Webcasts

Kolide & OSQuery - How to build solid queries & packs for incident detection & threat hunting

• Monday, October 15th, 2018 at 1:00 PM EDT (17:00:00 UTC)
• Erik Van Buggenhout and Steve Sims

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Overview

OSQuery is an amazing (free!) tool that can collect a wide variety of information from your environment. In a previous webcast, we explained some OSQuery basics and demonstrated a few queries. In this next webcast, we will go a step further and introduce how Kolide can be used to manage OSQuery in an enterprise environment. We will also discuss some more advanced query development techniques, which can help further enrich collected data and provide crucial insights on your environment. OSQuery & Kolide are covered in-depth during the course SEC599: Defeating Advanced Adversaries: Purple Team Tactics & Kill Chain Defenses.

Speaker Bios

Erik Van Buggenhout

Erik Van Buggenhout is the lead author of SEC599 - Defeating Advanced Adversaries. In addition to SEC599, Erik teaches SEC560 - Network Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking and SEC542 - Web Application Penetration Testing & Ethical Hacking. He has been involved with SANS since 2009, first as a Mentor, working his way to Community Instructor in 2012 and finally becoming a Certified Instructor in 2016.

Erik loves explaining deeply technical concepts by using war stories, adding a few funny anecdotes here and there. As a testimony of his technical expertise, he has obtained the GSE, GCIA, GNFA, GPEN, GWAPT, GCIH, and GSEC certifications.

In addition to his work with SANS, Erik is the co-founder of Belgian cyber security firm NVISO, which focuses on high-end cyber security services, specializing in government, defense and the financial sector. Together with his team of 20+ technical experts, Erik delivers a wide array of technical security services, including penetration testing, security monitoring & incident response.

Stephen Sims

Stephen Sims is an industry expert with over 15 years of experience in information technology and security. Stephen currently works out of San Francisco as a consultant. He has spent many years performing security architecture, exploit development, reverse engineering, and penetration testing. Stephen has an MS in information assurance from Norwich University and is a course author and senior instructor for the SANS Institute. He is the author of SANS' only 700-level course, SEC760: Advanced Exploit Development for Penetration Testers, which concentrates on complex heap overflows, patch diffing, and client-side exploits. Stephen is also the lead author on SEC660: Advanced Penetration Testing, Exploits, and Ethical Hacking and co-author of SEC599: Defeating Advanced Adversaries – Purple Team Tactics & Kill Chain Defenses. He holds the GIAC Security Expert (GSE) certification as well as the CISSP, CISA, Immunity NOP, and many other certifications. In his spare time Stephen enjoys snowboarding and writing music.