Natalie Timms

Maintaining a Secure Environment: Monitoring Beyond the Log File

10/09/19 This blog series has been all about taking a big step back and reviewing your ecosystem. What do you need to achieve? What are the organization’s goals and mandates? What …

Maintaining a Secure Environment: Best Practices for Design and Deployment

09/18/19 The first three blogs in this series were all about building a blueprint for a well-designed environment. In this article, we’ll review more practical considerations to in…

Maintaining a Secure Environment: Compliance Considerations

09/11/19 A security policy based on actual use cases has been documented, as have the components of the ecosystem. Before devising a practical implementation and configuration plan…

Maintaining a Secure Environment: Understanding Its Components

08/19/19 In the previous blog, we discussed how defining use cases mapped to important security and business- related objectives are the first step in building and maintaining a se…

Maintaining a Secure Environment: Use Cases Build a Security Policy

08/12/19 Security is a key operational consideration for organizations today because a breach can lead to significant losses of revenue, reputation, and legal standing. An entity’s…

Security Monitoring – It’s All About the Data

09/11/18 In this series, we’ve covered some key areas that can help prepare for potential attacks. Preparation is essential. Security policies are essential. Understanding your net…

Protection Methods – The Art of Data Analytics

08/28/18 The previous blog reviewed some guidelines that laid the foundation for security through understanding your environment and planning how elements within that environment a…

Policy and Controls – A Foundation for Threat Protection

08/14/18 In the previous blog in this series, we reviewed several types of attacks and threats, and some ways they are perpetrated. In this blog, we will become familiar with sever…

Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Attack Surfaces and Vulnerabilities

07/31/18 In the first blog of this series, we became familiar with some well-used cybersecurity terminology. This blog will look at some well-known cyberattack and threat types and…

Cybersecurity Fundamentals – Threat and Attack Terminology

07/18/18 In the first post of this blog series, we’ll cover the fundamentals of cybersecurity, and understanding basic terminology so you can feel comfortable “talking the talk.” O…

Windows Workstation Logs – Integration

03/09/18 In the final blog of this series, we’ll look at ways to integrate Windows event logs with other telemetry sources to provide a complete picture of a network environment. T…

Microsoft Workstation Logs – Configuration

02/22/18 Over the last three posts, we’ve looked at Microsoft event logging use cases and identified a set of must-have event IDs. Now we’re ready to put our security policy in pla…