Incident Response & Threat Intel
11 articles
Building a Security Operations Runbook
A security team's institutional knowledge shouldn't live only in one engineer's head. A well-built runbook turns tribal knowledge into repeatable, resilient process.
Coordinating Disclosure: Working with Security Researchers
How an organization handles an external researcher's vulnerability report says a lot about its security maturity — and getting it wrong turns a gift into an adversarial mess.
Patch Management During an Active Vulnerability Disclosure
A major vulnerability disclosure compresses your normal patch cycle into hours. Here's a process for moving fast without breaking production in the rush.
Ransomware Preparedness: A Practical Checklist
Ransomware preparedness is less about a single silver-bullet control and more about a layered set of unglamorous practices that determine how bad your worst day becomes.
Post-Incident Reviews That Drive Real Change
Most post-incident reviews produce a document nobody reads and a list of action items nobody completes. Here's how to run one that actually changes your security posture.
Tabletop Exercises: Testing Your Incident Response Plan
An incident response plan that's never been rehearsed is a hypothesis, not a capability. Tabletop exercises are how you find out if it actually holds up.
Understanding Zero-Day Vulnerabilities and How to Prepare
You can't patch a vulnerability nobody knows about yet, but you can build an environment resilient enough that a zero-day doesn't automatically become a breach.
Threat Intelligence 101 for Small Security Teams
Threat intelligence sounds like a discipline reserved for large SOCs, but small teams can build a lean, high-value program with a fraction of the resources.
What to Do in the First Hour of a Security Incident
The first sixty minutes of a security incident shape everything that follows. A calm, sequenced first hour matters more than any tool in your stack.
Vulnerability Management's Role in Incident Prevention
Incident response gets the attention, but most incidents that never happen were prevented by unglamorous vulnerability management. Here's how the two disciplines connect.
Building an Incident Response Plan That Actually Works
Most incident response plans fail under real pressure because they were written to satisfy an audit, not a 2 a.m. page. Here's how to build one that survives contact.