Standardized Note Taking Format For Analysts

- March 16, 2023
Introduction This post outlines a format for note-taking designed to aid analysts and ensure the knowledge they acquire over time is kept so that it can easily be consumed later. This format is designed to be technology agnostic so it can be applied …

Writing detections when stuck with EDR

- February 28, 2023
Introduction Making the leap to purchasing and maintaining an EDR solution can be huge for organisations so huge in fact that they never really progress from there when it comes to visibility on assets. This is an important consideration because orga…

Securing your estate: The First Step

- February 04, 2023
Introduction A commonly forgotten fact within the cybersecurity industry is that most organizations are not equipped nor have started to form any sort of security program. This is the case for many reasons because most organizations are SMBs so they …

Year in Review

- December 22, 2022
Introduction I've put together some general observations and trends I've seen other the last year below. Overall I think the industry as a whole is in a transient or potentially post-shock stage where we are seeing some improvements but also…

Attack Simulations for your SOC

- November 01, 2022
Introduction SOC analysts spend 99 percent of their time looking at the same data and patterns over and over again. They develop muscle memory that helps them use their platforms without much effort but also in grains in them potentially poor practi…

Shadow IT: Your Bible

- November 01, 2022
Introduction If you have worked in IT for long enough, you would have stumbled across a handful of things that you know the user definitely shouldn't have. Well, that was likely "shadow IT". I describe shadow IT as "Anything techno…

Threat Hunting: Get Started

- October 16, 2022
Introduction Threat hunting (detecting and finding things that you weren't previously aware of) has been around for a long time and most 'medium maturity' organizations will attempt to set up some form of threat-hunting activity or progr…

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