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October 12, 2021
Published by Adam Montville on October 12, 2021

Enabling the Cooperative Ecosystem

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) has a mission to improve the actual practice of cyber defense, and we do this, in part, by ensuring that our best practice recommendations (in the form of CIS Benchmarks recommendations and CIS Controls Safeguards) track clear and transparent measures of security value for our users. Most recently, we’ve embarked on the journey of mapping our […]
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October 5, 2021
Published by Matthew Gardiner on October 5, 2021

The Increased Need for Security Integration Standards

My experience with security standards began many years ago in 2002 during my time at Netegrity and later the Kantara Initiative. There, I was involved with the creation, standardization, and popularization of the OASIS standard, SAML, and federated SSO more broadly. The problem that we focused on solving — how to transition an authenticated user session (and the associated level of trust) from one […]
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July 26, 2021
Published by Xiaokui Shu and Ian Molloy on July 26, 2021

Practicing Backward And Forward Tracking Hunts on A Windows Host

In our previous blog post, we showed how to get started with the Kestrel Threat Hunting Language, such as connecting to data sources and performing your first hunts using the GET and FIND commands. In this post, we’ll introduce the APPLY keyword, which adds powerful analytics and enrichment capabilities to hunts. We will show a Kestrel hunt performing backward and forward tracking on a Windows host to unearth the […]
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July 26, 2021
Published by Xiaokui Shu and Ian Molloy on July 26, 2021

Building a Huntbook to Discover Persistent Threats from Scheduled Windows Tasks

In this blog post, the first in a series introducing the Kestrel Threat Hunting Language, we will show you how to get started with your first hunt. You’ll learn how to set up your environment, connect to data sources, and search for a common attack technique, scheduled tasks in Windows. You’ll also become familiar with the basic concepts that you […]
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June 29, 2021
Published by Carol Geyer on June 29, 2021

IBM Contributes Kestrel Threat Hunting Tool to OASIS Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA)

Kestrel lets threat hunters ‘devote more time to figuring out what to hunt, as opposed to how to hunt’ Open Cybersecurity Alliance (OCA), an OASIS Open Project, today announced it has accepted IBM’s contribution of Kestrel, an open-source programming language for threat hunting that is used by Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts and other cybersecurity professionals. Kestrel streamlines cyber reasoning and […]
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June 15, 2021
Published by Jason Keirstead on June 15, 2021

A Collaborative Approach to Meeting the Challenges in President Biden’s Executive Order on Improving US Cybersecurity

By Jason Keirstead, OASIS Open board member On May 12, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cyber Security, charging U.S. federal agencies to partner with the private sector to foster a more secure cyberspace. Board member Jason Keirstead believes that OASIS Open’s projects are uniquely qualified to facilitate this public-private partnership and help guide the […]
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