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Incident Response Fundamentals – Communication

Posted on September 22, 2017December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

This post was also featured on Cisco’s website here. While there are a number of ways to err during the course of responding to an incident, it never seems to fail

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The Haves & Have Nots: Threat Management Maturity

Posted on August 9, 2016December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

IT departments regularly ask us questions about their security posture, their security concerns, and specifically, the makeup of their Threat Management (TM) organizations. Generally speaking, Threat Management includes anything in the

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Focus On Incident Response Fundamentals: Containment

Posted on August 26, 2015December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

I didn’t want to bring him this information, because I knew how quickly the conversation would go sideways, but I was required to do so… “We have an incident on

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Gamification in the SOC & IRT

Posted on May 11, 2015December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

I’ve attended one or two talks in the past on Gamification and honestly never thought much of it, until I saw it in action at a vendor booth at RSA.

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Table Top Exercises (TTX) for Incident Response

Posted on April 20, 2015December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

“Table Top Exercises” (TTX) has become part of my almost daily vocabulary given how hot the demand for them has become. From the companies and individuals I spoke with, there

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Focus On What Matters Most, It’s NOT a SOC

Posted on March 18, 2015December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

With the continued news of breach after breach, a lot has been made about having a Security Operations Center (SOC) to monitor alerts coming in from your security investments. Realistically,

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Why Attribution Doesn’t Matter

Posted on March 4, 2015December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

In keeping up with the Anthem Healthcare breach, I began to cringe when I saw comments stating things such as, “our children will be impacted for years to come”, or,

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Three Alternatives to Obama’s Cybersecurity Proposal

Posted on February 2, 2015December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

Recently I made tossed my hat into the ring to provide some commentary on Obama’s cybersecurity proposal and it somehow made itself into a Wall Street Journal mention. I was humbled to say

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Businesses Need Rapid Incident Detection & Response- Why Obama’s Cybersecurity Proposal Misses the Mark

Posted on January 14, 2015December 9, 2022 by Sean Mason

Unless you’re still hung-over from the holidays, you most likely saw the news regarding President Obama pitching cyber reform. While I applaud the idea at a high level, especially around

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2015 Resolutions: The World has Changed- Take Control

Posted on January 5, 2015December 8, 2022 by Sean Mason

  We live in a different world than the one we lived in years ago. Most security professionals were content to have time to play with some logs, install a

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