Cybercrime Patterns Targeting Cloud Infrastructure in 2025
In March 2025, a mid-market SaaS company we monitor watched their AWS bill jump from $14,000 to $310,000 in eleven days. No new product launch. No traffic spike. An attacker…
Encryption Key Management Across AWS, Azure, and GCP
It is 3:14 AM and an alert fires from our SIEM. A developer at a fintech client just exported a customer master key reference from a CI pipeline log. The…
SQL Injection in 2026: Why It Still Owns Your Database
The Bug That Refuses to Die In late 2023, the MOVEit Transfer breach hit roughly 2,600 organizations and exposed records belonging to over 90 million people. The root cause? A…
Creating Enforced Authentication Policies in Active Directory
The 3 AM Page That Started This Playbook It was 03:14 when the SOC at one of our financial services clients flagged a Tier 0 admin credential authenticating from a…
Automated Vulnerability Scanning for Cloud Resources: A Checklist
In March, a fintech client called us at 2 AM because an attacker had pulled 14GB of customer records from an S3 bucket that nobody on their team remembered creating.…
Intune Compliance Policies: Enforcing Standards Post-Deployment
The 9 AM Call That Started the Audit It is 9 AM on a Monday and the client’s CISO is on the bridge. Their Defender dashboard shows 1,847 enrolled Windows…
Multipartite Virus: Hunting Multi-Vector Malware in Production
A manufacturing client called us on a Tuesday morning with a problem that didn’t add up. Their endpoint agent had flagged and quarantined a suspicious executable on three workstations. Good.…
MITRE ATT&CK Mapping in Sentinel Detection Rules
Two Alerts, Forty-Five Noise Events, and a Missed Lateral Move It is 2 AM and your SIEM fires 47 alerts in three minutes. Forty-five are false positives. The other two…
MITRE ATT&CK Integration in Tabletop Exercises: A Checklist
Last quarter, we facilitated a tabletop exercise for a financial services client. Their CISO was confident the IR team could handle a ransomware scenario. Forty-five minutes in, three participants couldn’t…
Internal vs External IP Analysis in Threat Hunting
Two Addresses, Two Investigations Your SIEM fires a high-severity alert at 3 AM. A workstation on the finance VLAN just made an outbound connection to an IP address flagged in…