CTAC Attack! Fridays

How many times have you walked into the office, only to find your boss looking for answers to the threat of the day —you know what I mean. I saw this on the news this morning. What's it mean? or Hey boss, we just got hit with this … and now you have to explain it (and fast!).

If you've ever been in one of these situations read on...

Every Friday afternoon at 2:00, we hold a short form training session called CTAC Attack! CTAC is short for Cyber Threat Analysis Center, and its desktop of tools that we provide to our subscribers for their own analytics. CTAC Attack! goes like this…

The idea is that in 20 minutes or less, a presenter will show a group of analysts -virtually via webinar, how they use a specific tool, or in combination, tools, to solve analytic problems.  20 minutes is usually more than enough time to show the tool, describe how the analysts uses it to solve a problem, and then leave 10 minutes for Q&A. Presenters earn CTAC Attack T-Shirts, and attendees are entered into a drawing to win one.

So this week instead of my authoring an opinion piece, I've recorded a short, two minute video summation of one of the sessions that I do. This is a tool that we bought from a startup. It was built to create books, but we liked it more as a search and answer tool, so we hired the founder to make sure we got it right, and after some slight modifications, this quickly became one of my favorite tools.

THIS, is information sharing. We created a dashboard of our favorite tools. I love (LOVE) Pagekicker. Most of the other guys loves CyberChef. We all love Kibana, and we share notes in real time via Slack.

Enjoy the video. Interested in seeing more? Drop me an note.

Until next time,
Have a great weekend!
Jeff