In this solo episode to wrap up season 2, John discusses some of the key takeaways from the guests interviwed throughout this year, and has some very exciting news for all blue teamers on a brand new GIAC certification. ;) Link: (GIAC GSOC LINK HERE) John is a Security Operations Center (SOC) consultant and speaker, a Certified SANS instructor, and the course author of two SANS courses, SEC450: Blue Team Fundamentals - Security Operations and Analysis and MGT551: Building and Leading...

We all need solid, well though-out playbooks to help standardize our respons to common threat scenarios. In this episode we speak with Thomas Detzner and Mark Morowczynski about the brand new set of Microsoft incident response playbooks that were just released. This is a brand new effort to meticulously document prerequisites, investigation steps, and remediation process for common scenarios most commonly seen by the Microsoft incident response teams, and you definitely won't want to miss...

Compliance and audit checks can be painful, and that's before you introduce additional cloud services and technology. In this episode featuring AJ Yawn we discuss some incredibly useful and actionable cloud security concepts and tools that can help your team boost visibility and reduce user permissions to help prevent breaches before they happen. In addition, we discuss what a good compliance audit should be, and how to turn audits from painful to incredibly valuable. Resources mentioned in...

There are numerous ways to test your SOC's detection and prevention capabilities, but not all are created equal. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses, and can be done on a different time scale.This week, we focus on arguably one of the most important - adversary emulation. In this episode we speak with Jamie Williams from the MITRE ATT&CK team about why adversary emulation is important, how it works, how you can get started regardless of the size of your team, and how to track and...

PowerShell may seem intimidating, but it can be one of the most amazing and useful tools at your disposal...if you know how to use it. In this episode, we have Josh Johnson, author of the new SANS course "SEC586: Blue Team Operations - Defensive Powershell" giving you a masterful crash course in: - The importance of PowerShell - How PowerShell works, and how to set yourself up to use it - Blue team use cases for log analysis, incident response and more - How to stopping attackers from...

This episode is all about vulnerability management - both the technical and human aspects. Looking to start up a new vulnerability management team? Drowning in vulnerabilities to fix and don't know where to start? Struggling to get system owners to take action? Trying to find ways to communicate the importance and status of your patching efforts? Check out this episode with vulnerability management expert Chris Baker for answer these to questions and much more! Our Guest: Chris Baker Chris...

A common question from many defenders is "Which logs are the most important?” In this episode, Mick Douglas and Flynn Weeks join us to describe their What2Log project, which aims to simplify this problem for all of us!Our Guests: Mick Douglas &...

In today’s episode, John is joined by Anton Chuvakin to discuss current and future security operations technology, which tools are the most important and which are becoming less important over time, the rules of automation in the SOC and how Anton would...

Are you a manager looking to build or improve your SOC? Are you trying to understand how to measure your SOCs maturity or use cases or your threat hunting efforts? If so, today’s episode with Rob van Os is for you. In this episode, we discuss the SOC...

What is AppSec, DevOps and DevSecOps? In this episode we discuss why defenders should know more about these terms and what the consequences are of ignoring these new and critical fields.Tanya Janca, also known as SheHacksPurple, is the best-selling...

Driving consistency and maintaining a high standard for alert response is a problem all SOCs must face, but how? In this episode, Josh Brower describes his efforts to combine automated detection signature deployment and use case database management into...

Even if you're not a malware analyst, any blue teamer should be able to do some initial basic malware sample triage. The good news is that this is quite easy to do using freely available tools once you know what is available. Join John in this...

Looking for a new way to approach the difficult problem of measuring and improving your SOC? Check out this episode to hear how to use methods pioneered in the manufacturing and reliability industry to help wrap your head around, and solve this complex...

Austin Taylor discusses the promise and reality of cyber security-centric data science, and how you can use machine learning for solving practical security problems.Twitter Handles: @HuntOperator | @SecHubb | @SANSDefenseAll Blueprint Podcast Episodes:...

Roberto Rodriguez explains the awesome projects and initiatives he is working on to help blue teams perform advanced data collection, analysis, and threat hunting.Twitter Handles: @Cyb3rWard0g | @SecHubb | @SANSDefenseAll Blueprint Podcast Episodes:...

Cloud expert Kyle Dickinson discusses common cloud infrastructure attacks, and how you can detect and prevent them before they happen to your organization.Twitter Handles: @KyleHaxWhy | @SecHubb | @SANSDefenseAll Blueprint Podcast Episodes:...

Mark and Libby share the new technologies in use at Microsoft to dramatically decrease the need for the use of passwords in the enterprise.Twitter Handles: @markmorow | @TruBluDevil | @SecHubb | @SANSDefenseAll Blueprint Podcast Episodes:...

Dave and Ryan speak with John about resources for training yourself, and the challenges of setting up a large-scale cyber lab to simulate an advanced attack for their Splunk Boss of the SOC competition.Twitter Handles: @daveherrald | @meansec | @SecHubb...