Detection Opportunities

Detection Opportunities

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  • Detection-as-Code & CI/CD in Detection Engineering with Dennis Chow | EP. 9

    Detection as Code is one of the most important evolutions in modern security detection, and in this video, we break it down.


    I first encountered this concept as a Cloud Threat Detection Engineer at Datadog. Today, I’m joined by Dennis Chow, a Detection Engineering specialist and author of Automating Security Detection Engineering (which I had the honor of technically reviewing).


    Together, we explore what Detection as Code really means and walk through two hands-on CI/CD pipeline demos:

    🔹 Lab 1: Building SIEM detections with synthetic AI testing using Sumo Logic

    🔹 Lab 2: Policy-as-Code integration testing with Cloud Custodian on GCP


    You’ll learn how Detection as Code leverages Git, automated testing, reproducibility, collaboration, and CI/CD to make detection engineering more scalable, accountable, and reliable.


    Dennis' Blog

    Dennis' Github

    Dennis' LinkedIn



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    → GitHub repo for lab 1

    → GitHub repo for lab 2

    → Dennis’ book

    → My book review

    → Our podcast episode together



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    44 min
  • Applying AI, LLMs & Prompt Engineering for Threat Detection with Dylan Williams | EP. 8

    Visit my ⁠sponsor⁠ to view the current average annual salary for a Cybersecurity degree and learn how to get started.


    I had the pleasure of hosting Dylan Williams and we explored how AI can be applied in cybersecurity, focusing on threat detection. We also examined how his project, D.I.A.N.A., turns threat intelligence reports into actual detections.


    Connect with Dylan

    Dylan's Resource on Applying LLMs & GenAI to Cybersecurity

    Dylan's Medium

    D.I.A.N.A Project

    DI.A.N.A App



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    TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 Intro

    01:39 Dylan's Background

    02:40 How Dylan started exploring AI

    03:07 SNHU

    04:36 Dylan's ChatGPT Moment

    06:22 Training LLMs for Cybersecurity

    09:53 Updating LLMs

    14:27 D.I.A.N.A - Detection and Intelligence Analysis for New Alerts

    17:07 Going from Threat Intelligence to Threat Detection

    32:02 Getting started with LLMs & Gen AI for Cybersecurity

    33:55 Connect with Dylan

    35:12 Outro



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    36 min
  • Get-RoleGroup - Detecting Attacker Enumeration in Microsoft 365 Exchange with Purav Desai | EP. 7

    Visit my sponsor to view the current average annual salary for a Cybersecurity degree and learn how to get started.



    ⁠Purav's LinkedIn⁠

    ⁠Deciphering UAL

    Exchange Admin Audit Logging

    Office365 Management Activity API

    Connect-IPPSSession



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    TIMESTAMPS:

    00:00 Intro

    00:36 Get-RoleGroup Operation

    01:37 Enumeration is not logged??

    05:53 SNHU

    07:22 Using the Security Compliance Center EOPCmdlet

    08:54 Abusing Purview Compliance & E-Discovery

    10:21 Useful Log Fields & Key Fields of note

    12:48 Attack Demo

    14:45 Fields to Decipher

    15:51 How To Detect/Analyse

    17:59 Get-RoleGroupMember

    19:39 Useful Log Fields

    20:30 Attack Demo

    23:01 Segmentation Of Behaviors

    23:57 Connect-IPPSSession

    26:07 Final Thoughts

    27:40 Outro



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    Email: [email protected]



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    28 min
  • Add-RoleGroupMember - Detecting Persistence in Microsoft 365 Exchange with Purav Desai | EP. 6

    Learn how to decipher the Microsoft Unified Audit Log (UAL) from a Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) perspective with Purav Desai, an experienced M365/Azure Incident Responder. In today's episode, we explore the Add-RoleGroupMember operation in Exchange Online.



    Purav's LinkedIn

    Deciphering UAL

    Microsoft Application IDs

    Permission Alert Policy



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    TIMESTAMPS:

    00:00 Intro

    00:48 Add-RoleGroupMember Overview

    03:22 The Result Status

    04:53 The Application IDs

    08:59 Key Fields of Note

    10:39 Fields to Decipher

    20:14 Detection - Permission Alert Policies

    23:18 Custom Alerting

    24:32 Final Thoughts

    25:39 Outro



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    26 min
  • New-RoleGroup - Detecting Privilege Escalation in Microsoft 365 with Purav Desai | EP. 5

    Learn how to decipher the Microsoft Unified Audit Log (UAL) from a Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) perspective with Purav Desai, an experienced M365/Azure Incident Responder.


