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Published inMay 2023
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ISBN-139781804614266
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Rebecca Blair
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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A deep dive into the techniques in the network framework

Now that endpoints have been covered, we’ll take a deeper look at the network matrix. One interesting note about this matrix is that network is very vague, as there can be many different components that make up a network, and that means that the implementation of the mitigation and detection strategies will have to be heavily tweaked to fit your environment. There is only one matrix, whereas we saw in the cloud, there were multiple, so that means that there are some controls that won’t apply to your environment at all, depending on how it is configured. The network matrix looks like this:

  • Initial Access
    • Exploit Public Facing Application
  • Execution
    • Command and Scripting Interpreter
  • Persistence
    • Modify Authentication Process, Pre-OS Boot, and Traffic Signaling
  • Defense Evasion
    • Impair Defenses, Indicator Removal on Host, Modify Authentication Process, Modify System Image, Network Boundary Bridging, Pre...
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Aligning Security Operations with the MITRE ATT&CK Framework
Published in: May 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781804614266

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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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