Joseph Muniz is an architect and security researcher in the Cisco Security Sales and Engineering Organization. He is driven by making the world a safer place through education and adversary research. Joseph has extensive experience in designing security solutions and architectures as a trusted advisor for the top Fortune 500 corporations and US Government.
Joseph is a researcher and industry thought leader. He speaks regularly at international conferences, writes for technical magazines and is involved with developing training for various industry certifications. He invented the fictitious character of Emily Williams to create awareness around Social Engineering. Joseph runs thesecurityblogger.com website, a popular resource for security and product implementation. He is the author and contributor of several publications including titles ranging from security best practices to exploitation tactics. Joseph’s latest title, Digital Forensics for Network Engineers was released 2018 with two new titles on SOC and VPN coming in 2020.
When Joseph is not using technology, you can find him on the futbal field. Follow Joseph @SecureBlogger.
Publications
Author: CCNA Security Cisco Identify Services Engine SISE 300-715 Spring 2020 Oreilly HERE / Pearson HERE
Author: Investigating the Cyber Breach: The Digital Forensics Guide for the Network Engineer February 9, 2018 Cisco Press HERE / Amazon HERE
Author: CCNA Cyber Ops SECFND #210-250 Official Cert Guide 1st edition Spring 2017 Cisco Press – HERE / Amazon HERE
Author: CCNA Cyber Ops SECOPS #210-255 Official Cert Guide 1st edition Spring 2017 Cisco Press – HERE / Amazon HERE
Author: Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime with Kali Linux Fundamentals — Video Sept 2017 Cisco Press – HERE
Author: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst CSA+ (CS0-001) Complete Video Course and Practice Test — Video Oct 2017 Pearson – HERE
Author: Security Operations Center: Building, Operating and Maintaining your SOC – November 2015 Cisco Press – Purchase HERE / Amazon HERE
Author: Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi – January 2015 Packt publishing – Purchase HERE / Amazon HERE / Barnes & Noble HERE
Author: Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux – August 2013 Packt publishing – Purchase HERE / Amazon HERE / Barnes & Noble HERE
Article: Launching Social Media Based Attack – PenTest Magazine, Nov 2013
Article: Compromising Passwords w/ Kali Linux – PenTest Magazine, July 2013
Reviewer: Kali Linux Social Engineering – Packt Publishing, Dec 2013
Reviewer: Instant XenMobile MDM – Packt Publishing, Sept 2013
Reviewer: Citrix XenMobile Mobile Device Management – Packt Pub, Feb 2014
Reviewer: Getting Started With XenDesktop 7.x – Packt Pub, April 2014
Reviewer: Kali Linux CTF Blueprints– Packt Pub, Aug 2014
Reviewer: Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing 2nd edition– Packt Pub, Aug 2016
Reviewer: Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi 2nd edition– Packt Pub, Dec 2016
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Wow, great reading! You never cease to impress me.
Dear Joey Muniz
I decided to write to you directly. I’m editor of Pentest Magazine. This magazine is special edytion for englishlanguage market. It is devoted to IT security, firewalls penetration tests, data security. I am looking for experts on this subject to build good mark of our magazine. We want to promote competent people which keep up on this fastgrowing feld. I would like to propose You writeing an article for our magazine. Choseing a subject is up to You, it may be your actual projects, something theoretical or practical, actual dengers or actual tendencies. We don’t pay for articles. We offer comertial of company on one page, information about author in inprint. Of course author will recieve magazin with article for free.
I hope you will concider my proposition
Best regards
Olga
Software Press
http://software.com.pl/
http://pentestmag.com
Hello,
You have an awesome blog, with very good and interesting posts!
Thanks,
Marco Bartulihe
I’d appreciate an offline email exchange.
The question is to malware / mobile devices and business concerns.
I’m seeking your input over certain concerns (mobile devices).
My email is [email protected]. Feel free to email me directly. Thank you
Hi Joe,
I stumbled over your ’Social Media Deception’ and I think it proves a very important point. I am practicing IT security at Coop, Danish leading retailer (at least we think so :-)) with 30.000 employees and 1200 stores across the country. We own 4 different chains, and they all think Facebook is fantastic to sell all our goods.
