Security Operations: Moving to a Narrative-Driven Model

Presented at DeepSec 2014 „Do you want to know more?“, Unknown date/time (Unknown duration).

The current security operations model is an alert-driven one. Alerts contain a snapshot of a moment in time and lack important context, making it difficult to qualify the true nature of an alert in a reasonable amount of time. On the other hand, narratives provide a more complete picture of what occurred and tell the story of what unfolded over a period of time. Ultimately, only the narrative provides the required context and detail to allow an organization to make an educated decision regarding whether or not incident response is required, and if so, at what level. This talk presents the Narrative-Driven Model for incident response.


Presenters:

  • Josh Goldfarb - FireEye
    Josh (Twitter: @ananalytical) is an experienced security analyst with over a decade of experience building, operating, and running Security Operations Centers (SOCs). Josh currently serves as the Chief Security Strategist of the Enterprise Forensics Group at FireEye. Until its acquisition by FireEye, Josh served as Chief Security Officer for nPulse Technologies. Prior to joining nPulse, Josh worked as an independent consultant, applying his analytical methodology to help enterprises build and enhance their network traffic analysis, security operations, and incident response capabilities to improve their information security postures. He has consulted and advised numerous clients in both the public and private sectors at strategic and tactical levels. Earlier in his career, Josh served as the Chief of Analysis for the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) where he built from the ground up and subsequently ran the network, endpoint, and malware analysis/forensics capabilities for US-CERT.

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