Person
person:maxie_reynolds
Also: Maxie
Cybersecurity professional and penetration tester featured in the episode; she also works on underwater data centers.
Cybersecurity professional and penetration tester featured in the episode; she also works on underwater data centers.
“My name is Maxie Reynolds.”
“A big thank you to Maxie Reynolds for coming on the show”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | AUTHORED | The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | attacker mindset | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | social engineering | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | physical penetration testing | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | network penetration testing | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | Red teaming | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | OSINT | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | NESA scan | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | Nmap | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | IP spoofing | Explicit | 166 |
| outgoing | USES | ROV | Explicit | 166 |
| incoming | DEVELOPED_BY | underwater data center | Explicit | 166 |
Maxie Reynolds AUTHORED The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals
Jack says Maxie wrote a book called The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“she wrote a book called The Art of Attack: Attacker Mindset for Security Professionals”
Maxie Reynolds USES attacker mindset
Maxie says she was fascinated by and spent substantial time thinking about the attacker mindset in her penetration-testing work.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“That attacker mindset was something she spent a lot of time thinking about.”
Maxie Reynolds USES social engineering
Maxie describes her first entry into full social engineering and penetration testing in Australia.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“My first entry point into full social engineer, really, and pen testing, was in Australia”
Maxie Reynolds USES physical penetration testing
Maxie performed physical penetration tests, including attempting to enter buildings and facilities without using computer access.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“So, we’re just doing a physical pen test. Would you like to be involved? I jumped at the chance.”
Maxie Reynolds USES network penetration testing
Maxie participated in network penetration testing against a local-government network.
Explicit Confidence 90% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“the two other people were very experienced network penetration testers”
Maxie Reynolds USES Red teaming
Maxie says red-teaming and penetration testing were the work that excited her most, and she was hired on a sanctioned red-team contract.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“I was hired on a sanctioned red team contract to test this high-security logistics company”
Maxie Reynolds USES OSINT
Maxie used open-source intelligence to learn about targets and identify possible entry points.
Explicit Confidence 96% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“penetration testers often use OSINT, which is just gathering data on a target through open, public searches online”
Maxie Reynolds USES NESA scan
Maxie ran a NESA scan during a network penetration test to identify vulnerabilities.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“I got to run the NESA scan”
Maxie Reynolds USES Nmap
Maxie ran Nmap during the network penetration test.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“and I got to run Nmap”
Maxie Reynolds USES IP spoofing
Jack says Maxie briefly spoofed her IP address to appear to be connecting from Russia during a test.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 166 Details
“she spoofed her IP at one point to make herself look like she’s coming from Russia”
Maxie Reynolds USES ROV
Maxie uses an ROV to retrieve underwater data-center units for maintenance, drawing on her underwater-robotics background.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“The vessel goes, picks the unit up with an ROV, because that’s my background and that’s how I knew how to do it.”
underwater data center DEVELOPED_BY Maxie Reynolds
Maxie says she and her former boss designed and built modular underwater data centers.
Explicit Confidence 95% · Maxie Reynolds EP 166 Details
“This is something we’ve made. This is something we’ve done, performed”
“I want to put data centers underwater. I want to do it in a modular fashion”