Masquerading Attacks Explained - MITRE ATT&CK T1036

Time to Rethink Validation to Empower Security Team
Time to Rethink Validation to Empower Security Team
Discover How You Can Assess and Improve Your SIEM Continuously
SIEM Log agents and collection software can malfunction due to configuration errors, software bugs, expired licenses, old APIs, and other factors. Also, the complexity, size, and load of the networks can strain the flow of data.
If security controls technologies have not been made ready against new adversarial techniques, they will be blind to attacks that contain them. As security controls will not detect such attacks, they will not generate logs.
Decisions on data sources, types, and granularity requires significant elaboration on alternative costs. Each new log adds complexity, takes disk space, puts a load on the correlation engine, and consumes the “events per second” license pool. As a trade of, missing logs may result in some malicious events not being detected.
SOC teams must be aware of architectural changes, new deployments, new applications and retiring technologies to keep log management aligned with these changes that are handled by network operations, IT security, devops and other.
Log Validation with Attack Simulation
Picus Security Control Validation Platform with the extensive library of threats, can easily integrate to your infrastructure and help you automatically identify logging gaps and areas of improvement.
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Picus improves log coverage and detection rules based on actual defensive capabilities and enhances SIEM efficacy proactively. Integrations with major platforms contain extensive vendor-specific and sigma-based detection content.
Adapting the detection rule base on the changing adversarial context is a difficult task. This difficulty results in detection gaps, false positives, alert noise, and alert fatigue.
Challenging SIEM detection rules with an extensive attack simulation and using an automated platform addresses some key challenges. The Picus platform offers security insights that combine detection gaps and detection content, empowers red and blue team practices, and makes purple teaming an integrated capability whereby cyber defense teams can improve security posture.
Uncover if you are collecting right logs at right verbose level.
Assess and see if your SIEM is properly parsing and storing logs.
Identify time gaps between log sources with the attacker timestamping.
Take immediate action by implementing provided detection playbooks.
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Security Information and Event Management
Your security staff don’t have the time and resources to make your environment impenetrable. Right now, they don’t even have the time to respond to every vulnerability they know about - let alone the ones they don’t. The only way to keep your business protected is to take a pragmatic approach: focus on the attack techniques that represent the biggest risk, check you have the security controls in place to address them, and if not, redeploy resources. Effective security validation will help you do this.
Security leaders don’t just have threat actors to worry about - they also answer to the business, and need to justify what and how they spend based on real metrics. By providing insight into the cost versus risk of both existing security controls and potential future investments, effective security validation will help them focus their budget on the right areas and reduce waste.
Effective security validation also helps security leaders convey their agenda and get buy-in from other business stakeholders. By making the connection between real-world threats and potential victims within the business, they can demonstrate that their decisions aren’t based on fear and blind faith - they are driven by metrics that should matter to everyone.