Incident response is never orderly. Threat actors don't wait. Environments are compromised. Data is missing. Confidence is shaken. But for Microsoft's Incident Response (IR) team, that chaos is exactly where the work begins.
Forensic-Timeliner, a Windows forensic tool for DFIR investigators, has released version 2.2, which offers enhanced automation and improved artifact support for digital forensics and incident response operations. This high-speed processing engine consolidates CSV output from leading triage utilities into a unified timeline, empowering analysts to reconstruct event sequences and identify key indicators of compromise rapidly.
Hey everyone, Our security team is planning to invest in tools and platforms that can actually make a difference across the board. The goal is to move from being mostly reactive to becoming a more intelligence driven and proactive SOC. We want to strengthen areas like: • Threat intelligence collection and enrichment • Threat hunting and detection engineering • Incident response and digital forensics • External exposure and attack surface management • Automation and playbook maturity I'd love to...
I'm in the process of interviewing for detection engineering right now and wanted to make sure that I can brush up all domain of detection engineering + incident response to get myself ready. Could anyone tell or share any resources of what are the interview questions that most hiring managers would ask? What topic should I spend time on prepping? Appreciate all the feedback in advance! submitted by /u/4eeznutz [link] [comments]
AmCache plays a vital role in identifying malicious activities in Windows systems. This tool allows the identification of both benign and malicious software execution on a machine. Managed by the operating system and virtually tamper-proof, AmCache data endures even when malware auto-deletes itself, making it indispensable in incident response. AmCache stores SHA-1 hashes of executed
Learn how to create an incident response plan to help your business handle security incidents, prevent data breaches, and protect your organization.
Has anyone attended DEATHCon (Detection Engineering & Threat Hunting Conference)? I can't find any reviews about the con online. From the description, it seems to be relatively small (10-50 people), and I wanted to see how accurate that was. Is there an age requirement and how beginner friendly are the workshops? I was thinking about taking my nephew who was interested in CyberSec after high school (currently 17). He's done an incident response CTF as part of a school program and he really...
The Problem: Legacy SOCs and Endless Alert Noise Every SOC leader knows the feeling: hundreds of alerts pouring in, dashboards lighting up like a slot machine, analysts scrambling to keep pace. The harder they try to scale people or buy new tools, the faster the chaos multiplies. The problem is not just volume; it is the model itself. Traditional SOCs start with rules, wait for alerts to fire,
arXiv:2509.23573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are intensively used to assist security analysts in counteracting the rapid exploitation of cyber threats, wherein LLMs offer cyber threat intelligence (CTI) to support vulnerability assessment and incident response. While recent work has shown that LLMs can support a wide range of CTI tasks such as threat analysis, vulnerability detection, and intrusion defense, significant performance gaps persist in practical...
Hey Everyone, I've managed to land two SOC interviews (one with Chuck E Cheese and one with a Dr.Pepper company). I come from a front-end web dev background. I've done some TryHackMe, vuln management, threat hunting, and incident response in Azure. I have Security+. Any hiring managers or people involved in the hiring process willing to give some advice? I've never worked an actual cyber role yet and I'm actually nervous and a little doubtful since I got rejected for a help desk role two weeks...
Hello, Quick intro: transitioned from retail after 10 years into an IT Help Desk role back in November 2024. Since then, I took over the "mundane" security stuff: investigating phishing emails, EDR log monitoring, network security monitoring with a DNS security platform, and whatever else may pop up. I have loved every minute of doing this and would love to specialize my skills and fit into a blue team role, with the end goal of becoming a threat hunter or incident response. I am typically the...
What happens when you bring in a team of cybersecurity responders? How do we turn chaos into control, and what is the long-term value that Talos IR provides to the organizations we work with?
CISA has released a comprehensive cybersecurity advisory detailing how threat actors successfully compromised a U.S. federal civilian executive branch agency's network by exploiting CVE-2024-36401, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in GeoServer. The incident, which remained undetected for three weeks, highlights significant gaps in vulnerability management and incident response preparedness within federal agencies. GeoServer RCE
Security threats demand swift action, which is why AWS Security Incident Response delivers AWS-native protection that can immediately strengthen your security posture. This comprehensive solution combines automated triage and evaluation logic with your security perimeter metadata to identify critical issues, seamlessly bringing in human expertise when needed. When Security Incident Response is integrated with Amazon
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NIS2 is active across the EU, but OT/ICS environments need a different approach than IT. Downtime can mean safety incidents and production losses, so fixes must be safe and low-risk. Short priorities: map cyber risks to physical impact, ensure OT-aware incident response, lock down vendor/remote access, and get the basics right (asset inventory, segmentation, access control, training). Curious, what one practical step helped your team move faster on OT under NIS2? submitted by...
Today, CISA released a cybersecurity advisory detailing lessons learned from an incident response engagement following the detection of potential malicious activity identified through security alerts generated by the agency's endpoint detection and response tool. This advisory, CISA Shares Lessons Learned from an Incident Response Engagement , highlights takeaways that illuminate the urgent need for timely patching, comprehensive incident response planning, and proactive threat monitoring to...
Advisory at a Glance Executive Summary CISA began incident response efforts at a U.S. federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agency following the detection of potential malicious activity identified through security alerts generated by the agency's endpoint detection and response (EDR) tool. CISA identified three lessons learned from the engagement that illuminate how to effectively mitigate risk, prepare for, and respond to incidents: vulnerabilities were not promptly remediated, the agency...
Fellow cybersecurity professionals - how deep in the weeds are you getting these days? It feels like the lines between compliance, auditing, security engineering, DevOps pipelines, and container orchestration are blurring more and more. One week I'm knee-deep in Cisco configs, the next I'm writing automation scripts to enforce compliance at scale, and somehow still getting pulled into incident response. Are you finding yourself: Writing more Terraform/Ansible than traditional security...
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