Who should attend? Anyone that works in security and wants to leverage their machine data to detect internal and advanced threats, monitor activities in real time, and improve their organization's security posture.
Description: Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Building a Successful Internal Adversarial Simulation Team - Chris Gates & Ch...Chris Gates
Brucon 2016
The evolution chain in security testing is fundamentally broken due to a lack of understanding, reduction of scope, and a reliance on vulnerability “whack a mole.” To help break the barriers of the common security program we are going to have to divorce ourselves from the metrics of vulnerability statistics and Pavlovian risk color charts and really get to work on how our security programs perform during a REAL event. To do so, we must create an entirely new set of metrics, tests, procedures, implementations and repeatable process. It is extremely rare that a vulnerability causes a direct risk to an environment, it is usually what the attacker DOES with the access gained that matters. In this talk we will discuss the way that Internal and external teams have been created to simulate a REAL WORLD attack and work hand in hand with the Defensive teams to measure the environments resistance to the attacks. We will demonstrate attacks, capabilities, TTP’s tracking, trending, positive metrics, hunt integration and most of all we will lay out a road map to STOP this nonsense of Red vs BLUE and realize that we are all on the same team. Sparring and training every day to be ready for the fight when it comes to us.
Knowledge for the masses: Storytelling with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Ismael Valenzuela and Jose Luis Sanchez Martinez, Trellix
The Trellix team believes that creating and sharing compelling stories about cyber threats -with ATT&CK- is a powerful way for raising awareness and enabling actionability against cyber threats.
In this talk the team will share their experiences leveraging ATT&CK to disseminate Threat knowledge to different audiences (Software Development teams, Managers, Threat detection engineers, Threat hunters, Cyber Threat Analysts, Support Engineers, upper management, etc.).
They will show concrete examples and representations created with ATT&CK to describe the threats at different levels, including: 1) an Attack Path graph that shows the overall flow of the attack; 2) Tactic-specific TTP summary tables and graphs; 3) very detailed, step-by-step description of the attacker's behaviors.
Sharpening your Threat-Hunting Program with ATTACK FrameworkMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour December 2020
By Hieu Tran, Threat Detection Team Lead FPT Cybersecurity Division
No matter how sophisticated and thorough your security precautions may be, you cannot assume your security measures are impenetrable. This is why you need a threat hunting program in place. But how can we implement a proper threat hunting program and run it efficiently? In this talk, we will uncover how to sharpen your threat hunting strategy by leveraging ATT&CK. Ultimately, we’ll be demonstrating how effectively employing the hunting methodology in the real-world battlefield, fighting against well-known cyber espionage actors who strongly focus on Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Cambodia.
Threat hunting - Every day is hunting seasonBen Boyd
Breakout Presentation by Ben Boyd during the 2018 Nebraska Cybersecurity Conference.
Introduction to Threat Hunting and helpful steps for building a Threat Hunting Program of any size, from small to massive.
Effective Threat Hunting with Tactical Threat IntelligenceDhruv Majumdar
How to set up a Threat Hunting Team for Active Defense utilizing Cyber Threat Intelligence and how CTI can help a company grow and improve its security posture.
Who should attend? Anyone that works in security and wants to leverage their machine data to detect internal and advanced threats, monitor activities in real time, and improve their organization's security posture.
Description: Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Building a Successful Internal Adversarial Simulation Team - Chris Gates & Ch...Chris Gates
Brucon 2016
The evolution chain in security testing is fundamentally broken due to a lack of understanding, reduction of scope, and a reliance on vulnerability “whack a mole.” To help break the barriers of the common security program we are going to have to divorce ourselves from the metrics of vulnerability statistics and Pavlovian risk color charts and really get to work on how our security programs perform during a REAL event. To do so, we must create an entirely new set of metrics, tests, procedures, implementations and repeatable process. It is extremely rare that a vulnerability causes a direct risk to an environment, it is usually what the attacker DOES with the access gained that matters. In this talk we will discuss the way that Internal and external teams have been created to simulate a REAL WORLD attack and work hand in hand with the Defensive teams to measure the environments resistance to the attacks. We will demonstrate attacks, capabilities, TTP’s tracking, trending, positive metrics, hunt integration and most of all we will lay out a road map to STOP this nonsense of Red vs BLUE and realize that we are all on the same team. Sparring and training every day to be ready for the fight when it comes to us.
Knowledge for the masses: Storytelling with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Ismael Valenzuela and Jose Luis Sanchez Martinez, Trellix
The Trellix team believes that creating and sharing compelling stories about cyber threats -with ATT&CK- is a powerful way for raising awareness and enabling actionability against cyber threats.
