Cyber attackers are constantly becoming more and more subtle while Security Operations (SOC, CERT and CSIRT) continues to scratch on the surface. It doesn’t matter whether that’s a large enterprise, bank or government institution. The evidence is fairly strong that most organizations are pretty bad at security operations . Why are there so many global high-profile breaches? Why can organizations today not adequately detect and respond to breaches while they have spent millions in their Cyber Security defense? You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that there must be vital gaps in the defense ecosystem of organizations. But how to identify these gaps and what course of actions are required?
Based on the sophistication and constant change of the threat landscape in the cyber space, many mature organizations have identified the necessity to improve the detection, analysis and response capabilities of their Security Operation Center (SOC). Currently, security analysts are often engaged with trivial copy-paste or other annoying low-level tasks rather than gaining a deep understanding...
Continue ReadingSome initial triage task instructions are listed under the Stage 1 Analysis phase of the incident which are processed by the Security Operations team. Once completed, the incident is handed off to the Threat Hunting team for scoping the attack and developing further intelligence. As you can see, all the TTP task instructions regarding APT28 have been loaded into the Stage 2 Analysis phase of this playbook...
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