WHAT IS COBALT STRIKE BEACON FULL

Using frameworks like Mitre is incredibly useful for finding gaps in coverage.

It requires you to have good detection coverage, but also requires you to have a complete picture of your detection coverage and your detection gaps.

WHAT IS COBALT STRIKE BEACON FULL

Detection Gaps: With a reactive approach, youвЂ™re sitting relying on the rules that you have to detect the full spectrum of malicious activity.

If analysts are used to closing false positives all the time, chances are theyвЂ™ll wrongly close a true positive as a false positive for rules that are particularly noisy.

Investigating and closing the same false positives day after day will quickly cause analysts to become frustrated, and lose interest.

Additionally, false positives play a huge role in creating analyst fatigue.

But this is not always easy or even possible.

Of course, rules can be tuned to perform better and cut false positive noise.

Additionally, with IOCs, bad intel from a provider can generate a lot of noise on your estate. TheyвЂ™re not designed to work on your specific estate. Vendors design rules to work on many different estates.

False Positives: Many generic alerts can be prone to false positives.

In my view, there are a few issues with this approach. A team of analysts sit around waiting for alerts from different tools to trigger, they then triage the alerts and perform an investigation. This typical approach would be what I call a reactive model. The traditional approach being switch on pre-made generic rules from a range of cyber tools like AV and IDS, as well as ingest IOCs from Intel Providers and search for them across the estate. In fact, I believe that Threat Hunting provides more value than the traditional approach that many SOCs take.

The reality, however, is that Threat Hunting is an extremely valuable skill and one that every SOC should have.

YouвЂ™d be forgiven for thinking that Threat Hunting is just another Cyber Buzz Word/Phrase spreading throughout the industry, the latest term used to push more product and managed services on a SOC.

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