When you handle logs in a SIEM, times are really important. It doesn’t matter whether you investigate alerts, or you create a detection, having the proper times and knowing the different time-related fields can be …

The log retention period in any SIEM can have a big impact on your cost as well as your investigation and threat hunt capabilities. Defining a low period can be cheaper but it also limits your capabilities to find …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …