All Episodes
Displaying 21 - 40 of 59 in total
Episode 21 — Establish Secure Stakeholder Communications Without Leaking Sensitive Incident Data
Establishing secure stakeholder communications is a cornerstone of effective incident response, ensuring that vital information flows to the right people without being...
Episode 22 — Control the Message: Briefings, Updates, and Consistent Terminology Under Stress
Controlling the narrative during a security crisis requires extreme messaging discipline, focusing on rhythmic updates and the use of consistent terminology to maintai...
Episode 23 — Interact With Attackers Safely: Communication Boundaries and Decision Triggers
Interacting with threat actors is a high-stakes endeavor that requires strict communication boundaries and predefined decision triggers to ensure the organization rema...
Episode 24 — Spaced Retrieval Review: Assessment, Tracking, and Communications Under Pressure
This retrieval review episode focuses on synthesizing the core concepts of real-time assessment, task tracking discipline, and the protocols for secure communications ...
Episode 25 — Write Incident Reports That Matter from Executive Summary to Technical Detail
Writing effective incident reports is a strategic leadership deliverable that requires balancing a high-level executive summary with rigorous technical detail for fore...
Episode 26 — Deliver Compliance-Ready Incident Reporting by Capturing What Auditors Expect
Delivering compliance-ready reporting requires an incident leader to understand exactly what regulators and auditors expect in terms of evidentiary proof and timeline ...
Episode 27 — Identify Root Cause Without Guessing: Evidence-Driven Incident Remediation
Identifying the root cause of a security breach is a technical and analytical discipline that must be grounded in hard evidence to ensure that remediation is truly eff...
Episode 28 — Lead Recovery Confidently: Restore Services, Validate Trust, and Prevent Relapse
Leading a recovery confidently requires the incident leader to manage a series of technical gates that validate the integrity of the environment before services are re...
Episode 29 — Close the Incident Properly: Closure Criteria, Sign-Offs, and Final Documentation
Closing an incident properly is an essential administrative step that ensures all corrective actions have been assigned and that the organization's legal and forensic ...
Episode 30 — Measure Incident Management Effectiveness Using Metrics Leaders Actually Use
Measuring the effectiveness of incident management requires moving beyond "vanity metrics" to report on the data points that business leaders actually use to evaluate ...
Episode 31 — Improve the Incident Management Process: Reduce Friction, Increase Speed, Raise Quality
Improving the incident management process requires a relentless focus on reducing operational friction, increasing response speed, and raising the overall quality of t...
Episode 32 — Leverage Current Tools to Strengthen Incident Management Without Overreliance
In this episode, we explore how to leverage current security tools to strengthen incident management while avoiding the trap of overreliance on automated systems. A co...
Episode 33 — Spaced Retrieval Review: Reporting, Remediation, Closure, and Process Improvement
Spaced retrieval is a cognitive strategy used to reinforce your mastery of reporting, remediation, closure, and process improvement domains before moving into more tec...
Episode 34 — Connect Vulnerability Management Strategy to Incident Outcomes and Risk Reduction
Connecting your vulnerability management strategy to incident outcomes is essential for achieving a measurable reduction in organizational risk. For the G C I L candid...
Episode 35 — Leverage Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Data to Prioritize Remediation
Leveraging threat intelligence alongside vulnerability data allows an incident leader to perform sophisticated risk-based prioritization for remediation efforts. The G...
Episode 36 — Operationalize Threat and Vulnerability Management During Active Incident Response
Operationalizing threat and vulnerability management during an active incident response is a critical skill that involves using real-time data to prevent the further s...
Episode 37 — Spaced Retrieval Review: Vulnerability and Threat Management Prioritization Drills
This retrieval review focuses on the high-yield concepts of vulnerability management and threat intelligence prioritization as they relate to the incident response lif...
Episode 38 — Differentiate Email Attacks Fast: Phishing, BEC, Malware, and Impersonation
In this episode, we start by looking at why identifying the specific type of email attack quickly is the most critical step in choosing the right response strategy. Th...
Episode 39 — Explain Email Attack Methodology and Impact from Inbox to Compromise
Understanding the methodology of an email attack allows an incident leader to identify multiple "kill chain" opportunities where the intrusion can be interrupted befor...
Episode 40 — Manage an Email Attack Incident: Contain, Eradicate, Recover, and Educate
Managing an email attack incident through the full lifecycle of containment, eradication, and recovery ensures that the organization evicts the attacker and hardens it...