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Stress Test Your Incident Response Capabilities with Tabletop Exercises

Stress Test Your Incident Response Capabilities with Tabletop Exercises 1090 726 Andrew Hay

In order to be adequately prepared for a cybersecurity incident, it is important to stress test your incident response capabilities. One way to do this is by conducting regular tabletop…

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The Lowdown on Lateral Movement

The Lowdown on Lateral Movement 1090 749 Anton Ovrutsky

What Is Lateral Movement ? Lateral movement is a broad MITRE ATT&CK category, consisting of nine distinct techniques and numerous sub techniques. Due to its breadth and linkages between other…

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Kubernetes Hunting & Visibility

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Intro Enterprise workloads are increasingly shifting to modern micro-service architectures. This shift can potentially mean that visibility, hunting, and defensive frameworks lag behind their traditional on-premises architectures and deployments. The…

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The Top 3 Security Program Tasks to Tackle in the New Year

The Top 3 Security Program Tasks to Tackle in the New Year 1024 682 Andrew Hay

In the spirit of the New Year, it’s time to reflect on the past and make measurable resolutions for the future. Many people use this time to focus on personal…

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Why I Joined Lares – Darryl MacLeod

Why I Joined Lares – Darryl MacLeod 150 150 Darryl MacLeod

I’ve been active in the Atlantic Canadian information security community for well over a decade, both as a current board member of AtlSecCon and the former lead organizer of Security…

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Distractions, Dilution, & Permissive Infrastructures … (Chris Krebs, CyberWarCon 2021)

Distractions, Dilution, & Permissive Infrastructures … (Chris Krebs, CyberWarCon 2021) 1080 720 Mark Arnold

Chris Krebs Keynotes CyberWarCon 2021 In recent years ahead of Thanksgiving, I’ve made an effort to attend one of the newest CONs on the circuit and maybe now my favorite…

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Sysmon for Linux Test Drive

Sysmon for Linux Test Drive 1090 727 Anton Ovrutsky

If you have been within planetary orbit of our Purple Team, you will know that we are huge fans of Sysmon. You can imagine our excitement when Microsoft announced that…

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Upcoming Ransomware Webinar Series

Upcoming Ransomware Webinar Series 2048 1152 Andrew Hay

Lares would like to take this opportunity to invite you to a new series of webinars on ransomware. The most common tactics hackers use to carry out ransomware attacks are…

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Detection and Mitigation Advice for PrintNightmare

Detection and Mitigation Advice for PrintNightmare 2048 1365 Andy Gill

Introduction PrintNightmare(CVE-2021-34527) was released as a proof of concept this week on Github. This post highlights how the exploit PoCs released on Github work and how the specific vulnerability can…

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What the White House Ransomware Memo Got Wrong

What the White House Ransomware Memo Got Wrong 2048 1365 Andrew Hay

On June 2nd, Anne Neuberg, Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology, released a memo with the subject: What We Urge You…

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