In this talk the team will share their experiences leveraging ATT&CK to disseminate Threat knowledge to different audiences (Software Development teams, Managers, Threat detection engineers, Threat hunters, Cyber Threat Analysts, Support Engineers, upper management, etc.).
They will show concrete examples and representations created with ATT&CK to describe the threats at different levels, including: 1) an Attack Path graph that shows the overall flow of the attack; 2) Tactic-specific TTP summary tables and graphs; 3) very detailed, step-by-step description of the attacker's behaviors.
Sharpening your Threat-Hunting Program with ATTACK FrameworkMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour December 2020
By Hieu Tran, Threat Detection Team Lead FPT Cybersecurity Division
No matter how sophisticated and thorough your security precautions may be, you cannot assume your security measures are impenetrable. This is why you need a threat hunting program in place. But how can we implement a proper threat hunting program and run it efficiently? In this talk, we will uncover how to sharpen your threat hunting strategy by leveraging ATT&CK. Ultimately, we’ll be demonstrating how effectively employing the hunting methodology in the real-world battlefield, fighting against well-known cyber espionage actors who strongly focus on Southeast Asian countries like Vietnam, the Philippines, Laos, and Cambodia.
Threat hunting - Every day is hunting seasonBen Boyd
Breakout Presentation by Ben Boyd during the 2018 Nebraska Cybersecurity Conference.
Introduction to Threat Hunting and helpful steps for building a Threat Hunting Program of any size, from small to massive.
Effective Threat Hunting with Tactical Threat IntelligenceDhruv Majumdar
How to set up a Threat Hunting Team for Active Defense utilizing Cyber Threat Intelligence and how CTI can help a company grow and improve its security posture.
SANS Purple Team Summit 2021: Active Directory Purple Team PlaybooksMauricio Velazco
After obtaining an initial foothold, adversaries will most likely target or abuse Active Directory across the attack lifecycle to achieve operational success. It is essential for Blue Teams to design and deploy proper visibility & detection strategies for AD-based attacks and executing Adversary Simulation/Purple Team exercises can help. This talk will introduce the Active Directory Purple Team Playbook, a library of documented playbooks that describe how to simulate different adversary techniques targeting Active Directory. The playbooks can help blue teams measure detection coverage and identify enhancement opportunities. After this talk, attendees will be able to run purple team exercises against development or production Active Directory environments using open source tools.
Threat hunting foundations: People, process and technology.pptxInfosec
Ever wonder what threat hunting is all about? Join Infosec Principal Security Researcher Keatron Evans as he breaks down the basics of what it’s like to have a career hunting down potential cyber threats.
Join us on for an inside look at a day in the life of a threat hunter, including:
Why threat hunters are more critical today than ever before
Knowledge and skills needed to drive threat hunting success
Live demos of essential threat hunting skills and tools used to detect and mitigate adversarial behavior
One lucky attendee will win a free year of Infosec Skills. Complete the form to save your seat!
P.S. Want to go even deeper into threat hunting? Don’t miss our advanced threat hunting session on June 28, Join the hunt: Threat hunting for proactive cyber defense.
MITRE ATT&CK framework is about the framework that is followed by Threat Hunters, Threat Analysts for Threat Modelling purpose, which can be use for Adversary Emulation and Attack Defense. Cybersecurity Analyst widely use it for framing the attack through its various used Tactics and Techniques.
Join Tim Schulz, Adversary Emulation Lead at SCYTHE, for a three hour Hands-On Purple Team Workshop on Wednesday, March 10, 2021!
***REGISTRATION REQUIRED***
***Use a real email address***
In this three hour hands-on workshop you will play the role of Cyber Threat Intelligence, the red team, and the blue team. We have set up an isolated environment for each attendee to go through a Purple Team Exercise.
Attendees will:
- Learn the basics of Command and Control (C2)
- Consume Cyber Threat Intelligence from a known adversary
- Extract adversary behaviors/TTPs
- Play the Red Team by creating adversary emulation plans
- Emulate the adversary with SCYTHE 3.2 in a small environment consisting of a domain controller, member server, and a Linux system
- Play the Blue Team and look for Indicators of Compromise
- Use Wireshark to identify heartbeat and jitter
- Enable Sysmon configurations to detect adversary behavior
- All mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Have FUN!
What do you need?
All you need is a web browser on a workstation/laptop (no iPads, sorry). If you want to come better prepared, download, read, and watch the free Purple Team Exercise Framework (PTEF) and webcast:
https://www.scythe.io/ptef
https://www.scythe.io/library/ptef-workshop
How will it work?
We are using VMware learning platform to give everyone their own isolated environment. This means we need your real email upon registration so we can provision your environment before the start of the workshop.
Hunting for Evil with the Elastic StackElasticsearch
Whether you are threat hunting or responding to a signature-based alert, learn how to use Elastic tools to tell the entire story and more efficiently root out adversaries in your environment.
