NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and ISO/IEC 27001

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This entry is part 2 of 3 in the series Cyber Security Frameworks

Views: 1NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and ISO/IEC 27001 NIST CSF Functions and Categories to ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A Controls Identify (ID) Protect (PR) Detect (DE) Respond (RS) Recover (RC) NIST SP 800-53 to ISO/IEC 27001 Annex A Controls Access Control (AC) Awareness and Training (AT) Audit and Accountability (AU) Security Assessment and Authorization (CA) Configuration … Read more

Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

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This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Cyber Security Frameworks

Views: 10Understanding the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA): A Comprehensive Overview In an era where digitalization permeates every aspect of our lives, the importance of cybersecurity and operational resilience has never been more critical. The European Union’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) stands as a landmark regulatory framework aimed at enhancing the digital operational resilience … Read more

Windows Event Logs

This entry is part 10 of 13 in the series Incident Response and Forensics

Views: 15Windows logon types and logon codes Logs with event IDs 4624 and 4625 are generated every time there is a successful or failed logon on a local computer, respectively.  In Windows, there are several ways a logon can occur locally, and remotely.  Logon Type Numeric Identifier Description Logon Right Used only by the system … Read more

Wireshark 101 | Packet Operations

This entry is part 7 of 13 in the series Incident Response and Forensics

Views: 3Wireshark: Packet Operations Statistics | Summary This menu provides multiple statistics options ready to investigate to help users see the big picture in terms of the scope of the traffic, available protocols, endpoints and conversations, and some protocol-specific details like DHCP, DNS and HTTP/2. For a security analyst, it is crucial to know how to … Read more

ELASTIC SIEM: Kibana Query Language (KQL) 

This entry is part 13 of 17 in the series Threat Detection Engineering

Views: 27Different Syntax Languages Kibana supports two types of syntax languages for querying in Kibana: KQL (Kibana Query Language) and Lucene Query Syntax. Special Characters Certain characters are reserved in ELK queries and must be escaped before usage. Reserved characters in ELK include +, -, =, &&, ||, &, | and !. For instance, using the + character in a query will result in an error; to escape this character, precede it with … Read more

Adversary emulation with Caldera and Wazuh: Part 02

This entry is part 2 of 5 in the series Wazuh - SIEM and XDR

Views: 21 Deploy Agents on Linux machines 2 Windows and 1 Linux agents Configure sysmon We configure the agent to capture Sysmon events by adding the following settings to the agent configuration file in “C:\Program Files (x86)\ossec-agent\ossec.conf” Restart the Wazh agent after modifying the agent configuration file. Detection using Wazuh The attacks against the Linux agent … Read more

Volatility: Perform Memory Forensics with Volatility (Part 01)

This entry is part 2 of 13 in the series Incident Response and Forensics

Views: 23Reference: TryHackMe Room “Core Windows Processes” Core Windows Processes Understanding how the Windows operating system functions as a defender is vital.  Task Manager doesn’t show a Parent-Child process view. That is where other utilities, such as Process Hacker and Process Explorer, come to the rescue. Process Hacker Process Explorer Command-line equivalent of obtaining information about the running … Read more

Linux System Hardening

Views: 10Create a GRUB password PBKDF2 stands for Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2. It is important to note that adding a password for GRUB is not available for systems deployed using cloud service providers (such as our Linux VM); a GRUB password does not make sense as you don’t have access to the physical terminal. Encryption There … Read more