Episode 86 — Persistence Families
This episode teaches persistence as a risk and control topic, focusing on the main ways long-term access is maintained and how those mechanisms show up in scenario descriptions. You’ll learn persistence families such as account-based persistence, scheduled tasks, services and startup behaviors, configuration and registry changes, and hidden web-based access points, emphasizing the shared idea of surviving reboots, logouts, and routine changes. We’ll cover why persistence can increase operational risk and detection exposure, why it is not automatically appropriate during testing unless authorized, and what mitigations reduce opportunity through least privilege, monitoring, and change control. You’ll practice interpreting a scenario where suspicious automated execution appears, identifying what persistence family is likely involved and what evidence and reporting language matter most. By the end, you’ll be able to classify persistence mechanisms, choose defensive recommendations that fit the mechanism, and avoid the trap of treating persistence as a default step rather than an authorization-dependent action with serious consequences. Produced by BareMetalCyber.com, where you’ll find more cyber audio courses, books, and information to strengthen your educational path. Also, if you want to stay up to date with the latest news, visit DailyCyber.News for a newsletter you can use, and a daily podcast you can commute with.