See the video: https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/tour/2019/washington-dc/hunting-for-evil-with-the-elastic-stack
Threat Modelling - It's not just for developersMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Tim Wadhwa-Brown, Cisco
The purpose of this session will be to look at how you can take public information about threat actors, vulnerabilities, and incidents and use them to build better defenses, utilizing ATT&CK along the way to align your security organization to the people and assets that matter.
Stories are critical to how humans learn, so this session will leverage a story book approach to give the audience some ideas on approaches they could use. Tim will take the audience through 3 real world examples where he has leveraged ATT&CK to drive operational improvement. The premise of each story will be real, although some of the details will be apocryphal to protect the innocent.
One story will focus on defending a network, one will look at adversary detection, while the final one will look at responding to an active attack and in each case, Tim will guide the audience to think about the kinds of data sources that ATT&CK tracks, that they might call upon to achieve a successful outcome.
Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Tracking Noisy Behavior and Risk-Based Alerting with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Haylee Mills, Splunk
Having ATT&CK to identify threats, prioritize data sources, and improve security posture has been a huge step forward for our industry, but how do we actualize those insights for better detection and alerting? By shifting to observations of behavior over one-to-one direct alerts, noisy datasets become valuable treasure troves with ATT&CK metadata. Additionally, we can begin to look at detection and threat hunting on behavior instead of users or systems. In this presentation, Haylee will discuss the shift in mindset and the nuts and bolts of detections that leverage this metadata in Splunk, but the concept can be applied with custom tools to any valuable security dataset.
In our webinar “What is Threat Hunting and why do you need it?" we discussed the folowing key points:
1. What Threat hunting is.
2. Why it is becoming so popular and what kinds of attacks are making it necessary.
3. What the challenges are.
4. Threat Hunting and Investigation services for attacks.
5. Case studies.
Find out more on https://www.pandasecurity.com/business/adaptive-defense/?utm_source=slideshare&utm_medium=social&utm_content=SM_EN_WEB_adaptive_defense&track=180715
Cyber Threat Intelligence is a process in which information from different sources is collected, then analyzed to identify and detect threats against any environment. The information collected could be evidence-based knowledge that could support the context, mechanism, indicators, or implications about an already existing threat against an environment, and/or the knowledge about an upcoming threat that could potentially affect the environment. Credit: Marlabs Inc
Cyber Security Layers - Defense in Depth
7P's, 2D's & 1 N
People
Process
Perimeter
Physical
Points (End)
Network
Platform
Programs (Apps)
Database
Data
Incredible Compute Density: Cisco DNA Center Platform: Digging Deeper with APIsRobb Boyd
Learn more on getting hands-on with Cisco DNA Center Platform APIs. Join us as we go over the brand new DNA Center Platform and show you how to start integrating and developing your own applications on DNA Center. The possibilities are endless!
SANS Purple Team Summit 2021: Active Directory Purple Team PlaybooksMauricio Velazco
After obtaining an initial foothold, adversaries will most likely target or abuse Active Directory across the attack lifecycle to achieve operational success. It is essential for Blue Teams to design and deploy proper visibility & detection strategies for AD-based attacks and executing Adversary Simulation/Purple Team exercises can help. This talk will introduce the Active Directory Purple Team Playbook, a library of documented playbooks that describe how to simulate different adversary techniques targeting Active Directory. The playbooks can help blue teams measure detection coverage and identify enhancement opportunities. After this talk, attendees will be able to run purple team exercises against development or production Active Directory environments using open source tools.
Threat hunting foundations: People, process and technology.pptxInfosec
Ever wonder what threat hunting is all about? Join Infosec Principal Security Researcher Keatron Evans as he breaks down the basics of what it’s like to have a career hunting down potential cyber threats.
Join us on for an inside look at a day in the life of a threat hunter, including:
Why threat hunters are more critical today than ever before
Knowledge and skills needed to drive threat hunting success
Live demos of essential threat hunting skills and tools used to detect and mitigate adversarial behavior
One lucky attendee will win a free year of Infosec Skills. Complete the form to save your seat!
P.S. Want to go even deeper into threat hunting? Don’t miss our advanced threat hunting session on June 28, Join the hunt: Threat hunting for proactive cyber defense.
MITRE ATT&CK framework is about the framework that is followed by Threat Hunters, Threat Analysts for Threat Modelling purpose, which can be use for Adversary Emulation and Attack Defense. Cybersecurity Analyst widely use it for framing the attack through its various used Tactics and Techniques.
Join Tim Schulz, Adversary Emulation Lead at SCYTHE, for a three hour Hands-On Purple Team Workshop on Wednesday, March 10, 2021!