    ⁠Purav's LinkedIn⁠

    ⁠Deciphering UAL⁠

    ⁠Learn about auditing solutions in Microsoft Purview⁠



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    TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 Intro

    00:20 Deciphering New-RoleGroup

    09:06 Key Fields

    10:11 Deciphering with Exchange Online PowerShell

    13:42 Detection Opportunities

    16:16 SIEM & Attacker Tactics

    21:43 Outro



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    22 min
  • Microsoft 365 Forensics & Incident Response with Purav Desai | EP. 4

    Learn how to decipher the Microsoft Unified Audit Log (UAL) from a Digital Forensics & Incident Response (DFIR) perspective with Purav Desai, an experienced M365/Azure Incident Responder.


    Purav's LinkedIn

    Deciphering UAL

    Learn about auditing solutions in Microsoft Purview



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    TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 Intro

    00:49 Microsoft 365 Auditing

    04:43 The Deciphering UAL Project

    07:55 Accessing Purview Audit

    17:41 Outro


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    Email: [email protected]



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    19 min
  • Attack & Detection of a Cloud Security Breach with 0xd4y | EP. 3

    This episode covers an attack scenario very similar to the one that led to the breach of US Bank Capital One.  @0xd4y  goes over the attack scenario using CloudGoat by Rhino Security Labs, and I detect his activities using AWS CloudTrail Lake.



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    🧬 VIDEO RESOURCES

    🔹 Segev's YouTube Channel:  @0xd4y 

    🔹 Segev's walkthrough

    🔹 Former AWS engineer convicted over hack that cost Capital One $270m

    🔹 CloudGoat

    🔹 Instance Metadata

    🔹 Sneaky Endpoints

    🔹 AWSealion

    🔹 GuardDuty Findings

    🔹 CloudTrail Lake


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    ⏰ TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 Intro

    00:34 Attack Scenario

    00:51 Key Terminology

    01:41 Cloud Attack Walkthrough - CloudGoat

    10:06 Attack Detection Walkthrough - CloudTrail Lake

    13:44 Remediation & Final Thoughts



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    Email: [email protected]



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    15 min
  • The Anatomy of a Google Cloud (GCP) Cryptomining Attack | EP. 2

    GCP Service Accounts are interesting cloud identities. Let's review how they contributed to a Cryptocurrency Mining Attack in this Case.




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    🧬 EPISODE RESOURCES

    🔹How A Compromised AWS Lambda Function Led to a Phishing Attack

    🔹GCP Lateral Movement & PrivEsc

    🔹GCP Service Accounts

    🔹 DEFCON 30 Cloud Village - Weather Proofing GCP Defaults

    🔹GCP IAM basic and predefined roles reference


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    ⏰ TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 How GCP Service Accounts Work

    02:12 Initial Access - Stolen Service Account Credentials

    02:52 Attack Flow

    03:33 Privilege Escalation - Permission Upgrades

    03:50 Detection Opportunity 1

    04:04 Defense Evasion - Firewall Rule Modification

    05:19 Detection Opportunity 2

    05:38 1,600 VMs created during attack

    05:51 Persistence - New Token Creations

    06:16 Final Thoughts


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    7 min
  • How A Compromised AWS Lambda Function Led to a Phishing Attack | EP. 1

    In this video, I’ll be going over detection opportunities at various stages of cloud security attacks.


    Compromised Cloud Compute Credentials: Case Studies From the Wild


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    TIMESTAMPS

    00:00 Intro

    00:40 The Attack Case

    02:12 The Attack Graph

    02:44 The Attack Flow

    03:06 Detection Opportunity 1: Enumeration/Reconnaissance/Discovery - Cloud Infrastructure Discovery

    05:27 Detection Opportunity 2: Persistence - Create Cloud Account

    08:19 Detection Opportunity 3: Impact - Resource Hijacking

    09:54 Detection Opportunity 4: Defense Evasion - Indicator Removal

    10:23 Detection Opportunity 5: Credential Access - Stealing an application access token

    12:04: Conclusion



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    Email: [email protected]



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    13 min

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Detection Opportunities is a podcast for security professionals who care about building resilient detection and response systems. Each episode explores real-world attacks, breaks down how signals…