Christopher Crowley

InfoSec Ops Generalist: NSM, IR, Mobile, PenTest, Forensics. SOC-Class Author. ( SANS Senior Instructor. Retweets unverified. #infoseclatteart

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

The 2025 SOC Survey is now live. Please retweet and share.

If you work in a SOC or something that vaguely resembles a SOC, please take it.

Finally, please take the whole thing to demonstrate the value of longer surveys. You can pause and return.

https://t.co/MlNKFhJGGY

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

'The Value of Cybersecurity Operations' (https://t.co/6iP5joA56n) Tactical guidance and metrics needed to bridge the gap between management and cyber ops.

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

I've known Jay for over a decade, and respect his thoughts and training immensely.

[Jay Beale @jaybeale]

Time to level up your K8s security. I won't oversell the class - I'll just let 4 people I respect tell you what they got out of it.

Hack some #Kubernetes with me this August at @BlackHatEvents in Las Vegas!

Agentic AI-Aided Kubernetes Attack and Defense
https://t.co/G9PeJeRs68

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Reflection? $8B valuation? Last blog post: 7 months ago. 42 open positions.

Next blog post:
New pentagon contract.. probably hiring.

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

@MalwareJake Looking good, Jake! Enjoy

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

@HackingLZ Hell yeah. Defenses are genuinely working!

There is still a universe of exploitable systems, though. Lots left to do. Some of it is easy, most of it is hard.

[SANS Institute @SANSInstitute]

40% of SOCs use AI without defining where it belongs operationally.
42% run it out of the box with no customization.

That’s why so many teams feel stuck.

In this @TheHackersNews piece, SANS senior instructor Christopher Crowley (@CCrowMontance) explains where AI helps, where it doesn’t, and why discipline matters more than tooling: https://t.co/5BHL8PpHNY

[SANS Institute @SANSInstitute]

People are the best investment in security.
Tools break. Systems fail. Skilled teams carry you through.

Join @CCrowMontance at #SANSSurge, Feb 23–28 in La Jolla, CA. Build the stamina to lead when the ground shifts.

Register: https://t.co/Unx6bm9okk

#SANSLiveTraining

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Exploitation required ... custom Deflate compressor, tailored Huffman codes ... output restricted to valid modified UTF-8 bytes (0x01-0x7F) while remaining incompressible by zlib, enabling the payload to survive a double-compression pipeline intact.

https://t.co/MJxYcQBdXf

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

@cyber_rekk Yes & no. Lots of cyber security jobs can be done by AI/ML. But, there is not enough human attention deployed to cyber security currently. I see a net stable count, with substantial reskilling requirement to stay in cyber. ( https://t.co/4BFI0cL1pv for published details )

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Hacker Feud with @edskoudis

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

r u @ #WWHF #MileHigh?

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Hello, World!
@SANSInstitute
#SEC595
#CDI
#AI
#ML
#TensorFlow
#Cybersecurity

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Congratulations @CorelliumHQ and @Cellebrite @CellebriteLabs

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

@vxunderground Nobody needs to do anything. I was sitting at a vendor event at a big conference a few years ago talking with one of their employees having a great time. The marketing manager came over and told us we needed to circulate with the guests because that's what we were there for. lulz

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Are you an AI/ML user, shaper, or builder?

For the builders looking for #CyberSecurity applicability, or those in cyber looking to go deep into ML models, join me for @SANSInstitute
#SEC595

https://t.co/PjoZz2KIlf

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

@vxunderground How about agreeing to take money and do a comparative analysis? They pay for your time and to produce a paper. They can choose to publish or not. I have done several product analysis projects the vendor chose not to publish. 🤷🙊 But I got paid.

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Good morning #LightningStrikes

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

Lovely rooftop morning coffee setup ar @SANSInstitute #SanDiego for #SEC595

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

AI is going to deprecate those who don't adapt.

In response to this morning 's message from Bloomberg:

[Christopher Crowley @CCrowMontance]

https://t.co/vBs3eX9GJd

SANS #SEC595 is what I am teaching a lot currently.

See you in Paris, Singapore, San Diego, or Dallas.