***REGISTRATION REQUIRED***
***Use a real email address***
In this three hour hands-on workshop you will play the role of Cyber Threat Intelligence, the red team, and the blue team. We have set up an isolated environment for each attendee to go through a Purple Team Exercise.
Attendees will:
- Learn the basics of Command and Control (C2)
- Consume Cyber Threat Intelligence from a known adversary
- Extract adversary behaviors/TTPs
- Play the Red Team by creating adversary emulation plans
- Emulate the adversary with SCYTHE 3.2 in a small environment consisting of a domain controller, member server, and a Linux system
- Play the Blue Team and look for Indicators of Compromise
- Use Wireshark to identify heartbeat and jitter
- Enable Sysmon configurations to detect adversary behavior
- All mapped to MITRE ATT&CK
- Have FUN!
What do you need?
All you need is a web browser on a workstation/laptop (no iPads, sorry). If you want to come better prepared, download, read, and watch the free Purple Team Exercise Framework (PTEF) and webcast:
https://www.scythe.io/ptef
https://www.scythe.io/library/ptef-workshop
How will it work?
We are using VMware learning platform to give everyone their own isolated environment. This means we need your real email upon registration so we can provision your environment before the start of the workshop.
Hunting for Evil with the Elastic StackElasticsearch
Whether you are threat hunting or responding to a signature-based alert, learn how to use Elastic tools to tell the entire story and more efficiently root out adversaries in your environment.
See the video: https://www.elastic.co/elasticon/tour/2019/washington-dc/hunting-for-evil-with-the-elastic-stack
Threat Modelling - It's not just for developersMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Tim Wadhwa-Brown, Cisco
The purpose of this session will be to look at how you can take public information about threat actors, vulnerabilities, and incidents and use them to build better defenses, utilizing ATT&CK along the way to align your security organization to the people and assets that matter.
Stories are critical to how humans learn, so this session will leverage a story book approach to give the audience some ideas on approaches they could use. Tim will take the audience through 3 real world examples where he has leveraged ATT&CK to drive operational improvement. The premise of each story will be real, although some of the details will be apocryphal to protect the innocent.
One story will focus on defending a network, one will look at adversary detection, while the final one will look at responding to an active attack and in each case, Tim will guide the audience to think about the kinds of data sources that ATT&CK tracks, that they might call upon to achieve a successful outcome.
Your adversaries continue to attack and get into companies. You can no longer rely on alerts from point solutions alone to secure your network. To identify and mitigate these advanced threats, analysts must become proactive in identifying not just indicators, but attack patterns and behavior. In this workshop we will walk through a hands-on exercise with a real world attack scenario. The workshop will illustrate how advanced correlations from multiple data sources and machine learning can enhance security analysts capability to detect and quickly mitigate advanced attacks.
Tracking Noisy Behavior and Risk-Based Alerting with ATT&CKMITRE ATT&CK
From ATT&CKcon 3.0
By Haylee Mills, Splunk
Having ATT&CK to identify threats, prioritize data sources, and improve security posture has been a huge step forward for our industry, but how do we actualize those insights for better detection and alerting? By shifting to observations of behavior over one-to-one direct alerts, noisy datasets become valuable treasure troves with ATT&CK metadata. Additionally, we can begin to look at detection and threat hunting on behavior instead of users or systems. In this presentation, Haylee will discuss the shift in mindset and the nuts and bolts of detections that leverage this metadata in Splunk, but the concept can be applied with custom tools to any valuable security dataset.
In our webinar “What is Threat Hunting and why do you need it?" we discussed the folowing key points:
1. What Threat hunting is.
2. Why it is becoming so popular and what kinds of attacks are making it necessary.
3. What the challenges are.
4. Threat Hunting and Investigation services for attacks.
5. Case studies.
Find out more on https://www.pandasecurity.com/business/adaptive-defense/?utm_source=slideshare&utm_medium=social&utm_content=SM_EN_WEB_adaptive_defense&track=180715
Cyber Threat Intelligence is a process in which information from different sources is collected, then analyzed to identify and detect threats against any environment. The information collected could be evidence-based knowledge that could support the context, mechanism, indicators, or implications about an already existing threat against an environment, and/or the knowledge about an upcoming threat that could potentially affect the environment. Credit: Marlabs Inc
Cyber Security Layers - Defense in Depth
7P's, 2D's & 1 N
People
Process
Perimeter
Physical
Points (End)
Network
Platform
Programs (Apps)
Database
Data
Incredible Compute Density: Cisco DNA Center Platform: Digging Deeper with APIsRobb Boyd
Learn more on getting hands-on with Cisco DNA Center Platform APIs. Join us as we go over the brand new DNA Center Platform and show you how to start integrating and developing your own applications on DNA Center. The possibilities are endless!
