A SIEM is the foundation of a modern, well-working SOC. This also means a significant part of the SOC budget can be the cost of the SIEM. Azure Sentinel offers you various payment options based on your usage. Choosing the proper one can make a big difference and can save you a lot of money compared …

A few months ago, Microsoft introduced a new functionality in the Sentinel Analytics Rules which can be used to dynamically define values in incidents. Instead of hardcoding values like the name of the incident or its description, one can specify the content based on the KQL-query used for alerting. …

The Mitre Att&ck framework is frequently utilized by Security Operation Centers to describe the behavior of the threat or to display detection capabilities. Because of the widespread use of the framework, a lot of Security vendors introduced it in their tooling. Azure Sentinel also has some …

When you investigate a malicious site opening or malicious file download, oftentimes you want to find out how your user got there. Checking the referrer information in proxy logs is one of the most trivial things to do if you want to identify the root cause, the initial site. Unfortunately, there …

As a sequel of my previous post, I’m going to talk a little bit about another technique used in phishing that I encountered recently. This technique is HTML smuggling. This method is not new, but it definitely appears in more and more attacks, including phishing scenarios. This is why it is so …

Phishing is one of the most used initial access techniques. This is the reason why most of the companies have an adequate solution to mitigate the threat of these e-mails. But this is a constant cat-and-mouse game. As defenders produce clever mitigations, attackers introduce newer yet unseen methods …

So many SOCs I have seen are on a really low maturity level. On the other hand, having a SOC is not a new and fancy thing anymore so more and more companies start to have a really tuned and well-working security team now. As the security function matures in a company, they tend to invest in a Threat …

Automation is one of the key elements of a modern Security Operation Center. In a traditional SOC without any automation, analysts have to spend a lot of time on tedious and repetitive tasks. This is really inefficient in multiple ways. The analysts can’t use their skills, they must do something …

Ransomware is one of the biggest buzzwords nowadays in security. Vendors are advertising their security products by telling it can stop ransomwares, but also on the other side of the field, ransomwares, ransomware kits or services are selling pretty well. Over the last year, one could read an …