Know Your Adversary

Know Your Adversary is a podcast by SpecterOps that dives deep into identity security through the lens of the attacker. Hosted by Jared Atkinson and Justin Kohler, each episode unpacks the methods, mindsets, and missteps that shape modern identity risk. From real-world war stories to cutting-edge research, the show brings together practitioners, researchers, and engineers to explore how adversaries think—and how defenders can get ahead.

Know Your Adversary is a technology podcast hosted by SpecterOps, with 15 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

SpecterOps hosts Know Your Adversary, a technology show with 15 episodes published.

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  Episode #16

  Episode 16: Special Guests Daniel Heinsen and Julian Catrambone

  Sep 30, 202635 minS1

  In this episode of Know Your Adversary , Jared Atkinson and Justin Kohler are joined by Daniel Heinsen and Julian Catrambone to discuss bringing AWS attack paths into BloodHound. Daniel and Julian share how their work evolved from manually analyzing complex AWS policies to mapping relationships across accounts, identities, and resources to better understand where exposure actually exists. The conversation explores why AWS permissions and trust relationships become so difficult to reason about at scale, how seemingly isolated configurations can combine into attack paths with significant downstream impact, and what the team has learned from testing this approach in real-world environments. They also dig into third-party trust, cross-platform attack paths spanning technologies like GitHub and AWS, and why understanding paths to critical resources matters just as much as identifying paths to privileged identities.

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  Episode #15

  Episode 15: Special Guest Vladlen Rotshteyn

  Sep 15, 202634 minS1

  In this episode of Know Your Adversary, Jared Atkinson and Justin Kohler are joined by Vlad Rotshteyn to discuss what effective attack surface and exposure management looks like inside a large enterprise.Vlad shares his path from enterprise IT into cybersecurity and how that experience shaped his approach to security. The conversation explores why visibility across assets, identities, vulnerabilities, and security tooling is critical to understanding where an organization is actually exposed. The group also digs into moving beyond vulnerability severity to prioritize risk with context, how Attack Path Management and BloodHound can provide a clearer picture of exposure, and why better visibility can sometimes make security metrics look worse before they get better. They close with Vlad’s perspective on AI, the importance of asking the right questions, and why new technology can’t replace strong security fundamentals.

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  Episode #14

  Episode 14: BloodHound 10-Year Anniversary Pt. 2

  Aug 17, 202645 minS1

  In Part 2 of Know Your Adversary’s celebration of 10 years of BloodHound , Jared Atkinson and Justin Kohler are joined once again by BloodHound creators Andy Robbins, Will Schroeder, and Rohan Vazarkar . Picking up where Part 1 left off, the group explores how lessons from the original BloodHound and the Active Directory Adversary Resilience Assessment (ADARA) helped turn attack path analysis into a methodology defenders could operationalize, ultimately laying the groundwork for BloodHound Enterprise. The conversation dives into a fundamental challenge they discovered along the way: defenders can’t simply enumerate and fix every attack path. Instead, they need to understand what’s wrong, how much it matters, and what to fix first. The group discusses how this realization shaped BloodHound’s approach to prioritization, tier-zero isolation, continuous monitoring, and giving defenders the context they need to reduce attack path risk as identity environments constantly change. From there, they trace BloodHound’s expansion beyond on-premises Active Directory into Azure, hybrid identity environments, GitHub, and other platforms. They share the technical and engineering challenges of modeling increasingly complex systems at enterprise scale, how experimentation with GitHub helped accelerate the development of OpenGraph , and why extensibility became essential to BloodHound’s future. The episode closes with a look toward what comes next, including new attack graph coverage and the continued expansion of BloodHound into emerging identity systems.

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  Episode #13

  Episode 13: BloodHound 10-Year Anniversary Pt. 1

  Aug 17, 202656 minS1

  In this episode of Know Your Adversary , Jared Atkinson and Justin Kohler are joined by Andy Robbins, Will Schroeder, and Rohan Vazarkar , the original creators of BloodHound, to celebrate ten years since the tool was first introduced. Together, they revisit the offensive security challenges that led to BloodHound and how a need to understand increasingly complex Active Directory environments ultimately led them to graph theory and attack path analysis. The discussion traces BloodHound's evolution from a tool built by red teamers to solve their own operational problems into an open source project that changed how practitioners understand identity-based attack paths. The group shares stories from its early development and DEF CON debut, the expansion from a simple graph of three node and edge types, and the realization that BloodHound wasn't creating attack paths, but providing a map of relationships and opportunities that had been there all along. Along the way, they explore how BloodHound changed offensive tradecraft, why visualization made complex attack paths easier to understand, and how defenders began using the same capabilities to find and eliminate those paths at scale. They also reflect on the project's transition from an offensive tool toward a defensive capability, setting the stage for BloodHound Enterprise and the next chapter of BloodHound's evolution.

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  Episode #12

  Episode 12: runZero with Special Guest HD Moore

  Jun 30, 202638 minS1

  <p>In this episode of Know Your Adversary, Jared Atkinson and Justin Kohler are joined by HD Moore, CEO of runZero. Drawing from decades of experience in offensive security, vulnerability research, and network discovery, HD shares his perspective on how defenders can better understand the real attack surface of modern enterprise environments.</p><p><br></p><p>The discussion explores the intersection of identity and network security, including RunZeroHound, HD's BloodHound OpenGraph project that brings network topology and exposure data into attack path analysis. The group examines how security dependencies, hidden connectivity, and infrastructure exposure create opportunities for attackers that...

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