Blog Posts

Featured posts from our MOXFIVE Technical Advisors with thoughts and stories to help minimize the business impact of cyber attacks.

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Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Proper Security Controls

Having proper security controls in place are critical to preventing both the frequency and severity of cyber incidents.

Enterprise Remediation Part 2: Strategies for Containing and Recovering

In Part Two of our blog with CrowdStrike, we share proven strategies and techniques for effective large-scale remediation efforts.

The Future is Now, AI-Assisted Cybersecurity

Can new AI models such as ChatGPT be used to help cybersecurity teams? Yes! Here are three quick use cases.

8 Mitigation Options to Help Reduce the Impact of a Ransomware Incident

In this blog, we look at 8 examples of best practices that can be implemented to provide for a more resilient architecture.

Minimizing the Impact: Network Segmentation

Host-based microsegmentation offers a wide range of advantages over legacy counterparts allowing organizations to apply segmentation at much deeper granularity including host, user, or application levels.

Logging to Enable Forensics

Logs are critical sources for forensics investigations. This blog looks at various log sources and the key takeaways to consider when building the retention strategy that's best for your organization.

Minimizing the Impact: Securing Active Directory

Gaining access to Active Directory is often a goal of threat actors during an intrusion. In this blog, we look at two key workstreams that add security layers making it more difficult for threat actors to achieve this goal.

The Continued Risk of Log4j

The worst of the Log4j fire drill might be behind us (for now), but the opportunity for new exploits still remains. Learn how a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and other best practices can help reduce future impacts and improve your overall security posture.

Improving Cybersecurity Resilience: Starting the Journey, Part 2

In Part 2 of our Improving Cybersecurity Resilience blogs, we cover five additional capabilities that round out the list of security basics that we believe all organizations should implement.

Minimizing the Impact: Multifactor Authentication

Credentials being stolen, reused, or even guessed often leads to an intrusion, or turns what could have been a small incident into an enterprise-wide issue. Multifactor Authentication (MFA) is a critical layer of protection to help minimize this risk.

Improving Cybersecurity Resilience: Starting the Journey, Part 1

MOXFIVE recommends these six capabilities as a starting point for improving resilience due to their outsize contribution to reducing risk and mitigating damage.

Minimizing the Impact: Local Administrator Password Solution

Enabling Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) can help greatly reduce the blast radius of a cyber-attack and is a quick and simple process for most environments.

Minimizing the Impact: How Cloud-Based Services Could Reduce the Stress of Recovery

Using cloud-based services can help not only lift the burden of day-to-day IT and security tasks, but they can also provide a significant benefit when dealing with a ransomware attack.

Incident Management Chronicles: Recovery vs Forensics

The lines between forensics and recovery can easily blur during incident response. Using an approach that delivers both in parallel helps minimize business interruption and get organizations back online more quickly.

How to Mature Threat Hunting Programs

Building threat hunting skills within your team can help prevent burnout, up-level skills and give your team a broader understanding of your security environment.

Open-source Security Spotlight: pfSense

Open-source software is used in a wide variety of projects, including the recent Mars helicopter, Ingenuity! In this blog, we take a look at the open-source network security solution, pfSense, and the many ways it can be used.

Dispatch from the Front Line

In July 2019 we posted our inaugural blog and introduced our idea of how a Technical Advisor could help companies better manage the incident response process. Two years (and hundreds of incidents) later, we've learned many lessons that help our clients recover quickly and effectively.

Recover, Then Upgrade - One Problem at a Time

Four questions to ask if you're considering adding an upgrade to an in-progress recovery effort.

When it Comes to Cybersecurity, Money Talks

Changes in the cyber insurance industry are driving a change in how organizations are investing in security.

The Key to Successful Business Recovery

MOXFIVE’s “Break Glass” Strategy to Recovering from a Ransomware Attack Ransomware events can be the worst experience for any person

MOXFIVE, CrowdStrike, and Baker Tilly outline three use cases where our intelligence-led process helped clients recover with speed and precision.

Our mission is to minimize the business impact of cyber attacks. 

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