Practical guidance from security professionals who've designed SOCs, hunted threats, and fixed what's broken. No vendor marketing. Just what actually works.
Most organizations only monitor obvious CloudTrail events like login failures. Meanwhile, attackers abuse less visible API calls that defenders ignore.
Default SIEM rules generate noise, not intelligence. Your SOC team wastes time investigating nothing while real threats slip through.
Behavioral analytics sounds good in vendor presentations but often produces either useless noise or privacy violations.
The Essential Eight framework tells you what controls to implement. It doesn't tell you how to prove they're working. We break down the monitoring and evidence collection required.
Collecting logs is easy. Turning them into actionable intelligence is hard. Techniques for tuning alerts to focus on real threats.
Managing security across dozens or hundreds of AWS accounts requires systematic monitoring. Build visibility that scales with your cloud footprint.
Application performance monitoring finds slow transactions. Security monitoring finds attackers. They overlap but aren't interchangeable.
SIEM, SOC, Detection
AWS, Azure, GCP
Monitoring, APM
ISO, PCI, E8
ATT&CK, Analytics
National-scale SIEM implementation across 20+ enterprise applications.
SOC transformation and alert optimization - 99% noise reduction.
Cloud security and PCI-DSS compliance for payment processing.
What to look for when selecting a SIEM. Questions to ask vendors.
Essential CloudTrail events, Config rules, and GuardDuty findings.
Systematic approach to reducing false positives.
Optimization techniques from 10+ years experience.
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