John Franolich

As the community of security professionals matures there is a merging of the intel community, the incident response professionals, and security operations. One struggle folks have is how to make the threat intelligence actionable for the business. You have the large data from Recorded Future, yet,...

The Verizon Data Breach Report has consistently said, over the years, passwords are a big part of breach compromises. Dr. Lori Cranor, and her team, at CMU has done extensive research on how to choose the best password policies verses usability. In addition, Alison Nixon's research describes...

A key component of any investigation is the type of data exfiltrated. If sensitive data is on a compromised machine, risk is increased significantly. Also, there is a patch work of legislation covering various types of data which is considered sensitive (http://www.reyrey.com/regulations/). In...

An analyst is in the middle of a case and finds an executable artifact. In searching the hash online, running a local copy of jsunpack and Virustotal does not produce any results How does one examine the exe to determine if it was evidence in the case? To do this, the analyst looks at behavior,...