
    Raxis CTO Brian Tant explains least privilege access and why it is essential to corporate cybersecurity.
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  • Laptop with VPN on
    Notes From a Hacker: Yes, You Have to Use Your VPN – and Here’s Why

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    Brian Tant
    Raxis CTO Brian Tant discusses how VPNs protect our most critical data and why your company should require a VPN for remote access.
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  • Shawn Ireland interviews Raxis COO Bonnie Smyre on Ohio’s Fox 28's morning show
    Raxis COO Shares WFH Cybersecurity Tips on Columbus, Ohio’s Fox 28

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    Mark Puckett
    Raxis’ Bonnie Smyre spoke to Shawn Ireland of Columbus Ohio’s Good Day Marketplace about staying secure during the pandemic.
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  • Padlocks but one is broken
    Celebrate National Cybersecurity Awareness Month Through Security

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    Bonnie Smyre
    Join Raxis in celebrating National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) with a look at taking action to make your organization more secure.
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