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Published inMay 2023
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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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Finding the gaps in your coverage

It’s not logical to think that you can immediately review any/all controls from the MITRE ATT&CK Framework. Doing so will not only create a massive headache for yourself and your team but also could lead to adding unnecessary tools and leaving you trying to obtain the impossible. A perfect example is the Actions on Objectives control, which is complicated. The main principle is that there are various actions on an objective (actions taken against a target system such as a network or host) that can be carried out, such as stealing credentials, installing malware, and so on, but until an attack starts, you are unable to predict what is going to occur at some undetermined time in the future. In this case, you want to have a strong defense-in-depth approach by implementing standard security controls. Also, with regard to controls, it helps to understand that you will inevitably experience a compromise at some point in time if you haven’...

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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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