Cyber crisis General
November 13, 2023

Cyber Crisis Management Blueprints

The art of understanding what a crisis is and managing it is key. Enterprises need to have clear Blueprints and Frameworks established to respond to a crisis like a Ransomware attack:1. Incident Response Plans with defined roles and responsibilities2. Playbooks with the course of actions (CoA) to respond – both technical and management levels.3. A system to regularly conduct TableTops and drills – clear after-action […]

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October 29, 2023

Cyber resiliency – Ransomware Response Bootcamp

FlexibleIR in association with DSCI and CERT India has created a unique Ransomware Rapid Response 2-day Bootcamp program. Tens of organisations are better prepared for a crisis!. Here we conduct drills and build Playbooks to ensure the organization is prepared technically and from the management perspective too. Key points on the BootCamp1. BYOP – Build your own visual playbooks for Rapid Response and compare them […]

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March 30, 2022

Incident Response Playbook – Current Geo-Political Conflicts

A visually easy Incident Response Playbook to defend against cyber attacks related to current Geo-Political conflict – https://board.flexibleir.com/b/Pijsre9DwPMtSgBNY/templatenistv01 The current conflicts could increase the number of cyberattacks. Organizations could be directly targeted or be collateral victims in most cases.  GOAL: Every organization — large and small — must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity. 

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December 13, 2021

Log4j CVE-2021-44228 Incident response Playbook

If short on time directly jump to the playbooks section. It is key to follow new reports continuously as newer discoveries and developments are happening. Ensure to see article time stamps. Quick SANS video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC2PZB5D3Ys Playbook Mitigations Apply Patch Log4j versions upgraded to log4j-2.15.0-rc1. Test first on non-production systems. In case not able to apply the patch For version >=2.10: set log4j2.formatMsgNoLookups to true.  […]

General Incident Response
September 2, 2021

Playbook for a Ransomware Attack

If under attack, quickly do the scoping and plan for containment. Download an Authoritative Write-Up (if available) for the Specific Ransomware Variant(s) Encountered. Harvest additional Indicators from the Report(s). Mobilize the team and remember to take as much help as possible. Ransomware operations will mostly have similar patterns of attack frameworks, tools, and techniques across victims. They will also have similar operations as other Ransomware […]

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May 10, 2021

Software Supply chain attack Playbook

If short on time directly jump to the playbooks section. Here we talk about how a Supply chain attack can be mitigated in general. A specific use case will be the SolarWinds supply chain attack – Link and the log4j vulnerabilities – Link It is important for an organization to have a list of all the software the company uses, their licenses and versions Know […]

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December 24, 2020

SolarWinds Sunburst Incident Response Playbook

If short on time directly jump to the playbooks section. It is key to follow new reports continuously as newer discoveries and developments are happening. Ensure to see article time stamps. https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/alerts/aa20-352a https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2020/12/evasive-attacker-leverages-solarwinds-supply-chain-compromises-with-sunburst-backdoor.html https://github.com/fireeye/sunburst_countermeasures Volexity blog – Link The SolarWinds supply chain attacks are sophisticated in execution, broad in scope, and incredibly potent in their effectiveness. “SUNBURST is the malware that was distributed through SolarWinds […]

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November 13, 2020

Make better ROI on your SOAR implementations – Document your process first – then selectively automate

First – We compliment a SOAR solution. Our approach is to first design all your playbooks on Kanban boards, know the tasks well, profile them and run them manually. Then selectively move to automation using your selected SOAR solution. Advantages Playbook development workflow Below is a proposed workflow of a Playbook as we have observed working with enterprises and critical infrastructure companies

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edtech eLearning online education
August 26, 2020

Defending the Online Education Sector

Other names for the sector – E-learning, online learning, Edtech With a major shift to virtual classrooms, the Edtech startup companies pose a significant target for cyber criminals. As more students get connected to the Internet the threat has never been greater. Cyber attacks continue to plague the education sector, and they’re only intensifying. The consequences can be devastating and long lasting. Hackers are probably […]

edtech eLearning General
August 19, 2020

Online education platform threats and mitigations

The rapid shift to online learning brought about by the pandemic is all but guaranteed to increase the threats they are facing and incidents they will experience. Typical users of online learning platforms – students, lecturers or teachers. Typical types Online training with content. Online training by trainers Large educational institutes – Going online. A platform for educators and learners with educators creating educational videos […]