I admit it… I’m a fanboy. A straight up osquery fanboy. Oh… what is osquery you ask? Good question there sport. osquery allows you to easily ask questions about your Linux and OSX infrastructure. Whether your goal is intrusion detection, infrastructure reliability, or compliance, osquery gives you the ability to empower and inform a broad set of organizations within your company. That’s how Facebook describes it. I’d say osquery is the most effective way available to monitor an OSX or Linux host for security....

Last year I was lucky enough to go to the FIRST2015 conference in Berlin. It was a great conference, good talks (including yours truly), and an even better hallway track. I’d never been to Berlin, or Germany in general, and I enjoyed seeing this amazing city a little bit as well. Traveling to a new country as a security minded person is always a bit jarring. Even a country as friendly as Germany bares consideration when it comes to laptops, tablets, phones, etc....

One of my favorite things is talking to students and people new to the security field. It feels like yesterday I was wandering around the first Shmoocon as a student in awe of the people I met and the work they were doing. Now I’m 10 years into my career and have a whole different perspective (though still in awe with those folks). Starting a career in infosec isn’t easy and while there are better general introductions I wanted to add my perspective on getting started in Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR)....

I can’t talk about important intelligence concepts for security without talking about the grand daddy, the original: the Intelligence Cycle. This should be great discussion fodder for anyone who has to talk to someone who claims they’re selling some form of Threat Intelligence product, given in most cases they seem to be using the phrase in place of the word smart. Intelligence vs smart couldn’t be farther from the truth....

In September I wrote about Crisis Communications in Incident Response and after some great feedback I expanded it and built a presentation. I gave this presentation in June at FIRST and today (July 8th) at SANS DFIR Summit. Both were great events and I highly recommend them. My Slides Check them out on SpeakerDeck: Crisis Communications for Incident Response I’m going to actually do a post soon (I hope) on building security presentations....