Jeff Bollinger
CSIRT Manager
Infosec CSIRT
Articles
Disk Image Deception
11 min read
Cisco's Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) detected a large and ongoing malspam campaign leveraging the .IMG file extension to bypass automated malware analysis tools and infect machines with a variety of Remote Access Trojans. During our investigation, we observed multiple tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that defenders can monitor for in their environments. Our incident response and security monitoring team's analysis on a suspicious phishing attack uncovered some helpful improvements in our detection capabilities and timing.
Cisco Security First: Focusing on the Issues of Incident Response and Security Teams
2 min read
Cisco CSIRT is a global team of information security professionals responsible for the 24/7 monitoring, investigation and response to cybersecurity incidents for Cisco-owned businesses. CSIRT engages in proactive threat assessment,...
Cisco Hosting Amsterdam 2018 FIRST Technical Colloquium
2 min read
We would like to announce a “Save the Date” and “Call for Speakers” for the FIRST Amsterdam Technical Colloquium (TC) 2018.
Open Source Threat Intel: GOSINT
2 min read
It’s our pleasure to announce the public availability of GOSINT – the open source intelligence gathering and processing framework. GOSINT allows a security analyst to collect and standardize structured and unstructured threat intelligence. Applying threat intelligence to security operations enriches alert data with additional confidence, context, and co-occurrence. This means that you are applying research […]
Cisco Hosting Amsterdam 2015 FIRST Technical Colloquium
1 min read
Registration is now open for the upcoming FIRST Technical Colloquium May 4-6, 2015 at Cisco Systems in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Please contact us at amsterdam-tc@first.org for any questions. The event already has an exciting preliminary program covering: Attacks Against Cloud Server Honeypots Emerging Threats – The State of Cyber Security Cisco IOS and IOS-XE Integrity Assurance […]
Operational Security Intelligence
7 min read
Security intelligence, threat intelligence, cyber threat intelligence, or “intel” for short is a popular topic these days in the Infosec world. It seems everyone has a feed of “bad” IP addresses and hostnames they want to sell you, or share. This is an encouraging trend in that it indicates the security industry is attempting to […]
To SIEM or Not to SIEM? Part II
10 min read
The Great Correlate Debate SIEMs have been pitched in the past as "correlation engines" and their special algorithms can take in volumes of logs and filter everything down to just...
To SIEM or Not to SIEM? Part I
7 min read
Security information and event management systems (SIEM, or sometimes SEIM) are intended to be the glue between an organization's various security tools. Security and other event log sources export their...
Big Security—Mining Mountains of Log Data to Find Bad Stuff
4 min read
Your network, servers, and a horde of laptops have been hacked. You might suspect it, or you might think it’s not possible, but it’s happened already. What’s your next move? The dilemma of the “next move” is that you can only discover an attack either as it’s happening, or after it’s already happened. In most […]