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Rebecca Blair
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Rebecca Blair

Rebecca Blair currently serves as the SOC Manager at a Boston-based tech company, where she is in the process of building out a SOC team to include analyst workflows, playbooks, and processes. Also, she served at IronNet as the Director of SOC Operations, at Tenable Inc as a Test Engineer, and at the Army Research Lab as a Technical Compliance Lead, among other things. She has deep expertise in technology integrations and security operations and holds a BS degree from Norwich University in Computer Security and Information Assurance, an MS degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus in Cybersecurity and an MBA from Villanova University. She has found a niche in building SOC environments and maturing them in fast-paced environments.
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Saving time and automating reviews with examples

As mentioned, every security team should be looking to automate as much as possible to get more done efficiently and effectively, and reviews are no different. One way I recommend teams automate the review and feedback portion of alerts is by utilizing a two-way API with our case management tool, Jira. This starts with alerts that are triggered to automatically create tickets, which would look like this in Jira:

Figure 10.1 – A Jira ticket from a Splunk integration

Figure 10.1 – A Jira ticket from a Splunk integration

On the preceding ticket, you can see the Closed State field—a ticket would be closed if it were False Positive, Benign Unexpected, Benign Expected, Suspicious, Malicious, or Other. Then, you see the Alert Status field, which can be either Open, In Progress, or Closed. The next field is Value Added, which would be a value inserted when the ticket is closed of either No, High, or Low, and we’ll go into this in more detail in...

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Rebecca Blair

Rebecca Blair currently serves as the SOC Manager at a Boston-based tech company, where she is in the process of building out a SOC team to include analyst workflows, playbooks, and processes. Also, she served at IronNet as the Director of SOC Operations, at Tenable Inc as a Test Engineer, and at the Army Research Lab as a Technical Compliance Lead, among other things. She has deep expertise in technology integrations and security operations and holds a BS degree from Norwich University in Computer Security and Information Assurance, an MS degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus in Cybersecurity and an MBA from Villanova University. She has found a niche in building SOC environments and maturing them in fast-paced environments.
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