In order for security platforms to be constantly under evaluation and improved it is necessary to create controlled tests for its systems to handle. To fill this need many different tools have emerged to facilitate adversary emulation. The basic premise is that although the specific methods of an attack used…

Elite Dangerous: Elite Dangerous is a Space-Adventure/Simulation Game released on the PC and multiple console platforms in 2014. The game takes place in the fictional/virtual universe of Elite. The first game set in this universe was released in 1984 by Frontier Studios. They have continued to expand this universe through…

Introducing Graphs: One of the fantastic features integrated into Kibana is the ability to visualize data into graphs. Note that we are not discussing things like bar graphs and pie charts, but rather the mathematical tree-like structure above. Graph Theory is a branch of mathematics that studies the relationship between…

Introducing Information: It is commonly stated that we are living in the information age. What many don’t realize is that our information age was defined in 1948 by the gentleman pictured on the left. His name is Claude Shannon and he published “A Mathematical Theory of Information” while working at…

The Sigma Project is a means to provide generic methods to detect adversaries and more importantly facilitate the easy deployment of these rules across multiple platforms. The project was created and is maintained, by Florian Roth and Thomas Patzke. The true power behind Sigma is that it has several backends…

Intro: The latest version of the Elastic Stack, 7.9, has bombarded us with great new features, free endpoint security, and some sleek changes to the Kibana UI. …

Intro: I don’t know about you, but I love analyzing network traffic. Especially when looking through the details for those little crumbs that lead to discovering a compromise by attackers. Building the skills needed for network log analysis takes time and practice. The best way to start is just put…

Whenever I meet someone at a tech conference the first question I always get is, “Who are the Cyber Knights?” I have practiced my response in the mirror several times now, “We are an organization that provides free training for people wanting to transition into infosec, and conduct various R&D…