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Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is a framework that involves gathering, analyzing, and interpreting publicly available data to gain insights into cyber threats, adversarial activities, and attack techniques. OSINT identifies innocuous-seeming information that, if analyzed with an attacker’s mindset, could reveal critical loopholes in an enterprise’s security posture.
Digital forensics is the process of gathering digital evidence following a cyberattack.
A threat intel feed, or threat intelligence feed, provides a continuous incoming flow of data related to cyber threats and risks.
In this blog post, we’ll shine a light on the top OSS threat intelligence platforms and tools that enterprises can integrate into their security stack.
An incident response plan (IRP) is a detailed framework that provides clear, step-by-step guidelines to detect, contain, eradicate, and recover from security incidents.
Most incident response teams measure both MTTD and MTTR to not only shorten attackers’ dwell times in their systems but also to gauge the team’s readiness to combat future security incidents and then optimize response times.
An incident response playbook is a document outlining clear steps for security teams to follow when responding to and resolving security incidents such as malware infections, unauthorized access, denial-of-service attacks, data breaches, or insider threats.
Cloud incident response is a strategic approach to detecting and recovering from cyberattacks on cloud-based systems with the goal of minimizing the impact to your workloads and business operation accordingly.
An incident response team is a specialized security unit within an organization whose primary duties involve responding to cyber incidents and addressing compromised systems, applications, and data.
Attack path analysis (APA) is a cybersecurity technique that identifies and maps how potential attackers could infiltrate your network and systems
SecOps is the collaborative integration of IT security and operations teams to protect and manage an organization's digital assets more efficiently.
Cloud threat modeling is a systematic approach designed to uncover, evaluate, and rank the potential security vulnerabilities and dangers unique to cloud-based systems and infrastructure.
Cloud security logs are formatted text records that capture events and activities as they occur in a cloud environment, providing insight into what’s happening within that environment in real time.
A security operations center (SOC) team is a group of highly skilled professionals responsible for scanning IT environments and identifying and remediating cybersecurity threats and incidents
Cloud forensics is a branch of digital forensics that applies investigative techniques to collecting and evaluating critical evidence in cloud computing environments following a security incident.
Incident response is a critical aspect of enterprise cybersecurity that involves identifying and responding to cyberattacks, threats, and data breaches.
Security operations centers (SOCs) are centralized facilities and functions within an enterprise’s IT ecosystem that monitor, manage, and mitigate cyber threats.
An incident response framework is a blueprint that helps organizations deal with security incidents in a structured and efficient way. It outlines the steps to take before, during, and after an incident, and assigns roles and responsibilities to different team members.
Incident response is a strategic approach to detecting and responding to cyberattacks with the goal of minimizing their impact to your IT systems and business as a whole.
MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) is a cybersecurity framework that helps enterprises fortify themselves against cyber threats.
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MITRE ATT&CK®, a publicly available security toolkit that helps enterprises overcome cyber threats, defines defense evasion as a way for malicious actors to evade detection during an attack.
Threat hunting involves a systematic, continuous search to find and eliminate malicious activity within an organization’s environment.
Cloud investigation and response automation (CIRA) harnesses the power of advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and automation to provide organizations with real-time insights into potential security incidents within their cloud environments
Threat detection and response (TDR) is a set of continuous processes that proactively search for cyberattacks and respond to them in real time.
Cloud detection and response is the process of identifying and mitigating security threats or incidents in cloud environments through monitoring, analysis, and automated or manual actions.
Remote code execution refers to a security vulnerability through which malicious actors can remotely run code on your systems or servers.
Wade through the alphabet soup of detection and response technologies to understand where they overlap and how they differ.
Lateral movement is a cyberattack technique used by threat actors to navigate a network or environment in search of more valuable information after gaining initial access.
Cryptojacking is when an attacker hijacks your processing power to mine cryptocurrency for their own benefit.
A man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack is a type of cyberattack where a hacker intercepts data transferred between two parties.
A brute force attack is a cybersecurity threat where a hacker attempts to access a system by systematically testing different passwords until a correct set of credentials is identified.
Privilege escalation is when an attacker exploits weaknesses in your environment or infrastructure to gain higher access and control within a system or network.
A rootkit is a suite of software designed to grant a cyberattacker privileged access while disguising the invasion to evade detection.
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A reverse shell attack is a type of cyberattack where a threat actor establishes a connection from a target machine (the victim's) to their machine.