[CB20] Operation Chimera - APT Operation Targets Semiconductor Vendors by CK ...CODE BLUE
This presentation provides an analysis of the advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks that have occurred during the past two years on the semiconductor industry. Our research shows that the majority of these attacks were concentrated on the Taiwan semiconductor sector. This is worthy of concern, as Taiwan's semiconductor industry plays a very crucial role in the world. Even a small disruption in the supply chain could have a serious ripple effect throughout the entire industry. Surprisingly, up until now, there has been less coverage on these attacks. In this presentation, we seek to shed light on the threat actors and campaigns of these attacks, where they are collectively referred to as Operation Chimera (a.k.a. Skeleton). Additionally, we provide a brief overview of the current information security status of Taiwan's semiconductor industry.
Between 2018 and 2019, we discovered several attacks on various semiconductor vendors located at the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park in Taiwan. As these attacks employed similar attack techniques and tactics, a pattern could be discerned from the malicious activities. From this pattern, we deduced that these attacks, which we dubbed Operation Chimera, were actually conducted by the same threat actor. The main objective of these attacks appeared to be stealing intelligence, specifically documents about IC chips, software development kits (SDKs), IC designs, the source code, etc. If such documents are successfully stolen, the impact can be devastating. The motive behind these attacks likely stems from competitors or even countries seeking to gain a competitive advantage over rivals.
Achieving Visibility, Security and Real-Time Actionable Alerts Using VPC Flow...Amazon Web Services
Visibility is a must for detecting threats and compromises in the cloud, containers, and on-premises networks. In this session, we will explore how Stealthwatch Cloud uses VPC Flow logs and network telemetry combined with advanced analytics such as entity modeling and threat intelligence feeds like Cisco Talos to detect attacks, data exfiltration, unusual remote access, and traffic that is not compliant with your policies.
The Internet of Things: We've Got to ChatDuo Security
BSides SF, February 2014: http://www.securitybsides.com/w/page/70849271/BSidesSF2014
Duo's Zach Lanier (@quine) & Mark Stanislav (@markstanislav) on IoT (Internet of Things) security, announcing http://BuildItSecure.ly
Slides presented. at Anomali Detect 19 by Katie Nickels and Adam Pennington in National Harbor, MD on "Turning Intelligence into Action with MITRE ATT&CK"
Gain visibility & real-time actionable security alerts with VPC Flow Logs & A...Amazon Web Services
The rapid adoption of cloud services and application migration has brought several challenges to network admins and security professionals, and it has made real-time visibility of the network an even more crucial priority. In this session, learn how Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud helps you leverage data you inherently create with AWS and within your network to prevent compute theft and orphaned compute, secure weak or incomplete access control lists (ACL), and enforce security policies beyond the traditional firewall while maintaining regulatory compliance by extending visibility across your entire network. This presentation is brought to you by AWS partner, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Gain visibility and real-time security alerts with VPC Flow Logs & AWS - DEM0...Amazon Web Services
Rapid adoption of cloud services and application migration brings several challenges to network administrators and security professionals, making real-time visibility of the network even more of a priority. In this session, learn how Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud helps you leverage data that you inherently create with AWS within your network to prevent compute theft and orphaned compute, secure weak or incomplete access control lists (ACL), and enforce security policies beyond the traditional firewall while maintaining regulatory compliance by extending visibility across your entire network. This presentation is brought to you by AWS partner, Cisco Systems Inc.
Beyond S3 Buckets - Effective Countermeasures for Emerging Cloud ThreatsSBWebinars
Research shows that 25% of organizations have cryptojacking activity in their AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Is yours one of them? While S3 buckets continue to dominate headlines, cryptojacking and other threats lay quietly behind the scenes. Learn about the latest cloud threats and arm yourself with effective countermeasures.
In Hands-on Encrypted Data Analytics, you’ll learn how to configure this new telemetry in Cisco routers and switches, use Stealthwatch to identify non-compliant devices and malware without encryption and speed up incident response and forensics.
Resources:
Watch the related TechWiseTV episode: http://cs.co/9003DzrjT
TechWiseTV: http://cs.co/9009DzrjN
CLÍNICA DE RESPUESTAS A INCIDENTES Y THREAT HUNTING - WORKSHOP DAY TÉCNICO DE...Cristian Garcia G.
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Analytics for Application Security and Policy Enforcement in Cloud Managed Ne...Joel W. King
This talk provides insight into how network security will evolve in the next five years; a zero-trust model enabled thorough telemetry streaming, analytics, and policy publishing, using automation to implement policy through APIs in cloud managed networks.
