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Re: Blinken Lights IDS


From: Andre Gironda <andreg () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 11:14:32 -0700

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 8:43 AM, dave aitel <dave () immunityinc com> wrote:

Everyone I know lived through the "Blinken-Lights-IDS" phase.

So your entire defense was situated on "Are the
lights blinking when I'm not typing on my computer?"
Ask yourself: How far from that have we come, really?


We can still use blinkenlights --
https://blog.cobaltstrike.com/2015/11/11/revolutionary-device-detects-mimikatz-use/


Honestly, the line that strikes fear into the hearts and minds of all
SOC engineers is "How do you measure your success?". I'm on the Security
Metrics mailing list, which has been around basically forever, and what
they will point out is that good metrics need good data, and we have
about zero of that in almost all aspects of this game.


Maybe we know how to measure success --
https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-16/materials/eu-16-Hovor-Automating-Incident-Investigations-Sit-Back-And-Relax-Bots-Are-Taking-Over.pdf


While attackers
have real numbers, the defensive process is literally evolutionary: We
try EVERYTHING and just see which companies fail due to data breaches
and while we don't really learn any lessons directly, maybe the next
generation of companies will be, in some way, similar to whatever
mutation helped.


Maybe we know how to evolve the defensive process --
http://conf.splunk.com/files/2016/slides/detecting-the-adversary-post-compromise-with-threat-models-and-behavioral-analytics.pdf

dre
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