Journal

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Hidden footholds: the persistence problem inside modern malwareCybersecurity teams across Australia are pouring money into detection and response tooling, yet adversaries keep finding ways to stay embedded long after the…
What Comes After the Breach: A Practical Post-Mortem PlaybookWhen the alert queue finally clears and the SOC phones stop pinging, the work that follows decides whether the same attacker walks back in six months later. A…
Knowing when to escalate a cyber incident to external response teamsWhen an alert fires at 02:00 in a Sydney operations centre, the first instinct of many in-house security teams is to investigate internally. That instinct is…
Best Practices for Isolating Infected Systems Without DowntimeWhen a security team confirms that an endpoint, server, or industrial controller has been compromised, the next decision often determines whether the incident…
Key Metrics for Tracking Incident Response MaturityIncident response maturity is often described through broad labels such as basic, developing, or advanced. Those labels can help with high-level discussions,…
Using CARM to orchestrate multi-vendor cyber responseA serious cyber incident rarely stays inside one security product. An endpoint alert may need to be matched with identity activity, firewall telemetry, email…
Why Forensics Matters After a Cyber BreachA cyberattack does not end when an organisation blocks an account, isolates a laptop or restores a critical application. Those actions may stop the immediate…
How to measure the effectiveness of cyber remediationRemediation is often judged by whether a ticket has been closed, a system restored or a vulnerability marked as fixed. Those signals matter, but they can…
Lessons from a ransomware attack: containment and recoveryA ransomware incident is measured in more than encrypted files and ransom demands. It tests whether an organisation can establish facts quickly, limit the…
Integrating vendor-neutral tools into your incident response playbookA modern incident response playbook must work across endpoint protection, identity systems, cloud platforms, email security, network monitoring and data loss…