The starting point for this project was a MapReduce application that processed log files produced by the support portal. This application was running on Hadoop with Ruby Wukong. At the time of the project start it was underperforming and did not show good scalability. This made the case for redesigning it using Spark with Scala and Java.
Initial review of the Ruby code revealed that it was using disk IO excessively, in order to communicate between MapReduce jobs. Each job was implemented as a separate script passing large data volumes through. Spark is more efficient in managing intermediate data passed between MapReduce jobs – not only it keeps it in memory whenever possible, it often eliminates the need for intermediate data at all. However, that alone not brought us much improvement since there were additional bottlenecks at data aggregation stages.
The application involved a global data ordering step, followed by several localized aggregation steps. This first global sort required significant data shuffle that was inefficient. Spark allowed us to partition the data and convert a single global sort into many local sorts, each running on a single node and not exchanging any data with other nodes. As a result, several data processing steps started to fit into node memory, which brought about a tenfold performance improvement.
Similar to MITRE ATT&CKcon 2.0: Zeek-based ATT&CK Metrics and Gap Analysis; Allan Thomson, LooklingGlass Cyber Solutions (20)
ATTACKers Think in Graphs: Building Graphs for Threat IntelligenceMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour January 2021
By Valentine Mairet, Security Researcher, McAfee
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is the industry standard to dissect cyberattacks into used techniques. At McAfee, all attack information is disseminated into different categories, including ATT&CK techniques. What results from this exercise is an extensive repository of techniques used in cyberattacks that goes back many years. Much can be learned from looking at historical attack data, but how can we piece all this information together to identify new relationships between threats and attacks? In her recent efforts, Valentine has embraced analyzing ATT&CK data in graphical representations. One lesson learned is that it is not just about merely mapping out attacks and techniques used into graphs, but the strength lies in applying different algorithms to answer specific questions. In this presentation, Valentine will showcase the results and techniques obtained from her research journey using graph and graph algorithms.
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour January 2021
By Adam Pennington, ATT&CK Lead, MITRE
Adam leads ATT&CK at The MITRE Corporation and collected much of the intelligence leveraged in creating ATT&CK’s initial techniques. He has spent much of his 12 years with MITRE studying and preaching the use of deception for intelligence gathering. Prior to joining MITRE, Adam was a researcher at Carnegie Mellon’s Parallel Data Lab and earned his BS and MS degrees in Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering as well as the 2017 Alumni Service Award from Carnegie Mellon University. Adam has presented and published in a number of venues including FIRST CTI, USENIX Security and ACM Transactions on Information and System Security.
ATTACK-Onomics: Attacking the Economics Behind Techniques Used by AdversariesMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour January 2021
By Gert-Jan Bruggink, Defensive Specialist, FalconForce
Adversaries are humans as well. They have objectives, deadlines and resources for programming.
In a sense, very similar to corporations grounded in the economics of effort vs time vs results. Now understanding techniques is one thing, taking it a step further and understanding what the economic impact is of using certain techniques is another. Developing tools takes time. For example, developing a custom process injection module might take days or weeks to develop, where using an open source tool could prevent extensive development costs incurred.
This talk explores the economic considerations for defending against techniques used by adversaries. It explores fundamental considerations all referenced to MITRE’s ATT&CK framework. The objective of this talk is to inspire defensive strategies designed to impact cost incurred by adversaries to perform compromises.
Measure What Matters: How to Use MITRE ATTACK to do the Right Things in the R...MITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour January 2021
By Daniel Wyleczuk-Stern, Senior Security Engineer, Snowflake
Cyber security is inherently a function of risk management. Risk management is the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of risks followed by the effort to reduce those risks in a coordinated and economical manner (thanks wikipedia!). In this talk, Daniel will be going over some strategies for measuring and prioritizing your cyber risks using MITRE ATT&CK. He'll discuss some lessons learned in atomic testing of techniques vs attack chaining as well as what to measure and how to make decisions with that data.
Using ATTACK to Create Cyber DBTS for Nuclear Power PlantsMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour December 2020
By Jacob Benjamin, Principal Industrial Consultant Dragos, INL, & University of Idaho
Design Basis Threat (DBT) is concept introduced by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). It is a profile of the type, composition, and capabilities of an adversary. DBT is the key input nuclear power plants use for the design of systems against acts of radiological sabotage and theft of special nuclear material. The NRC expects its licensees, nuclear power plants, to demonstrate that they can defend against the DBT. Currently, cyber is included in DBTs simply as a prescribed list of IT centric security controls. Using MITRE’s ATT&CK framework, Cyber DBTs can be created that are specific to the facility, its material, or adversary activities.
