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Knowing what normal looks like for every account the SOC monitors

The ESH-SOC is integrating behaviour profiles into its monitoring of sign-ins to Microsoft’s cloud. The method comes from a study by TU/e and the SOC, tested on five months of sign-in logs from one of the SOC’s customers, a Dutch IT service provider, and checked by two of its senior IT managers.

Gelareh Hasel Mehri, Emmanuele Zambon and Nicola Zannone · 7 min read · DOI

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Giving every ESH-SOC analyst the same structure for investigating an alert

Every analyst at the ESH-SOC investigates alerts along the same four stages, and every new tier 1 analyst learns them in training. The structure comes from a study by TU/e and the SOC, in which analysts who followed it recognised alerts caused by attacks far more often.

Leon Kersten, Tom Mulders, Emmanuele Zambon, Chris Snijders and Luca Allodi · 6 min read · PDF