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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 winners or the best alerts

Anytime that you have an alert that proves successful and does so a higher percentage of the time (even 30% is exciting), it feels like you have a win. Those are the alert types that have always made me personally excited to triage and you want to find a way to continue that feeling and expand it to other detections. In my opinion, there are a few different categorizations for winning alerts. There is one where the alert is almost always going to be something actionable, whether it just shows a poor security practice, a violation of your acceptable use policy, or something more serious that could lead to an incident investigation starting. Then, there is an alert that is technically a true positive, but there are limited actions that can be taken. Finally, there are the surprise true positive alerts, which leave your team scrambling to triage and put together contextual information.

The first categorization can be all different alerts, but...

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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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