Helping Small Companies Leverage CTI with an Open Source Threat MappingMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour December 2020
By Valentina Palacín, Sr. Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
No one can deny the tremendous impact that ATT&CK had on the cybersecurity industry, nor the usefulness of having a good Threat Library at your disposal. But the question Valentina gets asked over and over by people from small companies is always the same: “How could I leverage threat intelligence using ATT&CK with limited time and resources?” And so far, there hasn't been a good answer. That’s why she decided to come up with the Threat Mapping Catalogue (TMC), a tool that combines the power of the mappings already available in the ATT&CK website, TRAM and the ATT&CK Navigator, to better process, consume and incorporate new mappings while organizing them around different categories.
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour December 2020
By Otis Alexander, Principal Cybersecurity Engineer, MITRE
Otis Alexander is a Principal Cyber Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation and has worked in the areas of security engineering and research, analytic development, and adversary modeling and emulation. Otis is a co-creator of ATT&CK for ICS and has been leading the project since its inception. He also leads an effort to bring MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations to ICS security vendors providing anomaly and threat detection solutions. He advocates for network and host visibility in operational technology environments to increase the situational awareness of defenders.
From Theory to Practice: How My ATTACK Perspectives Have ChangedMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour December 2020
By Katie Nickels, Director of Intelligence, Red Canary
Good analysts (and good human beings) change their minds based on new information. In this presentation, Katie will share how her perspectives on ATT&CK have changed since moving from ATT&CK team member to ATT&CK end-user. She will discuss how her ideas about coverage, procedures, and detection creation have evolved and why those perspectives matter. Katie will also share practical examples from observed threats to help explain the nuances of her perspectives. Attendees should expect to leave this presentation with a better understanding of how to handle challenges they’re likely to face when navigating their own ATT&CK journey.
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour November 2020
By:
Jamie Williams, Lead Cyber Adversarial Engineer, MITRE
Mike Hartley, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, MITRE
In this presentation from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session on November 12, 2020 Jamie Williams and Mike Hartley from MITRE discuss the process for merging PRE-ATT&CK and adding two new tactics to Enterprise ATT&CK – Reconnaissance and Resource Development.
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour November 2020
By Matt Snyder, Senior Threat Analytics Engineer, VMware
The market for Security products is flooded with vendors offering all sorts of solutions, and organizations are spending a record amount of money defending their environments. Nevertheless, an increasing number of breaches are reported each year, resulting in organizations spending millions of dollars to remediate them. The Security industry responds with more products, all offering to stop the next breach, and the cycle continues. In this presentation from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session on November 12, 2020, Matt discusses what VMware is doing internally to address this fundamental flaw in the Security industry and how they are leveraging the MITRE ATT&CK framework to reshape how we think about security.
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour November 2020
By Anthony Randazzo, Global Response Lead, Expel
The team at Expel has been migrating to the cloud for the last 10 years, but as usual, security has lagged behind. Which means we don't have a comprehensive detection and response framework for cloud like we do with the Enterprise ATT&CK matrix. Cloud has evolved into a complex beast as technologies and concepts – like Infrastructure As Code, Containers, Kubernetes and so forth – have emerged. These new attack surfaces have been added that introduce additional challenges to detection and response in our cloud environments. We don't know what we don't know about attack life cycles in the cloud. In this presentation from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session on November 12, 2020, Anthony shares some interesting lessons learned so far when it comes to finding bad guys in the cloud.
Mapping the EventBot Mobile Banking Trojan with MITRE ATTACK for MobileMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour November 2020
By Allie Mellen, Security Strategist, Office of the CSO, Cybereason
In this presentation from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session on November 12, Allie discusses how the Cybereason research team uses both MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE ATT&CK for Mobile to map and communicate new malware to the larger security community. Teams use the MITRE ATT&CK framework to share techniques, tactics, and procedures with their team and the community at large. This knowledge base has been incredibly beneficial for the development of specific threat models and methodologies in the private sector, in government, and in the cybersecurity product and service community. Many of these uses have centered around traditional endpoints like laptops and workstations. However, the MITRE ATT&CK team has also created a cutting-edge portion of their framework: MITRE ATT&CK for Mobile.
One of the most recent pieces of malware they have found is EventBot, a mobile banking trojan that targets Android devices and the financial services applications on them, including popular apps like Paypal Business, Revolut, Barclays, UniCredit, CapitalOne UK, HSBC UK, Santander UK, TransferWise, Coinbase, paysafecard, and many more. In this talk, learn about this specific attack, intended targets, a timeline of the attack, and the MITRE ATT&CK for Mobile mapping. Learn why the Cybereason team map to MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE ATT&CK for Mobile and what benefits it has given them and their interactions with the community.
