active-defence - Quasarops

#actionability

From Intel to Impact

What if your cybersecurity data pipeline functioned like a Git repository, with each team acting as a branch, merging their insights and actions into a "main" pipeline to drive real-world impact? Join me on this "Git-inspired" approach to scalable cyber operations.

By Diego Perez

#active-defence

🔮R1D3 Threat Driven Research Pipeline - Part 2

Today, let me start with a bit of confession time: my quest to build an "Active Defense" framework has led me down a rabbit hole of epic proportions even the wisest tech oracles wouldn't have predicted 🐇🕳️🔮. A simple pondering of questions about the shortsighted views around

By Diego Perez

#active-defence

Threat Hunting vs Detection Engineering? The saga continues ⛵

I see a lot of people trying to make sense of the roles they occupy in the cyber defence world. Asking yourself these questions is a good thing to do, primarily because the world's needs advance at a faster pace than our structures can adapt to it. Let&

By Diego Perez

#threat-intelligence

The Uncertainty of Intelligence and the Entropy of Threats

In Part 2 of this series, we will explore the dimensions of information uncertainty, entropy and negentropy, superlinear defence-in-depth, latent space and threat intelligence as a decoding device for time-bound information.

By Diego Perez

#active-defence

The Problem of Why: Threat-Informed Prioritization in Security Operations. Part 1.

What does it mean to be threat-informed when it comes to Cyber Defence? It is one of those classic tough questions that don't have simple answers (at least not ones that are immediately obvious). The great Anton Chuvakin circled back to this topic recently. In this article, he

By Diego Perez

#cyberscout

The Journeys of a Cyberscout

We live in an economy of distraction. In this era of fabricated intelligence, attention-sucking digital vampires, calculated buzzwords, over-optimization of every aspect of life, and the mindless echoing of information we call "news", there is little room for creative reflection and quiet pondering.

By Diego Perez