Blue Team Tactics: Honey Tokens Pt. II

This is a multipart blog post, read part one and then continue here. We enabled filesystem auditing, created our audit template, and staged our honey tokens for deployment in part one. In part two, we will deploy the honey tokens and identify various methods for monitoring adversary interaction. Deploying honey tokens using PowerShell (PoSh) I … Read more

Load Balancing a Splunk Search Head Cluster

A Splunk Search Head (SH) enables an analyst to query a Splunk Indexer for data in a distributed configuration. A Search Heads group that shares knowledge objects and settings is known collectively as a Search Head Cluster (SHC). Deploying a SHC provides high availability (HA) and many other benefits to your users. However, as you scale out … Read more

Blue Team Tactics: Honey Tokens Pt. I

If you are defending an enterprise network, you should be using some form of honey token or canary, which is just something you place in your environment that no one should access. If any interaction is detected, it is usually an indicator of unauthorized activity. Using pseudo domain accounts as honey tokens usually illuminate the risk bubble … Read more

Ansible User Account Provisioning

Whenever I stand up a new Linux machine, I always find myself doing the same four things:  Creating my main user account  Creating an ansible user account  Configuring sudoers  Copying over SSH Public Keys. Definitely, not something that evokes fun. I have tried various automation tools, but ansible has found a very special place in … Read more