Why Your Business Environment Should Drive Cybersecurity
This is the second in a recurring series that explores the cybersecurity principles and best practices found within the National Institute of…
From The Front Lines
5 Steps for Enhancing Your Security Team
The threat level has never been higher for organizations charged with protecting valuable data. In fact, as recent headlines will attest, no…
Is Your Cybersecurity Approach Based on Myth? Get a Reality Check.
As human beings, we make thousands of assumptions every day. It is our way of coping with situations we do not fully…
There is no Such Thing as ‘Business as Usual’ When it Comes to Incident Response
When your network gets breached – and I do mean when and not if – the first question that needs to be answered is whether the…
Chopping packets: Decoding China Chopper Web shell traffic over SSL
Introduction The Chopper Web shell is a widely used backdoor by Chinese and other malicious actors to remotely access a compromised Web…
The Future of Privacy, Data, and Cyber Crime and its Impact on the American Business Dream
There is absolutely no doubt that the world is changing more quickly now, thanks to technology, than at any other time since…
Surgeon with a Shotgun! – Memory Forensics
With the ever-increasing need for speed and accuracy for digital investigations and incident response, it is imperative that organizations are able to…
In the Cyber Security World, At Least, Sharing is Caring
Since the President’s State of the Union address and February’s Executive Order on Cyber Security there’s been a lot of talk in…
Magic 8 Ball Says “Outlook Good” for CyberSecurity Collaboration and Legislation in 2015
As we all know, cybersecurity is very hard to legislate. Everyone agrees on the overall principle, but when it comes time to…
Parsing Sysmon Events for IR Indicators
Intro and Installation A dedicated endpoint monitoring tool is quickly becoming a necessity among organizations to increase visibility, logging, and alerting to…