April 12, 2020

Playbook for social engineering

Social engineering is one of the hardest form of attack to defend against because hardware and software alone can’t stop it. How to we mitigate these attacks?

April 9, 2020

Playbook for Malicious Network Behavior: Malicious Traffic

Alerts are generated when something suspicious is seen by one of the Network monitoring devices. Network Security Tools:IDS (Intrusion Detection System)IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)DLP (Data Loss Prevention)SIEM (Security Incident and Event Management)NBAD (Network Behavior Anomaly Detection) Playbook Mitigation https://cert.societegenerale.com/resources/files/IRM-5-Malicious-Network-Behaviour.pdf References

April 9, 2020

Playbook for Insider Threat

Insider threats are growing and are very complex to handle as it needs to be worked outvery closely with a lot of stakeholders including the human resource department.

April 9, 2020

Playbook for Failed SSH login

Brute-force and dictionary attacks against remote services such as SSH, are one of the Top-20 most common forms of attack on the Internet that compromise servers. In particular, Unix-based and Mac OS X servers that run an SSH service to allow administrators secure remote connections are at risk. Playbook Mitigation Disable root access – It is a good security practice to disable logins via SSH […]

April 9, 2020

Playbook for DDoS

Attacking or defending against DDoS attacks is very expensive and skill/time intensive. Companies have huge, multi redundant pipes. One of the main reason individuals or syndicates DDOS is to blackmail companies. If short on time directly jump to the playbooks section. Please note that DDoS attacks can be rapidly morphing or changing with multiple attack vectors and changing within minutes. The attacker could immediately change […]

April 9, 2020

Playbook for website defacement

Government websites hacked and vandalized is a very common observed threat. The defacement can happen for any website. What are the best practices to remediate when under attack?.

April 6, 2020

Playbook for Phishing

If short on time directly jump to the playbooks section. Summary Any attempt to compromise a system and/or steal information by tricking a user into responding to a malicious message. The most common phishing attacks involve emails armed with malware hidden in attachments or links to infected websites, although phishing can be conducted via other methods such as voicemail, text messages, and social media, too. […]