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Exploring AWS STS AssumeRoot
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Exploring AWS STS AssumeRoot

Explore AWS STS AssumeRoot, its risks, detection strategies, and practical scenarios to secure against privilege escalation and account compromise using Elastic's SIEM and CloudTrail data.

Terrance DeJesus
Streamlining Security: Integrating Amazon Bedrock with Elastic
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Streamlining Security: Integrating Amazon Bedrock with Elastic

This article will guide you through the process of setting up the Amazon Bedrock integration and enabling Elastic's prebuilt detection rules to streamline your security operations.

Shashank K S
Elevate Your Threat Hunting with Elastic
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Elevate Your Threat Hunting with Elastic

Elastic is releasing a threat hunting package designed to aid defenders with proactive detection queries to identify actor-agnostic intrusions.

Terrance DeJesus
Storm on the Horizon: Inside the AJCloud IoT Ecosystem
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Storm on the Horizon: Inside the AJCloud IoT Ecosystem

Wi-Fi cameras are popular due to their affordability and convenience but often have security vulnerabilities that can be exploited.

Mark Mager
Kernel ETW is the best ETW
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Kernel ETW is the best ETW

This research focuses on the importance of native audit logs in secure-by-design software, emphasizing the need for kernel-level ETW logging over user-mode hooks to enhance anti-tamper protections.

John Uhlmann
Now in beta: New Detection as Code capabilities
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Now in beta: New Detection as Code capabilities

Mika Ayenson
Protecting your devices from information theft
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Protecting your devices from information theft

In this article, we will introduce the keylogger and keylogging detection features added this year to Elastic Defend (starting from version 8.12), which is responsible for endpoint protection in Elastic Security.

Asuka Nakajima
Linux detection engineering with Auditd
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Linux detection engineering with Auditd

In this article, learn more about using Auditd and Auditd Manager for detection engineering.

Ruben Groenewoud
Unveiling malware behavior trends
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Unveiling malware behavior trends

An analysis of a diverse dataset of Windows malware extracted from more than 100,000 samples revealing insights into the most prevalent tactics, techniques, and procedures.

Samir Bousseaden
Monitoring Okta threats with Elastic Security
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Monitoring Okta threats with Elastic Security

This article guides readers through establishing an Okta threat detection lab, emphasizing the importance of securing SaaS platforms like Okta. It details creating a lab environment with the Elastic Stack, integrating SIEM solutions, and Okta.

Terrance DeJesus
STIXy Situations: ECSaping your threat data
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STIXy Situations: ECSaping your threat data

Structured threat data is commonly formatted using STIX. To help get this data into Elasticsearch, we’re releasing a Python script that converts STIX to an ECS format to be ingested into your stack.

Cyril François
Starter guide to understanding Okta
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Starter guide to understanding Okta

This article delves into Okta's architecture and services, laying a solid foundation for threat research and detection engineering. Essential reading for those aiming to master threat hunting and detection in Okta environments.

Terrance DeJesus