Transforming Adversary Emulation Into a Data Analysis QuestionMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour October 2020
By Matan Hart, Co-Founder & CEO Cymptom @machosec
Adversary emulation is commonly used to validate security controls and is considered one of the most popular use-cases for the ATT&CK framework. However, emulating adversary TTPs on production environments is often very limited in testing scope and frequency, and such practice may cause unwanted business disruption. In this talk from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session on October 9, 2020, Hart presents a different approach to testing controls against ATT&CK. He demonstrates how it is possible to provide data-based methods to evaluate the exploitability of ATT&CK techniques by gathering information from the network, endpoint, and services; this unique approach does not emulate any sort of malicious action, thus reducing the potential of causing business disruption to the minimum. Hart also outlines a new open-source guideline based on ATT&CK mitigations, that security teams can use to assess their security posture non-intrusively and at scale.
TA505: A Study of High End Big Game Hunting in 2020MITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour October 2020
By Brandon Levene, Head of Applied Intelligence Google, @seraphimdomain
Opportunistically targeted ransomware deployments, aka Big Game Hunting (BGH), have caused a distinct disruption in the mechanics of monetizing crimeware compromises. This strategy has become the “end game” for the majority of organized cybercrime organizations, and one effect of this shift is the increased emphasis on enterprise-level targets. In this talk from the MITRE ATT&CKCon Power Hour session on October 9, 2020, Levene walks us through research about how a specific BGH threat actor pursues entry points, gains its foothold, pivots, and deploys payloads to maximize their financial gains with minimal effort - and infrastructure! You’ll walk away with an understanding of the latest BGH TTPs seen in enterprise environments, and how they map to the ATT&CK framework so you can build this research into your threat detection strategy and enhance your defenses.
Using MITRE PRE-ATTACK and ATTACK in Cybercrime Education and ResearchMITRE - ATT&CKcon
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour October 2020
By:
Aunshul Rege, Associate Professor, Temple University, @prof_rege
Rachel Bleiman, PhD Student/NSF Graduate Research Assistant, Temple University, @rab1928
This presentation from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session on October 9, 2020, explores the application of the MITRE ATT&CK® and PRE-ATT&CK matrices in cybercrime education and research. Specifically, Rege and Bleiman demonstrate the mapping of the PRE-ATT&CK matrix to social engineering case studies as an experiential learning project in an upper-level cybercrime liberal arts course. It thus allows students to understand the alignment process of threat intelligence to the PRE-ATT&CK framework and also learn about its usefulness/limitations. The talk also discusses the mapping of the ATT&CK matrix, tactics, techniques, software, and groups for two cybercrime datasets created by collating publicly disclosed incidents: (i) critical infrastructure ransomware (CIRW) incidents, and (ii) social engineering (SE) incidents. For the CIRW dataset, 39% of the strains mapped onto the ATT&CK software. For the SE dataset, 49% of the groups and 65% of the techniques map on to the MITRE framework. This helps the researchers identify the framework's usefulness/limitations and also helps our datasets connect to richer information that may not otherwise be available in the publicly disclosed incidents.
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour October 2020
By Jen Burns, Lead Cybersecurity Engineer, MITRE, @snarejen
Jen Burns is a Lead Cybersecurity Engineer at MITRE and the Lead for MITRE ATT&CK® for Cloud. She’s also a red team developer and lead for ATT&CK Evaluations, using her skills in software engineering and adversary emulation. Previously, she was a tech lead at HubSpot on the Infrastructure Security team where she focused on red teaming and building detections in the cloud environment. This presentation is from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session held on October 9, 2020.
From MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour - October
By Brian Donohue, Security Evangelist, Red Canary, @thebriandonohue
In early 2018, Red Canary adopted MITRE ATT&CK as the common language that they would use to categorize threats, measure detection coverage, and communicate about malicious behaviors. In the intervening years, they’ve relied on the framework to develop open source tools like Atomic Red Team and help security teams prioritize their defensive efforts with blogs and our annual Threat Detection Report.
In early 2020, MITRE announced that ATT&CK would be expanding its original taxonomy of tactics and techniques to include sub-techniques. In the months that followed MITRE's announcement, Red Canary’s research, intelligence, and detection engineering teams painstakingly remapped their library of thousands of behavioral analytics to sub-techniques. In doing so, they improved their correlational logic, experimented with the idea of conditional technique mapping, and, unfortunately, rendered the 2020 Threat Detection Report out-of-date.
In this talk from the MITRE ATT&CKcon Power Hour session on October 9, 2020, Brian discusses how refactoring for sub-techniques offered us the opportunity to apply all the lessons learned in more than two years of operationalizing ATT&CK. He also explores how Red Canary has remodeled its ATT&CK mapping to allow for added flexibility and human input and shows what happens when the Red Canary applied their new sub-technique mappings to the 2020 Threat Detection Report.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.