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Category Archives: Incident Response
Talking about RFC 9424 – Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and Their Role in Attack Defence
Discussing the newly published RFC 9424 and how IoCs can be used to build better defences, without relying on looking backwards. Continue reading
Posted in Attack, Cyber, General, Hardening, Incident Response, Introduction, IoCs, Windows Forensics
Tagged basics, defence in depth, folder location, hats off security, How to apply IOCs, ioc lifecycle, IoCs, IoCs Explained, pyramid of pain, rfc 9424, RFC9424, scheduled task name, sha256, understanding RFC9424
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PowerShell Basic Introduction (Security Version)
PowerShell has grown since its introduction in 2003 and implementation in Windows XP in 2006. What started as a closed source, proprietary upgrade to the Command Prompt has now grown into an open-source, resource rich Command Line Interface (CLI) and … Continue reading
Types of Threat – Explained
From a high level what are the types or categories of threats faced by the Security professional? Let’s go over some basics. Internal Authorised Internal Unauthorised Internal to External External to Internal External to External (new) The first 4 are … Continue reading
Pass-the-hash Mitigation – Tip of the Day
I have been recently researching Pass the Hash mitigation techniques and I have found that there are the usual comments about not logging on to workstations with Admin accounts, ensuring your local admin accounts don’t have the same password, ensuring … Continue reading
Renaming a GRR Server & Client Configuration
Renaming the Server & Updating the Clients Rather than rebuilding a new server for every deployment you may feel it is easier to build a clean virtual build and clone that for each customer. As such renaming the VM would … Continue reading
Posted in Google Rapid Response, GRR, Incident Response
Tagged Google Rapid Response, GRR, hats off security, server.local.yaml
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Incident Response Process Phase 3 – Containment
First Steps When moving into the containment phase an incident has already been declared. It is now time to categorise the incident and relay this to the customer/management. The categorisation or characterisation of the incident can be broken down into … Continue reading
Posted in Containment, Incident Response
Tagged basics, containment, hats off security, Incident Reponse
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Incident Response Process Phase 2 – Identification
Identification I was going to do another section on Preparation, but I realised I could continue with that until the end of days. So lets move on to Identification How does the Identification phase start? There are a multitude of … Continue reading
Posted in Cyber, Identification, Incident Response
Tagged hats off security, identification, Incident Reponse, Preparation
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Incident Response Process Phase 1 – Preparation
This phase is open-ended, you will always be tweaking and fiddling policies and technologies to make the environment as secure as you can. Just as you think it’s fixed, a zero day comes along and ruins your picnic. So what … Continue reading
Posted in Incident Response, Preparation
Tagged hats off security, Incident Reponse, mitigation, Preparation
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Incident Response Process
Today I am going to discuss the basics of an Incident Response process. I did not create this, I would love to give credit to those who did! There are other variations out there, however they all follow the basic … Continue reading
Posted in Incident Response, Introduction
Tagged basics, hats off security, Incident Reponse
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