I have planned a meeting with all the facebook responable people and the presentation I am making to that meeting will have a bit of content from your presentation – I hope that is ok.
I have downloaded the PDF version of your talk from RSAs website, and unfortunately for the pages that has a bit of powerpoint action on them (picture over picture overlay), it’s impossible to take screenshots and use that for my own presentation – especially the slides about the impact of social media and people trust people has some points I would like to reuse, but are impossible to see 🙁
So to make a long story short, I would like to have the PPT version of your talk so I can grab the bits and pieces I need for my (strictly internal) presentation.
Can I get that?
Thanks in advance – and thanks for the great talk. I really think it’s spot on!
/klaus
Hi Klaus,
I’m glad you liked the presentation and research. I’m more than happy to share our presentation with you. What email address should I send a download link to?
If it is ok with you, would you mind sharing your final presentation with me? We love hearing about people using the concepts for their security practice.
Thank you
Joey
Hi Joe,
I thought you could see the email adress I provided with the post – but I guess not.
Please send the presentation to kap at coop dot dk (trying to not make it myself an easy spam target…)
I will be happy to send you the presentation – it will be in danish, but if that’s ok with you, it’s ok with me too 🙂
Thanks
/klaus
No problem. I just love hearing about how the research is used. I’ll send it later today
Joey
Hi Joey, thanks a lot for the presentation. Where should I send my presentation? The email you mention in another post on this site doesn’t work.
Btw: At Coop we plan to use your case in an internal awareness campaign (a small one, a 2 min video, questionnaire, stickers and posters) – I will keep you posted on how it goes..
Looking forward to seeing it. Send it to the email addresses listed in the ABOUT section of this blog. Thanks!
Joseph, this is Harris Andrea from networkstraining.com
I really love your blog man. You have so much interesting content in here. I’m working in similar fields as you are (network security , cisco asa, penetration testing etc) so I always find your content very useful and helpful.
Keep up the great work.
Harris
Hi Harris. Thanks for the feedback. Let me know if there are other topics you want me to look into.
I found this blog as very informative and useful for knowledge enhancement.
Great Work!!!
hi ,
Is there Anyone help me for my issue which i am having since from last 4 days in my company test network . we have Cisco ASA 5525-X Firewall with firepower module . i have successfully install the sfr up and running . policies are made successfully . but i am having only one issue is actually health summary status is disable . we have version 5.4.0 . kindly please confirm is there any bug in this current version .
Thanks,
Khan
Hi Khan,
You should check out the videos section I have on this blog that showcases how to setup FirePOWER. FYI Firepower 5.4 is a few versions older than the latest, which is 6.1. If you are seeing a health summery status disabled, it may be a license issue. Is your system licensed and which version (smart license or older static)? Worst case, you can open a TAC case or reach out to your technology provider to identify your licensing.
Hope this helps!
Great write up Joey!
Hey there Joseph…i’m a Cisco customer who has happened upon this site/blog as a result of looking to find add’l info about the FirePOWER services available thru subscription licensing (AMP-N, IPS/IDS, URL) on my ASA-X device. recently we did consult a 3rd party ‘impartial’ to review network security and they emphatically are against this setup in any way/shape/form…and do suggest either of 2 diff ‘top Gartner quadrant’ choices. i figure you have a large bit of bias here, but WHAT is to show that the Cisco/FireP solutions ARE able to be adequately part of a full portfolio of layered security ?
Hi, Awesome publication! Its amazing how many holes there are in the systems that so many people think are “Secure”
Perhaps your viewers would be interested in the Blog post I am working on now entitled “What kind of locks are there?”
Keep up the good work!
Jim
Hi there! I found this blog after reading Pen Testing with Raspberry Pi which is really one of the seminal works on the subject. And what can I say, Joseph really knows his stuff! The articles on social engineering are easily my favorite, but I also found out a lot about lock picking. Whelp, I guess I have a new hobby now…
Excellent material to incorporate it to expand our knowledge.
Surely, here is NOT everything the author wants to convey and our words are NOT enough to express what I feel.
We will continue to move forward and thank you very much for the contributions.