BSides London 2025

BSides London 2025

Simon Gurney

Simon is co-founder and CTO of Punk Security. He approaches DevSecOps from an infrastructure background with 20 years of experience in the field and a focus on cyber security and automation. Simon’s experience is diverse, having served as an engineer in the Royal Air Force and working across various industries, including government, manufacturing, finance, and technology, delivering automation and information security.
He is a keen Python and .NET CORE developer and a huge open source advocate, having authored a suite of open source tools himself.


Session

12-13
13:00
240min
Pwned by the Basics: Exploits Every Admin Should Know
Simon Gurney

Think attackers are only winning with zero-days and nation-state malware? Think again. Most compromises start with the boring stuff... default creds, sloppy file shares, and scheduled tasks hiding in plain sight.
In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to turn those “harmless” admin oversights into full domain compromise.

Workshops
Workshop Room 2